Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

Creative Loafing Tampa Bay is a newspaper in Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida, USA covering local events and entertainment.

The newspaper is published once a week on Wednesday.

Creative Loafing, formerly called the Weekly Planet, is the third largest newspaper in the Tampa Bay area. The newsweekly offers an alternative to the two mainstream daily publications in the area. It covers news, music, film, classifieds, personals, the arts and more. It is distributed free of charge.

This newspaper is a member of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN). AAN is a group of weekly newspapers providing journalism that offers an alternative to the mainstream media in the area.

Circulation: 84,955 copies

This newspaper is owned by Creative Loafing Media.

The web site is presented in the English language.

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David Warner is the editor of the Creative Loafing Tampa Bay.

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Mondo Times editors Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 3:18pm on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

A prominent Florida newspaper executive has been named chief executive officer of Creative Loafing, the alternative weekly newspaper group, owner Atalaya Capital Management announced on November 16, 2009.

Marty Petty, 56, is the former publisher of the St. Petersburg Times and the Hartford Courant. She will succeed Richard W. Gilbert, who has been interim CEO since the reorganized company emerged from bankruptcy this fall under the new ownership of Atalaya Capital Management LP, a New York investment firm.

Creative Loafing is headquartered in Tampa, Florida and publishes six alternative weekly newspapers: the Chicago Reader, the Washington City Paper, Creative Loafing Atlanta, Creative Loafing Tampa, Creative Loafing Charlotte and Creative Loafing Sarasota.

The newspapers have a combined weekly print circulation of over 400,000 copies and monthly online unique visitors in excess of 1.5 million.

Mondo Times editors Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 4:47pm on Saturday, August 29th, 2009

The Creative Loafing alternative newspaper chain, including Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, is being taken over by a hedge fund, The St. Petersburg Times reported on August 26, 2009:

"A New York hedge fund wrested control of the Creative Loafing newspaper chain Tuesday, promising to keep the weekly tabloids running in Tampa, Sarasota, Atlanta, Chicago, Charlotte, N.C., and Washington, D.C.

In a bankruptcy auction in Tampa, Atalaya Capital Management's $5 million bid blew away the field. Creative Loafing's longtime owners, the Eason family, opened the bidding by offering $2.32 million, but didn't counter when Atalaya upped the ante.

Ben Eason, effectively removed as chief executive of the chain Tuesday, vowed to start afresh this week with a new online publication based in Tampa. Eason had run family publications for close to 20 years."

The full story:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/tampas-creative-loafing-chain-taken-over-by-hedge-fund-atalaya/1030750

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