City Pages

City Pages was shut down on October 28, 2020 by owner Star Tribune Media Company LLC, publisher of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The company is owned by billionaire businessman Glen Taylor, who bought City Pages from Voice Media Group in 2015, one year after he acquired the Star Tribune.

Tom Bartel and Kristin Henning founded the newspaper in August 1979 as Sweet Potato, a monthly that covered the local music scene. It took the name City Pages when it began publishing weekly in December 1981. It was distributed free of charge and covered arts and culture in the Twin Cities along with some investigative reporting. The paper was one of the highest circulation publications affiliated with the Association of Alternative Newsmedia (AAN).

Circulation estimate: 110,000

This newspaper was owned by Star Tribune Media Company LLC.

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All local news media in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota

Ratings

Content:     Very Good (3 votes)
Political Bias:   Liberal (3 votes)
Credibility:   Low (2 votes)

News

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City Pages in Minneapolis-St. Paul is Dead
-- The alternative weekly paper in the Twin Cities was shut down on October 28, 2020 by Star Tribune Media Company, publisher of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The paper was founded in 1979 by Tom Bartel and Kristin Henning. Thirty people have lost their jobs due to the closure. Evan Ramstad wrote at the Star Tribune on October 28, 2020: City Pages is closing, ending the era of alternative weeklies in Twin Cities
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, November 4, 2020

Minneapolis City Pages Sold to Star Tribune
-- On May 6, 2015, Voice Media Group announced that it has sold Minneapolis City Pages, its alternative weekly newspaper in Minneapolis, to the Star Tribune Media Company. Star Tribune Media Company publishes the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the largest newspaper in Minnesota. Voice Media Group has owned City Pages since January 2013, when it purchased the publication from Village Voice Media....

No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
-- or Glass of Wine -- for Minneapolis City Pages Freelancer -- The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported on October 6, 2010: "City Pages Wine & Dine supplement ran into a little snafu recently when its wine writer, freelancer John Glas, asked the 10 finalists for best wine bar to provide him with free food and wine for evaluation so he could consider them for the top 5...

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