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News & Review Publisher: What Will Remain After the Dailies Go Away?new
in 1996, Jeff vonKaenel wrote a widely discussed piece predicting that most daily newspapers would be out of business in ten years. Although his timing was off, there's no question he nailed the trajectory. Now he's back to ask, What comes next? His "guess" and "hope" is that weekly newspapers will survive as "a viable economic model," and journalism that is "more cutting-edge, more controversial ... (and) less locally based" will flourish online through the joint support of nonprofits, corporations and individual citizens.
Sacramento News & Review |
09-03-2009 11:24 am |
Industry News
Tom Tomorrow is Back in The Village Voicenew
Tom Tomorrow's "This Modern World" returns to the Village Voice this week after a seven month absence. Tomorrow's comic was cut from all Village Voice Media papers -- along with all syndicated comics -- back in January. The strip is only returning to the Voice for now, but that may change in the coming months. "Altweekly cartooning overall has kind of been on the ropes for the past year or two, and any editor who takes a stand in support of the art form deserves profound thanks," Tom Tomorrow writes on his blog. "This is a first step, but it's a huge one in the right direction -- for me personally, of course, but with any luck, for other cartoonists as well."
The Village Voice |
09-02-2009 3:51 pm |
Industry News
Media Critic: Here are Four Ways to 'Improve Things' at Creative Loafingnew
St. Petersburg Times media critic Eric Deggans says that Creative Loafing should, among other things, "get some aggressive, entertaining name writers back in the house" and "break news, especially news mainstream outlets won't report." He says alt-weeklies are well-positioned to do the latter. "An alternative newspaper often does its best work holding accountable those who hold others accountable," Deggans writes. "There's a multitude of civic issues at hand that a grass roots alternative newspaper could grab hold of, and explore in new ways; doing that in a provocative, localized way builds the brand tremendously."
The St. Petersburg Times |
09-02-2009 2:38 pm |
Industry News
Boise Weekly Working on Happy Hour iPhone Appnew
BW's iPhone app that will provide users details about local happy hours should be available next week, according to KTRV-TV. The app will include need-to-know information on each happy hour, including travel directions and details on drink specials. "If there's something in particular you want to go and do you can really narrow it down and not play the guessing game," the Weekly's Shea Sutton says.
KTRV-TV |
09-02-2009 9:50 am |
Industry News
New Creative Loafing Board Members Meet the Atlanta Staffnew
After Atalaya gained control of the six-paper company in bankruptcy court last week, several of the new board members met with staff at Creative Loafing (Atlanta). "I want your ideas," Jim O'Shea told them. "I want to hear from you. And I'll do everything in my power to make sure we're sitting here two, five, 10 years from now with more resources, more people, better salaries and more of a future." O'Shea, a former Los Angeles Times editor, will advise Atalaya on editorial strategy while former Des Moines Register president Richard Gilbert will be interim CEO. The Atlanta staff "applauded the sentiments" expressed by O'Shea, Thomas Wheatley reports. "After the meeting, one staffer likened the mood in the room to the elation with which liberals greeted the inauguration of President Barack Obama after eight years of George W. Bush."
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
09-01-2009 9:52 am |
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Report: Mobile Advertising to Grow 74 Percent in 2009new
Online Media Daily |
09-01-2009 9:55 am |
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Atalaya: CL Generating Positive Cash Flow, Will 'Fill Holes' Soonnew
Managing partner Michael Bogdan tells the Chicago Tribune that without the crushing debt, Creative Loafing is now generating positive cash flow, which will allow the individual papers to hire new employees "to fill holes where they need to grow." He acknowledges that despite all the promises, employees at the six-paper company will likely remain skeptical of Atalaya. "I don't expect people to trust me right now," he says. "The proof's in the pudding." MORE: Chicago Reader associate publisher Steve Timble discusses the sale and the new media landscape on WTTW's Chicago Tonight TV show.
Chicago Tribune |
08-31-2009 1:13 pm |
Industry News
Publisher Discusses Changes at Worcester Mag and the Alt Industrynew
In July, Worcester Mag underwent a redesign and launched a new format as part of the paper's evolution since changing owners last summer. Publisher Gareth Charter recently spoke to Worceseter's public radio station about some of the changes and the overall health of the alt-weekly industry. "Weekly newspapers ... are not facing nearly the declines that daily newspapers are," Charter tells WICN-FM. He says that one reason is because an alt-weekly is "more of a leisure read ... as opposed to that daily drumbeat [of news]."
