The Mountain Xpress is ending its 14-year run as a print publication today, "suspending its regular online news reports and converting its entire news operation to Twitter dispatches from staff and trusted community journalists."
The San Francisco Bay Guardianhas settled its lawsuit with Village Voice Media, agreeing to drop its legal action and "shut the fuck up" about PG&E, sunshine, media concentration, rent control, and over-development.
Publisher Sally Freeman has sold the Boise Weekly to N-Corp-Al, which quickly shut the alt-weekly down and relaunched it as the Treasure Valley Weekly Post.
The Washington City Paperhas relaunched as the Huffington City Paper.
Salt Lake City Weekly announced it has purchasedSLUG magazine and will bring new features like "Cute Baby of the Month" and "Those Wacky Pets" to the long-running local underground-music magazine.
Athens, Ga., alt-weekly Flagpolehas relaunched as "a celebrity 'zine about fun and style, now to be known as Starpole."
The East Bay Express is changing editorial course, introducing new procedures like "user-generated copyediting" and "reader-assigned stories."