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Alibi Turns 15, Redesigns, Loses Editornew
The Albuquerque alt-weekly celebrates it's quinceañera by tracing its history from Oct. 9, 1992: the 12-page, black-and-white debut as NuCity, threats of a lawsuit from Chicago's Newcity, the name change to the Weekly Alibi, all the way to, well, this week's 15th anniversary issue and a newly unveiled print redesign. But it's not all good news in Duke City: editor Steven Robert Allen is leaving the paper on Oct. 1 to become executive director of Common Cause New Mexico. "I fully expect the paper's best days are ahead of it," he writes in a farewell column. "That's one reason why I don't mind making an exit, not too much, anyway. To tell you the truth, I'm eager to just be an ordinary reader, to pick up the Alibi on Thursday from one of those ubiquitous blue metal boxes, just like everyone else, and take a peek inside."
Alibi |
09-21-2007 3:56 pm |
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The Stranger Clarifies Post-Intelligencer Reportnew
"I'm not leaving The Stranger, and I'm still in charge of The Stranger's
editorial content," says Dan Savage in a blog post, adding some
detail to Wednesday's item in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer announcing
Christopher Frizzelle's promotion to editor. "So Frizzelle is taking over the day-to-day management of the editorial department as well as overseeing more to most of The Stranger's features," Savage says. "I am still going to be sitting in my coveted corner office, watching helmetless hipsters ride by on their brand-new fixies, posting obsessively to Slog, working with Christopher -- and the rest of the editorial staff -- to create, shape, and direct our editorial content online and in print."
The Stranger |
09-21-2007 12:37 pm |
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Boston Phoenix Writer Pens 'History of Boston Rock & Roll'new
Longtime music critic Brett Milano's new book, The Sound of Our Town: A History of Boston Rock & Roll, surveys 50 years of Beantown's popular music. "Brett's book is something this city has needed," a former program director for local radio station WBCN tells the Globe. "As a whole scene, maybe [Boston] didn't have the national impact of some other towns, but take Mission of Burma or the Pixies. Look how many people have said those bands are an influence. Sometimes we don't get the recognition we deserve."
The Boston Globe |
09-21-2007 11:41 am |
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Tags: Editorial, Boston Phoenix
One Complaint May Lead to Phoenix New Times' Removal from Librarynew
Larry Edwards has voiced his objections to the alt-weekly being available at a suburban Phoenix library branch shared by a high school, and now the Chandler Library Board will hear the details today, the Arizona Republic reports. Library manager Brenda Brown said Edwards "questioned the appropriateness of the alternative newspaper's advertisements and articles for teenagers." Brown tells New Times' Stephen Lemons that this is the first complaint against the paper she's heard in the three years she's worked at the library. "New Times is nearly ubiquitous in this part of the world," Lemons writes. "And if the Chandler book-barn bows to what one local gum-smacker has to say, it's gonna make Chandler look like a town full of first-class hayseeds." Also on the Library Board's indecency agenda: a children's book about a racing sperm, a fairy tale DVD narrated by Robin Williams, and George Carlin's audiobook When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? A decision from the Board isn't expected until November.
The Arizona Republic | Phoenix New Times |
09-20-2007 8:43 am |
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Alt-Weekly Cartoonist Married by Another Alt-Weekly Cartoonistnew
Mikhaela Reid, whose cartoons appear in Metro Times and the Boston Phoenix, was wed earlier this month to fellow cartoonist Masheka Wood by none other than syndicated alt-weekly cartoonist Ted Rall, Editor & Publisher reports. According to EditorialCartoonists.com, "this is only the second time two cartoonists have been married by a third cartoonist."
Editor & Publisher | EditorialCartoonists.com |
09-19-2007 12:30 pm |
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Tags: Design & Production
L.A. Weekly Columnist Joins Huffington Post Citizen Journalism Projectnew
Marc Cooper will be the editor of OffTheBus, the Huffington Post's project to cover the 2008 campaigns via citizen journalists, Wired reports.
Wired |
09-19-2007 9:56 am |
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The Stranger Names New Editornew
Christopher Frizzelle is replacing Dan Savage as editor of the Seattle alt-weekly, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. The 27-year-old Frizzelle has also worked at crosstown rival the Seattle Weekly, where "he was fired for leaking internal tidbits to the Stranger and trying to get a job there," according to the P-I. His time at the Stranger has thus far included stints as books editor, and most recently, as arts editor. "I'll report to Dan, who is now editorial director, and everybody else reports to me," he says. Asked what changes he wants to make, he said none. "The paper's really good right now. I work with 20 of the most talented people I know."
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
09-19-2007 8:18 am |
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Dailies Jump on the Widget Bandwagonnew
Editor & Publisher |
09-18-2007 9:34 am |
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Recession or Not, Older Ad Forms Ailing as Marketers Shift to Web, CRMnew
Advertising Age |
09-17-2007 9:53 am |
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7 Reasons Why Niche Social Media Outlets are Better Than Diggnew
AjaxNinja |
09-17-2007 9:41 am |
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Tags: Electronic Publishing, Marketing
NAA Study Finds Link Between Newspaper Readership and Civic Activitynew
Editor & Publisher |
09-17-2007 9:36 am |
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Village Voice Revists its Reporting on 9/11 Cancer Linknew
Graham Rayman's cover story last week, "Clearing the Air About 9/11's Toxic Dust and Cancer," doesn't refer directly to last year's Kristen Lombardi story on the same subject, but it "reads nevertheless like an unequivocal attempt at refuting its claims," according to the New York Observer. Lombardi's piece, which won a first-place AltWeekly Award for investigative reporting, stipulated that exposure to the Ground Zero rubble was giving rescue workers cancer, while Rayman's piece argues that research on the topic is murky. The Observer asks editor Tony Ortega, who fired Lombardi in May, if Rayman's story was a way of distancing his Village Voice from the version published under previous editor David Blum. "There was no conscious effort to 'tie' this cover to anything," he says. "New editor, new writer, and a new look at an evolving story. Call it weird if you like." He added: "The piece he wrote does contradict what has been written by other journalists, and what the Voice has written in the past. But that's the nature of journalism -- we're always gathering new evidence and trying to make sense of what we find."
The New York Observer |
09-14-2007 2:47 pm |
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Daniel Hernandez Leaving L.A. Weekly to Write Book for Scribnernew
"He's leaving L.A. Weekly not because of some New Times conspiracy but because Scribner has asked him to write a book about Mexico City based on his amazing cover story from last year," OC Weekly's Gustavo Arellano writes. Hernandez, who Arellano credits as "the man who made my career" with a big profile in the Los Angeles Times, writes on his blog that the book will be "about the underground, basically -- youth and subcultures."
OC Weekly |
09-14-2007 8:47 am |
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Deloitte Study: Two-Thirds of U.S. Adults Pay More to Attention Ads in Print Than Webnew
eMarketer |
09-14-2007 10:47 am |
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How to Score Traffic, Ranking, Optimization Without Linksnew
SEOish |
09-14-2007 10:39 am |
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