Northeastern papers facing financial trouble?
by Matt | March 31st, 2008 |This week, HX Media Creative Director Matt Farris, who just returned to the company last year after a seven year absence, was laid off.
In addition, The New York Blade will be appearing only every other week, so editor in chief Trenton Straube was reduced to half time. The head bookkeeper’s hours were also reduced and ad salespeople were recently told that there base salaries were being taken away, leaving them to exist on commissions.
Spin-off rag HX Phildelphia [sic] will be shuttered shortly. Rumors also have that some staff
members are not being paid consistently.
So… looks like Q-Notes will have some company on the East Coast bi-weekly scene — except, we’ve been bi-weekly for years and, although everyone is feeling the financial pinch, we aren’t scaling back or shutting things down. In fact, we’ll be expanding soon — updating that horrid late-1990s era website. 
Matt, 22, is an LGBT journalist, activist and youth advocate currently living and working in Charlotte, N.C., where he serves as the Editor of Q-Notes, the Carolinas' LGBT news source. A native of Winston-Salem, N.C., Matt attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is still continuing to pursue his bachelors degree. He is the Owner & Editor of InterstateQ.com and has been active in LGBT advocacy work since the age of 14.
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