While local alternative weekly newspapers are fading out, either dead (like
The Boston Phoenix) or seriously changed after being bought by a larger corporation (like New York City's
Village Voice), they definitely still fulfill a need, writes Baynard Woods, a senior editor at the
Baltimore City Paper. Alt weeklies "report on the cultural life of a city
in a way that neither big daily papers nor websites can."
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