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Metro is a free daily newspaper in Philadelphia which began publishing on January 24, 2000. [1] Originally published by Metro International , it was the first Metro edition published in North America and the ninth edition since the first in Stockholm in 1995.
Newspapers in the West Unit include all four CNC dailies and a few Framingham-area weeklies published "as editions of The MetroWest Daily News." The non-Daily News West weeklies include titles in Boston's western suburbs -- MetroWest-- as well as several in Norfolk County, southwest and south of the city, and a few farther south in Bristol County.
Weeklys, formerly known as Metro Newspapers, is an American media group established in 1985 and based in San Jose, California. It publishes five free alternative weekly newspapers in Northern California: Metro Silicon Valley, Good Times, the Pacific Sun, East Bay Express and the North Bay Bohemian; and ten community newspapers: the Gilroy Dispatch', Healdsburg Tribune, the Hollister Free Lance ...
The San Jose Jazz Society was started by Metro jazz writer Sammy Cohen and headquartered in Metro's office. The outgrowth was the annual San Jose Jazz Festival. [22] During the 1990s, Metro purchased community newspapers from companies such as the Tribune Company and established Silicon Valley Community Newspapers, which it sold in 2001.
In 2009, The Lance was divided into two community newspapers to better cover the expanding and developing Winnipeg South area, and The Sou'wester was born. Two niche publications, Uptown Magazine, an alternative news-and-entertainment weekly, and The Prime Times, a seniors' paper, were purchased from Rosebud Communications in 2005.
The Metro free newspaper concept originated in Sweden, where a publication of the same name was launched in 1995 by Metro International.British newspaper executives Jonathan Harmsworth and Murdoch MacLennan, from DMGT, were reportedly inspired by the idea and flew to Stockholm on a 'fact-finding mission' to develop their version. [4]
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Metro Weekly and its publisher, Randy Shulman, received 18 ViceVersa Awards from the QSyndicate in 1998 which included Best News Interview or Personality Profile. [1] [2] In 2007, One In Ten gave an award to Metro Weekly as "the community’s event and entertainment bible, for their newspaper's consistent and enthusiastic support of lgbt arts."