Pop City

Pop City
Former editors Eve Picker [1]
Frequency Weekly (Wednesday)
Circulation 39,000 (2014)[2]
Publisher Issue Media Group LLC[3]
Founder Brian Boyle[3]
First issue March 2006[3]
Final issue August 2015[4]
Website popcitymedia.com

Pop City is a defunct weekly online magazine whose content focused on news and features about Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[2] The content focused around talent, innovation, diversity and environment.[3]

History

Pop City was launched in March 2006 on a budget of $200,000.[3] The costs were defrayed by pledges from the Urban Redevelopment Authority, The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, and the Allegheny Conference on Community Development.[1]

The publication held 39,000 subscribers and a team of two dozen stringers. [5] Though Eve Picker was the first publisher, [1] Tracy Certo ran the publication for eight years. She would later found the spiritual successor NEXTPittsburgh.[6] [7]


References

  1. 1 2 3 Shropshire, Corilyn (March 4, 2006). "Bits&Bytes: Sewickley venture capitalist preparing another fund". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  2. 1 2 "About Pop City". Pop City.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Daparma, Ron (Sep 23, 2007). "Pop City". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
  4. ↑ Coyne, Justine (August 5, 2014). "Exclusive: Pop City to go on hiatus". Lebo Magazine.
  5. ↑ Sciullo, Maria (December 13, 2007). "Web site aims to advance region by highlighting neighborhoods". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  6. ↑ Morgans, Susan Fleming (March 4, 2006). "Bits&Bytes: Sewickley venture capitalist preparing another fund". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  7. ↑ Morgans, Susan Fleming (June 24, 2014). "What's Next?". Lebo Magazine.
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