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2007 Village Voice Obie Award Winners Announcednew

Broadway World  |  05-22-2007  10:43 am  |  Industry News

San Francisco Bay Guardian's Ad Director Heads Across the Baynew

In the wake of Village Voice Media's sale of the East Bay Express, the Bay Guardian reports that Jody Colley is leaving to join the newly independent paper as its publisher. Colley previously worked in ad sales at Pitch Weekly when that Kansas City paper was owned by Hal Brody, one of the principal investors in the new Express.
San Francisco Bay Guardian  |  05-21-2007  12:52 pm  |  Industry News

Macy's Promises More Print Advertisingnew

AP via Editor & Publisher  |  05-21-2007  10:01 am  |  Industry News

Will Newspapers Share in the 2008 Election Ad Bonanza?new

Editor & Publisher  |  05-21-2007  9:29 am  |  Industry News

New East Bay Express Owner On the Changes to Comenew

Stephen Buel, co-owner and editor of the newly independent Express, tells the San Francisco Chronicle that he will aim for a "better mix" of story lengths and more community and government meeting coverage, and will bring back calendar listings and staff-generated movie reviews. The paper will also be redesigned, in print and online. "Readers won't see the changes next week," Buel said. "But in six or so months, they can decide whether they like them or not."
San Francisco Chronicle  |  05-18-2007  1:27 pm  |  Industry News

Ted Rall's Site Among Those Monitored by Cops Prior to 2004 RNCnew

On Wednesday, the New York Police Department released documents relating to what the New York Times calls the department's "extensive and secretive surveillance" leading up to 2004's Republican National Convention. Among the documents was a Nov. 13, 2003 dossier (PDF file) that said "activists are talking, some with barely hidden glee, about the possibility of violence" on the syndicated cartoonist's site. Saying it is a "compliment I don't deserve," Rall takes issue with the NYPD's short bio that calls him "a nationally known activist figure." He writes: "I'm no activist ... many of my friends are activists, and I admire them for it. Next to them, I'm a mere lump on a log who opines on current events from behind my computer and drafting table."
The New York Times  |  05-18-2007  12:49 pm  |  Industry News

Las Vegas Weekly Art Director Talks Shopnew

On Trade Secrets, a resource blog for illustrators, Benjamen Purvis talks about his production process, what he looks for in illustrators and how he finds and chooses them. "I know they can be expensive to produce and distribute, but really, the illustrator's work is more likely going to jump out at me when I look at their post card on my wall than it would in an all-text email with a hyperlink," he says.
Trade Secrets  |  05-18-2007  8:44 am  |  Industry News

Atlanta's Creative Loafing Celebrates 35th Anniversarynew

Creative Loafing (Atlanta)  |  05-18-2007  4:27 pm  |  Industry News

CVS Stops Carrying Alt-Weekly; Protests & Arrests Ensuenew

When CVS took over Osco Drug in Milwaukee, the Shepherd Express was told to remove its news racks from the stores. Since then, free-lance journalist Jeff White has been standing vigil in protest outside one of the stores for about 20 hours a week. Last week, White and a man he was chatting with were arrested after a CVS manager called the cops to complain. Shepherd publisher Louis Fortis says he's called the company's headquarters to determine why they stopped carrying the paper, but hasn't received a response. But he says he's heard that a customer complained about the paper's criticism of President Bush and the Iraq War. "CVS has every right to not carry the Shepherd, but I don't believe that the top management at CVS would want to politicize their retail stores," Fortis says. "It would be a shame if CVS became a pharmacy that only catered to conservative Republicans."
Shepherd Express  |  05-17-2007  2:01 pm  |  Industry News

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