AAN News
How Indies Beat MSM on Mortgage-Crisis Storynew
"Independents were repeatedly ahead of the curve on covering the mortgage and real estate bubble and in connecting the dots between vital elements of the bigger story," former City Limits editor Alyssa Katz writes on CJR.org. So how did indie magazines and alt-weeklies do it? Katz offers three main reasons: The reporting focused on "the real-world impacts of business practices" and was based "out in the real world," while reporters were "free (and predisposed) to question authority, not to mention the basic business practices of large financial institutions."
Columbia Journalism Review |
09-16-2009 9:51 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
NAA: Newspapers' Online Traffic Doubles Between 2004 and 2009new
Media Daily News |
09-16-2009 9:55 am |
Industry News
Director Michael Bay Adapting Miami New Times Seriesnew
Bay, who is best known for big-budget action flicks like Transformers and Armageddon, is working on Pain & Gain, a feature he is adapting from a series of Miami New Times stories on steroid-abusing bodybuilders who become criminals. According to an update on Bay's official website over the weekend, the film "is looking very possible."
MichaelBay.com |
09-15-2009 9:07 am |
Industry News
Google Unveils Fast Flip; New Service Designed for Quick News Browsingnew
The New York Times |
09-15-2009 9:12 am |
Industry News
L.A. Weekly Launches New Annual Music Event, 'LA 101'new
L.A. Weekly |
09-15-2009 9:09 am |
Industry News
Will Alts Benefit if Dailies Go Behind Pay Walls Online?new
As daily newspaper publishers and even magazines continue to mull charging for content online, little has been written about how such a move would help or harm alt-weeklies. Village Voice Media new media director Bill Jensen, for one, says he's licking his chops. "We're praying for the day that [daily newspapers] go behind a pay wall," he tells Mediaweek. "That's good for us. We've always been free and we know free. We're not complaining about it."
Mediaweek |
09-14-2009 9:49 am |
Industry News
Village Voice Brings the F-Bomb to Google News' Front Pagenew
The Voice's recent feature from A History of Violence screenwriter Josh Olson titled "I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script" was apparently popular enough to land on the Google News front page late yesterday -- a development that a few folks decided was worth complaining about.
Search Engine Roundtable |
09-14-2009 11:43 am |
Industry News
Study: Mobile Users Only Half as Likely to Click on Ads as Web Usersnew
MediaBuyerPlanner |
09-14-2009 3:22 pm |
Industry News
Survey: Impulse Offers Work Best for Mobile Adsnew
A new survey from Compete finds that nearly half of all smartphone owners are receptive to location-based offers at restaurants and offers to save and pursue at their leisure, and 45 percent would use mobile grocery coupons. "[It looks like] impulse purchases are a better hook for marketers than a considered purchase," Compete's Elaine Sanfilippo tells Marketing Daily. "Those offers that have that instant impact really resonate with people."
Reuters | Marketing Daily |
09-11-2009 9:44 am |
Industry News
Senate Judiciary Committee Revises Federal Shield Lawnew
The Associated Press |
09-11-2009 12:20 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Politician Resigns After Alt-Weekly & TV Station Reveal Alleged Affairnew
Republican Michael D. Duvall has resigned from the California state Assembly amid the scandal uncovered on Tuesday by OC Weekly and KCBS/KCAL. The staunch conservative was caught on video talking graphically about two affairs, one of which was with a lobbyist whose clients had business before a committee on which Duvall sat. Weekly reporter R. Scott Moxley and TV reporter Dave Lopez were both chasing the story at the same time on Tuesday -- literally -- as they followed Duvall around the capitol, trying to get him to respond. In a statement, Duvall says his resignation "is in no way an admission that I had an affair or affairs," adding that his only "offense was engaging in inappropriate story-telling."
OC Weekly |
09-10-2009 11:21 am |
Industry News
Indie Film Distributors Say They're Hurt by Media Cutbacksnew
Independent film is more reliant on film critics than mainstream big-budget film, with critics often having the ability to "help drive positive word of mouth and nudge arthouse moviegoers into seats without a big marketing spend," Variety reports. And the distributors of indie film say they're feeling the pain from "the loss of regional movie reviewers and diminishing newspaper space." Strand Releasing's Marcus Hu says his company has been particularly hurt by Village Voice Media's practice of assigning reviews to a few critics that run in every VVM market. "Before, at least, you had a new shot in each market," he says.
Variety |
09-10-2009 8:40 am |
Industry News
Heralded iPhone Developer Working on App for AAN Members
Small Society, the company whose work on iPhone applications for the Obama campaign, Whole Foods and Zipcar has earned wide recognition and praise in the growing app development field, is partnering with Pre1 Software and the parent company of Willamette Week and Santa Fe Reporter to develop an iPhone publishing platform which they hope to make available to AAN publishers by late 2009. "We think this may be the killer app for alt weeklies," Willamette Week editor Mark Zusman says.
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AAN News |
09-09-2009 1:46 pm |
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Tom Tomorrow Designs Pearl Jam Album Covernew
The band's latest album, Backspacer, will be released on Sept. 20 with a nine-panel cover concept created and executed by Tom Tomorrow (aka Dan Perkins). The New York Times reports that the band's partnership with the alt-cartoonist came about "partly as a result of the transformations of their fields by new media, since the internet has wreaked the same havoc on newspapers as it has on the music industry," a point Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder expands on. "It used to be real simple," Vedder says. "Dan writes a strip, it gets in the paper, people read it, Dan gets paid. That's how we felt too: make records, people buy them at a record store, we tour, there you go. It's not that simple anymore." MORE: On his blog, Perkins has one small correction to the piece.
The New York Times |
09-09-2009 10:21 am |
Industry News
Tags: Design & Production, Management
Some Small and Mid-Sized Advertisers See Uptick in '09 Spendingnew
A new survey of 5,300 small and mid-sized advertisers from Round2 Communications agency finds that 33 percent expect to increase their ad spending compared to 2008. The survey also contains a touch of bad news for print, with 46.6 percent of respondents saying they expect print expenditures to decrease in 2009.
Media Daily News |
09-09-2009 9:39 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Retail Advertising
