Welcome to the Observer, the weekly community newspapers and daily online local news source for Sarasota, Longboat Key, Siesta Key and fast-growing East Manatee County and Lakewood Ranch. When you partner with us, you are reaching a weekly audience of more than 150,000 of the most affluent, educated and engaged residents and visitors in our area. You are also partnering with a locally owned media company dedicated to inspiring its community with extraordinary local content and helping our partners prosper.

The Observers are consistently recognized each year by their peers in Florida and the Local Media Association for General Excellence; our local reporting and photography; creative and innovative design; and breadth of local coverage. This year, the Florida Press Association honored Observers with its General Excellence award (the top award) in all three circulation categories for weekly newspapers. It was a sweep by the Observers. And the Local Media Association, an organization of more than 2,000 newspapers in Canada and the United States, awarded its highest honor for weeklies, Newspaper of the Year, on the Longboat Observer and Sarasota Observer two years in a row.