The City Paper
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| Type | Weekly Newspaper (Friday) |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | SouthComm Communications |
| Editor | Steve Cavendish |
| Managing editors | James Nix |
| Founded | November 1, 2000 |
| Language | English |
| Ceased publication | August 9, 2013 |
| Headquarters | 210 12th Avenue South, Suite 100, Nashville, TN 37203 |
| Circulation | 78,000 |
| Website | www.nashvillecitypaper.com |
The City Paper (also known as The Nashville City Paper) was a free, weekly newspaper that served Nashville, Tennessee from November 1, 2000 to August 9, 2013.
The City Paper began publication as a daily, Monday through Friday paper on November 1, 2000, providing competition to The Tennessean, which was the only daily in town after the Nashville Banner closed in 1998. The City Paper started with a daily circulation of about 40,000 copies and was delivered free of charge to homes in the Nashville Metropolitan area. Within a month, home delivery was cut back to paid subscribers and circulation was cut to 20,000. Initially, The City Paper projected a circulation of 90,000.
On March 2, 2004, City Paper founder Brian Brown announced he was replacing himself as publisher with Tom Larimer, previously of the Daily News Journal in Murfreesboro. A few months later, Larimer resigned and Jim Ezzell was named interim publisher on July 16, 2004. Ezzell, who served on The City Paper’s operating committee for three years, is the chief financial officer of Thompson Machinery Commerce Corp., whose owners would later buy the newspaper.
On June 2, 2006, The City Paper announced that it had hired Albie Del Favero, publisher of the Nashville Scene, as its publisher. For three years, Clint Brewer, former managing editor of the Lebanon Democrat and a past national president of the U.S. Society of Professional Journalists, served as executive editor.
In June 2007, it was estimated that The City Paper reached an average of more than 250,000 unique readers each week, according to a media audit reported in the Nashville Scene. By comparison, the same article reported the A-section of The Tennessean had at that time reached 365,700 readers weekly.
It was announced April 9, 2008, that Nashville-based SouthComm Communications purchased The City Paper. SouthComm--which also owns the Nashville Post, Business Tennessee magazine, and other Nashville-based media products -- is owned by the Thompson family of Thompson Machinery Commerce Corp. Members of the Thompson family also retained a significant minority stake in the paper until its closure.
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