A year-end piece by Aljazeera examines the top alt media papers in 2013 and how they compare to earlier versions of themselves and the possibility of their demise in the short-term.

How the Village Voice and other alt-weeklies lost their voice in 2013

The papers — which documented parts of cities that other media missed — suffered major blows this year.   What you don’t read in this article is about how the other 95% of alt media publications have fared over the past year.  Check out Portland, Oregon;  Burlington, Vermont, and  Monterey, California to name a few.