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Creative Loafing is an Atlanta-based publisher of a monthly arts and culture newspaper/magazine. The company publishes a 60,000 circulation monthly publication which is distributed to in-town locations and neighborhoods on the first Thursday of each month. The company has historically been a part of the alternative weekly newspapers association in the United States. Creative Loafing began as a family-owned business in 1972 by Deborah and Chick Eason, expanding to other cities in the Southern United States in the late 1980s and 1990s. In 2007 it doubled its circulation with the purchase of the Chicago Reader and Washington City Paper; the $40 million debt it incurred, along with an economic recession, forced the company into bankruptcy one year later. The parent company, Creative Loafing, Inc. was dissolved and Atalaya sold off the Chicago Reader. In 2012, SouthComm purchased all of the properties and then sold off each of the papers to other publishers in 2018. The Atlanta Creative Loafing launched the career of many writers and has been an institution in Atlanta's cultural scene. The Parrotheads of Jimmy Buffett fame were launched from an ad in Creative Loafing in the 1990s. Best-selling author and American humorist Hollis Gillespie by debuting her weekly column "Moodswing," which first appeared in 2001 and ran for eight years. Jill Hannity, the wife of Sean Hannity, was the managing editor of the newspaper 1993–1996 until their move to New York City, which commenced Sean Hannity's television career. (en) Creative Loafing es el nombre de cuatro periódicos semanales alternativos publicado en cuatro diferentes ciudades de Tampa, Florida, Estados Unidos, basada en . Los cuatro periódicos ubicados en diferente lugar de Lampa, comparten algunas columnas y artículos, pero la edición de cada ciudad se centra en la presentación de informes de las noticias locales, la cultura y el entretenimiento. Antes de septiembre de 2006, el Tampa y Sarasota ediciones fueron publicadas bajo el nombre de . La compañía también adquirió el Chicago Reader y el Washington City Paper en 2007. (es) |
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Creative Loafing es el nombre de cuatro periódicos semanales alternativos publicado en cuatro diferentes ciudades de Tampa, Florida, Estados Unidos, basada en . Los cuatro periódicos ubicados en diferente lugar de Lampa, comparten algunas columnas y artículos, pero la edición de cada ciudad se centra en la presentación de informes de las noticias locales, la cultura y el entretenimiento. Antes de septiembre de 2006, el Tampa y Sarasota ediciones fueron publicadas bajo el nombre de . La compañía también adquirió el Chicago Reader y el Washington City Paper en 2007. (es) Creative Loafing is an Atlanta-based publisher of a monthly arts and culture newspaper/magazine. The company publishes a 60,000 circulation monthly publication which is distributed to in-town locations and neighborhoods on the first Thursday of each month. The company has historically been a part of the alternative weekly newspapers association in the United States. (en) |
