Minneapolis City Pages Closes, Stops Publishing 'Immediately'

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — City Pages, which has published a free, weekly edition in the Twin Cities for four decades, is the latest Minnesota newspaper to end operations amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The Star Tribune Media Company, which owns the alternative media outlet, announced Wednesday it will "stop publishing and close immediately," reports the Star Tribune.

"While City Pages has retained a strong brand in our market, the profound disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic have made it economically unviable," Mike Klingensmith, chief executive of Star Tribune Media, wrote to employees.

The final edition of City Pages will hit the racks this week.

Five other local newspapers — the Minneapolis Southwest Journal, Hastings Star Gazette, The Bulletin of Woodbury and Cottage Grove, Eden Prairie Newsm and Lakeshore Weekly News — were shuttered earlier this year due to the crisis.

City Pages began printing in 1981.