Alternative newspaper Triad City Beat to cease publication
Candidates listen as Triad City Beat Managing Editor Sayaka Matsuoka speaks to the audience before a reverse town hall organized by the alternative newspaper in October. PAUL GARBER/WFDD
Triad City Beat, the bi-weekly alternative newspaper distributed in Winston-Salem, Greensboro and High Point, will close in February.
Last year TCB celebrated its tenth anniversary. But it ended up being a tough year.
Co-founder and publisher Brian Clary was in a serious car crash that forced him to find another job.
Managing Editor Sayaka Matsuoka says a fundraising effort launched late last year provided enough money to keep the paper going through February.
But Triad City Beat still faces insurmountable obstacles and inadequate future funding, she says.
Matsuoka says she’s proud of the connections the paper made in the community.
“In the last year or so, we started calling ourselves the people's paper, and we really did try to live up to that ideal of really being, you know, people's neighbors," she says.
The paper will cease publication both in print and online after its February 20th edition. A Last Anniversary Party is planned at Scuppernong Books at the end of the month.
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