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Robert Newman: Many of The Stranger's Covers are 'Ready for Framing'new
That's the veteran designer's take after browsing the Seattle alt-weekly's online cover archive. "The Stranger covers are like the cool punk version of The New Yorker, with illustrations, photographs and graphic design that are stand-alone visual statements, with lots of attitude and passion," Newman writes on the Society for Publication Design's blog. "Like The New Yorker, The Stranger covers are the visual voice of the publication, a dialogue each week between the paper and its readers."
The Society for Publication Design |
08-18-2008 11:18 am |
Industry News
Santa Barbara Independent Launches Emergency Alert Servicenew
IndyAlert will provide email, text message, and radio announcements (via partner station KCSB-FM) "during emergencies and public safety challenges." The service is free, but users must subscribe. "In the past two years we've been on the literal front lines of many of Santa Barbara's disasters and emergencies, with our website providing timely coverage we couldn't achieve with the weekly newspaper. But we sometimes found the immediacy of our website was inconvenient or unavailable," publisher Randy Campbell says. "By adding text messaging and email alerts, we can use the wide availability of cell phones to keep our subscribers informed. Add radio to the mix and we've got particularly valuable tools for communication during a power outage or on the go."
Santa Barbara Independent |
08-18-2008 8:52 am |
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Video Ad Study Shows High Engagement Ratesnew
Online Media Daily |
08-18-2008 8:32 am |
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Study: Younger Hispanics Respond Better To Bilingual Online Marketingnew
Marketing Daily |
08-18-2008 8:30 am |
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Boulder Weekly Turns 15, Prints Biggest Issue Evernew
"It's been quite a ride at the helm of this wacky ship," writes publisher Stewart Sallo in this week's 15th-anniversary issue. "We've sailed through uncharted waters as the only weekly ever to succeed in Boulder, Colo., despite many serious obstacles throughout the years." Sallo notes that despite the "well-publicized woes of the newspaper industry," the Weekly is "riding an unprecedented wave of growth," which he largely chalks up to the purchase of the Colorado Daily by E.W. Scripps Co., which also owns another Boulder paper, the Camera. "Much like any other corporate-consolidation effort, this event created a more formidable, unified competitor for us, which caused the problem-solving minds at the Weekly to dig deeper in search of a strategy that would keep our ship sailing smoothly."
Boulder Weekly |
08-15-2008 12:57 pm |
Industry News
Long Island Press Partners with Another Weekly for Ad Salesnew
The Press is partnering with The Independent "to offer advertisers a two-paper deal that officials at the free weeklies tout as an 'all Island' option," Newsday reports. The deal was hatched a few months ago during a meeting of the papers' publishers and key officials to discuss a "strategic alliance," according to Michael Castonguay, chief financial officer of the Long Island Press. "It's an advertising-marketing partnership that we hope will expand as we continue to grow on Long Island," he says. According to Newsday, the Press has a circulation of more than 97,000, and the Independent has a circulation of about 20,000.
Newsday |
08-15-2008 8:54 am |
Industry News
Creative Loafing Lays Off Two Staffers and One Freelance Criticnew
CL's Atlanta editor Ken Edelstein reports that he laid off two editorial staffers on Monday: Senior editor Scott Freeman and senior writer David Lee Simmons. In addition, the St. Petersburg Times reports that CL's Tampa paper has let go of Lance Goldenberg, who'd been a freelance film critic for the paper for 19 years. In his statement, Tampa editor David Warner said that the hole in film coverage will be filled with staff writers from CL's newly acquired papers in Chicago and Washington.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | St. Petersburg Times |
08-15-2008 8:46 am |
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Facebook Tests Ads Packaging Video, Commentsnew
Online Media Daily |
08-15-2008 9:00 am |
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Westword Cartoonist Unveils '56 Faces of the Democratic Convention'new
For the past 56 weeks, staff cartoonist Kenny Be has studied the 56 delegations headed to Denver for the Democratic National Convention, and shared his research results in a weekly cartoon called "Delegating Denver." With the convention just around the corner (Aug. 25-28), the cartoons are now collected in a single slideshow on Westword's site. Editor Patricia Calhoun says AAN-member papers are free to excerpt parts of the cartoon in print or link to it online, accompanied by their own commentary. In addition, the Sacramento News & Review has made available free of charge to AAN members a piece from Tom Hayden on what to expect from Denver, and the significance of it all for the future of the country. For more details on that piece, which is available today, email Cosmo Garvin at cosmog (at) newsreview.com
Westword |
08-14-2008 8:23 am |
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ComScore Creates New Measures For Ad Networksnew
Online Media Daily |
08-14-2008 10:56 am |
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Study: Mobile Messaging To Increase 15 Percent By 2012new
Online Media Daily |
08-14-2008 8:25 am |
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Study Finds Growing Reliance On Ad Networksnew
A new study on digital pricing by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and Bain & Company found that ad networks handled 30 percent of major web publishers' sales in 2007 compared to just 5 percent the prior year, Online Media Daily reports. The study concludes that this trend could negatively impact overall web revenue, since CPMs earned through ad networks are usually a fraction the going rates for display inventory sold directly by major publishers.
Online Media Daily |
08-12-2008 12:04 pm |
Industry News
Honolulu Weekly Discontinues Local Pol's Columnnew
New editor Ragnar Carlson tells the Honolulu Advertiser the Weekly will no longer run a column by Hawai'i Democratic Party chairman Brian Schatz.
"It has really nothing to do with the content of Brian's pieces but more to do with our responsibility to report aggressively on local politics," he says. Schatz had written the column since 2007 after he left the state House for an unsuccessful run for Congress.
The Honolulu Advertiser |
08-12-2008 8:13 am |
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OpenTable, Zagat Partner To Enable Mobile-Based Reservationsnew
Online Media Daily |
08-12-2008 8:15 am |
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New Fashion Magazine Will Launch Only On iPhonenew
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08-12-2008 8:14 am |
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