Creative Loafing is under new ownership from New York. Atalaya Capital Management outbid Ben Eason for control of the network of alternative weeklies based in Tampa. With papers in Chicago, Sarasota, Atlanta, Washington DC, Tampa, and Charlotte, Atalaya plans to keep them all for now with a new management team that has plenty of media experience. [...]
Wayne Garcia has been giving us the inside scoop on local politics for years as Creative Loafing’s political editor. Alas, he is moving on to Gainesville. In his blog, he announces that he will be teaching investigative journalism at the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications. For the past four years, I have [...]
Brian Blair certainly isn't the greatest guy in the world, but try to use your head now and again, huh?
Over at st.petersblog, Casey found a couple of former Creative Loafing staffers. First, Alex Pickett has begun blogging at Will Report for Food: Tales of an unemployed journalist. A recent posts wonders why no journalist will ask SP Police Chief Chuck Harmon the tough questions. Wade Tatangelo found a gig at the St. Pete Times, but is [...]
Eric Deggans reports that CBS Radio and Creative Loafing were busy laying people off the week before Christmas. Mason Dixon is the only weekday staffer to survive cuts at Q105: four personalities were cut at the station, including Dixon’s longtime partner Bill Connolly (at left), JoJo Walker, Rico Blanco and Mike Reeves. On the same [...]
Jennifer Howe is now the FORMER weekend anchor for Tampa Bay’s 10, and their new chief meteorologist is already dressing for Florida weather. ********************************************** Wayne Garcia says that beginning Monday, the Tampa Tribune print product will include only two sections, News / sports / whatever and classifieds / comics. In the same blog post, we hear [...]
Eric Deggans has found that Creative Loafing has filed for bankruptcy. According to the original story in CL’s Washington City Paper, CEO Ben Eason is just thrilled with the development: “The term ‘bankruptcy’ conjures up all kinds of images and demons but it is essentially a legal proceeding designed to give an over-leveraged company the time, [...]
Congratulations to Deborah Newell Tornello, aka LitBrit! Her blog was chosen by the Creative Loafing staff as the Best Local Blog in their Best of the Bay 2008.: Staff Pick BEST LOCAL BLOG: Litbrit She’s progressive. She’s a hottie. And she is a major Frank Zappa fan, posting little-known clips of the late composer-rocker on her blog each [...]
According to the print edition of this week’s Creative Loafing, they received over 3,000 ballots for the 2008 Best of the Bay readers’ poll. We are proud to announce that Sticks of Fire has been named a finalist for Best Local Blog, along with two other great blogs, Seminole Heights and Creative Loafing. We also want to [...]
