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1096-6919. Website. chicagoreader.com. The Chicago Reader, or Reader (stylized as ЯEADER), is an American alternative newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, noted for its literary style of journalism and coverage of the arts, particularly film and theater. The Reader has been recognized as a pioneer among alternative weeklies for both its creative ...
Robert A. "Bob" Roth (born March 19, 1947) is an American publisher and art collector who lives in Chicago. He was the founder and publisher of the Chicago Reader, one of the most influential and successful newspapers of its type. [1] He was also one of the founders and the first president of Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art ...
2005. Country of origin. United States. Headquarters location. Chicago. Publication types. Weekly newspapers, community journalism. Lerner Newspapers was a chain of weekly newspapers. Founded by Leo Lerner, the chain was a force in community journalism in Chicago from 1926 to 2005, and called itself "the world's largest newspaper group".
Chicago Herald-Examiner, 1918–39 (became Herald-American) Chicago Journal, 1844–1929 (absorbed by Chicago Daily News) Chicago Mail, 1885–1894. Chicago Morning News, 1881 (became Chicago Record) Chicago Morning Herald, 1893–1901 (became Record-Herald) Chicago Post, 1890–1929 (absorbed by Daily News) Chicago Record, 1881–1901.
Creative Loafing was 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 ...
Daily newspapers. The Beacon-News – Aurora. Belleville News-Democrat – Belleville. Belvidere Daily Republican – Belvidere. The Benton Evening News – Benton. The Breeze-Courier – Taylorville. The Carmi Times – Carmi. Centralia Morning Sentinel – Centralia. The Chicago Defender – Chicago.
Founder Jim Holman, a navy veteran, worked for the Chicago Reader before starting up in San Diego. The initial press run of the San Diego Reader was 20,000 copies. In 1989, it was printing 131,000 copies a week and in 2015, the circulation was 90,000.
The Reader was the first to be unabashedly free. As it prospered, and our founders proselytized, free circulation slowly lost its stigma. Today, of course, it’s standard practice for alternative weeklies, and metropolitan dailies have begun to experiment with it as well. In 1978, hoping to duplicate our success in a new market, we started the ...