The Dayton City Paper was a free weekly newspaper distributed throughout the metro Dayton, Ohio region from April 3, 2003 through September 11, 2018. History The publication launched on August 26, 1993, under the name The Dayton Voice by the husband and wife team of Jeff Epton and Marrianne McMullen. In the early 2000s, the paper's name was changed to Impact Weekly as a result of legal pressure levied by the nationally known alternative NewsWeekly, The Village Voice which did the same to numerous weekly publications that included the word “Voice” in their names. A handshake agreement amongst many former “Voice” named publications yielded several new, but unrelated “City Paper” publications nationally including Philadelphia, PA, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, MD, and Toledo, OH. On April 3, 2003, Impact Weekly became Dayton City Paper. An ownership change in January 2009 ushered in an editorial narrowing from its broad “weekly news and culture” format to hyper-local arts, culture, and entertainment coverage. The DCP cherry-picked editorial covering the region's performing and visual arts, cultural diversity, entertainment offerings (occasionally including Cincinnati and Columbus), nightlife, recreation, dining, beer, wine, festivals, and a blend of political debate and opinion. This shift, alongside other changes in 2010, such as moving its street publication day from Wednesdays to Tuesdays, converting its presentation from 50% color/50% black & white to an all-color publication printed on brighter paper stock, and increasing its regional availability footprint by securing at least twenty-five regional Kroger stores along with other key pickup locations such as the Dayton International Airport and the entire University of Dayton campus, the paper increased its readership from under 30,000 weekly readers to over 50,000 by 2017. Early readership surges quickly helped increase revenue sufficiently for employee-publisher Paul Noah to secure low-interest financing to form a new company, Dayton City Media, that purchased the Dayton City Paper in April 2012. Other growth benefits included a rapid page-count increase from an average of 32 pages per week in 2009 to anywhere from 40 pages to 44 pages starting in 2013. This allowed the publication to expand editorial content and increase critical display advertising (its only revenue source). At one time the paper swelled to 52 pages. The Dayton City Paper’s contributor roster climbed to its peak of over thirty freelance writers, as did its distribution pickup location count from approximately 350 to over 500 locations by 2016. The Dayton City Paper attempted