WICN-FM |
08-31-2009 10:20 am |
Industry News
Yelp Brings First US Augmented Reality App to iPhone Storenew
The new feature turns on a view called "the Monocle" when iPhone 3Gs users shake their phones three times. The app then uses the phone's GPS and compass to display markers for restaurants, bars and other nearby businesses on top of the camera's view.
Read Write Web |
08-28-2009 1:21 pm |
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Comedian Misidentified as Westword Writer Fights Back
Tom Martino, a nationally syndicated talk radio host and Denver-area TV personality known as The Troubleshooter, recently went after Westword writer Jared Jacang Maher for a story Maher had written on him. Problem was, in his video attacking Maher as a "cowardly writer," Martino grabbed a picture off the internet of comedian and former Westword staffer Adam Cayton-Holland wearing Maher's name tag at an event and said it was Maher. Now Cayton-Holland has responded with a story and the video below.
AAN News |
08-28-2009 12:35 pm |
Industry News
What's the Best Way for Your Newsroom to Use Twitter?new
"Journalists and news organizations are all atwitter these days, but they are seeing different returns on investment from their uses of Twitter," Poynter's Patrick Thornton writes. He notes that the New York Times' main Twitter account features very little interaction, which many deem a death knell in social media. But the feed is wildly popular: it has more than 1.6 million followers, and is the 18th most popular account on Twitter. "There is a market for interactive and non-interactive accounts," Times social media editor Jennifer Preston says. "Like most media organizations, we recognize that Twitter is about conversations, not broadcasting. That said, some people do like their headlines." Thornton also holds up the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Tribune account as a model of a curatorial Twitter presence. "The Colonel's Twitter account links to interesting Tribune content, content from around the web and spurs discussions," he writes. "The Colonel doesn't just grab headlines, but rather finds interesting parts of stories and points them out to users."
Poynter |
08-28-2009 10:17 am |
Industry News
Former Chicago Reader Editor Reflects on Sale to Ben Easonnew
"Maybe we should have been smarter, or less starry-eyed about it, but we thought and hoped Eason would succeed," says Mike Lenehan, who owned a small part of the Reader before it was sold to Eason. "I don't think there would have been much sentiment to do [the deal] if we thought he'd turn out to be Ben Eason. Maybe we should have known better -- but that's what we thought." MORE: Reader media columnist Michael Miner discusses the paper's future with Chicago Public Radio, and Creative Loafing (Tampa) publisher Sharry Smith has sent out a memo calling Atalaya's acquisition of the company "a very positive development." (AAN News has been told the memo was drafted by all of the CL publishers together.)
Chiacgo Reader | WBEZ |
08-28-2009 9:49 am |
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NAA: Newspaper Revenues Down 29 Percent in Second Quarternew
Media Daily News |
08-28-2009 11:05 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly: What Are Our Photogs Doing Now That We Can't Hire Them?new
"Things are tough all over, and here at Baltimore's Most New Economic Weekly, we've made some less-than-thrilling adjustments, namely spending a lot less dough on all the stunning, award-winning original photography we used to -- and will again, dammit -- be known for," Baltimore City Paper art director Joe McLeod writes in the introduction to a piece featuring short updates and images from eight of the paper's freelance shutterbugs.
Baltimore City Paper |
08-27-2009 1:58 pm |
Industry News
JFP Publisher: Forbes Columnist Got it Wrong on Local Washingnew
Forbes' Elisabeth Eaves recently looked at efforts by national and global brands to market themselves as local businesses, and concluded that whether or not such tactics deserved to be decried as local washing "depends on your definition of local." Jackson Free Press publisher Todd Stauffer singles out Eaves and her argument in a column this week. "Actually, the definition of local isn't up for grabs, and it isn't just marketing," he writes. "The entire concept of 'local' is fundamental both to America's economic recovery and to the potential for progress and self-sufficiency for our local communities." Stauffer goes on to explain that what Eaves and other local-washing defenders are "are doing is purposely conflating the concepts 'local' and 'locale.'"
Jackson Free Press |
08-27-2009 1:48 pm |
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