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City Pages Launches 'Twin Cities Reader'new
The Reader, named for the Twin Cities alt-weekly that closed in 1997, is a local news aggregator being developed as a separate entity from the paper's Blotter blog. "This is it's own product, and it's meant to be a hub for finding the most important stories in the Twin Cities quickly," City Pages editor Kevin Hoffman tells AAN News in an email. "Whereas Blotter is highly voice driven, this is more like a map where the reader decides where to visit." The Reader apes the look of the notorious Drudge Report, a move Hoffman says was intentional. "The Drudge Report has long been the top national aggregator online, even for people who don't agree with Drudge's politics," he says. "We think that this is the format that people are used to for aggregators, and wanted to do something similar for local news."
City Pages |
06-18-2009 11:23 am |
Industry News
Report: Mobile Audience for Local Content is Upnew
comScore is reporting that the number of people who sought local information on a mobile device grew 51 percent from March 2008 to March 2009. The number of people accessing online directories has seen the greatest increase during the past year (73 percent), followed by restaurants (70 percent), maps (63 percent) and movies (60 percent).
comScore |
06-18-2009 10:44 am |
Industry News
Managing a Brand Online is Now a 'Seemingly Never-Ending Battle'new
The New York Times |
06-18-2009 12:43 pm |
Industry News
Lightning Strikes Fast Forward Weekly Office
The CBC reports that an afternoon thunderstorm yesterday "brought almost 500 lightning strikes to Calgary," and Fast Forward Weekly publisher Ian Chiclo says one of them hit his paper's office. "Publisher's computer fried, bits of wall land beside his chair," Chiclo wrote in an email to AAN News yesterday. Reached this morning, he tells us that the office is functioning again, but "limping," with only three computers having access to the internet and the paper's servers. "We think some of the wires are fried," he says.
AAN News |
06-17-2009 12:23 pm |
Industry News
Local Ad Revenue Plunges in All Platformsnew
Media Daily News |
06-17-2009 12:25 pm |
Industry News
Bay Guardian Says it Won't Run City's Public Notice Ads on Websitenew
SF Weekly reports the city of San Francisco is reaching out to a handful of websites to potentially run public notice ads, including the website of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. But Guardian publisher Bruce Brugmann says the paper has no intention of participating. "We don't bid, or go in for these city contracts, and we don't intend to do it now," he tells the Weekly.
SF Weekly |
06-16-2009 12:39 pm |
Industry News
Study: Ad-Supported Internet Contributes $300B to U.S. Economynew
Interactive Advertising Bureau |
06-16-2009 12:25 pm |
Industry News
How Twitter Users Are Dealing With Correctionsnew
"New tools or technologies that enable people to report or publish inevitably give birth to new forms of correction," Craig Silverman writes for CJR in a piece looking at how several individuals and news organization handle making corrections on Twitter. "The end result, I think, is that for all of its failings -- and lord knows no one talks about them more than me -- the correction has proven adept at moving from one medium to the next." MORE ON TWITTER: Editor & Publisher's Joe Strupp says many editors are still unsure of how to police staffers' Twitter and Facebook use.
Columbia Journalism Review |
06-15-2009 11:54 am |
Industry News
Sunshine Week is Likely to Lay Off its Only Staffernew
Columbia Journalism Review |
06-15-2009 10:33 am |
Industry News
Journos for Small Orgs Face More Risk When They Go Overseasnew
The New York Times |
06-15-2009 10:24 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
VVM Files Appeal in Bay Guardian Casenew
As expected, Village Voice Media and SF Weekly filed an appeal to last year's decision in the Guardian's predatory pricing suit this week in the California Court of Appeal. "With this appeal, judicial error, attorney contrivance, expert witness puffery, juror confusion, and statutory imprecision are now cast in the edifying light of reason and clarity," VVM executive editor Michael Lacey says. The Guardian's Tim Redmond says nothing in VVM's appeal is new to them. "We're confident we'll prevail in the appeal, as we did at the trial court level," he tells AAN News.
SF Weekly |
06-12-2009 5:20 pm |
Industry News
Huffington: 'We Never Had an Issue' With City Paper Parodynew
Responding to yesterday's blog post by Washington City Paper editor Erik Wemple, Arianna Huffington tells the New York Times' David Carr that someone at HuffPo did contact City Paper to ask that the new blog posts on their HuffPo April Fool's parody be taken down, but that they "never complained" about the page linking back to HuffPo. "Bottom line: We didn't -- and don't -- have a problem with someone having fun at our expense," she says. "Indeed, we loved it and complimented it."
The New York Times |
06-12-2009 9:54 am |
Industry News
After Tough Story, Alt-Weekly Disappears from Farmers Marketnew
After Fast Forward Weekly ran a story last week about vendors who are frustrated with how the Calgary Farmers' Market is run, about 200 copies of the paper distributed at the market disappeared. Several people who work at the market tell Fast Forward the papers were taken into an upstairs office. "By partaking in that kind of activity and pulling a paper off a shelf, it's just kind of shining more light on the issue that was talked about in the article in the first place," one vendor says. "It's pretty embarrassing, and not exactly what a farmers' market should be about." Market officials say they don't "have a clue" about the missing papers.
Fast Forward Weekly |
06-12-2009 9:11 am |
Industry News
Huffington Post to Washington City Paper: Take Down Parody Pagenew
Faithful AAN.org readers may recall that on April Fool's Day, City Paper reworked its website to ape HuffPo's look. The parody -- The Huffington City Paper -- even received kudos from HuffPo itself. Now -- a day after the publication of a well-read City Paper column criticizing HuffPo -- the aggregator is asking the alt-weekly to remove the lightly trafficked page from its archives, in part because it contains a link to HuffPo. "Never thought I'd be scolded by a Huffington Post official for linking," writes editor Erik Wemple. "But I was!"
Washington City Paper |
06-11-2009 2:27 pm |
Industry News
National Archives Appoints First FOIA Ombudsmannew
Miriam Nisbet, who now heads the information society division of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization in Paris, has been chosen to direct the Archives' new Office of Government Information Services. The appointment is being hailed by open government advocates. Nisbet "has dedicated her entire professional life to working for open access to government records," Sunshine in Government Initiative (SGI) coordinator Rick Blum says. "This is a promising start for those who want the FOIA to work better." MORE: Read SGI's statement on the appointment.
The Associated Press via the Los Angeles Times |
06-11-2009 2:05 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
