C-VILLE Weekly is an alternative weekly newspaper distributed around Charlottesville, Virginia. Dubbing itself "Charlottesville's News & Arts Weekly," in 2001, the newspaper made over $100,000 in profits.
In 2013 C-VILLE Weekly and other local news outlet Charlottesville Tomorrow entered a content sharing agreement with intent to improve journalism on education.[3]
In June 2020 the newspaper laid off staff.[4] The remaining journalism team was two reporters, a part-time editor, and a budget to hire a copy editor as needed.[5][6]
Hawes Spencer and Bill Chapman founded the paper as a bi-weekly in 1989.
In January 2002 newspaper owners Bill Chapman and Rob Jiranek dismissed Hawes Spencer as editor of C-VILLE Weekly.[7] In response Spencer and some other C-VILLE Weekly staff founded competing newspaper, The Hook.[7] Cathryn Harding became editor in January 2002.[8]
In 2011 the parent companies that owned C-VILLE Weekly and the Hook merged, re-uniting publications which had common origins.[9]
In 2018 the arts and living reporter for C-VILLE Weekly remarked that after the 2017 Unite the Right rally, there was more community support for journalism on local people of color.[10]
