Los Angeles CityBeat
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| Los Angeles CityBeat | |
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| Type | Alternative weekly |
| Format | Tabloid |
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| Owner | Southland Publishing |
| Publisher | Charles Gerencser |
| Editor | Rebecca Schoenkopf |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Headquarters | 5209 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036  United States |
| Circulation | 99,633[1] |
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| Website: lacitybeat.com | |
Los Angeles CityBeat is a free alternative weekly founded in June 2003. CityBeat, with a circulation of 100,000, is the flagship weekly for Southland Publishing. It is devoted to thought-provoking news, events coverage, and high caliber criticism of the arts and entertainment for the Los Angeles area. The average reader is 29.1 years old and has a household income of more than $61,000.
CityBeat is available every Thursday at over 2,000 distribution locations throughout the Los Angeles market with select distribution in Long Beach, Orange County & the Inland Empire. CityBeat is a member of the Alternative Weekly Network and was a unanimous recommendation for membership in the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.
The online home of the weekly newspaper, lacitybeat.com, hosts up to 10,000 unique visitors a day.
Staff
The inaugural staff included editor-in-chief Steve Appleford, deputy editor Dean Kuipers, arts editor Natalie Nichols, film editor Andy Klein, news editor Alan Mittelstaedt, staff writer Dennis Romero, and Calendar editor Rebecca Epstein. Contributors have included Mick Farren, Ron Garmon, Andrew Gumbel, Tom Hayden, Richard Meltzer, Anthony Miller, Chris Morris, Donna Perlmutter, Richard Foss, Don Shirley, Kirk Silsbee, and David L. Ulin. It is also home to the Los Angeles Press Club 2007 selection for Print Journalist of the Year, Michael Collins. Graphic artists who have contributed regularly include Jordan Crane, Tony Millionaire, Ted Rall, and Brian Stauffer.
Groundbreaking Stories
The original team carved out [2] a niche of ahead-of-the-curve news coverage and edgy arts journalism in an attempt to create an alternative voice that varied from the increasingly mainstream LA Weekly. In 2004, the paper was one of the earliest voices[3] to cover the latest wave of official neglect and containment of homelessness on L.A.'s Skid Row (and downtown's San Julian Street), a story that would evolve to include massive coverage in the Los Angeles Times[4], the LA Weekly [5] and New Yorker magazine.[6] In 2005, a cover story predicted that Antonio Villaraigosa's campaign for mayor was underestimated at a time when other outlets were discounting his chances. He won. Arts coverage included cover stories on rapper Lady Sovereign, hip-hop producer Danger Mouse,[7] and the South Los Angeles backyard-punk-rock explosion.[8]
CityBeat in 2008
On March 26, 2008, Steve Lowery, formerly of The District Weekly of Long Beach, replaced founding editor Appleford. Rebecca Schoenkopf followed from The District newspaper and originally took the job of arts editor. However, Lowery soon left the paper, [9] and Schoenkopf became editor-in-chief.[10]
[edit] References
- ^ Los Angeles CityBeat/ValleyBeat. Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. Retrieved on 2007-02-06.
- ^ http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2004/02/in_the_weeklies_1.php
- ^ http://www.lacitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/?id=634&IssueNum=35
- ^ http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez-skidrow-nathaniel-series,0,1456093.special
- ^ http://www.laweekly.com/news/features/dying-to-get-off-skid-row/14113/
- ^ http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/toc/2008/05/05/toc_20080428
- ^ http://www.lacitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/?id=860&IssueNum=47
- ^ http://www.lacitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/his_kids_are_alright/3802/
- ^ http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/04/citybeat_editor_quits_hea.php
- ^ http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/04/schoenkopf_rises_fast_at.php
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