Via Editor & Publisher, the Washington City Paper, along with the Chicago Reader, which the City Paper owns, has been sold to Atlanta-based company Creative Loafing, publisher of four other alternative weeklies in Atlanta, Tampa, Sarasota, Fla., and Charlotte, N.C. The City Paper name will remain in place, despite the other four papers all carrying the “Creative Loafing” name. In a post to the City Paper’s staff blog, City Desk, Senior Editor Mike DeBonis said…

It was just two weeks ago that City Paper Editor in Chief Erik Wemple announced he’d be moving on up in the world, heading up to New York to take the helm of the famed Village Voice. We guessed it wouldn’t be long until he was back in D.C. — and we were right. Well, to be fair, he never really even got started. He was set to take over the paper on July 24,…