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 and current national president of the U.S. Society of Professional Journalists.

As of June 2007, The City Paper reached an average of more than 250,000 unique readers each week, according to a media audit reported in the Nashville Scene. For comparison, the same article reported, the A-section of The Tennessean had at that time reached 365,700 readers weekly.

It was announced April 9, 2008, that Nashville-based SouthComm Communications purchased The City Paper. Members of the Thompson family -- of Thompson Machinery fame -- retain a significant minority stake in the paper. Starting April 28, the City Paper will publish and distribute print editions two days each week and continue breaking news online daily. SouthComm, headed up by former Nashville Scene publisher Chris Ferrell, also owns The Nashville Post and Business Tennessee magazine, as well as other media products.

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