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Cincinnati CityBeat Hits Double-Digitsnew

The Cincinnati alt-weekly is celebrating its 10-year anniversary this week and marks the occasion with a special section that reflects upon some of the paper's noteworthy journalistic achievements -- from saving the life of an innocent man on Death Row to shining a light on a local daily's forfeiture of editorial control to the Chiquita banana company. "Fawning over ourselves with an anniversary issue makes me uncomfortable," co-publisher and editor John Fox writes. "But 10 years of being the liberal voice in a conservative town is something to celebrate."
Cincinnati CityBeat  |  11-10-2004  5:04 pm  |  Industry News
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Real Musicians Have Day Jobs

They need to make a living but can't afford to let the conformity demanded by some day jobs sap their creative spirit. Independent Weekly's Leslie Land, Tucson Weekly's Marc Desilets and others explain the migration of musicians to the classified sales departments of alternative newsweeklies. What's the appeal? Good pay, good vibes -- altogether a decent daylight gig for a breed that Cincinnati CityBeat's Chuck Davis has dubbed "rawker-ad-hawkers." (FULL STORY)
Noel Black  |  08-04-2004  11:02 am  |  Industry News
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National Critics Association Has First Alt-Weekly Leader

06-16-2004  4:43 pm  |  Press Releases
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Subpoenaed CityBeat Reporter Tells Council Why She Wrote about Police Pay Abusenew

"This was the definition of silly," a Republican council member says of the Cincinnati City Council's move to subpoena Leslie Blade to talk about her investigative piece. Having Blade testify brought the council no more information than reading the story, he says. Blade refused to answer a few questions during her half-hour appearance before the council Tuesday but said she wrote the article because "you're talking about public funds—about public trust—and the rules should be followed."
The Cincinnati Enquirer  |  02-04-2004  1:06 pm  |  Industry News
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CityBeat Reporter to Honor Cincinnati City Council's Subpoenanew

CityBeat Editor/Co-Publisher John Fox got a lot of advice, both solicited and unsolicited, after reporter Leslie Blade was subpoenaed to testify before the council's Law and Public Safety Committee. It's only the second time in 10 years the council has issued a subpoena to anyone. Blade caught the council's attention with her Dec. 10 cover story on cops who double-billed the city and housing authority. In an editorial this week, Fox says Blade should be proud to discuss the expose with the council, but she won't be sharing names of sources or information not included in her story.
Cincinnati CityBeat  |  01-28-2004  7:09 pm  |  Industry News
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Cincinnati City Council Votes to Subpoena CityBeat Reporternew

Some Cincinnati police officers claimed to be in two places at once so they could double-bill the city and the public housing authority, Leslie Blade reported in CityBeat on Dec. 10. Now the Cincinnati City Council wants to ask her questions about the scandal so badly it voted 5-4 last week to subpoena her. CityBeat Editor/Co-Publisher John Fox criticizes the decision to make a journalist an investigative tool of government.
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press  |  01-15-2004  3:44 pm  |  Industry News
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CityBeat News Editor Arrestednew

Gregory Flannery says it took about 30 seconds for him to be arrested in a March 20 peace march in Cincinnati. "That's how long my feet were embedded on a Fifth Street crosswalk before a police officer ordered me to move. I declined, and he charged me with obstructing official business," he writes. Flannery says his five hours in the slammer were worth it, even though, "Handcuffs hurt the wrists and the shoulders. Jail is boring."
Cincinnati CityBeat  |  04-07-2003  11:25 am  |  Industry News
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Vice Mayor Threatens Alt-Weekly Writernew

Cincinnati Vice Mayor Alicia Reece (pictured here) has threatened to call out the firefighters to intimidate a political rival and a Cincinnati CityBeat staff writer, the paper's Gregory Flannery reports. "Your Negro Tour Guide" columnist Kathy Y. Wilson has filed a complaint with police about the alleged threat. Editor John Fox says Reece visited him to complain about Wilson's coverage. "She said, 'If you can't control her, I will ... I have 150 firefighters who are willing to do anything I ask them.'"
Cincinnati CityBeat  |  05-09-2002  12:51 pm  |  Industry News
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CityBeat Buys a Buildingnew

Cincinnati CityBeat has purchased a six-story downtown building and is now looking for "like-minded" tenants to share the space, the Cincinnati Business Courier reports. CityBeat will pay $790,000 for the building where Hank Williams once recorded. "We just thought it would be better to buy. It was a good deal. It's a really good building, and we wanted to stay downtown," Co-Publisher and Editor John Fox tells the business paper.
Cincinnati Business Courier  |  11-09-2001  4:43 pm  |  Industry News
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Alternative Papers Rip Up Fronts to Cover Terrorist Nightmare

Across the country, alternative newsweeklies ditched their planned front pages as the awesome events of Tuesday unfolded. East Coast papers like The Village Voice and Washington City Paper are sharing stories and pictures with colleagues from Maine to California. (FULL STORY)
AAN Staff  |  09-12-2001  4:11 pm  |  Industry News
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Classified Network Roars Out of the Gate

Dot-Coms Dominate First Ads Sold By AAN Classified Reps. (FULL STORY)
AAN Staff  |  12-02-1999  11:50 am  |  Industry News
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Everybody's News Closes Shop

Cincinnati Alternative Shuttered After 16-Year Run. (FULL STORY)
AAN Staff  |  09-01-1999  11:50 am  |  Industry News
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Rust Belt Papers Collaborate on Stadium Story

Pittsburgh City Paper, Cincinnati City Beat and Cleveland Free Times Join Forces (FULL STORY)
Cory Zurowski  |  08-17-1998  11:50 am  |  Industry News
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