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- ↑ Fort Worth Weekly profile
- ↑ "Gayle Reaves Named Editor at FW Weekly" Archived 2006-10-18 at the Wayback Machine , October 10, 2001, Association of Alternative Newsweeklies
- ↑ "Ten Years and Going Strong"
- ↑ "National Publisher Agrees to Buy Fort Worth, Texas Weekly Newspaper"
- ↑ "Publisher Buys Fort Worth Weekly from New Times"