ST. LOUIS — The Riverfront Times laid off most of its editorial staff on Wednesday and was suspending publication of its weekly print edition, its editor said.

“We’re hoping that by cutting down this drastically that we’re able to ride this out a little bit better and bring people back just as soon as we can, but it’s such a complete unknown landscape right now,” Editor Doyle Murphy said in an interview.

Murphy said the alt-weekly, founded in 1977, will continue publishing to its website with just two staff members, he and web editor Jaime Lees. He said it was not yet clear when or if the print edition would resume.

The alt-weekly focuses on, and is distributed at, St. Louis’ events, concerts, bars and restaurants. But closings and cancellations due to the global pandemic immediately flattened the publication’s advertising base.