Late last fall, my wife and I moved into our first house. We had gotten married a couple of months before and were really excited to get out of a tiny bedroom in a house full of roommates. We ended up renting a house in the Brookland Park neighborhood, just a bit...
Will Virginia Get Tronc’d?
Last week, the new corporate owners of the Virginian-Pilot and Style Weekly laid off 21 people at the New York Daily News. It’s just the most recent cut by Tronc, Inc., which has moved design and production jobs from New York City to Tronc headquarters in Chicago,...
Media Consolidation Looms Large in Virginia with Tronc’s Purchase of the Virginian-Pilot
It has been announced today that the Virginian-Pilot and all of its subsequent affiliates, including Richmond's Style Weekly, have been acquired by Chicago's Tronc Inc. Tronc, once known as Tribune Publishing, currently owns the Baltimore Sun, Hartford Current,...
Style Weekly claims GOP stole Kaine photo for campaign ad
In a town of visual creatives, image rights can be a big deal - so when the GOP launched a new attack ad against VA candidate Tim Kaine featuring an image taken by a Style Weekly photographer without permission or attribution, the publication was noticeably upset. In...
Thousands of 20 and 30 somethings heart broken over not making Style Weekly’s ‘Top 40 under 40’
Many of Richmond's young adults awoke this morning in a state of total dismay. Many of Richmond's young adults awoke this morning in a state of total dismay. They had all failed to make the list in Style Weekly's coveted 'Top 40 Under 40' and they were pissed. The...
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