Minnesota’s City Pages was closed after its parent company said the pandemic had made the alt-weekly “economically unviable.” Now, four top editors are back with something new.
Alt-weeklies’ revenues are disproportionately tied to locals gathering together in groups — at concerts, bars, restaurants, and other events and places where people stand less than six feet apart.
“Baltimore is a majority black city. When we first started out in 2017, I wanted it to have that point of view, to have a newspaper that serves a black population.”
Wang, Shan. "“Alt-weeklies helped make people locals” — what will fill the gap left by their closures in the digital era?." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 24 Aug. 2017. Web. 25 Jul. 2024.
APA
Wang, S. (2017, Aug. 24). “Alt-weeklies helped make people locals” — what will fill the gap left by their closures in the digital era?. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved July 25, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/08/alt-weeklies-helped-make-people-locals-what-will-fill-the-gap-left-by-their-closures-in-the-digital-era/
Chicago
Wang, Shan. "“Alt-weeklies helped make people locals” — what will fill the gap left by their closures in the digital era?." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified August 24, 2017. Accessed July 25, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/08/alt-weeklies-helped-make-people-locals-what-will-fill-the-gap-left-by-their-closures-in-the-digital-era/.
Wikipedia
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