Southland to Debut Two LA Weeklies This Summer
By AAN Staff
april 1, 2003 01:17 pm
Southland Publishing's David
Comden announces that his
company successfully bid for the New
Times LA assets that were put up for
sale in the wake of the consent decree
signed by New Times after a Department. of
Justice investigation of the paper's
closure. According to Comden,
Southland, which owns AAN members
Pasadena Weekly and Ventura County
Reporter as well as applying paper San
Diego CityBeat, "plans to open two (Los
Angeles) newsweeklies, CityBeat
LA and ValleyBeat, by
summer."