Out there for a Dallas-based media outlet? Central Observe is on the market.
The popular culture and humanities publication with a cult following in Dallas introduced it was in search of a purchaser in a letter posted to its web site Tuesday by editors Stephanie Salas-Vega and Frances Tingle.
“We’ve many issues up our sleeves that we now have but to indicate you, however we’re afraid we would not get to them,” the editors wrote.
They cite a troublesome enterprise setting for native information, dwindling promoting gross sales and “monetary hardship.”
“We’ve been captaining a slowly sinking ship this previous half of a yr and the time has come to supply out an entrepreneur who has the cash and the curiosity” to purchase the positioning, Salas-Vega and Tingle stated within the letter.
The Dallas Morning Information has reached out to co-owners Bruce Willis and Pete Freedman for remark. Freedman shared Central Observe’s announcement on Twitter with the remark, “Holler for those who wanna purchase CT.”
Six months in the past, Freedman made a profession leap, leaving his position as editor of the native publication he based and taking a spot at Tegna-owned WFAA-TV as director of digital content material.
Texas journalists and Dallas locals shared the information of Central Observe’s sale with pleas for a purchaser to proceed its various type of tradition protection.
“Central Observe (is) an indispensable arts and tradition web site for Dallas, nevertheless it’s additionally the publication that put @RakkasanTea on the map 4+ years in the past when nobody had heard of us,” Dallas-based Rakkasan Tea proprietor Brandon Friedman wrote on Twitter.
This sucks. Central Observe an indispensable arts and tradition web site for Dallas, nevertheless it’s additionally the publication that put @RakkasanTea on the map 4+ years in the past when nobody had heard of us. https://t.co/ONW8hfRD8I
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) May 24, 2022
“Hopefully Central Observe can discover a loving new proprietor. I want my pockets had been deeper,” tweeted Mavericks author for the NBA Josh Mazur.
Over its greater than 10-year lifespan, Central Observe revealed tales about Dallas musicians and creatives that usually weren’t lined by different information shops. The group has principally been fueled by content material from freelance writers.
Identified for colourful writing that oozed with snark and a no-holds-barred strategy to criticism, it’s been a proving floor for a variety of younger writers like Dallas Morning Information alum Obed Manuel. It additionally sponsored music performances in Dallas, particularly at Deep Ellum venues.
Central Observe has revealed working occasion listings, protection of native activists and even unique interviews with viral North Texans just like the Allen man whose spouse had a mid-pandemic psychological breakdown over her fajitas being served with out shredded cheese.