The City Paper
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The City Paper is a free daily newspaper serving Nashville, Tennessee. The City Paper started November 1, 2000, providing competition to The Tennessean, which was the only daily in town after the Nashville Banner closed in 1998. The City Paper started with a daily circulation of about 40,000 copies and was being delivered to homes. Within a month, home delivery was cut back to only paid subscribers and circulation was cut to 20,000. Initially The City Paper was projecting a 90,000 circulation.
On March 2, 2004, City Paper founder Brian Brown announced he was replacing himself as publisher with Tom Larimer, who was previously publisher of the Daily News Journal in Murfreesboro. A few months later, Larimer resigned and Jim Ezzell was named interim publisher on July 16, 2004. Ezzell, who has served on The City Paper’s operating committee for three years, is the chief financial officer of Thompson Machinery Commerce Corp., whose owners are investors in the newspaper. On June 2, 2006, The City Paper announced that it had hired Albie Del Favero, publisher of the Nashville Scene, as its publisher. The Executive Editor is Clint Brewer, formerly managing editor of the Lebanon Democrat.
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- The City Paper's Official Web Site
- Nashville Business Journal: Brown sees next fortune in media with The City Paper
- Story on founding publisher Brian Brown firing himself
- City Paper names Larimer as Publisher
- Ezzell takes interim publisher post
- Nashville Scene: City Paper is in the publisher hunt
- The City Paper hires Del Favero as publisher