Community newspaper company buys Seattle Weekly
SEATTLE (AP) - The Seattle Weekly has been sold to a community newspaper company.
Sound Publishing announced Wednesday that they had bought the free alternative weekly from Village Voice Media Holdings. The publishing company operates 36 community newspapers around Washington and northern Oregon. Its parent company, Black Press, also purchased the SF Weekly from Village Voice.
The Seattle Weekly was founded in 1976, offering readers its take on the region's politics, night life, dining and other topics.
Sound Publishing says the Seattle Weekly will remain based in Seattle.
Sound Publishing announced Wednesday that they had bought the free alternative weekly from Village Voice Media Holdings. The publishing company operates 36 community newspapers around Washington and northern Oregon. Its parent company, Black Press, also purchased the SF Weekly from Village Voice.
The Seattle Weekly was founded in 1976, offering readers its take on the region's politics, night life, dining and other topics.
Sound Publishing says the Seattle Weekly will remain based in Seattle.
It started changing in the 70's, up until that time newspapers were a source of news. Then the concept changed and newspapers simply became a vehicle for advertising. In order to be a good vehicle it had to be a good newspaper, unless they were un-opposed. The weeklys became the better newspapers but we demanded instant newsa. The TV and then the internet took over. However there was a short period furing the last century when most newspapers were good and there were investagative jounalists not hacks who were told what they could and could not print. The young people of today do not understand. There is a scene in an old movie, Soylent Green, and Charlston Heston says "I did not know". The young people will not know what a good newspaper was.
"Sound Publishing says the Seattle Weekly will remain based in Seattle."
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I was worried they were going to move it to Oklahoma City.