Spare Change Goes Color

Today's edition of the Spare Change News went on sale for the usual dollar price. 75 cents goes to the seller and a quarter goes back to the paper. Sam Scott, editor and executive director of the paper, continues to make changes to the publication which is printed as a project of the Homeless Empowerment Project. The black and white broadsheet goes to four-color production with the help of MassWeb printing, part of the Phoenix Media/Communications group. The new Spare Change News will not only be four color but will also move to a tabloid format.

The style will change but the focus will not. The thrust of the paper is to report on issues of marginalized persons and issues that may not be covered by other main stream media sources. Stories will continue to focus on issues related to and supporting homelessness and homeless awareness – but an expanded (well, expanding) arts section will also be part of the mix. Spare Change hopes to make its biweekly presence and current circulation of around 10,000 increase as it positions itself as not only a publication about homeless awareness but as Scott says, "this transition is another step in our evolution into an alternative newspaper that will engage and inform the public on a wide variety of local issues that the mainstream media ignore." You can find the latest copy of Spare Changed being hawked at a T stop or busy sidewalk in a neighborhood near you. From Cambridge to Allston, Boston to Brighton, Dorchester to Jamaica Plain, the paper, now with 400% more colors, is still only a dollar, most of which goes directly to the seller the rest is rolled back into the advocacy of homelessness eradication and awareness.