The predatory pricing trial resumed yesterday after taking Tuesday off. Village Voice Media chief financial officer Keating finished his testimony, and three more witnesses were called: Jennifer Vernon from Live Nation (formerly Clear Channel Concerts); James Higginbotham of International Demographics, the company that runs Media Audit; and the SF Weekly's expert witness, economics professor Joseph P. Kalt. For more details, check out reports from the Guardian and the Weekly.

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The paper's Business Development Office is actively recruiting reporters for a new print publication targeting younger readers to be launched in April, according to the Maryland Daily Record. The publication, which is scheduled to launch in April, will reportedly be a five-day-per-week paper. While the Sun is a Tribune Co. property, this print product seems to be of a different nature than the weekly Metromix print companion, which the company rolled out in Los Angeles this week.

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The nightlife and culture website affiliated with the Los Angeles Times will have a companion newspaper released weekly, Editor & Publisher reports. The print edition will be in a tabloid format, with 100,000 copies distributed free each week. Metromix sites are currently up and running in other cities like Chicago, Baltimore, and New York, but there's no word yet whether Tribune intends to introduce print products in those markets as well.

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The Metro Newspapers CEO is "one of the few publishers that have successfully navigated the treacherous straights between print media and the new world online," the trade magazine Domain Name Journal says in a cover profile. The story concentrates on Pulcrano's creation of Boulevards New Media and his acquisition of a "near priceless portfolio that includes 20 of the 30 largest American city names in the .com extension." But Pulcrano also talks about how he got into journalism and ended up creating Metro Newspapers in the first place. He started publishing underground papers at age 11, later reported for the San Diego Reader, and then was approached by Jay Levin to help launch the L.A. Weekly when he was 19 years old. "Working there was life changing for me too; from that point on I knew what I wanted to do," he says of his stint at the Weekly.

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