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The Reader was recently acquired by Noisy Creek, a startup publishing company based in Washington state focused on acquiring and restoring troubled alternative news sources.

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Reader, one of the region's longest-running publications, is on the brink of shutdown, prompting owner and editor Matthew Lickona to launch an emergency fundraising campaign ...

CHICAGO, IL — Noisy Creek announced today that Sarah Conway will be the new editor in chief of the Chicago Reader starting Jan. 5. Conway spent the last eight years at City Bureau, most recently ...

In 2024, the Chicago Reader covered 34 art venues, 156 performing arts venues, theaters and live music, conducted 311 theater reviews, 202 film reviews, 52 visual art show reviews and published 1,627 ...