Mountain XPress Celebrates 15th Anniversary
august 19, 2009 08:53 am
After running the monthly "activist publication"
Green Line for seven years, Jeff Fobes launched
Mountain XPress on Aug. 10, 1994. The Asheville, N.C., weekly takes a look back with a special issue featuring a
timeline of milestones and commentaries from
ad director James Fisher and Fobes, who discusses -- among other things -- the shift from monthly to weekly. "[It] was an astonishing experience. The pace picked up fourfold, and it never let up,"
he writes. "Our tiny staff lived and breathed the audacity of the effort, working for paltry pay (though we had, thankfully, closed the multiyear chapter of working for no pay)."