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» 'In Newsweekly' Wins Injunction

HX Media and its lawyers must be celebrating today. "A Boston judge issued an injunction against a new Boston LGBT newspaper on Monday
after the parent company of troubled weekly In Newsweekly filed suit against its former associate publisher for allegedly stealing his former employer's advertising database for his new publication. Bill Berggren, publisher of N'Touch New England, allegedly solicited ads for the publication while still working at In Newsweekly." Berggren's backstage machinations reportedly led HX Media CEO Matt Bank to give him the ax. [Boy in Bushwick]

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Matthew Bank To Sue Former Associate Publisher?

HX Media honcho Matthew Bank may sue former In Newsweekly associate publisher Bill Berggren for deleting some of the weekly newspaper's advertising database. Not only that, but Berggren allegedly plans to use his former clients at In to start a rival paper, N'Touch New England, which sounds like an uninspired tab rag.

Jan 30, 2008 · Link · 7 Responses

Associate Publisher Out At Gay Newspaper

'IN Newsweekly' Loses Five Staffers In A Month

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!

Jan 4, 2008 · Link · 3 Responses