C-Ville Weekly

The C-Ville Weekly is an alternative weekly newspaper distributed around Charlottesville, Virginia. Dubbing itself "Charlottesville's News & Arts Weekly," in 2001, the newspaper made over $100,000 in profits.

C-Ville Weekly
TypeAlternative weekly
FormatBerliner (format)
PublisherPortico Publications Ltd
EditorCathryn Harding[1]
Staff writers24+
Founded1989
HeadquartersC-ville Weekly
308 East Main Street
Charlottesville, Virginia
Circulation24,000[2]
OCLC number31820304
Website

In 2013 C-ville Weekly and other local newspaper Charlottesville Tomorrow entered a content sharing agreement with intent to improve journalism on education.[3]

In June 2020 the newspaper laid off staff.[4] The remaining journalism team was two reporters, a part-time editor, and a budget to hire a copy editor as needed.[5][6]

History

Hawes Spencer and Bill Chapman founded the paper as a bi-weekly in 1989.

In January 2002 newspaper owners Bill Chapman and Rob Jiranek dismissed Hawes Spencer as editor of C-Ville Weekly.[7] In response Spencer and some other C-ville Weekly staff founded competing newspaper, The Hook.[7] Cathryn Harding became editor in January 2002.[8]

In 2011 the parent companies which owned C-ville Weekly and the Hook merged, re-uniting publications which had common origins.[9]

In 2018 the arts and living reporter for Cville Weekly remarked that after the 2017 Unite the Right rally, there was more community support for journalism on local people of color.[10]

References
  1. "CVille Information Staff". Retrieved 2011-03-05.
  2. "Cville Distribution and Rates". Retrieved 2011-03-05.
  3. Charlottesville Tomorrow (29 April 2013). "Charlottesville Tomorrow & C-VILLE Weekly partner on education initiative". Charlottesville Tomorrow.
  4. Tripp, Mike (2 July 2020). "More News, But Fewer Reporters: Local Papers Lay Off Or Furlough Staff". WMRA and WEMC.
  5. "Cville Weekly unexpectedly lays-off staff". www.cbs19news.com. CBS. June 9, 2020.
  6. "C-VILLE Weekly newspaper lays off a third of its small staff". nbc29.com. NBC. June 10, 2020.
  7. Wharton, Seth (28 January 2002). "Ousted C*Ville Editor Starting New Weekly • Association of Alternative Newsmedia". Association of Alternative Newsmedia.
  8. Loper, George Edward (April 2003). "Signs of the Times - C-Ville Weekly-Satisfying Your Urban Instinct". george.loper.org.
  9. Jaquith, Waldo (April 12, 2011). "Portico Publications and Better Publications Merge". cvillenews.com.
  10. "Q&A: Erin O'Hare, C-Ville Weekly". Virginia Press Association. 21 November 2018.
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