Six weeks into its experiment with digital subscriptions, the Arkansas Times has signed up 600 subscribers worth an estimated $5,500 in monthly income.
Maddow praised the Arkansas Times for its "excellent and indispensable" coverage of the Mayflower Oil Spill.
The Times-ÂShamrock Communications alternative weekly division includes Baltimore City Paper, Cleveland Scene, Metro Times, Orlando Weekly, and San Antonio Current.
Two small market alt-weeklies experiment by asking readers to help pay for long-form investigative journalism.
Digital membership plan is $9.99 per month and includes unlimited access to blogs, invites to monthly cocktail parties, and priority access to events.
Creative Loafing Tampa wins three first-place awards. Miami New Times reporter Michael E. Miller named Journalist of the Year.
Garrison will take over for Tom Finkel, who is leaving to edit the Village Voice.
The joint effort with InsideClimate News aims to raise $26,535 to pay for two journalists to aggressively report on the March 29 ExxonMobil oil spill in Mayflower, Ark.
Sarah Klein, a former culture editor at Metro Times in Detroit was involved in a fatal car accident on Sunday while traveling with her husband south of San Francisco. Klein was 36 years old.
The Colorado Springs Independent, Houston Press, Miami New Times and The Texas Observer have each won Sigma Delta Chi Awards from the national Society of Professional Journalists.
