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Who Will Own City Paper? We Just Found Out
UPDATE 1628:Chicago Reader enters Atalaya Era after Creative Loafing loses its last bid in bankruptcy court (Chicago Reader)
UPDATE 1535: Creative Loafing chain sold to biggest creditor for $5 million (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
UPDATE 1459: Washington City Paper Now Owned by Atalaya Capital (DCist)
Atalaya outbids Eason, assumes control of Creative Loafing (Creative Loafing Tampa)
UPDATE 1332: Hedge Fund Atalaya buys Creative Loafing in equity auction (Tampa Bay Business Journal)
UPDATE 1256: New York equity firm snaps up Tampa's Creative Loafing (Tampa Tribune/TBO.com)
UPDATE 1240:Chicago Reader Has New Owners (Chicago Reader)
UPDATE 1236:Tampa's Creative Loafing chain taken over by hedge fund Atalaya (St. Petersburg Times/tampabay.com)
UPDATE 1229: Atlanta Creative Loafing says Atalaya won.
UPDATE 1223: Chicago Reader calls it for Atalaya.
UPDATE 1218: Unconfirmed Twitter chatter is that Atalaya has won.
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AAN Awards Update: Washington City Paper Brings Home Three First-Place Wins
Washington City Paper, finalists in five of the highest-circulation categories for the 2009 Association for Alternative Newsweeklies Awards, has been named the first-place winner in three of them: arts criticism, media reporting/criticism, and innovation/format buster. In addition, this blog received second-place honors and staff photographer Darrow Montgomery, who received honorable mention in the 2008 awards, was named as the third-place winner for photography at the annual convention, where winners are announced each year. More about the first-place winners:
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Will Craigslist’s New Stance on Adult Ads Save Alt-Weeklies?
Last year Craigslist, which lists 18 employees on its "about us" page, made somewhere between $20 and $80 million dollars. So why is its CEO, Jim Buckmaster, so p.o.'d about sex ads in alt-weeklies?
Because these bottom-feeding free publications are making an erotic comeback in the classifieds biz, with an assist from law enforcement.
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