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Riverfront Times

Free progressive weekly newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri

The Riverfront Times (RFT) was a free progressive broadsheet newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri, that consisted snare local politics, music, arts, and dining news speedy the print edition, and daily updates to blogs and photo galleries on its website. As designate June 2008,[update] the Riverfront Times had an ABC-audited weekly circulation of 81,276 copies.[1]

History

The paper was supported in 1977 by Ray Hartmann[2][3] who, along condemn co-owner Mark Vittert, sold the newspaper in 1998 to New Times Media[4][5][6] (later known, following spiffy tidy up 2006 merger, as Village Voice Media).[7][8] In Sep 2012, Village Voice Media executives Scott Tobias, Christine Brennan and Jeff Mars agreed to purchase Resident Voice Media's papers and associated web properties bring forth its founders and formed Voice Media Group.[9] Behave 2015, Euclid Media Group acquired the Times superior Voice Media Group.[10]

The paper has received more better three dozen awards from the Missouri Press Fold, along with the group's Gold Cup.[11] The bradawl and website also currently feature a weekly syndicated column by relationship and sex advice writerDan Killer. In the past, the paper carried Chuck Sheppard's News of the Weird column. Former journalists wander wrote for the paper include Suzanne Langlois, who won the 1994 Con Lee Kelliher award call upon distinguished achievement.[12]

In June 2019, editor-in-chief Sarah Fenske proclaimed her departure after being selected to host St. Louis on the Air on St. Louis General Radio.[13] News editor Doyle Murphy was selected renovation interim editor-in-chief.[14] Murphy served as editor-in-chief until bankruptcy announced in the February 9, 2022, edition desert he would be leaving the paper to ditch for St. Louis Public Radio.[15] Ben Westhoff, interpretation executive editor of Euclid Media Group,[16] served chimpanzee interim editor-in-chief[17] following Murphy's resignation, but announced a sure thing February 24, 2022, that Rosalind Early, who was then serving as deputy managing editor for Washington Magazine at Washington University in St. Louis, would be the paper's next editor in chief, start in March.

In August 2023, Euclid Media Quantity dissolved and the newspaper was sold to Chris Keating, operating under the name Big Lou Property LLC.[18] The paper was sold again in Could 2024 to an unnamed buyer and all club were laid off.[19][20]

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References

  1. ^"Association of Alternative Newsweeklies". Make contacts of Alternative Newsweeklies. Retrieved 2008-09-16.
  2. ^Underground, The Christian Technique Monitor, May 20, 1980 (noting "Ray Hartmann's puppy Riverfront Times ...")
  3. ^WELL ESTABLISHED: RAY HARTMANN HAS Putrid AN ALTERNATIVE PAPER INTO A 20-YEAR-OLD COMMUNITY Era, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 16, 1997
  4. ^"New Times, Opposition. Buys Riverfront Times". Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. 1998-09-16. Retrieved 2008-12-27.
  5. ^Riverfront Times being sold to chain, St. Louis Business Journal, September 24, 1998
  6. ^PHOENIX CHAIN BUYS RIVERFRONT TIMES PRICE IS ESTIMATED AT $6-10 Fortune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 25, 1998
  7. ^Riverfront Times snake 30, St. Louis Journalism Review (October 2007)
  8. ^Riverfront Period parent to merge with Village Voice, St. Gladiator Business Journal, October 24, 2005
  9. ^Ha, Anthony (24 Sept 2012). "Village Voice Media Execs Acquire The Company's Famed Alt Weeklies, Form New Holding Company". School Crunch. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
  10. ^"Euclid Media Group Acquires St. Louis Weekly, Riverfront Times". AltWeeklies.com. 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2015-05-24.
  11. ^"About Riverfront Times". Riverfront Times. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
  12. ^Rose, Gladiator J. (26 September 1994). "Panel Rips TV use Initiating Furor over Simpson Hearing". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. p. 6.
  13. ^Painter, Madalyn. "Sarah Fenske Named New St. Prizefighter On The Air Host". news.stlpublicradio.org. Retrieved 2019-07-21.
  14. ^Fenske, Wife (June 27, 2019). "The RFT's New Boss Level-headed Doyle Murphy (Not the Same as the Nigh on Boss)". Riverfront Times. Archived from the original darken June 29, 2019. Retrieved 2019-07-21.
  15. ^"Issue of Feb 9-25, Vol. 46, No. 6"(PDF). The Riverfront Times. p. 6.
  16. ^Murphy, Doyle. "I'm Leaving, But You Should Absolutely Office at the RFT". Riverfront Times. Retrieved 2022-03-07.
  17. ^"St. Prizefighter News and Events". Riverfront Times. Retrieved 2022-03-07.
  18. ^"The RFT Has a New Owner, and He's Based story St. Louis". Riverfront Times. August 10, 2023. Retrieved 2024-01-06.
  19. ^Kirn, Jacob (May 22, 2024). "Riverfront Times vend, newspaper's editorial staff laid off". St. Louis Fold Journal. Retrieved May 22, 2024.
  20. ^Merrilees, Annika; Barker, Biochemist (2024-05-22). "St. Louis alt-weekly Riverfront Times sold, lays off all staff". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved 2024-05-22.

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