Riverfront Times
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The Riverfront Times is a weekly newspaper
in St. Louis, Missouri
that consists of local politics, music, arts and dining news in the print edition and daily updates to blogs and photo galleries on its website. The paper and website also feature a weekly syndicated column
by relationship and sex advice writer
Dan Savage
.
As of June 2008, Riverfront Times has an ABC-audited weekly circulation of 81,276 copies.
The paper has received considerable recognition and claims more than three dozen awards from the Missouri Press Association, along with the group's Gold Cup. It is widely distributed at various locations around the St. Louis area.
Weekly newspaper
A weekly newspaper is a general-news publication that is published on newsprint once or twice a week.Such newspapers tend to have smaller circulations than daily newspapers, and are usually based in less-populous communities or small, defined areas within large cities; often, they may cover a...
in St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...
that consists of local politics, music, arts and dining news in the print edition and daily updates to blogs and photo galleries on its website. The paper and website also feature a weekly syndicated column
Print syndication
Print syndication distributes news articles, columns, comic strips and other features to newspapers, magazines and websites. They offer reprint rights and grant permissions to other parties for republishing content of which they own/represent copyrights....
by relationship and sex advice writer
Advice column
An advice column is a column in a magazine or newspaper written by an advice columnist . The image presented was originally of an older woman providing comforting advice and maternal wisdom, hence the name "aunt"...
Dan Savage
Dan Savage
Daniel Keenan "Dan" Savage is an American author, media pundit, journalist and newspaper editor. Savage writes the internationally syndicated relationship and sex advice column Savage Love. Its tone is frank in its discussion of sexuality, often humorous, and hostile to social conservatives, as in...
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As of June 2008, Riverfront Times has an ABC-audited weekly circulation of 81,276 copies.
History
The paper was founded in 1977 by Ray Hartmann who, along with co-owner Mark Vittert, sold the newspaper in 1998 to New Times Media (now known, following a 2006 merger, as Village Voice Media).The paper has received considerable recognition and claims more than three dozen awards from the Missouri Press Association, along with the group's Gold Cup. It is widely distributed at various locations around the St. Louis area.