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. 3 Feb. 2023.
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 February 3, 2023, 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 February 3, 2023. 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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