The Village Voice/New Times deal that closed New Times Los Angeles and VVM's Cleveland Free Times, is another sign of an "imploding economy," Cynthia Cotts writes in The Village Voice. She suggests that when VVM's venture capitalist owners start looking to cash out they could find a buyer in a daily newspaper chain or another alternative media company.
The Chicago Sun-Times has plans to launch a new tabloid aimed at younger readers, perhaps by early November, Crain's Chicago Business reports. That's about the same time as its rival, the Chicago Tribune, will debut its own tab for the 18- to 34-year-old reader, which will be called RedEye. The Sun-Times' parent, Hollinger International, has ordered four of its regional newspapers to send three staffers each to Chicago to put together the new tab.
Iconoclastic alternative weeklies are doing business like the big boys, former Washington City Paper Editor David Carr writes in the New York Times. Carr reports that New Times received $8 million from Village Voice Media to close its money-losing New Times Los Angeles. "The willingness of the two ferociously competitive chains to make a deal in their common interest could mean that the next big deal by the companies could leave only one standing," Carr writes.
Next month, voters in Nevada will vote on a measure that would allow adults in the state to legally possess up to three ounces of marijuana. Reno News & Review's D. Brian Burghart takes a skeptical look at both sides of the argument and assesses the chances of passage.
Three AAN papers were awarded first-place in under 200,000 circulation division of the 2002 Association of Food Journalists competition: Robb Walsh of Houston Press for food news reporting; Marty Jones of Westword for food columns and Bonnie Boots, former food editor for the Weekly Planet (Tampa), for restaurant criticism. Willamette Week takes three awards from the foodie group, a second for restaurant criticism for Roger Porter and a second and third for special sections edited by Arts & Culture Editor Caryn Brooks.
Mohamud Abi, a 22-year-old refugee from Somalia, teeters between the strict Muslim laws of his homeland and the freedom of America. Willamette Week's Amy Roe follows Abi, a student at Portland State University, through a life of contradictions and post-Sept. 11 fear.
A new Chicago Tribune tabloid aimed at younger readers could launch by the end of the month, Trib columnist Jim Kirk writes. The newsstand-only tab has a working title of "RedEye" and will feature a combination of entertainment writing and listings as well as shorter news stories than the broadsheet daily, Kirk writes.
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