AAN News
Study Analyzes Social Engagement Marketingnew
Online Media Daily |
11-26-2007 9:45 am |
Industry News
Rough October Spells 4Q Trouble for Daily Newspapersnew
Media Daily News |
11-26-2007 9:43 am |
Industry News
Research Shows Ads With Arresting Imagery Can Hijack Brandingnew
Brandweek |
11-26-2007 9:34 am |
Industry News
Taglines Lose Their Starring Role in Adsnew
Brandweek |
11-26-2007 9:31 am |
Industry News
Arkansas Times Editor Talks About the Impact of Blogging on the Paper
The Times made the jump to blogging in 2004 at a time when many AAN papers had yet to do so with the simply-named Arkansas Blog. Since then, its website, which started as a niche resource for its print readers, has evolved into a daily must-read for just about everyone in the state, from politicians to daily newspaper editors and, with the additional in-house blogs Rock Candy and Eat Arkansas, music and food junkies. AAN News recently spoke with editor and full-time blogger Max Brantley on what blogging has done for the Times.
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AAN News |
11-21-2007 10:57 am |
Industry News
'Cry Us a River of Frappucino,' Says Salt Lake City Weeklynew
"Why can't I, as a fellow weekly-newspaper guy, muster up much sympathy for the Shepherd Express?," asks Weekly associate editor Bill Frost in response to yesterday's news that Milwaukee's alt-weekly was having some distribution issues involving the local daily (and its free weekly) and coffee giant Starbucks. "Because City Weekly has never been allowed into Salt Lake City Starbucks; at least the Express had a foot in the door for a while," he writes. "Now, just as Salt Lake City residents have for years, Milwaukee-ites will have to sip their overpriced Charbucks while reading an inferior knockoff of a weekly that has an exclusive, paid-for in."
Salt Lake City Weekly |
11-20-2007 8:33 am |
Industry News
Amazon's e-Reader Will Display Books, Newspapers and Magazinesnew
Editor & Publisher |
11-20-2007 10:34 am |
Industry News
Tags: Electronic Publishing
Daily Paper Tries To Get Shepherd Express Removed From Starbucksnew
"We were thrown out of Starbucks because of a deal the Journal Sentinel cut with Starbucks' regional office, where the Journal Sentinel demanded that the Shepherd Express be excluded from Starbucks newspaper racks," writes Express publisher and editor-in-chief Louis Fortis. The Sentinel-owned free weekly MKE then ran an ad claiming it was "the exclusive free weekly" available at Starbucks stores around Milwaukee. But a regional manager says "the decision as to whether a particular Starbucks carries the Shepherd will be at the discretion of each individual store manager." The controversy with the coffee giant comes as the paper celebrates its 25th anniversary. In this week's cover story, assistant editor Lisa Kaiser traces the Express' journey from "a monthly 'free expression magazine' by English majors at UW-Milwaukee" to what it is today.
Shepherd Express |
11-19-2007 12:15 pm |
Industry News
San Francisco Bay Guardian Editor/Publisher Heads to Venezuelanew
Bruce Brugmann is part of a delegation of the Inter American Press Association heading to the South American country to investigate the threat to press liberty posed by constitutional "reforms" proposed by President Hugo Chavez, Editor & Publisher reports.
Editor & Publisher |
11-19-2007 10:39 am |
Industry News
Judge Demands Records from Phoenix New Times Casenew
Documents showing how subpoenas were obtained and executed during the grand-jury investigation into New Times are missing from a court file, which has led Judge Anna Baca to order the Maricopa County Attorney's office to turn over those documents by Wednesday and appear at a hearing next Monday, the Arizona Republic reports. At issue is if there was more wrongdoing during the course of the investigation than is currently known. The County Attorney's office has already admitted that prosecutors didn't notify the grand-jury foreman and judge within 10 days of issuing subpoenas in the New Times case, which is required by Arizona law. New Times writer Stephen Lemons asks: "Could the subpoenas be missing because they might offer proof that Wilenchik did not play by the rules?" He points to a new column by Michael Lacey which says that the special prosecutor personally demanded he and Jim Larkin be arrested, asked for the arrests of the paper's attorneys, and "sought tens of millions of dollars in sanctions, fines that would have bankrupted New Times."
The Arizona Republic |
11-19-2007 8:36 am |
Industry News
Users Like Online Video Ads Better Than Pop-Ups and Pop-Undersnew
Editor & Publisher |
11-19-2007 3:08 pm |
Industry News
AOL Unveils New Online Video Ad Formatnew
Online Media Daily |
11-19-2007 3:06 pm |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Reporter Takes Issue With 'Hey, That's Not an Alt-Weekly'new
Dave Maass, currently a staff writer at the Santa Fe Reporter, doesn't think it was fair of AAN executive director Richard Karpel to single out Santa Fe's The Sun News in his inaugural column this week. "I've read the full piece four or five times now, and I can't find a single cogent argument why The Sun can't be an alternative newspaper," Maass writes. "What right does [Karpel] have to censor the words 'alternative' and 'newspaper' from being used, by his own admission, quite properly to describe The Sun? We're all standing up, speaking out, aren't we?" He adds: "Obviously, The Sun News isn't an alt-weekly in the contemporary conventional sense. But surely there's room in the taxonomy for them." More blog response to Karpel's column here, here, and here. UPDATE: Dave Maass has also posted a follow-up.
Maassive.com |
11-16-2007 11:28 am |
Industry News
Village Voice Reporter Tom Robbins Talks About Upending Mob Trialnew
Earlier this month, 10-year-old interview tapes that Robbins still had derailed the trial of Lindley DeVecchio, a former FBI agent accused of helping the mob commit murder. With the dust now settled, he talks to the Brooklyn Paper about what it felt like to be on the other side of a news story. "A reporter has got no business being a part of a news story, but sometimes you get dragged in kicking and screaming and that’s what happened here. I had no idea that my tapes were going to be the knockout punch for this case," he says. "I didn't much like being a part of the story, but I didn't know any way out of it either."
The Brooklyn Paper |
11-16-2007 11:08 am |
Industry News
Library Board Votes Not to Remove Phoenix New Timesnew
The decision handed down last night by the Chandler Public Library Board ended a mini-brouhaha in this Phoenix suburb. It all started a few months ago, when Larry Edwards made public his objection to New Times being available at a library branch shared by a high school. The board also ruled that George Carlin's audiobook When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? would stay in the library.
East Valley Tribune |
11-16-2007 7:56 am |
Industry News
