Cincinnati CityBeat
TypeAlternative weekly
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)Big Lou Holdings LLC
PublisherTony Frank
Founded1994
Headquarters811 Race St., 4th Floor
Cincinnati, OH 45202
United States
Circulation30,000 (as of June 2014)[1]
Websitecitybeat.com

Cincinnati CityBeat is an independent local arts and issues publication covering the Cincinnati, Ohio area. It has the second largest readership in the Cincinnati area behind The Cincinnati Enquirer daily newspaper.

History

CityBeat was founded in November 1994. It was backed by local entrepreneur Thomas Schiff and co-founded by John Fox, who left his editor position at Everybody's News (at that point Cincinnati's only print source for independent news) to start the paper. CityBeat has won numerous national, statewide and local journalism and design awards, most recently being named Best Weekly Paper in the state of Ohio in 2005 by the Society of Professional Journalists.

In 2012, CityBeat was acquired by SouthComm Communications.[2] In 2018, it was sold to Euclid Media Group.[3] The company dissolved in August 2023 the newspaper was sold to Chris Keating, operating under the name Big Lou Holdings LLC.[4]

Affiliations

CityBeat is a member of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.

Notable people

References

  1. ↑ "Cincinnati CityBeat". Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. 2014. Archived from the original on June 15, 2010. Retrieved December 29, 2014.
  2. ↑ "CityBeat Acquired by SouthComm". Archived from the original on 2012-07-13. Retrieved 2012-07-04.
  3. ↑ Magaw, Timothy (January 17, 2018). "Euclid Media Group acquires Cincinnati alt-weekly". Crain's Cleveland Business. Archived from the original on January 17, 2018. Retrieved January 5, 2024.
  4. ↑ "The RFT Has a New Owner, and He's Based in St. Louis". Riverfront Times. August 10, 2023. Retrieved 2024-01-06.

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