San Diego CityBeat

San Diego CityBeat is an alternative weekly newspaper in San Diego, California that focuses on local progressive politics, arts, and music. It is published every Wednesday and distributed around San Diego county, although with a focus on the city of San Diego itself, with a weekly circulation (as of January 2011) of 49,750.^[1]

History

Southland Publishing purchased SLAMM magazine, a music biweekly, from publisher Kevin Hellman in 2002. It planned to target young, educated readers in San Diego, an audience whose needs, Southland's owners felt, were not being met by the other two major publications in San Diego, the San Diego Union Tribune and the San Diego Reader. David Rolland, a journalist and editor with more than 10 years experience, was named editor of CityBeat, while Hellman, the former publisher of SLAMM, was named the entertainment/promotions manager of the new weekly.^[2] Rolland is still editing CityBeat while Hellman, who organizes the annual North Park Music Thing music festival and San Diego Music Awards, is the weekly's publisher.^[3]. CityBeat continues to sponsor the San Diego Music Awards, which was initially organized by Hellman's SLAMM magazine.

Rolland has been appearing on the Editor's Roundtable, a radio show on local public radio station, KPBS, since 2004. The addition of Rolland and other local editors to the show's guest list led Bob Kittle, then editor of the San Diego Union Tribune editorial page, and the editors of the San Diego Voice and Viewpoint and San Diego Metropolitan Magazine, who until then had been the show's only panelists, to leave the show. ^[4]

Staff

Editor: David Rolland
Assistant Editor: Kelly Davis
Arts Editor: Kinsee Morlan
Staff Writer: Dave Maass
Music Editor: Peter Holslin
Events Editor: Carissa Casares
Theater Editor: Martin Jones Westlin
Film Editor: Anders Wright
Columnists: Aaryn Belfer, Edwin Decker, Clea Hantman, D.A. Kolodenko, John R. Lamb, Enrique Limon

References

1. ^ http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/Company?oid=oid%3A115250
2. ^ http://posting.altweeklies.com/aan/slamm-reincarnating-as-san-diego-citybeat/Article?oid=113553
3. ^ http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2009-08-05/things-to-do/concerts-music-clubs/scene-ascending-north-park-music-thing-celebrates-sds-music-community
4. ^ Robert P. Laurence (January 29, 2004). "Three leave `Editors Roundtable'". San Diego Union-Tribune: p. B4:7. 

External links

• CityBeat
• Southland Weeklies
• KPBS Abrogated Its Duty to Maintain Objectivity and Balance In Its Local Public Affairs Television Programing by Cancelling The Full Focus Program: A report by the San Diego City Attorney's office which includes details of Bob Kittle leaving Editor's Roundtable due to Rolland's joining the program.
• Remebering Bob Kittle's Editor's Roundtable Tantrum: A blog post by Rolland on the controversy.