Philadelphia City Paper to cease print publication

PHILLY.COM: City Paper, Philadelphia’s feisty alternative weekly newspaper, will cease its print publication as of Oct. 8…

City Paper’s website operations will be consolidated with philadelphiaweekly.com, which until today had been City Paper’s primary competitor…

“While we re­spect the his­tory Phil­adelphia has with City Pa­per, we have made a com­mit­ment to Philly Weekly that we in­tend to hon­or. It doesn’t make sense for us to com­pete with ourselves,” said Broad Street Media’s publisher Perry Corsetti. “We’re excited to welcome City Pa­per read­ers to Philly Weekly as we con­tin­ue to grow and im­prove the pub­lic­a­tion.”… (more)