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Alt-Weekly Editor: We're Driven By Passion, Not Profit

By AAN Staff
november 11, 2003  04:27 pm
Alt-Weekly Editor: We're Driven By Passion, Not Profit
Responding to readers who accused the paper of opposing a local smoking ban to further its own economic interests, Austin Chronicle Editor Louis Black says Publisher Nick Barbaro is "the poster child for the financially uninterested" and defends his paper in the strongest terms: "This publication is free. We have neither business plan nor profit target. The staff, in every department, is passionately devoted to the Chronicle, striving for quality beyond reason. ... Over the years, just about everything we've ever done where money was the primary motive has cost us dearly. Most of what we did for love paid off."
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