Recycler Newspaper

Los Angeles Times Media Group said Wednesday that it had sold Recycler Classifieds, publisher of four advertising circulars, to Target Media Partners. Recycler Classifieds also publishes 11 weekly and biweekly photo ad and employment guides in Southern California and runs the Recycler.com website, said the company, which is owned by Tribune Co. Terms weren't disclosed. The sale comes as investors led by real estate billionaire Sam Zell work to complete the $8.

Times Mirror Co. on Friday said it agreed to buy the Southern California editions of the Recycler Classifieds, an independent publisher of classified advertising, and become part of a team that would own and operate the remaining Recycler publications.

Police Sunday were still looking for armed intruders who have been shopping for victims through ads in the Recycler, a weekly advertiser. Two men shot Saturday were the latest victims--but the first in the San Fernando Valley--of robbers who pretend to be interested in buying Macintosh computers from Recycler classified ads, but instead steal them by force. The thieves have struck in the Westside eight times since December.

Recycler Classifieds has grown beyond its founders' expectations by giving away mostadvertising and asking readers to pay for the newspaper. Though the paper wants to maintain itsimage as a struggling alternative publication, success is hard to ignore when devoted buyersline up each week. They gather early every Thursday morning at an unassuming brick building in the Silver Lake business district, forming a line that by 7 a.m. often stretches across the parking lot to the street.

Los Angeles Times Media Group said Wednesday that it had sold Recycler Classifieds, publisher of four advertising circulars, to Target Media Partners. Recycler Classifieds also publishes 11 weekly and biweekly photo ad and employment guides in Southern California and runs the Recycler.com website, said the company, which is owned by Tribune Co. Terms weren't disclosed. The sale comes as investors led by real estate billionaire Sam Zell work to complete the $8.

Times Mirror Co. on Friday said it agreed to buy the Southern California editions of the Recycler Classifieds, an independent publisher of classified advertising, and become part of a team that would own and operate the remaining Recycler publications.

Police Sunday were still looking for armed intruders who have been shopping for victims through ads in the Recycler, a weekly advertiser. Two men shot Saturday were the latest victims--but the first in the San Fernando Valley--of robbers who pretend to be interested in buying Macintosh computers from Recycler classified ads, but instead steal them by force. The thieves have struck in the Westside eight times since December.

Recycler Classifieds has grown beyond its founders' expectations by giving away mostadvertising and asking readers to pay for the newspaper. Though the paper wants to maintain itsimage as a struggling alternative publication, success is hard to ignore when devoted buyersline up each week. They gather early every Thursday morning at an unassuming brick building in the Silver Lake business district, forming a line that by 7 a.m. often stretches across the parking lot to the street.