AAN Association of Alternative Newsmedia

New Players Nibbling Around the Edges of Growing LA Weekly

By AAN Staff

october 28, 2003 12:22 am

One year after New Times LA was shuttered, several new papers are scrambling to compete in the cramped quarters not already occupied by a fatter LA Weekly, according to the local business journal. "The LA Weekly is a Goliath ... But there is still a way to make money, even by picking up their crumbs,” says former employee turned competitor, Jim Kaplan. Southland Publishing's Charles Gerencser says the Village Voice Media paper, which recently published a phone-book size "Best of", was becoming “publishing’s version of urban sprawl.”

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Tags: L.A. Weekly