Romenesko

Voice of San Diego
The 164,000-circ San Diego Reader is said to be one of the most profitable alt-weeklies in the country -- perhaps because it invests so little in good journalism. "You would be hard pressed to know there was a wildfire here in October if you only looked at the Reader, and that's the way it's always been," writes Seth Hettena. "Editor and owner Jim Holman doesn't seem to care about whether anyone actually reads the weekly newspaper he's been publishing in San Diego for 35 years."