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E&P: What Makes a Paper 'Alternative' These Days, Anyway?new
Editor & Publisher |
08-21-2007 2:42 pm |
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Tags: Management
New Print Council Website Touts Value of Print Advertisingnew
Editor & Publisher |
08-21-2007 2:16 pm |
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The Future of MLSnew
Inman Real Estate News |
08-21-2007 9:28 am |
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Tags: Classified Advertising
Weekly Dig Reveals Author Faked 'Oprah' Visit in Promo Materialsnew
A few weeks back, the Dig noted that Provincetown author Bill Schneider's claims of being on Oprah and of his book being selected for the media maven's book club seemed odd, since his novelette hadn't achieved any of the fame usually associated with the big O. Turns out the paper was right -- last week Schneider admitted he'd lied about Oprah, calling it "an error in judgment." Quite a difference from just weeks ago, when he was extolling the virtues of what the show can do for an author to the Dig. "Your whole life changes after Oprah," he said.
Boston's Weekly Dig |
08-20-2007 2:50 pm |
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Business Organization Pulls North Coast Journal Over Pot Covernew
The Arcata (Calif.) Mainstreet (AMS) has pulled all copies of last week's North Coast Journal from its periodical room and many of the businesses that belong to AMS have followed suit, the Arcata Eye reports. The paper was pulled for one week due to "the connection it made between very, very real needs of students and pot" in its back-to-school issue, says Taffy Stockton, AMS executive director. (The cover's subhead reads "Your student guide to housing, transit, surfing and weed.") Not everyone in town agrees with the position of AMS, though. A Humboldt State University public affairs officer tells the Eye that the university had no intention of removing any Journals from campus. "That would be Stalinist," Paul Mann says. North Coast Journal editor Hank Sims adds that banning his paper won't do much to reverse the cultural association of Humboldt County and pot. "Sorry, but that's what it's known for around the world," he says. "You can't close your eyes and make it go away." He added: "Humboldt County has a very high percentage of people who are pot smokers or are simply interested in the issue and we want those people as our readers."
The Arcata Eye |
08-20-2007 8:27 am |
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Forrester: Traditional Web Advertising Failing on Social Networksnew
vnunet.com |
08-20-2007 11:14 am |
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Are Search Ads a Waste of Money?new
Adweek |
08-20-2007 9:20 am |
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Cartoonist Emily Flake Turns Alt-Weekly Feature into Booknew
Last year, the creator of the comic strip "Lulu Eightball" did a comics feature for Baltimore City Paper about her her love/hate relationship with cigarettes, which is now been adapted into book form. These Things Ain't Gonna Smoke Themselves: A Love/Hate/Love/Hate/Love Letter to a Very Bad Habit was released by Bloomsbury this month. In a conversation with Philadelphia City Paper, Flake says she's once again a smoker, and that it took her "a great many cigarettes" to write the book. She also offers sage advice to anyone trying to get someone else to quit smoking: "Refuse to kiss them on the mouth. While you're fucking them."
Philadelphia City Paper |
08-17-2007 11:45 am |
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Style Weekly Editor Wins 48 Hour Film Projectnew
Arts and culture editor Brandon Reynolds was part of a 44-person filmmaking team that produced an eight-minute short film, "Decisive Moment," in only 48 hours. The film won audience favorite, first prize, and a number of other awards in Richmond's competition, and will now compete with the other 59 cities for the international title.
Style Weekly |
08-17-2007 8:42 am |
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Readers Appreciate Humorous Web Advertisingnew
New York Times |
08-17-2007 11:41 am |
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Study Tracks Huge Growth in Drug Advertisingnew
Reuters via MSNBC |
08-17-2007 9:45 am |
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Tags: Retail Advertising
Ad Share Shift: Google Sucks Life Out of Old Medianew
Silicon Valley Insider |
08-17-2007 9:43 am |
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The Stranger Redesigns, Creates Public Internnew
"We held many discussions during our redesign process -- a fresher, more confusing Stranger hits the streets today -- about how we could better serve the public," editor Dan Savage writes. Somewhere along the way the paper came up with the idea of creating a new position: the public intern. "Just as the public editor works on behalf of readers, the public intern interns on behalf of readers. Steven [Blum] is your intern, Seattle, he works for you." His first assignment? Cleaning a Seattle bus. "I expected that the bus driver would kick me off at some point -- in my head my first report was going to end with an angry bus driver marching me down the aisle," Blum writes. "I'd already planned my passive aggressive response: 'People can shit their pants on the bus but I can't 409 the floor?'"
The Stranger |
08-16-2007 9:48 am |
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Why are Municipal Wi-Fi Initiatives Floundering?new
BusinessWeek |
08-16-2007 9:53 am |
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Tags: Electronic Publishing, Management
Charleston, S.C., Daily Embarks on Distribution Schemenew
Evening Post Publishing, parent of the daily Post and Courier, has offered cash to at least 50 local retailers and restaurants to replace the various newspaper racks in their establishments with single multi-publication boxes, Charleston City Paper reports. The Evening Post would then turn around and charge the city's free publications for space in the new boxes. City Paper publisher Noel Mermer says the alt-weekly will not be involved in this distribution "partnership." "The City Paper cannot and will not pay the Post and Courier for the relationship that we have built with local businesses over the years," Mermer says. The situation in Charleston is similar to ones increasingly faced by alt-weeklies in other markets, such as Jackson, Miss., where the Jackson Free Press and the publishers of other publications developed the Mississippi Independent Publisher's Alliance and distributed their own consolidated boxes.
Charleston City Paper |
08-15-2007 2:07 pm |
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