Great news! (Especially if you're a fan of the survival of newspapers and smart local media.) The Chicago Reader—one of the grand dames of alternative weeklies—is joining the Portland Mercury and Seattle's The Stranger as the newest member of the Noisy Creek newspaper family!

In case you've forgotten, Noisy Creek purchased the Mercury and The Stranger last summer, with the dream of growing a national network of alternative weeklies that serve their readerships by championing the arts, providing top-notch reporting, and platforming community voices. And unless you've been living in some other dimension that's much nicer than our own, you already know that newspapers have been closing left and right, which leads to all sorts of community trouble—including a loss of civic engagement, increas

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