Euclid Media Group (EMG) was a media company in the United States, operating 2013-2023. It was headquartered in

Cleveland Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is situated across the Canada–U.S. maritime border and approximately west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania st ...

, Ohio and owned the ''

Orlando Weekly ''Orlando Weekly'' is a liberal progressive alternative newsweekly distributed in the Greater Orlando area of Florida. Every Thursday, 40,000 issues of the paper are distributed to more than 1,100 locations across Orange, Osceola and Semino ...

'', '' Cincinnati CityBeat,

Cleveland Scene The ''Cleveland Scene'' is an alternative weekly newspaper based in Cleveland, Ohio. The newspaper includes highlights of Cleveland-area arts, music, dining, and films, as well as classified advertising. The first edition of the newspaper was pu ...

'', ''

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'' (Tampa), '' Detroit Metro Times'', ''

Riverfront Times The ''Riverfront Times'' (''RFT'') was a free progressive weekly newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri, that consisted of local politics, music, arts, and dining news in the print edition, and daily updates to blogs and photo galleries on its websit ...

'' (St. Louis), '' San Antonio Current'', ''Out In SA'' and ''Out in STL''.

History

Times-Shamrock Communications Times-Shamrock Communications is an American media company based in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The company, owned by the Lynett and Haggerty families of Scranton, lists among its assets nine radio stations. Assets Radio stations * WZBA, Baltimore ...

sold ''Cleveland Scene'', '' Detroit Metro Times'', ''

'' and the '' San Antonio Current'' to EMG in December 2013. EMG merged Detroit Metro Times and alt-weekly Real Detroit in 2014. The company purchased

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based publication ''Creative Loafing'' and the '' Cincinnati CityBeat'' in 2018. The company dissolved in August 2023. Four of the newspapers, including ''Orlando Weekly'', ''Cleveland Scene'' and ''Creative Loafing'' came under the ownership of Chava Communications, an entity created by Michael Wagner and his wife, Cassandra Yardeni Wagner to purchase the Euclid Media publications. The other four, ''Riverfront Times'', ''Detroit Metro Times'', ''Cincinnati CityBeat'' and '' Louisville Eccentric Observer,'' were sold to Chris Keating, operating under the name Big Lou Holdings LLC.

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* {{US-media-company-stub Mass media companies of the United States Companies based in Cleveland 2013 establishments in Ohio 2023 disestablishments in Ohio