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Social Networking as Job Recruiting Toolnew
Fast Company |
08-10-2007 10:06 am |
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Tags: Classified Advertising
comScore: Shoppers Research Online, Buy Locally; Rely on Yellow Pagesnew
MarketingVox |
08-10-2007 9:49 am |
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Tags: Marketing, Retail Advertising
Is Gannett Girding for a Sale?new
Wall Street Journal |
08-10-2007 9:42 am |
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Tags: Management
Metro Times Gets Awkward Shout-out from Jay Leno
The Detroit alt-weekly appeared in The Tonight Show's famous "Headlines" segment this week -- not for an egregious typo or funny double entendre, but for hot primate-on-primate action. The Carl Oxley illustration on the cover of the paper's summer guide featured a variety of monkeys enjoying summertime in their own ways -- grilling, picnicking, sunbathing, and, yes, having sex behind a bush. If only Leno or his staff had done a little more research, perhaps this alt-weekly cover copulation wouldn't have been so shocking. Instead, the show found it funny because, as Leno says, "I guess it's a thing for kids."
NBC via YouTube |
08-09-2007 11:17 am |
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Chicago Reader Ends Suburban Editionnew
Publisher Mike Crystal tells Crain's that as part of its redesign plans, the paper will distribute just one edition to both the city and suburbs starting this week. The suburban edition -- a smaller version of the paper called the Reader's Guide to Arts & Entertainment -- was launched in 1996. Crystal says the decision is part of the switch to a tabloid format (scheduled for the first week of October), and it likely would have happened with or without the paper's recent ownership change. The Reader's new circulation total of 135,000 will be the same as the combined circulation was for the two editions, but the paper is calling it a 15 percent increase in circulation for the main product and is raising ad rates six to seven percent, Crain's reports.
Crain's Chicago Business |
08-09-2007 8:34 am |
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Study: Online Video Quality Impacts Audience Retention, Revenuenew
Marketing Charts |
08-09-2007 10:16 am |
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Realogy and craigslist Execs on the Future of Real Estate Marketing (video)new
Inman Real Estate News |
08-09-2007 10:04 am |
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Los Angeles CityBeat Signs On as Sponsor of the L.A. Erotica Film Festnew
XBiz |
08-09-2007 8:37 am |
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Alt-Weekly Writer On His Run-ins With the Yusef Bey Familynew
As we reported yesterday, the group behind the killing of Oakland Post journalist Chauncey Bailey waged a campaign of intimidation against then-East Bay Express writer Chris Thompson after he wrote a series critical of the group. Thompson, now with the Village Voice, recounts his experience being stalked by the group's followers. They tried to follow him home, so he'd have different colleagues drive him so they wouldn't recognize the cars, he writes. They repeatedly called him with greetings like "Mr. Thompson, I just want to say that your days are numbered," and "You fucked up for the last time, and your time is up." The death threats -- and the lack of response to his complaints by the Oakland Police Department -- forced him out of the Bay Area. "I spent several months out in the countryside of Northern California, reporting and writing my Metro column from an old hunting lodge ... [until] the goons got bored with hunting for me, and I slowly returned to the office full-time. Chauncey Bailey wasn't so lucky, but he fought the good fight against bad men."
The Village Voice |
08-08-2007 11:40 am |
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Tags: East Bay Express, Chris Thompson
Restaurant Franchise Removes Alt-Weekly from Stores ... for a Momentnew
In June, North Carolina's Independent Weekly released an issue featuring a transgendered individual on the cover, which ultimately caused the paper to be pulled from some Raleigh-Durham area Mellow Mushroom pizza restaurants. "The picture on the front cover ... was eye level of children in our waiting area," the local franchise owner explained to the Bull City Rising blog. "We have carried the Indy for so long I forgot it was there until a soccer mom complained about it. After a few more comments/complaints we removed them." Local bloggers publicized the decision and blog commenters vowed to boycott the restaurant and placed calls to the owner, and eventually the Mellow Mushrooms reversed course. "I absolutely regret the decision to remove the Indy from the restaurants," he wrote in a comment on Bull City Rising yesterday. "On Monday I was in contact with the Indy to bring it back to our stores. They want to bring it back as well and it will be there any day. The last thing we intended to do was discriminate against anyone."
Bull City Rising blog |
08-08-2007 8:56 am |
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Google to Dive Into Mobile Market with GPhonenew
Adotas |
08-08-2007 3:46 pm |
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NOW Applauds New York Press' Decision to Drop Adult Adsnew
New owners Manhattan Media told the New York Observer last week that the Press would no longer accept "explicit" advertising, and the decision is being praised by the local chapter of the National Organization for Women, the New York Times reports. "[Manhattan Media CEO] Tom Allon is a trailblazer," Sonia Ossorio, president of NOW in New York City, says in a press release. "He sees the future of the newsprint business, and that future isn't reliant on the fast, cheap money of the prostitution industry." Believing that adult ads foster human trafficking, NOW's New York City chapter is asking publications to stop running the ads and sign an antitrafficking pledge called "Trafficking Free, NYC!" (Manhattan Media has signed on). The Times says the Village Voice hadn't yet returned calls for comment on the pledge.
The New York Times |
08-07-2007 12:39 pm |
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Group Behind Journalist's Murder Threatened Alt-Weekly Reporternew
Last week, a 19-year-old follower of the
Yusuf Bey family shot and killed Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey, who was working on an investigation of the group and its headquarters, Your Black Muslim Bakery. Fortunately, former East Bay Express reporter Chris Thompson's run-in with the group didn't end so grimly. In 2002, the Express published Thompson's investigative series alleging acts of torture, rape, and sodomy perpetrated by the group. After the stories were published, the retaliation began. "Someone smashed up the windows of [the Express'] offices, and Thompson received numerous death threats," according to the Village Voice, where he's currently a staff writer. "Men repeatedly tried to follow Thompson home, or staked out routes he took leaving the office." Express editor Stephen Buel tells the San Francisco Chronicle that the intimidation campaign forced Thompson to work in a different county for months, and shook the paper to the point that "we stopped writing about the group."
Village Voice |
08-07-2007 8:24 am |
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Google Hiring Contractors to Work Local Businessesnew
gSpy |
08-07-2007 10:31 am |
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European Ticket Broker Viagogo Invades U.S. Marketnew
TechCrunch |
08-07-2007 9:48 am |
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