Creative Loafing Atlanta
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Creative Loafing is a U.S.
city newsweekly serving the Atlanta
metropolitan area covering local news, politics, arts, entertainment, food, music and events. Its weekly print circulation is 100,000, and its cumulative readership over a four-week period is 608,636 according to the Dec. 2009 MediaAudit survey. It is Atlanta's largest-circulation newspaper and, since the Atlanta Journal-Constitutions 2010 move to the suburbs, bills itself as "Atlanta's Only Hometown Newspaper."
Founded in 1972, it is owned by Tampa, Fla.-based CL
, Inc., which also publishes the Chicago Reader, the Washington City Paper, and local editions of Creative Loafing in Charlotte, N.C., Tampa, Fla., and Sarasota, Fla. Before September 2006, the Tampa and Sarasota editions were published under the name Weekly Planet. CL, Inc. acquired the Chicago Reader and the Washington City Paper in 2007.
Creative Loafing’s publisher is Henry E Scott, former VP, New Media/New Products at The New York Times Company, founding Publisher of Metro New York, the free daily, and former President of Out, publisher of America's leading quality gay and lesbian magazine. Its editor until 2011 was Mara Shalhoup, a former crime writer for the Macon Telegraph. Her first book, "BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family," based on her 2006 CL series about the national cocaine and hip-hop syndicate, was published in March 2010 by St. Martin's Press.
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city newsweekly serving the Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...
metropolitan area covering local news, politics, arts, entertainment, food, music and events. Its weekly print circulation is 100,000, and its cumulative readership over a four-week period is 608,636 according to the Dec. 2009 MediaAudit survey. It is Atlanta's largest-circulation newspaper and, since the Atlanta Journal-Constitutions 2010 move to the suburbs, bills itself as "Atlanta's Only Hometown Newspaper."
Founded in 1972, it is owned by Tampa, Fla.-based CL
Creative Loafing
CL Inc. is the Tampa, Florida-based publisher of three city newsweeklies and their associated websites. Each of the papers focuses on local news, politics, arts and entertainment, and restaurants...
, Inc., which also publishes the Chicago Reader, the Washington City Paper, and local editions of Creative Loafing in Charlotte, N.C., Tampa, Fla., and Sarasota, Fla. Before September 2006, the Tampa and Sarasota editions were published under the name Weekly Planet. CL, Inc. acquired the Chicago Reader and the Washington City Paper in 2007.
Creative Loafing’s publisher is Henry E Scott, former VP, New Media/New Products at The New York Times Company, founding Publisher of Metro New York, the free daily, and former President of Out, publisher of America's leading quality gay and lesbian magazine. Its editor until 2011 was Mara Shalhoup, a former crime writer for the Macon Telegraph. Her first book, "BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family," based on her 2006 CL series about the national cocaine and hip-hop syndicate, was published in March 2010 by St. Martin's Press.