Susannah Schouweiler at MnArtists discusses recent cuts in City Pages, including laying off the A-List editor and one of the two food writers, as well as the recent announcement that Quinton Skinner’s theater beat is being cut by half. With all these cuts in arts coverage (and City Pages is hardly alone in this), where do you turn to find out what is happening on the local arts scene?
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15 Reader Comments
12:26 pm
IDK Secrets of the City?
12:41 pm
http://www.twincitiesfinearts.org/
http://mnartists.org/
12:53 pm
If it isn’t bacon related, it isn’t mentioned here, and therefore I don’t hear about it…
1:04 pm
It looks like KHoff is taking a bit of a hit to the old paycheck as well.
2:45 pm
Well, aside from the obvious Secrets of the Day, you can also check out my blog at http://www.letoilemagazine.com, a weekend roundup of the coolest art and music events in town (including sweet after hours parties)! Or also, for art events http://www.mplsart.com.
3:09 pm
And
yet, this tidbit from CP’s “about us” section would seem to contradict
VVM’s justification for the cuts:
“In
the most recent ABC Media Audit, City Pages added 70,000 readers and increased
its market share to 27 percent of the 2.85 million people who call the Twin
Cities home.”
I’ve
never been great with math, but adding market share is a good thing, no?
3:42 pm
Hey guys,
I am indeed still employed as the A List Editor at City Pages. Unfortunately, Ben Palosaari, the Associate A List Editor/Calendar Editor, was let go.
–j
3:42 pm
Is this where “This Modern World” went, or did I just miss it this week? (It’s not hard for me to miss things when I fly through CP so quickly.)
3:59 pm
City Pages is all ads, with the occasional great story. The A-List is good, but I kind of fired CP from my favorites when they stopped doing art listings in the print a long time ago. That personally offended me. Still, I hate to see those lay offs. I am interested to see what http://www.mnplaylist.com comes up with as far as the Theater community is concerned. Good possibilities there.
4:03 pm
I think my concern is not just the loss of coverage, which can be filled in by dedicated blogs and the like, but also of informed criticism. And, more than criticism, we are looking at the loss of good arts journalism.
5:32 pm
True. City Pages does a great job with music, but I would love to see more real arts criticism (in all the pubs, not just CP)
BTW – Thank you Vicious Circle!
9:14 am
While the staff at City Pages (and most other local media outlets) shrinks, word that MinnPost is expanding it’s political/government coverage with a new Washington, DC staffer.
9:40 am
The local media massacre continues. Meet the U of M’s not-so-daily Minnesota Daily.
1:28 pm
I’d prefer less “real arts criticism” and more real arts. Why not add some cartoonists. 1 can even make a comic that mocks the fake artists.
Yes, if City Pages were run by intelligent marketers, more market share would equal higher advertising rates, which could in turn be used for even more cartoonists.
5:19 pm
I hate seeing this slow lingering death of print journalism. Looking at a computer screen in a cafe is nowhere near as comfortable for me as kicking back with a print copy of any paper. But I have stopped picking up CP. Today’s issue had a story that was so godawful from an editorial point of view that I couldn’t even finish it. It was ostensibly an anti-rape story, but it read like a bad porn fantasy.