In 2013 C-ville Weekly and other local newspaper Charlottesville Tomorrow entered a content sharing agreement with intent to improve journalism on education.
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.
[8] In 2011 the parent companies which owned C-ville Weekly and the Hook merged, re-uniting publications which had common origins.
[9] In 2018 the arts and living reporter for Cville Weekly remarked that after the 2017 Unite the Right rally, there was more community support for journalism on local people of color.