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Former Boston Phoenix Sales Execs Acquire Local Weeklies

By AAN Staff

august 21, 2003 12:33 pm

Former Boston Phoenix Sales Execs Acquire Local Weeklies

Sue O’Connell and Jeff Coakley yesterday acquired the largest gay-and-lesbian newspaper in New England and a Boston neighborhood paper, according to Dan Kennedy. Coakley was the Phoenix’s director of classified advertising in the mid ’90s; O'Connell served two tours of duty as the paper's entertainment sales manager before leaving in 1998 to become associate publisher of Bay Windows, a 22,000- circulation publication targeting the region's GLBT community.

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