The Slow, Agonizing Death of National Alt-Weekly CD Reviews

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/10/14/san_francisco_bay_guardian_shuts_down_the_decline_and_fall_of_a_great_alt.html

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, October 14, 2014 8:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

providence phoenix shut down last week too

― maura, Wednesday, October 15, 2014 7:09 AM (8 hours ago)

Damn, two that were close to my heart.

i'm not that familiar w/ the Knoxville one, but Providence and SFBG are such significant losses

more to come, i wonder? i've read a couple articles over the past few years that predicted a period of widespread bloodshed to come. wonder if we're getting there :(

i wonder how the chicago reader is doing

right now chicago has (at least) two arts weeklies

http://www.phillyvoice.com/rip-philadelphia-city-paper-1981-2015/

http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/philadelphia_city_paper_closed_archives.php

Thanks for posting those. Contracts with alt-weeklies incl. fairly rapid reversion of all rights to the author, in my experience---which doesn't incl. Philly City Paper, but makes me wonder if Broad Street Media really could make "intellectual property rights" stick, if faced with a suit, by the writers union, for instance. Anybody remember Contentville? They had "backdoor rights," technically, but disappeared pretty quickly.