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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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Can Neal Boulton Save 'HX'?

Wishful Thinking...

HX Media continues to - um - evolve…

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Jan 24, 2008 · Link · 38 Responses

'In Newsweekly' Bouncing Back?

New Staffers Hope To Save Paper

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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Jan 23, 2008 · Link · 3 Responses