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NOW Magazine Co-Founder in Hospital After Hockey Accidentnew
Michael Hollett was hurt in the Juno Cup Friday night, and will likely be in the hospital for several more days, the Calgary Herald reports. The Juno Cup is a hockey game where rockers take on NHL old-timers. "He fractured his leg in three places and it's a pretty bad situation," team captain Jim Cuddy tells the Calgary Sun. "He's in pretty rough shape. They'll operate on him, they'll put a rod in his leg, they'll put some screws in. I think it'll be quite a long recovery."
The Calgary Herald | The Calgary Sun |
04-07-2008 8:37 am |
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L.A. Weekly Quickly Wins Legal Fight with Clear Channelnew
Reporter Christine Pelisek recently asked the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety for a list of all legal and illegal billboards in the city, which activists have been trying to get for months. When she did, the department gave a head's up to billboard giants Clear Channel and CBS, who then took the city to Superior Court to stop it "from even thinking about giving the Weekly the list," the paper reports. But the media conglomerates were quickly shot down in court by Judge James Chalfant, who ruled the list is public information, not proprietary information, as Clear Channel lawyers argued. The department must release the list by April 4.
L.A. Weekly |
04-03-2008 11:30 am |
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Tags: Editorial, L.A. Weekly
OC Weekly Scribe's Book is the Basis for Upcoming Gary Webb Filmnew
Kill the Messenger will tell the story of Webb, the San Jose Mercury News reporter who "committed suicide after being the target of a smear campaign when he linked the CIA to a scheme to arm Contra rebels in Nicaragua and import cocaine into California," Variety reports. The Universal film will be based on two books: Webb's own Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion, and Weekly staff writer Nick Schou's Kill the Messenger: How the CIA's Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb. The screenplay is being written by former New York Times Magazine correspondent Peter Landesman.
Variety |
04-03-2008 8:23 am |
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Study: 28 Million Subscribers Responded To At Least One Mobile Adnew
The Nielsen Company has announced the results of its bi-annual Mobile Advertising Report, which found that 23 percent (58 million) of all U.S. mobile subscribers have been exposed to advertising on their phones in the past 30 days, and about half of those (28 million) say they responded to a mobile ad in some way. In addition, the study found that 13 percent of users are "open to mobile advertising if it improves the media and content currently available," and 14 percent is "already open to mobile advertising so long as it is relevant to their interests."
Nielsen Company |
04-02-2008 8:50 am |
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¡Ask a Mexican! As Extinct as Kudzunew
"To paraphrase a paraphrase of Mark Twain, reports of my deportation have been greatly exaggerated," writes Gustavo Arellano in a blog entry. "I know I announced last Thursday that I was ending my ¡Ask a Mexican! column, but few people seemingly bothered to read the line where I stated my self-deportation was 'effective the feast day of St. Melito,' which happens to fall today. April Fools'!"
OC Weekly |
04-01-2008 12:05 pm |
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VVM Lauches Joystick Division, a National Video Game Sitenew
Joystick Division |
04-01-2008 12:00 pm |
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¡Ask a Mexican! Bids Adiosnew
"It's been a great run, cabrones, but all the hateful email, the attacks by PC pendejos and the fact that few of you have bothered to submit video questions to my YouTube channel wear on a guy," writes OC Weekly scribe Gustavo Arellano in this week's farewell column. The four-year-old award-winning column had also spawned a book, and caused many a stir in communities around the country when alt-weeklies began running it. Arellano, who is hosting the AltWeekly Awards luncheon at this year's AAN convention, says his work busting stereotypes and tweaking racial prejudices is largely done. "It's no longer necessary to explain Mexicans to Americans because Mexicans are Americans," he writes.
OC Weekly |
03-28-2008 8:33 am |
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Dance Critic Amanda Smith Diesnew
Smith, who wrote about dance for the Boston Phoenix, the Village Voice, and many other publications, has died, the Voice reports. A memorial will be held at a date to be determined in May.
The Village Voice |
03-26-2008 11:35 am |
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Report: More Wealthy Consumers Using Online Social Networksnew
Center for Media Research |
03-26-2008 8:59 am |
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Boston Phoenix Names Ex-Weekly Dig Editor as Music Editornew
Michael Brodeur, who replaces Matt Ashare, will start his tenure at the Phoenix on March 31. "Since Michael started writing for the Phoenix this past year, I have come to know him as someone who is tirelessly searching out new musical experiences, and someone who sees music as a vital place where pop culture defines itself," says Phoenix editor Lance Gould. Brodeur left the Dig in a Sept. 2007 restructuring.
The Boston Phoenix |
03-25-2008 9:02 am |
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Quarterly Ad Growth Falls To 0.1 Percent, Outlook Remains Mutednew
MediaDailyNews |
03-25-2008 8:41 am |
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Tags: Financial, Retail Advertising
Councilman Looks to Ban Folio Weekly from City Propertynew
Jacksonville city councilman Clay Yarborough is calling on mayor John Peyton to remove Folio and its distribution racks from public property after seeing the March 11 issue featuring a cover story on sadomasochism, the Times-Union reports. In his email to the mayor and council leadership, reprinted on Folio's blog, Yarborough says he's worried about children seeing the story, and objects to ads with photos of "scantily clad women." Ironically, the very distribution location that raised Yarborough's ire -- a coffee shop inside the library -- isn't even under city authority, according to the mayor's spokesperson.
The Florida Times-Union |
03-24-2008 8:44 am |
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Google's Search-Within-Search Feature Alarms Some Publishersnew
The New York Times |
03-24-2008 2:25 pm |
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Major Media Companies Keep Forming Ad Networks to Fight Portalsnew
The Associated Press via Editor & Publisher |
03-24-2008 1:44 pm |
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San Diego CityBeat Arts Editor on Cross-Border Work/Life Balancenew
Kinsee Morlan "lays her head down in one country, earns her bread and reputation in another, and co-runs an arts collective somewhere in between," SignOnSanDiego.com, an online project of the San Diego Union-Tribune, writes. Morlan has lived in Tijuana for close to two years while working at CityBeat. She says while working at the local NBC affiliate to supplement her CityBeat income, she was asked to do a story on a waterskiing squirrel, and realized she had to figure out a way to "not have a horrible part-time job and just work at CityBeat." Moving to Tijuana, which has much lower rents than San Diego, was her answer, and she's been there ever since.
SignOnSanDiego.com |
03-21-2008 8:50 am |
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