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Print Inserts Pass TV Ads As Important Influence in Purchase Decisionsnew
The Center for Media Research |
01-24-2008 11:47 am |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising
Illustrated 'Lustlab' Ads Collected in New Booknew
Ellen Forney has for several years been illustrating and interpreting the most interesting ad in The Stranger's "Lustlab" classified personals each week. Now they are collected in a new book, Lust: Kinky Online Personal Ads from Seattle's The Stranger, released this month by Fantagraphics. In addition to the illustrations, the book has interviews with some of the advertisers conducted by Forney, plus an introduction by syndicated sex columnist and Stranger editor Dan Savage.
Fantagraphics Books | EllenForney.com |
01-23-2008 10:14 am |
Industry News
VVM Websites See 40 Percent Increase in Stickiness Over Last Yearnew
Editor & Publisher |
01-23-2008 12:52 pm |
Industry News
Amidst Ethics Questions, The Village Voice Parts Ways With Criticnew
Late last week, the art blog Modern Art Notes raised questions about Christian Viveros-Faune's editorial independence, noting that he was involved in organizing two major commercial art fairs at the same time he was the Voice's art critic. The blog argued that he should either resign from the fairs, or the Voice should stop publishing him, and the flap lit up the blogosphere on Friday. On Saturday, Voice editor Tony Ortega explained to readers that, in light of "an appearance of conflict," Viveros-Faune would no longer be writing for the paper.
The Village Voice | Modern Art Notes |
01-22-2008 8:54 am |
Industry News
Report: Teenagers Find Online News Stressfulnew
Editor & Publisher |
01-22-2008 9:44 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Electronic Publishing
Film Up for Sundance Grand Jury Award Has Alt-Weekly Ties
Lance Hammer's Ballast, which will compete with 15 other films in the Dramatic Competition at this year's festival, has a certain familiar alt-weekly publisher in its credits. The Jackson Free Press' Todd Stauffer was production manager for the film, which is described by Sundance as "a riveting, lyrical portrait of an emotionally frayed family whose lives are torn asunder by a tragic act in a small Mississippi Delta town."
AAN News |
01-18-2008 11:52 am |
Industry News
Tags: Jackson Free Press, Todd Stauffer
Portland Official to Reporter: 'I Think You're Despicable'new
Portland's city auditor Gary Blackmer (pictured), angry about his treatment in a story in the Portland Mercury, approached reporter Matt Davis in City Hall, called him "despicable," and threw in a "fuck you" for good measure, according to the Mercury. Blackmer's beef comes down to the question of whether or not he provided comment for Davis' story on racial profiling by the city's cops. The story noted that Blackmer "declined to comment," yet he and a colleague both seem to think they provided enough comment by quoting from an earlier report. "To say [they] declined comment is fair, and I would challenge them to state publicly, here, why they did not," Davis writes. The Willamette Week's Ian Gillingham thinks that Blackmer's explosion was inspired by the newly released film The Bucket List, "in which two geezers start doing all the things they want to do before they die."
The Portland Mercury |
01-18-2008 9:06 am |
Industry News
Miami New Times Turns 20new
In 1987, Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, who started Phoenix New Times in 1970 and bought Denver's Westword in 1983, "bought a South Beach rag named The Wave for $50 and a hot dog with plenty of relish," and Miami New Times was born, managing editor Chuck Strouse writes as the paper celebrates its 20th anniversary. "Miami is a city that reinvents itself every few years," he writes. "Indeed between the time I left town in 2000 to edit New Times Broward-Palm Beach and my return two years ago, the place went from cultural wasteland to visual arts mecca. Miami New Times, though, has become a constant -- brassy, iconoclastic, and, well, sometimes tasteless."
Miami New Times |
01-17-2008 9:12 am |
Industry News
Tribune's Morning Call to Fold Faux-Alt, Replace With Metromixnew
Poynter.org |
01-17-2008 2:56 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management
C-Ville Weekly Rolls Out Redesign
Editor Cathy Harding explains the paper's new design in this short YouTube video. Among the highlights: C-Ville now has staples, and the content is now divided into three sections: News, Arts, and Living.
C-Ville Weekly Video via YouTube |
01-16-2008 10:38 am |
Industry News
Nikki Finke Takes a Breaknew
"I'm exhausted. I'm not feeling well. I'm overwhelmed," the L.A. Weekly columnist writes. She says she will return next Tuesday. Her blog has become the go-to source for news on the writers' strike, and she's reportedly been working nearly around the clock since it started. "I need a week away from the emails and the comments and the phone calls and the rumors. Most of all, I just need to rest since I've been going, going, going, since the strike started."
Deadline Hollywood Daily |
01-15-2008 8:37 am |
Industry News
Metro International Seeking Buyer for U.S. Dailiesnew
Boston Phoenix |
01-15-2008 11:40 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management
9/11 Truth Activists Picket L.A. Weekly Officenew
Some adherents of the 9/11 Truth movement hit the streets in front of the paper's Hollywood office on Friday, handing out flyers, waving upside-down American flags and denouncing longtime columnist Marc Cooper. The activists took umbrage with this turn of phrase included in a recent Cooper column on Cynthia McKinney: "She was one of the first high-profile adherents of the official whack-job '9/11 Truth' movement, directly implicating the U.S. government in the staging of the attack on the Twin Towers." The Weekly has a slideshow of the protests.
MarcCooper.com | L.A. Weekly |
01-14-2008 8:33 am |
Industry News
Chicago Tribune Eliminates Print Help-Wanted Ads on Weekdaysnew
Editor & Publisher |
01-14-2008 8:36 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Classified Advertising
Commentary: Better Measures for Web Adsnew
Washington Post |
01-14-2008 11:14 am |
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