Racket joins a rising tide of journalist-owned media startups

In October 2020, Star Tribune Media unceremoniously closed City Pages, after the alt-weekly became “economically unviable” amid the pandemic’s upheaval. Now, ten months later, the site is being reborn as a new reader-funded, writer-owned digital news startup. Racket, founded by four ex-City Pages editors, plans to publish “the same fun and fearless journalism CP specialized...