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It's always sad to hear when a paper totally goes away. "It is with great regret that as of the March 26, 2009 issue, Southland Publishing, Inc. has decided to discontinue publishing the Los Angeles CityBeat alternative weekly publication," company President Bruce Bolkin wrote in a memo to staff and others about the closure. Citybeat started in 2003 and was a blast this summer when Alan Mittelstaedt got on the transportation and water efficiency beat. "Sources inside the paper expressed surprise at the decision. Under CityBeat publisher Will Swaim's direction the paper had recently gone from operating at a loss to breaking even," finds Tina Dupuy at FishbowlLA
LA City Beat Closes Down Shop
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I've enjoyed many issues of CityBeat. RIP.
Sad to hear. The state of print media here in L.A. is in a horrible state. Did anyone see the Calendar section of the Times where they forgot to insert headlines in the Quick Takes section? Instead they say "tag briefs subhead." Embarrassing.
The incredibly shrinking newspaper scene in this town is depressing...and we will all be a little poorer for the loss of this alt. voice outlet that brought us stories the others wouldn't cover. The Theatre scene will miss Don Shirley and his dedication to covering our myriad stages. They say they were breaking even? I'd like to know the rest of the story...sorry they won't be around to break it.
I used to go out of my way to pick up this paper every week just for its film section, and particularly for Andy Klein, one of the *very few* first-rate film critics of the last couple decades. Towards the end, he was sent packing, just as the paper had gradually divested itself of all worthwhile content. There was nothing left, barely even a shell, so it might as well dry up and blow away.
The L.A. Weakly is still around, but it never compared very favorably with New Times, and then Citybeat, during their heyday.
What I can't fathom is how the S.D. Citybeat is able to continue in a far smaller market that also still has The Reader, and maybe some other publications I'm not even aware of.