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Alt-Weekly Story Cited in Federal Immigration Raidnew
Last month, Willamette Week ran a cover story on the working conditions of illegal immigrants employed at the Del Monte Fresh Produce food processing plant in North Portland. Last week, federal agents working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided the plant and arrested 167 undocumented workers. ICE's affadavit (pdf file) cites and quotes from the Week's story, but also notes that "there are no indications that there was an ICE leak" that tipped the paper off. In other words, the ICE raid was already in the works. In an update this week, reporter Beth Slovic writes that the response to the piece before and after the raid has been interesting. "Before the raid, readers who already sympathized with illegal immigrant workers largely praised the May 2 story for describing working conditions at the plant. Unsympathetic readers saw it as a weak-kneed defense of law breakers," she writes. "The raid flipped those responses, prompting some readers to fault the story for naming the plant and others to praise it for apparently aiding agents in their bust."
Willamette Week |
06-21-2007 11:22 am |
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Tags: Editorial, Willamette Week
Google Launches Performance-Based System For Qualified Ad Buyersnew
ClickZ News |
06-21-2007 11:24 am |
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Tribal Fusion Parent Exponential Launches Free Ad Servernew
ClickZ News |
06-21-2007 10:14 am |
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Worcester Magazine Editor Heads to Boston Globe Publicationnew
Michael Warshaw, who was editor for five years, announced yesterday that he's leaving to become editor of Globe West, the Boston Globe's twice-weekly suburban paper, according to the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. "He's great," Worcester Magazine publisher Allen Fletcher says. "He's a real pro who knows the city and has been a solid part of our team for a while."
Worcester Telegram & Gazette |
06-20-2007 7:59 am |
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Economist Expects U.S. Home Prices to Fall 10 Percentnew
Inman Real Estate News |
06-20-2007 11:52 am |
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Tags: Classified Advertising
The Landline-less Are Different and Their Numbers Are Growing Fastnew
Pew Research Center |
06-20-2007 11:48 am |
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Tags: Management, Marketing
At NAA, Daily Execs Tout New Media As Print Strugglesnew
paidContent.org |
06-20-2007 11:44 am |
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Tags: Management
Upstart Websites Aim to Consolidate Social Networkingnew
Advertising Age |
06-19-2007 9:36 am |
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Tags: Marketing, Retail Advertising
Restaurant Reservations Go Onlinenew
New York Times |
06-19-2007 9:29 am |
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Tags: Retail Advertising
'Green' Advertising has Galvanized the Marketing Communitynew
New York Times |
06-19-2007 9:27 am |
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Tags: Marketing, Retail Advertising
81 Percent of Daily Newspaper Web Users Also Read Print Editionnew
Editor & Publisher |
06-19-2007 9:23 am |
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'Secret Asian Man' Gets Syndicatednew
The comic strip by Weekly Dig art director Tak Toyoshima has been picked up by the United Feature Syndicate and will become a daily feature in papers nationwide, Editor & Publisher reports. "Thanks to all of you who have been supporting the strip for years and to those who criticize me, disagree with me and tell me I'm a moron," Toyoshima says on his site.
Editor & Publisher |
06-13-2007 11:15 am |
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Portland Mercury Organizes 'Civic Clean-Up Squad'new
The Mercury caused quite a stir when they organized a freelance janitorial crew Friday evening to put an end to a Rose Parade tradition: the "reserved" seat. In the City of Roses, people tape off sidewalk spots up to a week in advance of the annual parade, and, according to KOIN-TV, some were even selling their spaces on Craigslist. "If you go to the DMV or the bank, you don't get to tape your spot off in advance and then come back the next day," the Mercury's Matt Davis explains. "It's ridiculous." But as a local TV news reporter says, some folks "really don't care for the idea of messing with tradition." One inexplicably frightened bystander tells KATU-TV that the Merc's peaceful group of tape-and-chalk exterminators had her a little rattled: "It is quite interesting; kind of scary. I was worried for a second what might happen."
Portland Mercury |
06-12-2007 11:40 am |
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ID-Theft Entrepreneur Investigated by Phoenix New Times Resignsnew
Last week, we reported that New Times had exposed the co-founder of LifeLock, a company that offers to protect people from identity theft, as a suspected identity thief. Today, Wired reports that Robert Maynard, Jr. has resigned from the company. Maynard now plans to launch a marketing company, according to Wired.
Wired |
06-11-2007 3:48 pm |
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Gay Press Ads Growing Three Times Faster Than Consumer Magsnew
Editor & Publisher |
06-11-2007 3:14 pm |
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Tags: Marketing, Retail Advertising
