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Seven Days Redesigns Print Product, Goes With 'Short Tab' Formatnew
"This new, magazine-style iteration is the result of planning that predates the current recession," the paper says in a quick intro to the new design. The new format will be smaller, not folded and has the ability to have color on any page. The paper says that as a result of the switch, they are also saving a little money, which has allowed them to hire a third full-time staff writer. Seven Days also put together the video below to help explain the changes.
Seven Days |
10-09-2009 1:31 pm |
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Ex-Nashville Scene Editor Returns as SouthComm's Interim Exec. Editornew
Liz Garrigan, who had recently been helping the Scene out as a freelance contributing editor, will become the interim executive editor for SouthComm's three main Nashville publications: The Scene, The City Paper and NashvillePost.com. SouthComm CEO Chris Ferrell, who bought the alt-weekly from Village Voice Media in August, describes Garrigan's new job as "a temporary stint of a few months' duration," during which time she will be responsible for "develop[ing] a more smoothly functioning, integrated organization" in regards to converged editorial operations. The Tennessean reports that the integration has already begun, with SouthComm merging the City Paper's Thursday print edition with the Scene. (The City Paper still publishes a print edition on Monday.)
Nashville Scene |
10-09-2009 9:40 am |
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Report: Local Online Ad Revenue Will Rise 12 Percent in '09new
A new outlook report from Borrell Associates finds that local online ad revenue will continue to rise for the next few years. However, the report warns of a pending slowdown. After a projected 12 percent rise this year, Borrell forecasts only a 5 percent increase in 2010, and predicts that revenue will peak in 2013, at $16.4 billion.
Editor & Publisher |
10-09-2009 9:08 am |
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Mobile Advertising Becoming Line Item In Brand Media Buysnew
Online Media Daily |
10-09-2009 1:38 pm |
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After Six-Year Hiatus, Isthmus' 'Band-to-Band Combat' Contest is Backnew
Isthmus |
10-09-2009 9:16 am |
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Alt-Cartoonists Sound Off About the Changing Industrynew
"This art form that I fell in love with 20 years ago is on its hospital bed," Dan Perkins, aka Tom Tomorrow, tells Extra! in a piece on how the alt-weekly industry's struggles have affected alt-cartoonists. Other prominent cartoonists, like Lloyd Dangle, Jen Sorensen and Alison Bechdel, weigh in on losing clients, the digital transformation and what comes next. "We're a little like op-ed columnists; people wouldn't expect someone like Paul Krugman to sell T-shirts to survive and pay for his column," Sorensen says. "The idea that content should be free is definitely threatening our entire genre." MORE CARTOONING NEWS: Perkins talks to the New Haven Advocate about his new book, Pearl Jam and the "not so bright" future of his craft.
Extra! |
10-08-2009 2:12 pm |
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Applications for Westword Pot Critic Gig 'Continue to Pour In'new
In its quest to find a medical marijuana dispensary reviewer, the Denver alt-weekly is asking would-be critics to write a brief essay on "What Marijuana Means to Me." Editor Patricia Calhoun says that the national media attention has brought in quite a few applications -- "some silly, some actually spelled correctly (many potheads don't seem to care for punctuation), some very sincere."
Westword |
10-08-2009 11:17 am |
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Baltimore City Paper Launches 'Baltimanual' City Guidenew
"It is nice to have all the restaurants and attractions and souvenir shops down by the harbor," the intro to the paper's city guide reads. "But Baltimore is so much more, and knowing that -- and wanting to share that information with future visitors -- inspired the staff of City Paper, Baltimore's Free Alternative Weekly, to create this guide to our city." The "Baltimanual" is both a print product and a microsite that will be constantly updated with new content.
Baltimore City Paper |
10-08-2009 10:30 am |
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Coalition Settles Suit With Cincinnati CityBeatnew
The city of Cincinnati and a coalition of local religious and nonprofit leaders led by Citizens for Community Values (CCV) have settled a federal lawsuit filed last year by CityBeat after the groups and law enforcement leaders had publicly asked the paper to stop publishing adult-oriented classified ads. "After a long year of fighting for our First Amendment right to publish CityBeat without government interference, I'm pleased and gratified to wrap up the legal proceedings on such a positive note," co-publisher and editor John Fox writes. While he admits that fighting the suit was "distracting at times," Fox says there was a principle to uphold. "I remain convinced that standing up to the CCV coalition's threats and intimidation was the right thing to do," he writes. "After all, the only reason bullies do what they do is because they think they can get away with it."
Cincinnati CityBeat |
10-07-2009 3:09 pm |
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Lawyer Says Alt-Weekly Story Led to His Congressional Runnew
Tyler Gernant, who is running as a Democrat in the 2010 race for Montana's lone seat in the House of Represenatives, tells the Havre Daily News that a 2008 Missoula Independent story on incumbent Republican Congressman Denny Rehberg led to his decision to run for office.
Havre Daily News |
10-07-2009 2:08 pm |
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Tags: Management, Missoula Independent
Boise Weekly Unveils Redesigned Print Productnew
"The project has been both the most benign undertaking of the year and the most important," Weekly editor Rachael Daigle writes, "as an industrywide slump forced staffing changes while we simultaneously rolled out a new website, inaugurated first-ever supplements, and then radically changed Best of Boise." She says "the new design represents a maturity" in the nearly-18-year-old alt-weekly.
Boise Weekly |
10-07-2009 10:34 am |
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Seattle Weekly's Mayoral Debate Helps Candidates Reach New Audiencenew
At a debate held in a local bar over the weekend, Seattle mayoral candidates Mike McGinn and Joe Mallahan were given one minute to answer each question, with the option of being granted a time extension ... if they took a shot of whiskey. Weekly managing editor and debate co-moderator Mike Seely tells KING 5 News that the forum was designed to get the candidates to show off their personalities instead of relying on the usual sound bites, and also to bring the race to a new audience. "We figure we had a captive audience that had about no interest in politics, and we figured we'd force feed them politics," Seely says.
KING 5 News |
10-07-2009 10:07 am |
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Gawker Offering $1,000 for Recent Photos of Nikki Finkenew
Gawker |
10-07-2009 10:16 am |
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Tags: Nikki Finke
Book Critic: AltWeeklies.com is Part of a 'River of Critical Energy' Onlinenew
"Sales may be flat, bookstores may be struggling and book sections may be dying, but the critical conversation about books continues to be robust, intelligent and adventurous," former San Francisco Chronicle book critic Patricia Holt writes on Huffington Post. She points to six websites as proof, including AltWeeklies.com, of which she writes: "If you're weary of the received wisdom of official book review sites ... here is a treasury of refreshing and often unpredictable takes from alternative weeklies all over the country."
Huffington Post |
10-06-2009 3:01 pm |
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Westword Editor: Pot Critic Story is 'Very Serious'new
"It's funny how the national media has jumped all over this," Patricia Calhoun writes of the attention being given to the paper's quest to hire a freelance critic to review medical marijuana dispensaries. But while most outlets have taken a "light, fun" tone to the story, she says the issue is serious business in Colorado. "There's one aspect of our search for a reviewer that's not funny: How very, very important easy access to quality medical marijuana is for so many people," Calhoun writes.
Westword |
10-06-2009 2:43 pm |
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