Willamette Week Starts a Chain?

Some says print news is dead, but when it comes to industry business and gossip it’s only getting hotter: Is the Oregonian going to go to mostly online and publishing only three days a week as Willamette Week speculated recently? Is the Register-Guard going to replace any of the reporters that have left for other jobs? (No positions are currently listed on the website). Is Willamette Week starting a chain?

The Association of Alternative Newsmedia is reporting that in addition to owning Portland’s Willamette Week and the Sante Fe Reporter of New Mexico, The City of Roses Newspaper Company is buying North Carolina’s Independent Weekly. City of Roses Newspaper Company is owned by Richard Meeker and Mark Zusman of Portland.

Willamette Week hasn’t made any recent offers on Eugene Weekly.