10 years? I guess it is one of these alternative papers that has ‘men seeking men’ or ‘women seeking women’ ads.
You might be right..
In an editorial by Editor in Chief Sarah Ottney (Ottney: End of watch) she opined (excerpted):
TFP offered weekly space for columns discussing comic books, local hip-hop, regional history and more. We regularly covered LGBTQ issues, opened our editorial pages to guest columnists and championed nonprofit causes. Who will step up now and give these communities a voice? What message does it send to the college students who planned to intern with us this summer that the paper folded before they ever arrived? Seeing the instability of the profession, many would-be journalists may change majors or career paths. Would one of them have won a Pulitzer Prize? Would one of them have requested public records, crunched some numbers and exposed an abuse of public trust?
Since I moved out of Toledo (courtesy of a transfer by my employer) back in 1975 I have no first hand knowledge of this paper, but I would think that if they offered even a bit more truth than the Toledo Blade (one of Americas great newspapers - or at least they claimed to be back then) a la Fox News, they would still be viable. That they didn't cut it says the even with their concern for LGBTQ issues, their guest editorials, the concern for the poor college journalist students, coverage of local hiphop, and all that, the product they produced was of the same quality bird cage liner as the Blade...