{{Short description|Philadelphia weekly newspaper}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = ''Philadelphia City Paper'' | image = | caption = The November 22, 2007 front page of the<br>''Philadelphia City Paper'' | type = Alternative weekly | format = Tabloid | founded = {{start date and age|1981|11}} | ceased_publication = {{end date and age|2015|10}} | price = | owners = Metro | publisher = Jennifer Clark | editor = Lillian Swanson | language = | circulation = 70,000 | headquarters = 30 S. 15th St., 14th floor <br>Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102<br> U.S. | ISSN = 0733-6349 | website = [http://www.citypaper.net/ citypaper.net] }}
'''''Philadelphia City Paper''''' was an alternative weekly newspaper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The independently owned paper was free and published every Thursday in print and daily online at citypaper.net. Staff reporters focused on labor issues, politics, education and poverty. Critics reviewed the city's arts, entertainment, literary and restaurant scene. Listings of concerts, art exhibits, dance performances and other events were carried in the paper and in a comprehensive online events calendar.
The publication was established in November 1981 as a spinoff of the now-defunct WXPN Express newsletter. ''Philadelphia City Paper'' distributed 70,000 copies in more than 2,000 locations throughout Philadelphia, its suburbs and South Jersey. Its more than 2,000 orange-colored boxes and wire racks were found in Center City Philadelphia in cafes, small businesses and on many university campuses.
Each year, ''City Paper'' published a City Guide for college students and new residents.
Its monthly readership was 521,000, which was verified by Scarborough Research.
Founder Bruce Schimmel<ref>{{cite web|url=http://schimmel.com/|title=Bruce Schimmel|access-date=1 March 2016|archive-date=4 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180204010926/http://www.schimmel.com/|url-status=dead}}</ref> sold the paper to the Rock family (Milton L. Rock and his son Robert H. Rock) in 1996.<ref>{{cite web|last=Fagone |first=Jason |url=https://www.phillymag.com/articles/death-and-life-philadelphia-alt-weekly/ |title=The Death (and Life) of the Philadelphia Weekly and Philadelphia City Paper | Philadelphia Magazine |website=Phillymag.com |date=2012-05-24 |access-date=2016-01-22}}</ref> In 2014, Metro acquired the ''City Paper'' from the Rock family.<ref>{{cite web|last=Mathis |first=Joel |url=https://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/08/13/metro-buys-city-paper-layoffs-ensue/ |title=Metro Buys City Paper; Layoffs Ensue | News | Philadelphia Magazine |website=Phillymag.com |date=2014-08-13 |access-date=2016-01-22}}</ref> In 2015, the ''City Paper'' was sold to Broad Street Media, owner of ''Philadelphia Weekly''. The last edition was published on October 8, 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bsmphilly.com/2015/sep/30/broad-street-media-acquires-rights-philadelphia-ci/|title=Broad Street Media acquires rights to Philadelphia City Paper|author=Northeast Times Staff|date=30 September 2015|access-date=29 February 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Brian Hickey |url=https://www.phillyvoice.com/rip-philadelphia-city-paper-1981-2015/ |title=The alt-weekly printed its final edition today. |website=PhillyVoice.com |date=2015-10-08 |access-date=2016-01-22}}</ref>
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===Further reading=== *{{cite web | last = Jason Fagone | title = The Death (and Life) of the ''Philadelphia Weekly'' and ''Philadelphia City'' Paper | work = Philadelphia Magazine | access-date = 2014-08-22 | url = https://www.phillymag.com/articles/death-and-life-philadelphia-alt-weekly/ }}
==External links== {{Portal|Philadelphia|Pennsylvania|Journalism}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20050204083756/http://www.citypaper.net/ The ''Philadelphia City'' paper]
{{Newspapers published in Pennsylvania}}
Category:Alternative weekly newspapers published in the United States Category:Defunct newspapers of Philadelphia Category:Newspapers established in 1981 Category:1981 establishments in Pennsylvania Category:Defunct weekly newspapers