Riverfront Times
US weekly newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri
The Riverfront Times (RFT) was a free progressive weekly newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri, that consisted of local politics, music, arts, and dining news in the print edition, and daily updates to blogs and photo galleries on its website. As of June 2008, the Riverfront Times had an AAM-audited weekly circulation of 81,276 copies. A 2024 sale immediately ended print distribution and resulted in the layoffs of all staff. The only remaining element of the publication is a website which primarily features aggregated content and OnlyFans promotions.
History
The paper was founded in 1977 by Ray Hartmann who, along with co-owner Mark Vittert, sold the newspaper in 1998 to New Times Media (later known, following a 2006 merger, as Village Voice Media). In September 2012, Village Voice Media executives Scott Tobias, Christine Brennan and Jeff Mars agreed to purchase Village Voice Media's papers and associated web properties from its founders and formed Voice Media Group. In 2015, Euclid Media Group acquired the Times from Voice Media Group.
The paper received more than three dozen awards from the Missouri Press Association, along with the group's Gold Cup. The paper and website featured a weekly syndicated column by relationship and sex advice writer Dan Savage.
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