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Google Plans Push to Sell Ads to Appear Inside Videosnew
The New York Times |
02-21-2008 8:55 am |
Industry News
Two More Witnesses Testify in Bay Guardian/VVM Trial
SF Weekly publisher Josh Fromson took the stand on Friday and remained there until Tuesday (there was a day off on Monday for President's Day), and Bay Guardian expert witness Clifford Kupperberg also appeared before the court Tuesday. For more details, check out the reports from the Weekly, which says Kupperberg talked about "imaginary profits and damages," and the Guardian, which says Fromson "dodge[d] the facts."
SF Weekly | San Francisco Bay Guardian |
02-20-2008 1:55 pm |
Industry News
Baltimore Sun's Free Youth Tabloid to Launch April 14new
b, a free daily tabloid with an initial planned distribution of 50,000, will target younger readers, the Sun says. In addition to original content, the paper will feature user-generated content and repurposed material from RedEye, the daily youth tabloid run by the Sun's sister publication, the Chicago Tribune.
Baltimore Sun |
02-20-2008 1:36 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management
East Bay Express Redesigns With Trimmed Size, Expanded Contentnew
"This week's issue marks a thorough redesign of the paper, only the fourth new design in the paper's 29 years," writes editor Stephen Buel. "It also is the culmination of the transformation we intended to make when a group of investors bought the Express last year and returned it to independence and local control." Changes include a 1.5 inch reduction in the height of the paper and four additional pages of editorial content.
East Bay Express |
02-20-2008 12:51 pm |
Industry News
Photos in Riverfront Times Story Lead to Lawsuitnew
"Jane Doe," a woman who had cosmetic surgery to remove excess skin, is suing her doctors for providing before-and-after photographs to the St. Louis alt-weekly for a 2006 story on one of the surgeons, UPI reports. She claims she was told the photos were only for the doctors' internal use. The Times, which is not a party in the suit, has more on the case here.
United Press International | Riverfront Times |
02-20-2008 9:25 am |
Industry News
Tags: Riverfront Times
Columnist: 'Prosecutors Need to Settle' Orlando Weekly Casenew
Legal proceedings for the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation's case against three Weekly employees and the paper on charges related to adult advertising are scheduled to get underway later this month. Orlando Sentinel columnist Mike Thomas thinks the case, which "smacks of payback," should be settled, and suggests a way forward: "Immediately drop all charges against the employees," he writes. "Drop all felony charges against the Weekly and ask the judge to withhold adjudication on misdemeanor charges of aiding and abetting prostitution. In exchange, the Weekly reimburses all costs and agrees in writing to stop taking ads from prostitutes and unlicensed massage parlors."
Orlando Sentinel |
02-20-2008 8:58 am |
Industry News
'Perry Bible Fellowship' Coming to an Endnew
Nicholas Gurewitch has emailed his clients to let them know that he's discontinuing the comic, which runs each week in many AAN papers. "I'm making this decision for a variety of reasons, but mainly because I want to do other things besides be a cartoonist," he writes.
Boston's Weekly Dig |
02-19-2008 8:16 am |
Industry News
Tags: Design & Production
Four Newspaper Companies Form Online Ad Partnershipnew
The Industry Standard |
02-19-2008 8:43 am |
Industry News
SF Weekly Expert Witnesses Testify in Bay Guardian/VVM Trial
Harvard Univ. economics professor Dr. Joseph Kalt and newspaper analyst John Morton testified on Village Voice Media's behalf on Thursday. Former SF Weekly publisher Troy Larkin also took the stand. SF Weekly reports on the testimony of Kalt, Morton and Larkin, while SFBG sticks with Kalt and Morton for now. The trial resumes today with the cross-examination of Larkin.
San Francisco Bay Guardian | SF Weekly |
02-15-2008 1:31 pm |
Industry News
Witnesses Continue Testimony in Bay Guardian/VVM Trial
The predatory pricing trial resumed yesterday after taking Tuesday off. Village Voice Media chief financial officer Keating finished his testimony, and three more witnesses were called: Jennifer Vernon from Live Nation (formerly Clear Channel Concerts); James Higginbotham of International Demographics, the company that runs Media Audit; and the SF Weekly's expert witness, economics professor Joseph P. Kalt. For more details, check out reports from the Guardian and the Weekly.
San Francisco Bay Guardian | SF Weekly |
02-14-2008 2:00 pm |
Industry News
Baltimore Sun to Launch Print Product Aimed at Younger Readersnew
The paper's Business Development Office is actively recruiting reporters for a new print publication targeting younger readers to be launched in April, according to the Maryland Daily Record. The publication, which is scheduled to launch in April, will reportedly be a five-day-per-week paper. While the Sun is a Tribune Co. property, this print product seems to be of a different nature than the weekly Metromix print companion, which the company rolled out in Los Angeles this week.
The Maryland Daily Record |
02-14-2008 1:21 pm |
Industry News
Tribune Co. Launches Print Edition of Metromix in L.A.new
The nightlife and culture website affiliated with the Los Angeles Times will have a companion newspaper released weekly, Editor & Publisher reports. The print edition will be in a tabloid format, with 100,000 copies distributed free each week. Metromix sites are currently up and running in other cities like Chicago, Baltimore, and New York, but there's no word yet whether Tribune intends to introduce print products in those markets as well.
Editor & Publisher |
02-13-2008 6:15 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management
How Dan Pulcrano Went from Print Publisher to Web Pioneernew
The Metro Newspapers CEO is "one of the few publishers that have successfully navigated the treacherous straights between print media and the new world online," the trade magazine Domain Name Journal says in a cover profile. The story concentrates on Pulcrano's creation of Boulevards New Media and his acquisition of a "near priceless portfolio that includes 20 of the 30 largest American city names in the .com extension." But Pulcrano also talks about how he got into journalism and ended up creating Metro Newspapers in the first place. He started publishing underground papers at age 11, later reported for the San Diego Reader, and then was approached by Jay Levin to help launch the L.A. Weekly when he was 19 years old. "Working there was life changing for me too; from that point on I knew what I wanted to do," he says of his stint at the Weekly.
Domain Name Journal |
02-13-2008 2:22 pm |
Industry News
Late Chicago Reader Writer's Work Collected in New Booknew
"Grant Pick had been writing for the Reader for about a quarter of a century when, at the age of 57, he died of a heart attack walking home from lunch. That was three years ago last week," writes Michael Miner in the Reader. "In many ways, Grant was the writer who best defined this paper. As he liked telling journalism students who read his pieces and asked where the news pegs were, 'There is no news peg. The people are the news.'" That anecdote is the basis for the title of a collection of his work organized by his son John Pick, The People Are The News: Grant Pick's Chicago Stories. The book "makes a great crash course in Chicago's subcultures and recent history, and its residents' heritage of tenacity," Time Out Chicago says.
Chicago Reader | Time Out Chicago |
02-13-2008 8:43 am |
Industry News
Report: 85 Percent of World's Online Population Has Shopped Onlinenew
Center for Media Research |
02-13-2008 6:22 pm |
Industry News
