City Pages
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| City Pages | |
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 The June 27, 2007 front page of City Pages |
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| Type | Alternative weekly |
| Format | Tabloid |
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| Owner | Village Voice Media |
| Publisher | Mark Bartel |
| Editor | Kevin Hoffman |
| Founded | 1979 |
| Price | free |
| Headquarters | 401 N. Third St., Suite 550 Minneapolis, MN 55401 United States |
| Circulation | 117,254[1] |
| ISSN | 0744-0456 |
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| Website: citypages.com | |
City Pages is an alternative weekly newspaper serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. It features news, film and theatre reviews, and music criticism. It is printed in a tabloid format, and is available for free every Wednesday. The newspaper is published by Village Voice Media, a 16-paper alt weekly chain based in Phoenix, Arizona.
On August 1, 1979, publishers Tom Bartel and Kristin Henning debuted Sweet Potato, a monthly newspaper focused on the Twin Cities music scene. The first issue featured pop band The Cars on the cover. In October 1980, Sweet Potato went biweekly. On December 3, 1981, the newspaper went weekly and was renamed City Pages. City Pages competed for readership with The Twin Cities Reader until 1997, when Stern Publishing purchased City Pages in February and The Twin Cities Reader the following month, shuttering it immediately. City Pages was one of seven alt-weeklies owned by Stern, including the Village Voice. On October 24, 2005, New Times Media announced a deal to acquire Village Voice Media, creating a chain of 17 (now 16) free weekly newspapers around the country with a combined circulation of 1.8 million and controlling a quarter of the weekly circulation of alternative weekly newspapers in North America. After the deal's completion, New Times took the Village Voice Media name.
Circulation for City Pages is 25.4% of the Twin Cities market. 110,000 print copies are produced each week for a weekly readership of 329,800. Gender breakdown: Male 52.9% (print) 49% (online), Female 47.1% (print) 51% (online). [2]
[edit] See also
- Diablo Cody memoirist, screenwriter, and contributor to City Pages
- The Minnesota Daily
- MinnPost.com
- Star Tribune
- St. Paul Pioneer Press
[edit] References
- ^ City Pages (Twin Cities). Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. Retrieved on 2007-01-15.
- ^ Advertising Information. City Pages, LLC. Retrieved on 2007-01-15.
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