A new local newspaper, the Culver City Chronicle, distributed its first 26-page issue Nov. 23.
The free weekly is being published by National Media Inc., which runs seven other local papers and distributes more than a quarter of a million copies a week, said Stephen Laxineta, chairman of the company. The Westsider, the West Hollywood Independent and the Hollywood Independent are among newspapers published by National Media.
It took National Media just two weeks to begin delivering the Culver City Chronicle to homes and businesses after the news broke that Coast Media Newspapers--which had published another free weekly paper, the Culver City News--had been seized by the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS shut down Coast Media because the company failed to pay more than $228,000 in back taxes from 1992.
National Media has its headquarters in the Mid-Wilshire district.
