- Snitch Newsweekly
"Snitch" was a free,
alternative weekly newspaper published in parts of theUnited States coveringcrime andpolice news. Perhaps the most notable feature was theZIP Code Crime Watch, which gave brief, usually "smart aleck" commentary on literally hundreds of items in the weekly policeblotter , broken down by ZIP Codes, along with crime totals for the respective areas. Snitch also ran numerous crime-themed articles in each issue, as well as advertisements and classifieds.Snitch was started in
Louisville, Kentucky and the "Media Audit" showed 211,000 readers as ofJanuary 2005 . There were also editions of the paper inLexington, Kentucky ,Savannah, Georgia ,San Diego, California ,South Carolina andNorthern Kentucky . InDecember 2004 the parent company, a venture capital firm named Prosperitas, pulled out of the concept, and the Louisville edition was sold to Tim Woodburn, who owned the Lexington edition. Woodburn continued to publish in Louisville and Lexington, while the San Diego, Savannah and Northern Kentucky editions had all stopped publishing (inFebruary 2005 ,October 2004 andNovember 2004 respectively). The Columbia, South Carolina, edition continues to be published by Jim Shine and Jerry Adams on an intermittent basis.In
May 2005 the executive editorRichard Des Ruisseaux retired, having run the Louisville edition since its founding.In July
2005 , Louisville Crime, LLC, the new owners of Snitch, announced that they had been unable to reach agreement with the former owners about certain issues, so Louisville Snitch ceased publication immediately as of that date. The announcement said that the paper would reopen late Fall 2005, under a new name [http://www.snitch.com/Louisville-Snitch-08-04-05.gif] , although this apparently did not happen. In December2005 . Lexington Snitch also ceased publication, citing lack of advertising revenue, and pledging a replacement, "The Lexington Times", in spring2006 . "The Lextington Times" has not published a single edition as of February, 2007.External links
* [http://www.snitch.com/ Former official website] - no longer related to the publication
* [http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2005/12/05/daily4.html Snitch exits Lexington market] - BizJournals' account of Snitch's closing
* [http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/2005/12/02/news/local/13308011.htm Publisher of defunct Snitch has new plans] - Lexington Herald-Leader
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