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East Bay Express Reveals Unnamed Ownersnew
Since being purchased from Village Voice Media by a consortium of investors in May, the newly independent alt-weekly has been called on to name every person with ownership interests in the paper. Originally, the Express named only Pitch Weekly founder Hal Brody, Express editor Stephen Buel, Express co-founder Kelly Vance, and Monterey County Weekly CEO Bradley Zeve. Yesterday, the paper wrote on its blog, "Lest anyone assume that we are hiding anything related to the identity of our other colleagues, we are happy to formally introduce all our investors." The remaining investors: Gary Jenkins, founding partner of Kansas City-based Punch Software; Paul Ung, Oakland resident and spokesman for the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia; Rick Watkins, president of the Kansas City real estate firm Watkins & Company; and Jay Youngdahl, a Cambridge-based managing partner of The Youngdahl Law Firm.
East Bay Express |
06-28-2007 8:51 am |
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Tags: Management, East Bay Express
The Riverfront Times 'Should Not Be in a Public Place,' Man Saysnew
"My son is almost an Eagle Scout and I took him to the library so he could do some research on birds," 60-year-old Richard Greathouse says. While at the library, he picked up a copy of the St. Louis alt-weekly, and didn't like what he saw. "They use the 'F' word in there ... They have a gal here who is naked with two hearts on the front advertising DVDs for $2.95," he says. "I'm trying to raise my children as Christians and they've got a lot of Christian people that go to that library." But despite Greathouse's complaint to the library's director, the Riverfront Times isn't going anywhere. "If we took everything out of the library that was not suitable for children or teenagers we would have a very small collection and we would have a lot of patrons very upset," library director Pam Klipsch says. The paper's editor, Tom Finkel, says he respects Greathouse's freedom of speech to criticize the paper, and wishes he'd respect theirs. "It's kind of ironic that in a country where we can say what we want, someone would want to muzzle a voice because he thinks it doesn't conform to what he thinks a proper publication is," Finkel says.
Jefferson County Journal |
06-27-2007 8:54 am |
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¡Ask a Mexican! Author Talks Books, Mexicansnew
Gustavo Arellano tells the New York Times that his dream is to host an hour-long radio program about The Simpsons. The Times also reports that OC Weekly writer's second book, which will be part memoir and part Orange County history, is forthcoming. (His first was a collection of ¡Ask a Mexican! columns.) For the two-book deal, he received an advance in "the mid-six figures," which he used to buy a decidedly un-Mexican automobile, a 1974 Cadillac convertible. "The Mexican thing would be to buy a humongous truck," he says.
The New York Times |
06-26-2007 12:25 pm |
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Study: Social Networking Sites Reflect U.S. Class Dividenew
BBC News |
06-26-2007 2:21 pm |
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E.W. Scripps Company Buys Knoxville Alt-Weeklynew
The Knoxville News Sentinel Media Group, a division of Scripps, has purchased AAN member Metro Pulse, the News Sentinel reports. "Metro Pulse will keep their editorial and advertising independence. At some point in the future, we will be printing our new weekly product," News Sentinel publisher Bruce Hartmann says in a memo. "Brian Conley will remain as the publisher of Metro Pulse but will only be involved in the editorial direction of the paper."
Knoxville News Sentinel |
06-25-2007 12:46 pm |
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Worcester Magazine Publisher is Cha-Cha Kingnew
At the Worcester's Stars dance benefit for Centro Las Americas held Saturday night, Allen Fletcher won the cha-cha category, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette reports. Fletcher beat out Police Sgt. Miguel Lopez and Worcester County Food Bank executive director Jean McMurray. The benefit, which took its format from the TV show Dancing With The Stars, paired local celebs with dance instructors, and gave the team a few weeks to get ready for the competition.
Worcester Telegram & Gazette |
06-25-2007 9:10 am |
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Report: Online Ad Networks Used to Infect Computersnew
ClickZ News |
06-25-2007 9:25 am |
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Hyundai Woos Younger Demo with Mobile Campaignnew
ClickZ News |
06-25-2007 9:22 am |
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Yahoo Merging Web Search and Display Advertising Operationsnew
BBC News |
06-25-2007 9:14 am |
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Cigarette Advertising is Dwindlingnew
Advertising Age |
06-25-2007 9:07 am |
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Tags: Retail Advertising
Free Commuter Daily Integrates Blogger Tools & Payment Servicenew
The worldwide free daily publisher Metro launched this week a new service that automatically puts qualified bloggers on the company's payroll, integrating blog-creation tools with a complete solution for commission payments for the first time, Editor & Publisher reports. So far the arrangement is only up and running in Sweden. When bloggers achieve the requisite numbers of page views per month, a bank account is automatically created and a MasterCard sent to the author. The best blog posts can then be selected for publishing in the nationwide Metro Sweden paper and its corresponding website.
Editor & Publisher |
06-22-2007 4:38 pm |
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Time Calls Alt-Weekly Cartoon on Gonzales 'Sick'new
This week's "Big Fat Whale" strip by Brian McFadden shows Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Nancy Pelosi using a meat tenderizer to get rid of "the tenacious stain on the Justice Department," US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, killing him in the process. Writing on Time's Real Clear Politics blog, Tom Bevan gives his short opinion of McFadden's work: "This cartoon ... is not only unfunny, it's sick."
Time |
06-22-2007 12:10 pm |
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Liquor Companies Dedicating More Ad Dollars to Webnew
New York Times |
06-22-2007 3:22 pm |
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Tags: Retail Advertising
Ads May Pick Up As Consumer Spending Increases in Junenew
Editor & Publisher |
06-22-2007 3:18 pm |
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CareerBuilder CEO: Free Classifieds Don't Impact Our Businessnew
Yesterday at the Newspaper Association of America's Mid-Year Review, Matt Ferguson said he doesn't consider Craigslist and other sites with free employment classifieds to be much of a competitive threat. "The problem with free is that you don't invest in the technology, you don't invest in the customer service, you don't invest in the sales people. You don't invest in the things that are the differentiators in this business," he said. "I don't think there's a free model in the future."
paidContent.org |
06-21-2007 3:29 pm |
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