Cincinnati CityBeat

Alternative weekly newspaper in Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati CityBeat
Type	Alternative weekly
Format	Tabloid
Owner(s)	Big Lou Holdings LLC
Publisher	Tony Frank
Founded	1994
Headquarters	811 Race St., 4th Floor Cincinnati, OH 45202 United States
Circulation	30,000 (as of June 2014)^[1]
Website	citybeat.com

Cincinnati CityBeat is an independent local arts and issues publication covering the Cincinnati, Ohio area.

History

CityBeat was founded in November 1994. It was backed by local entrepreneur Thomas Schiff and co-founded by John Fox, who left his editor position at Everybody's News (at that point Cincinnati's only print source for independent news) to start the paper. CityBeat has won numerous national, statewide and local journalism and design awards, most recently being named Best Weekly Paper in the state of Ohio in 2005 by the Society of Professional Journalists.

In 2012, CityBeat was acquired by SouthComm Communications.^[2] In 2018, it was sold to Euclid Media Group.^[3] The company dissolved in August 2023 the newspaper was sold to Chris Keating, operating under the name Big Lou Holdings LLC.^[4]

Affiliations

CityBeat is a member of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.

Notable people

Kathy Y. Wilson

References

^ "Cincinnati CityBeat". Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. 2014. Archived from the original on June 15, 2010. Retrieved December 29, 2014.
^ "CityBeat Acquired by SouthComm". Archived from the original on 2012-07-13. Retrieved 2012-07-04.
^ Magaw, Timothy (January 17, 2018). "Euclid Media Group acquires Cincinnati alt-weekly". Crain's Cleveland Business. Archived from the original on January 17, 2018. Retrieved January 5, 2024.
^ "The RFT Has a New Owner, and He's Based in St. Louis". Riverfront Times. August 10, 2023. Retrieved 2024-01-06.