10 Facts About Creative Loafing

1.

Creative Loafing publishes a 60,000 circulation monthly publication which is distributed to in-town locations and neighborhoods on the first Thursday of each month.

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2.

Creative Loafing has historically been a part of the alternative weekly newspapers association in the United States.

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3.

Creative Loafing began as a family-owned business in 1972 by Deborah and Chick Eason, expanding to other cities in the Southern United States in the late 1980s and 1990s.

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4.

The parent company, Creative Loafing, Inc was dissolved and Atalaya sold off the Chicago Reader.

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5.

Atlanta Creative Loafing launched the career of many writers and has been an institution in Atlanta's cultural scene.

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6.

Creative Loafing, LLC is the name of the Publishing Company that owns Creative Loafing.

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7.

Creative Loafing, LLC purchased the assets of Creative Loafing Atlanta from SouthComm in February 2017, which put the paper back into the Eason Family's hands.

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8.

Creative Loafing expanded its footprint in the Atlanta area, starting two community weeklies, Gwinnett Loaf and Topside Loaf, covering the suburbs north of the city in Cobb, Gwinnett, southern Forsyth and northern Fulton counties.

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9.

On July 24,2007, Creative Loafing announced the purchase of the Washington City Paper and the Chicago Reader, along with the Reader properties The Straight Dope and the SDMB, the associated Internet message board.

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10.

In 2018, the Charlotte Creative Loafing was sold again and ceased publishing a print version.

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