AAN News
Toyota to Introduce Lower-Priced Priusnew
LA Times |
08-01-2007 1:22 pm |
Industry News
Former LA Weekly Publisher Options Film Rights to Harper's Exposenew
Ken Silverstein's undercover story focused on Washington lobbyists who represent oppressive foreign governments. Michael Sigman hopes to bring it to the silver screen, according to Variety Magazine's Wilshire and Washington. Silverstein posed as an executive for an energy firm interested in exploiting natural gas reserves in Turkmenistan, which is led by a dictatorial regime. Several K Street firms pitched their services and described how they would spin U.S. officials and journalists to promote favorable policies and news coverage for the Turkmen regime. "It's bad enough to be a lobbyist for the tobacco industry, but some of these guys are mass murderers," Sigman tells Variety.
Wilshire and Washington |
07-31-2007 11:03 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management
FedEx First to Run Long-Form Video Ads at NYTimes.comnew
ClickZ News |
07-31-2007 6:03 pm |
Industry News
Will Real Estate Ads Return to Newspapers After Housing Slump?new
It's an open question, reports Associated Press, after talking to several real estate executives who say they are moving more of their advertising online. "For our agents, newspapers are an old standby," says Abby Lee, director of regional advertising for a major real estate franchisor. "With younger agents, there’s a trend of going online. There’s a realization that’s where they need to be." Newspaper publishers need to move more aggressively to hold on to real estate advertising, argues Charlie Diederich, the director of marketing and advertising at the Newspaper Association of America. "We’ve got to improve both our print but especially our online products ... so consumers will continue to come to us first so we can deliver that audience to the professional realtor," Diederich tells AP.
AP via Editor & Publisher |
07-30-2007 3:45 pm |
Industry News
Former Editor Returns to Take Reins at Metro Pulsenew
Coury Turczyn, who was a "principal editor" of the Knoxville alt-weekly for most of its first nine years before he left in 2000, will return to the paper on Aug. 13 as editor-in-chief, according to an editorial posted on the Metro Pulse website. "More than any other individual, he shaped the paper's appealingly snotty personality and irreverent course," reports the anonymous editorialist. After living in several different states, Turczyn returned to Knoxville in 2005 to serve as an editor for E.W. Scripp's HGTV website. Scripps, which also owns the daily paper in Knoxville, acquired Metro Pulse late last month. Current editor Leslie Wylie announced two months ago that she would be leaving the paper to become a professional competitive equestrian.
Metro Pulse |
07-30-2007 3:16 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Metro Pulse
Reader Editor Says CL Acquisition Not a Sad Day for Chicago
In a staff message sent Friday, Alison True admits there "are reasons
to be distressed by a change this big," but claims there are also "reasons to be optimistic" about the sale to Creative Loafing, including the new owners' pledge to maintain editorial independence and enhance the paper's business operations. MORE FROM CHICAGO: In an anonymous post on a Reader blog, a recently hired salesperson remembers why s/he took a large pay cut to take a job at the paper: "I did it because I love the Reader, and I have loved it since I was 15 years old sneaking away from the burbs and into the city searching for the comforting yellow newspaper dispenser. ... I wanted to be around people that keenly observed the world and cared about the people living in it, the people other than themselves with stories to tell. And I found that. Here at the Chicago Reader."
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Alison True |
07-30-2007 2:11 pm |
Industry News
Opera Inspired by Alt-Weekly Cartoon Hits Comic-Connew
This weekend marks the first performances of Shannon Wheeler's "Too Much Coffee Man Opera" outside of his hometown of Portland, Ore., where it premiered last year. Wheeler, who received an honorable mention in this year's AltWeekly Awards, says after being prodded to turn his comic strip into a opera by a friend, it was a dream in which a character sang an aria that sealed the deal. "I woke up and thought, Why am I fighting this?," he tells the San Diego Union-Tribune. "It's an opportunity to learn new things." Thus far, response to the opera has been overwhelmingly positive, and Wheeler is already planning an as-yet-untitled sequel to hit the stage next year in Portland.
San Diego Union-Tribune |
07-27-2007 8:20 am |
Industry News
MovieTickets.com to Pitch Local Restaurants on Mobile Adsnew
ClickZ News |
07-27-2007 10:34 am |
Industry News
Housing Market Struggles Expected to Persist All Yearnew
New York Times |
07-27-2007 10:25 am |
Industry News
Tags: Classified Advertising
Verizon Consolidates Local Marketing Dutiesnew
Advertising Age |
07-27-2007 10:23 am |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising
Who Will the New Creative Loafing Turn to For National Ads?new
CEO Ben Eason tells Editor & Publisher he's not sure if the now-six paper chain will continue to use the Alternative Weekly Network (AWN) for national ad sales or switch over to the competing Ruxton Group, which currently handles ad sales for the Chicago Reader and Washington City Paper. "We have been longtime AWN folks," he says. Ruxton, which was founded by the Reader, is now owned by Village Voice Media. Eason says figuring this out is one of his top priorities. He also tells E&P that strength in the national ad market is a key aspect of this week's deal. "Now with Chicago and D.C., all of the sudden you have enough critical mass and it becomes a go-to place for ad agencies on Madison Avenue," he says.
Editor & Publisher |
07-26-2007 12:22 pm |
Industry News
Creative Loafing CEO Meets With Chicago Reader Staffnew
The Reader's Michael Miner reports that Ben Eason didn't focus on editorial matters in Wednesday's meeting, but rather on "web opportunities, regaining ground lost to Craiglist in classified advertising, and the efficiencies of centralizing the design work in Atlanta," a change Miner notes "is likely to cost a dozen or so Reader employees their jobs." After the meeting, when Miner asked Eason about editorial, he said "it's everything" -- but Miner isn't so sure that's Creative Loafing's approach. He thinks the Creative Loafing papers' design "doesn't respect the stories it ought to serve. If the centralized design staff makes this the look of the Reader ... I think readers will judge it as antithetical to what they've understood the Reader to be." According to Miner, Creative Loafing will turn the Reader into a one-section tabloid, a change the old owners were also planning.
Chicago Reader |
07-26-2007 11:01 am |
Industry News
Print Help-Wanted Index Tumbles to 49-Year Lownew
Editor & Publisher |
07-26-2007 4:30 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Classified Advertising
ComScore Refines Web Metrics Systemnew
Financial Times |
07-26-2007 12:30 pm |
Industry News
Analyst: NYT is 'Adjusting to the Reality of an Accelerating, Secular Decline in Print'new
New York Times |
07-26-2007 10:08 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management
