AAN News
Study: Baby Boomers Embracing Social Medianew
MediaPost |
06-24-2008 9:04 am |
Industry News
Huffington Post Will Expand into Local Newsnew
Arianna Huffington said last night at a conference that the Huffington Post is planning to expand into local news, according to ReadWriteWeb. Initially, the site will launch an edited news aggregation site (similar to the main Huffington Post site) localized for the metro area around Chicago, which will be managed by a single editor. "We are aspiring to be a newspaper in that we want to covering all news [sic], not just the political blogging the way we began," Huffington said.
ReadWriteWeb |
06-20-2008 10:36 am |
Industry News
Boulder Weekly Editor to Get Public HIV Test in Effort to Reduce Stigmanew
The Daily Camera |
06-20-2008 9:55 am |
Industry News
Tags: Boise Weekly, Pamela White
Ventura County Reporter Editor Steps Down
Bill Lascher says in an email that June 25 will be his last day as editor of the Reporter, as he leaves to attend a new master's program in specialized journalism at the University of Southern California. He will be replaced by Michael Sullivan, who was previously a writer at the Fresno Business Journal and a freelancer with the Reporter and the Ventura County Star.
AAN News |
06-19-2008 10:17 am |
Industry News
Asheville City Paper Calls it Quits
The paper, which was launched in Nov. 2007 by the independent weekly Columbia City Paper, has ceased publication, news editor and business partner Cecil Bothwell says in an email. "I gave it my best shot, but the publisher of the Asheville City Paper was underfunded," says Bothwell, a former Mountain XPress Staffer. "It is no more."
AAN News |
06-19-2008 8:47 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management
Hip-Hoppers and Indie Rockers Help Sell Chuck Taylorsnew
Converse pulled together N.E.R.D.'s Pharrell Williams, Julian Casablancas of the Strokes and indie electronic up-and-comer Santogold to produce a song called "My Drive Thru," Brandweek reports. The shoe company has made the song available for free download at Converse.com, and will push the song in the "Three Artists, One Song" ad campaign that will appear in a number of AAN papers.
Brandweek |
06-19-2008 8:43 am |
Industry News
Monthly Alternative Paper Launching in Hawaiinew
HunterBishop.com |
06-19-2008 8:50 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management
Possible Strike Looms at The Village Voicenew
Veteran Voice staff writer Tom Robbins tells the New York Press that the paper's employees may strike if a contract dispute isn't resolved. Talks center on proposed cuts in health care coverage in the latest contract offer from Village Voice Media, which the union considers unacceptable. "Management is asking for givebacks on our health care policy and on our 401(k)," says Robbins, who serves as a shop steward with United Auto Workers Local 2110, which represents Voice staffers. "We are adamant that there won't be any givebacks here." He says the union has had two meetings with management, but vowed that there would be a walkout if no settlement is reached. "If we don't get it, all bets are off," Robbins warns. The Press says a call to a Voice spokesperson for comment has thus far gone unreturned. The strike is set for July 1 if a contract agreement isn't reached, according to Gawker.
New York Press |
06-17-2008 8:13 am |
Industry News
Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Use of its Articles on Blogsnew
The New York Times |
06-17-2008 8:23 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Electronic Publishing
Jackson Free Press Editor Donna Ladd Talks About Race in Americanew
This year the high school in Charleston, Miss., held an integrated prom for the first time -- ending a system of parallel parties for black and white students. National Public Radio's Bryant Park Project covered the story after reading about it in the Jackson Free Press. "After we covered the story this week, a whole lot of people wrote in to say they were just plain shocked that any kind of segregation could still exist in this country," writes the show's web editor (and former Village Voice executive editor) Laura Conaway. She talks to Ladd about the story, the reaction, and where the conversation about race in America needs to go.
National Public Radio |
06-16-2008 8:59 am |
Industry News
Tags: Jackson Free Press, Donna Ladd
City Paper Founder on the Inquirer's Convention Reportnew
Saying that the Philadelphia Inquirer reporter tasked with turning in a "breezy" report about last weekend's AAN Convention "must have drawn the short straw," Bruce Schimmel writes that "it must have been challenging for [Suzette] Parmley to do something chipper about industry upstarts who are eating her lunch." But she rose to that challenge, filing what Schimmel calls a "flattering portrait" of alt-weeklies. He goes on to draw distinctions between the cultures of dailies and alt-weeklies, ultimately concluding that "the daily is dying." He adds: "And while that might mean a temporary measure of good fortune for weeklies, even the most eccentric of independents dread the daily's demise. A functional democracy needs the good reporting that comes with these dinosaurs."
Philadelphia City Paper |
06-13-2008 2:42 pm |
Industry News
Russian Bi-Weekly The eXile Loses Investors, Will Likely Shut Downnew
"It all started two weeks ago, with an innocuous-looking fax from the Federal Service for Mass Media, Telecommunications and the Protection of Cultural Heritage," writes editor Yasha Levine. "The barely legible fax informed us that our paper was slated for an unscheduled inspection to see if it had violated any media laws. It didn't specify which ones. A week later, a four person team of polite chinovniks showed up to ask some questions and, on their way out back to their lair, grabbed a few eXile issues for an 'expert analysis.' News of their visit had our investors fleeing instantly, and, in no time at all, was kicking up a media shit storm that's only now beginning to gather full strength." The English-language bi-weekly, which launched the careers of New York Press alums Matt Taibbi and Alexander Zaitchik, is trying to save itself by holding a fundraiser. For more, read eXile founder (and past New York Press contributor) Mark Ames's two dispatches for Radar.
The eXile |
06-13-2008 12:32 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management
Publisher Talks About Why Hawaii Island Journal Called it Quitsnew
"I think our primary problem was simply finding solid sales reps," Laurie Carlson tells the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. The Journal, which was accepted as a member of AAN last weekend, will print its last issue this weekend. Carlson also says it "wasn't a helpful thing" for the Journal that the Stephens Media Group, owner of the island's two daily papers, started its own alternative paper about a year ago. "They have much deeper pockets and they can run something that was heavily subsidized and we can't," she says. "It's a very sad thing."
Honolulu Star-Bulletin |
06-13-2008 10:36 am |
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Former Hartford Advocate Film Critic, Facing Sex Charges, Apparently Attempts Suicidenew
The Stamford Advocate |
06-13-2008 10:57 am |
Industry News
SF Weekly Asks Judge to Overturn Verdict in Bay Guardian Casenew
The motions, which were filed earlier this week, ask Superior Court Judge Marla J. Miller to order a new trial if she won't reverse the verdict in the predatory-pricing case, the Weekly reports. The thrust of the Weekly's motion: That the Guardian didn't offer "any actual evidence of an illegal below-cost pricing conspiracy," that the verdict "violates the Weekly's First Amendment and due process rights," and lastly that "the trial was riddled with legal error that unfairly shifted the burden of proof onto the defense." If the judge denies the new motions, the Weekly says it and Village Voice Media intend "to take the case to the California Court of Appeals, which in turn would trigger a process expected to take up to eighteen months."
SF Weekly |
06-12-2008 2:31 pm |
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