Publisher Craig Hitchcock tells AAN News he is talking to an East Coast media chain about a sale of the struggling alt-weekly. The Independent’s reopening in the spring depends on a number of factors, among them hanging on to existing advertisers and attracting new investors, Hitchcock says. Parent company Yesse! Communications, in Chapter 11 reorganization since April 2001, is now operating only two papers – Impact Weekly in Dayton, Ohio, and Illinois Times, in Champaign, Ill., down from five at the beginning of 2001.
Four Utah media organizations, including Salt Lake City Weekly, have threatened to sue Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt for his policy of routinely deleting official e-mails, The Salt Lake Tribune reports. Media attorneys argue Leavitt is destroying records of "the governmental present and historical past." Managing Editor Chris Smart tells the Tribune, "Those e- mails belong to the taxpayers and the voters. The fact that he has not recognized this is of great concern."
Unable to pay the printer to publish last week's issue, Yesse! Communications President and Bloomington Independent Publisher Craig Hitchcock announced Friday that the paper would "suspend operations ... with the hope of restarting in March." Hitchcock tells the Bloomington Herald-Times that a post-Sept. 11 decline in advertising revenue of 15-20 percent forced his hand. The closure leaves Yesse! with two papers, Dayton, Ohio's Impact Weekly and Springfield's Illinois Times.
Tom Bartel and Kris Henning, founders of City Pages (Minneapolis), are launching a glossy monthly called the Rake in March. Bartel sold City Pages to Village Voice Media-predecessor Stern Publishing in 1997. The Rake may compete with City Pages, published by Tom Bartel's brother, Mark Bartel. Tom says his brother is his best friend, but: "We've been rivals since we were kids. This is no different."
This week’s edition of Westchester County Weekly will be its last as a separate publication. Beginning next week, it will be folded into its sister publication, Fairfield County Weekly. About 30,000 readers in Westchester County, N.Y., will get their own cover with the old nameplate, but the content of the two alternative newsweeklies will be identical. Fran Zankowski, CEO and group publisher of Advocate*Weekly Newspapers, tells the staff in a memo that they made a “valiant attempt” to save the paper, but it was just not profitable enough to stand alone.
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