City Paper Profiles Dupont Current

Headquartered in the basement of a MacArthur Boulevard office building, the Current is actually several weekly papers–the Georgetown Current, the Dupont Current, the Foggy Bottom Current, and the Northwest Current (two editions)–with a combined circulation of about 60,000 in the District’s most affluent communities. (The company added another, VOICE of the Hill, in the mid-’00s.) That’s double the total circulation of about 30,000 a decade ago.

Other vital signs follow suit: The Current’s advertising volume has gone up, on average, about 15 percent a year over the past eight years, helped along by merchants as varied as Bloomingdale’s and College Hunks Hauling Junk.