Update: City Paper's Cover Stories

We first reported ten days ago that cover stories will be phased out at the Washington City Paper, continuing a slow and sad trimming of the paper. Editor Erik Wemple elaborates on that very topic with the Georgetown Voice.

I see the City Paper a year from now as something that is very, very, very much a web machine. … [It] had to make a choice so it’s customizing its material for the web and then scrambling as best it can to push it into the paper.