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LA Weekly

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LA Weekly
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)Semanal Media LLC
Founder(s)Jay Levin
EditorDarrick Rainey
Founded1978; 48 years ago (1978)
Headquarters724 S. Spring Street, Los Angeles, California, 90014
CountryUnited States
Circulation160,128[1] (as of 2016)
ISSN0192-1940
Websitewww.laweekly.com Edit this at Wikidata

LA Weekly is a free alternative weekly newspaper in Los Angeles, California.

Publication history

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The paper was founded in 1978 by Jay Levin.[2][3]

By 1990, LA Weekly had a circulation of 165,000.[4]

In 1994, LA Weekly was sold to Stern Publishing, owner of The Village Voice.

In 2004, New Times Media bought Stern Publishing,[5] and changed the company's name to Village Voice Media in October 2005.[6]

References

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  1. ↑ "AAM: Total Circ for Consumer Magazines". Retrieved August 9, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  2. ↑ Henderson, Bruce. "Freep Vet Tries Alternate Route," New West magazine (July 3, 1978). Archived at LA Observed.
  3. ↑ "L.A. Weekly Founder Jay Levin on the vision that started it all". L.A. Weekly (December 4, 2008).
  4. ↑ Nancy Yoshihara, "Chic L.A. Style Magazine Sold to American Express," Los Angeles Times May 11, 1988.
  5. ↑ Vane, Sharyn (November 1998). "Consider the Alternative". American Journalism Review. Archived from the original on June 6, 2013. Retrieved October 18, 2012.
  6. ↑ Richard Siklos (October 24, 2005). "The Village Voice, Pushing 50, Prepares to Be Sold to a Chain of Weeklies". The New York Times. Retrieved October 18, 2012.

Other websites

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