Five months after the pandemic forced CITY to cease printing a weekly newspaper, CITY steps into September as a monthly magazine.
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Feedback 3/18/20: Trump and the coronavirus, the children in Congress, and a Rochester musician
This week, readers tell us President Donald Trump isn’t fit to handle a crisis, say they want Congress to grow up, and complain the Rochester Music Hall of Fame is overlooking someone special.
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Feedback 2/26/20: Caw’mon with the crows, bail reform works, RCSD re-do
This week, readers wax poetic on Rochester’s crows, mince no words on bail reform and Rochester public schools, and ask, “Why would anyone want to bring a child into this world?”
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Andreatta, CITY, and me: a letter to CITY readers
Last week, CITY and WXXI announced that David Andreatta, currently a reporter and columnist at the Democrat and Chronicle, will succeed me as CITY’s editor. David will join us on September 16, and we’ll start a six-week transition period, ending with my retirement on October 31. The selection process included interviews by representatives of both […]
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CITY and WXXI: joining for enhanced coverage
Norm Silverstein, the president of WXXI, is chair of Rochester Area Media Partners, owner CITY Newspaper and CITY digital media. Mary Anna Towler’s Urban Journal will return next week. To CITY Newspaper readers: As president of WXXI, I try to keep in touch with our friends in the community with a monthly letter about what’s […]
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To our CITY readers: changes, and an invitation
We’re reducing our page size – but not our journalism. Now readers need to join us as we cover key issues.
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A letter to our readers
This is a time of profound change in American media. And it comes at a time of major challenges for the people and institutions we serve and report on.
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Musicians wanted for City Newspaper’s Best Busker Contest
MUSICIANS WANTED for CITY Newspaper’s 4th Annual Best Busker Contest! Thursday, May 2, 5-9 pm in Rochester’s East End
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Tarek Tannous
The City Newspaper staff mourns the loss of our talented young reporter, Tarek Tannous, who died on Sunday, June 12. Tarek had waged a lengthy, determined battle against leukemia. At his funeral at Blessed Sacrament Church earlier this week, he was described as a strong young man. He was, indeed. Strong, and courageous, and optimistic […]
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In City’s limits
A bit of confusion, sometimes. When our managing editor Chad Oliveiri spoke to a class at the University of Rochester recently, some students said they were surprised that we were writing about suburbs like Chili and Mendon. Aren’t we a “city of Rochester” paper? Well, no, and we haven’t been for years. We […]
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A letter to our readers
Around the beginning of every year, this newspaper’s publishers and editorial staff review their efforts from the previous year and outline goals for the coming year. Over the next several weeks, we’ll be filling you in on those reviews and plans — and asking for your comments. Our news writers’ work in 2003 covered […]
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Why we ran that cover
We set off a bit of controversy with our November 27 cover, a collage that included a woman’s bare breasts. Some readers called or wrote to complain. Some newsstands refused to distribute that issue of our newspaper. And here at City,we had a rousing staff debate about the cover. One reader called the cover […]
