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# Washington City Paper Employees Face New Year with Pay Cuts
- URL: https://capitolcommunicator.com/washington-city-paper-employees-face-pay-cuts-in-2018/
- Published: 2017-12-19T20:13:00.000Z
- Updated: 2017-12-20T20:34:42.000Z
- Author: Capitol Communicator
- Tags: Media, #Import 2026-10-08 18:48

**Employees of *Washington City Paper* have been told that their salaries will be reduced 40 percent** starting January 1 as SouthComm, the company that owns the alt-weekly newspaper, continues to look for a buyer to take over the 36-year-old publication, reports Washingtonian, which added that the pay cut was first reported by WRC’s [**Mark Segraves**](https://twitter.com/SegravesNBC4/status/942875032031809537?ref=capitolcommunicator.com), and confirmed to *Washingtonian* by a source familiar with the conference call in which SouthComm’s chief financial officer, **Bob Mahoney**, relayed the news.

Washingtonian stated that the move “is likely to drop most editorial salaries at *City Paper* below $30,000 per year, which a source described as an “unlivable” figure. And it’s guaranteed to destroy morale even more inside the paper, which has been [up for sale since October.](https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/10/13/washington-city-papers-owner-puts-it-up-for-sale/?ref=capitolcommunicator.com) One potential buyer, conservative political commentator **Armstrong Williams**, announced last week he will not be acquiring the publication. (A [*Washington Post* story ](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/why-does-conservative-armstrong-williams-want-to-buy-the-liberal-washington-city-paper/2017/12/04/217db692-d5f9-11e7-a986-d0a9770d9a3e%5Fstory.html?utm%5Fterm=.35a974fd35e0&ref=capitolcommunicator.com)about Williams’s potential offer suggested he might have remade the typically anti-establishment *City Paper* as a glossy tabloid full of soft features on Trump administration figures; the idea was roundly panned by the alt-weekly’s readers.)”

You can read the full story [here](https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/12/18/washington-city-paper-staff-has-salaries-cut-40-percent-as-alt-weekly-struggles-to-find-buyer/?utm%5Fsource=Editorial+and+Events&utm%5Fcampaign=702a2c9e8e-EMAIL%5FCAMPAIGN%5F2016%5F12%5F20&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fterm=0%5F612a4959fd-702a2c9e8e-402478141).

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