Our (Beta) Story

The DPJ caters to residents who support our downtown and savvy visitors who want to go where the locals go.

Urban Affair, a multi-faceted marketing company, promotes our downtown through community and business partnerships.  The DPJ is the go-to resource for lifestyle information.  The combination creates a one-stop online portal for all things Downtown.

Whether it’s community news, food, shopping or sports, let DPJ be your guide in the big city. Our site is filled with everything you need to know as it relates to the urban lifestyle.  We offer a friendly, straightforward insider’s view of all things downtown, from world-class restaurants and museums to events to plan your day around; the DPJ is your guide as you Explore Your Core.

What will you find on DPJ?

Exactly what you have been looking for.

DPJ offers a friendly insider’s view of downtown events, restaurants, cultural hot spots, and profiles of people on the City scene.

The DPJ contributors know downtown and are ready to act as your guide.  Additionally you’ll have the tools, maps, contacts, and insight on the hottest happenings so you’ll never be at a loss as to what to do.

Plus – it’s easy!
•    Want to find a restaurant? Dig into out our Eats & Drinks section.
•    Looking for a restaurant in a certain neighborhood? Look up the area under Districts and see what’s nearby.
•    Looking for a drink after the game? Check out our Sports section to see who’s ready to host your post-game celebration.

What’s in our name?

We know this whole downtown/midtown/CenPho/uptown naming convention for Phoenix can get a little confusing. What’s considered downtown? What’s uptown? Does the I-10 separate everything? How about the 17? Who knows?

We decided to make it easier. Downtown, to us, is a lifestyle, not a geographic area. Think of it as Glendale Ave-ish to Grant St-ish and from I-17-ish to Highway 51-ish. Most downtowns don’t have rigidly defined downtowns (although some business groups seem to think they can make it happen) and ours doesn’t either. I suppose you could also call us the Urban Phoenix Journal, but that name doesn’t make much sense. So if you want something to be a part of downtown, claim it to be. We’ll back you up.

Editorial Policy

We have two kinds of opinion pieces on the DPJ. The first, an editorial, is similar to your traditional opinion piece. Each will take pick one side of a relevant situation, or offer advice, and will be backed up by multiple sources. Any signed editorial is the opinion of the writer alone and may not express the views or ideas of the DPJ as a whole. We, of course, fully support the right for our staff to say what they like, even if we don’t collectively agree. Unsigned editorial marks an issue we’ve come to a consensus on and fully support from top to bottom.

We also have blogs, which are pure opinion. Whether they are restaurant reviews, light-hearted stories or funny stories from around town, blogs are the opinion of the writer and the writer alone. As a whole, the DPJ is neutral toward blogs. If you think you’re up to writing a blog about a specific Phoenix issue, please let us know. We’d love to have you help out.

In an effort to protect journalistic integrity, our writers will either be news/feature writers OR editorial/blog writers. Make sense? Good.

We’d love to hear from you, whether you agree, disagree or are neutral, but keep it clean or we won’t publish your comments. This website exists to serve the public, but isn’t necessarily controlled by it. Thank you for reading.