Boston-based gay newspaper In Newsweekly seems to be surviving after last year's editorial upheavals.

HX Media's PR flack sent us a press release celebrating the gay newspapers new hires, including former associate editor Tony Giampetruzzi, who's returning after an "18-month absence". Mr. G will apparently focus on nightlife, thus allowing the other staffers to focus on more substantial issues.

The aforementioned PR flack also wants us to point out that Reverend Irene Monroe has not left the paper. He claims Joe Siegel, Chuck Colbert and Fred Kuhr unfairly included Monroe in their irate letter to HX honcho Matt Bank.

Read the entire lackluster release, after the jump…

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Meanwhile, in other gay media news: our prediction was right - HX Media's In Newsweekly fired associate publisher Bill Berggren.

Matthew Bank, CEO of HX Media, which owns IN Newsweekly, fired the paper’s associate publisher, Bill Berggren, Jan. 2. Berggren’s termination comes less than a month after four of the paper’s longtime freelancers, including former editor Fred Kuhr and religion columnist Rev. Irene Monroe, left the paper, claiming that the paper has lost editorial focus and that they have waited months for HX Media to pay them for their work.

When it rains, it poors!

New York-based HX Media's Boston adventure hit some speed bumbs this week.

Editorial staffers at In Newsweekly, which HX acquired last year, are none-to-happy with the way things are going down. Contributor Joe Siegel offered his resignation this weekend, just a week after he and three other regulars - including our favorite black preacher woman, Irene Monroe - sent HX founder Matt Bank a blistering letter. They've all since stepped down.

Read said letter, after the jump…

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