In July 2007 both the Washington City Paper and the Chicago Reader were sold to the Tampa-based Creative Loafing chain.

In 2012, Creative Loafing Atlanta and the Washington City Paper were sold to SouthComm Communications.

Michael Schaffer was named editor in April, 2010, two months after Erik Wemple resigned to run the new local startup TBD.

[5] On December 21, 2017, it was announced that D.C.-area venture capitalist and philanthropist Mark Ein would buy the City Paper.

[12] Prominent sports journalists, Jewish groups,[13] and Jewish writers published sharp criticism of Snyder and the Simon Wiesenthal Center's claims of anti-Semitism, referring in various opinion pieces and public statements to their statements as, "breathtakingly dumb allegation",[14] "almost unbearably stupid",[15] and "so self-evidently lacking in merit".