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Circulation & readership up at some alt weeklies

Andrew Beaujon — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:11:53 +0000

The New York Times | Association of Alternative Newsmedia
Alt-weeklies would take risks “that I don’t think a daily paper ever would,” former alt-weekly editor David Carr says in a video discussion with A. O. Scott about the plight of … Read more

Circulation down, challenges up at alt-weeklies

Andrew Beaujon — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:18:09 +0000

Pew | Reuters

The alt-weeklies chapter of Pew’s State of the News Media 2013 report provides daily newspaper publishers with one of their very few opportunities for schadenfreude: At these papers, which regularly take shots at their bigger rivals, … Read more

Columbus’ Other Paper will close later this month

Andrew Beaujon — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:27:13 +0000

The Other Paper
Columbus, Ohio, alt-weekly The Other Paper will close at the end of January. It’s owned by the Dispatch Printing Company, which publishes the Columbus Dispatch, as well as an A&E paper called Alive!

“In viewing the
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How can alt-weeklies survive if they’re no longer an alternative?

Andrew Beaujon — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 19:33:10 +0000

Salon | The Phoenix
Will Doig writes that “the way we create our own communities now” has helped hasten alt-weeklies to their grave:

People will always identify with their cities, but the congregation of loosely affiliated urban tribes that alt-weeklies
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Morning media roundup: Awaiting Philadelphia Media sale; men in suits discuss media

Andrew Beaujon — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:18:17 +0000

• The news everyone is waiting for: the sale of Philadelphia Media Network, which could happen today. Inquirer reporter Paul Nussbaum reported Thursday on an insurance payback deal orchestrated by George Norcross, one of the investors that may buy … Read more

Alt-weeklies can’t define themselves in terms of newspapers anymore

Andrew Beaujon — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:02:32 +0000

Alt-weeklies can’t define themselves in terms of newspapers anymore:

“It makes no more sense for alts to define themselves against dailies or other mainstream press in 2012 than it does for the United States to define itself against the Soviet … Read more

What, exactly, are alt-weeklies an alternative to these days?

Jim Romenesko — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:49:02 +0000

John Mecklin
“It used to be the monopolistic daily newspapers in their towns,” notes former SF Weekly and Phoenix New Times editor John Mecklin, “but both the city dailies and the city weeklies have literally been taken apart by the … Read more

Creative Loafing sells its papers in Tampa and Charlotte

Steve Myers — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:56:03 +0000

Creative Loafing
Thomas Wheatley reports that Creative Loafing has sold its Charlotte and Tampa papers to SouthComm Inc. and that CEO Marty Petty, former publisher of the Poynter-owned St. Petersburg Times, has resigned. SouthComm, based in Nashville, Tenn., operates several … Read more

Seattle Weekly devotes entire issue to Washington state’s war dead

Jim Romenesko — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:28:37 +0000

Seattle Weekly | Daily Weekly blog
This week’s print edition — 56 pages and 393 obits long — Seattle Weekly editors “aim to atone for whatever short shrift we’ve given the wars in the Middle East by devoting every inch … Read more

Sacramento Bee begins running medical marijuana ads

Jim Romenesko — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:32:55 +0000

news10.net
The McClatchy-owned Bee has had medical marijuana ads on its website for some time, but it just added them to the print edition. “It’s something that we’re doing because we have been asked to by the advertisers,” says Bee … Read more