Philadelphia City Paper was established in November 1981.The City Paper became the leading weekly newspaper of Philadelphia for its award-winning coverage in the field of news, arts and entertainment.
This weekly newspaper in Philadelphia has the largest readership, which covers eight countries in the region of Philadelphia. Some of the featured columns of the newspaper are Editor's letter, Feeding Frenzy, Ice Pack, Loose Canon, Political Notebook, The Bell Curve, Running numbers and What's Cooking?
This newspaper is a controlled-circulation newspaper that is distributed free on Thursday morning to over 2,000 locations in the city. It has been estimated that nearly one-third of the newspaper are circulated through newspaper boxes; the rest of the two-thirds are distributed in office and housing areas and in retail locations like places of entertainment, restaurants and other public places.
The Verified Audit Circulation (VAC) supervises the printing and distribution data of City Paper. Every week the pick-up pattern of Philadelphia City Paper is
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reviewed and it mostly achieves the target of 95% pick-up rate. As per the readership study carried on by Media Audi, the monthly readership of Philadelphia City Paper is 460, 200.
This regional newspaper covers the neighborhoods, suburbs of Philadelphia and southern New Jersey. The objective of the distribution of the newspaper is to make it readily available to the target audience like educated young and adults between the ages of 18 to 44 years, who are closely associated with Philadelphia.
The newspaper has received numerous accolades and appreciation like Keystone Press Awards by Pennsylvania Newspaper Association in 2007, Best Overall Weekly in 2006, Weekly Paper of the Year in 2005 by Pennsylvania Newspaper Association. David S. Barry, Brian Hickey, Duane Swierczynski, Jeff Pearlman, Ashlea Halpern, Doron Taussig, Bruce Schimmel, Juliet Fletcher, Howard Altman are some of award winning news reporters of Philadelphia City Paper. The Philadelphia City Paper is an established newspaper of the city known for its authentic information and news coverage.
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