Monthly Archive for March, 2011

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Portico Shutting Down Two Publications

Published by Waldo Jaquith on March 2, 2011 in Business and Meta News. 5 Comments

Portico Publications is shutting down Metro Spirit, their Augusta, GA alt weekly. Portico, the local business that publishes C-Ville Weekly, bought Metro Spirit six years ago, a year after they bought the Free Times, a Columbia, SC weekly. (The Free Times appears to be alive and well, still owned by Portico.) They’re also folding Metro Parent, a monthly parenting publication that they bought along with the Spirit. That leaves Portico with just the Free Times and C-Ville Weekly. This news comes within hours of word of the resignation of C-Ville Weekly editor Cathy Harding.

C-Ville Weekly Editor to Resign

Published by Waldo Jaquith on March 2, 2011 in Business and Meta News. 3 Comments

C-Ville Weekly editor Cathy Harding is resigning at the end of this month to take a job with the Columbia Journalism Review. Harding was brought on by Portico Publications nine years ago, when a falling-out among the three publishers resulted in co-publisher and founding editor Hawes Spencer leading a bunch of the staff to found The Hook. Portico apparently doesn’t have a replacement in mind, as they say that they’re starting on a search for Harding’s replacement.