Orlando Weekly has a new owner
In August, readers may have noticed that Orlando Weekly had been put up for sale by Times-Shamrock Communications, the Scranton, Pa.-based media company that purchased the paper in 2000. Just before Christmas, a newly formed media group announced that it purchased four of the alternative pubs that used to be owned by Times-Shamrock: Orlando Weekly, San Antonio Current, Cleveland Scene and Detroit Metro Times. The company, called Euclid Media Group, is based in Cleveland, and its ownership includes two Times-Shamrock alternative division veterans: Michael Wagner, who served as regional publisher for the company (and who has overseen Orlando Weekly since 2012), and Chris Keating, publisher of the Cleveland Scene.
This article appears in Jan 1-7, 2014.