AAN News
Analyst Says $1B Political Ad Spend Possible in '09new
TV Newsday |
05-14-2009 11:40 am |
Industry News
Craigslist Will Drop 'Erotic Services' Ads, Create New Adult Sectionnew
Under increasing pressure from attorneys general across the U.S., Craigslist says it is eliminating the Erotic Services ad section and replacing it with an Adult Services section where each post will be manually reviewed and where no "nude or graphic photos" will be allowed. MORE: Read the company's statement here.
ABC News |
05-13-2009 1:47 pm |
Industry News
Al Giordano Previews His AAN Convention Talknew
Giordano, a former alt-weekly reporter whose Friday afternoon session at the AAN Convention is on "how independent journalism is thriving on the internet and in other parts of the hemisphere," decides to "do some thinking out loud on those themes" in a blog post titled "Black and White and Dead All Over." Giordano says that daily newspapers are dying because they are crippled by institutional biases. "Memo to my remaining daily print colleagues and their nostalgia club: Get over it and get over yourselves," he writes. "In your arrogance, you established calcified 'rules' of 'journalism' and false 'objectivity' that neutered and spayed all of your reporters, domesticated so they would never again afflict the comfortable or comfort the afflicted."
Narco News |
05-11-2009 2:37 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Village Voice Editor: Industry Woes are a 'Business Model Crisis'
At a panel discussion earlier this month at the 92nd Street Y in New York, Tony Ortega talked about web publishing and the print media industry, along with Voice publisher Michael Cohen, Gothamist publisher Jake Dobkin and Alana Taylor of Mashable.com. While noting that, like most papers, the Voice is struggling to do more with less right now, Ortega says the product isn't the problem. "Newspapers have never been more popular in their history," he says. "It's just that our advertisers have no money to spend."
AAN |
05-11-2009 11:02 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Parts Ways with Writer After His Credentials Are Questionednew
Last year, John Sakowicz began writing "smartly prescient" pieces on the impending financial collapse for the North Bay Bohemian, editor Gretchen Giles writes, so she kept publishing him and even dubbed him contributing editor on the paper's masthead. However, as Sakowicz's work at the Bohemian landed him a local radio show and "expert" status at the Institute for Public Accuracy, some people started digging into his background. Ultimately, Giles found that she couldn't confirm some details of Sakowicz's biography, and the paper has cut ties with him. "It appears that Sakowicz, while talented at understanding and predicting the economic moonscape, does not have the exact background he claims to have, one that we underscored by repeatedly printing it at the end of his articles," Giles writes in a mea culpa. "A credible publication cannot publish the works of writers whose credentials cannot withstand scrutiny."
North Bay Bohemian |
05-11-2009 10:18 am |
Industry News
Forecast: Interactive Marketing To Grow 11 Percent in 2009new
Online Media Daily |
05-11-2009 10:19 am |
Industry News
Boston Phoenix Publisher Defends Adult Adsnew
As pressure mounts on Craigslist to tighten its erotic advertising policies in the wake of masseuse Julissa Brisman's death, Rhode Island's attorney general has expanded his focus to include thephoenix.com. But publisher and chairman Stephen Mindich isn't backing down. "I'm not apologizing for carrying adult advertising," he tells the Boston Herald. “What are you going to do? Take down the entire Internet?” ... (Brisman) wasn’t killed by an ad, but by a person."
The Boston Herald |
05-08-2009 4:07 pm |
Industry News
As Fire Blazes, Santa Barbara Independent Reports -- Often
Independent senior editor Matt Kettmann tells us via email that the paper has published about 50 stories since the Jesusita wildfire started on Tuesday afternoon at www.independent.com/jesusita. The paper has been doing up-to-the-minute coverage with a staff of about a dozen -- on top of putting out a print edition this week as well. Kettmann says its an example of "how weeklies can handle pretty important and heavy loads."
AAN News |
05-08-2009 3:48 pm |
Industry News
Sacramento Looks to Modular News Racks in Downtown Areanew
California's capital city is weighing an ordinance to replace news boxes on the K Street mall area and replace them with city-owned and operated modular racks, the News & Review reports. The city's proposed rule would allow dailies first pick of space in the modular racks, followed by weeklies, then semi weeklies and monthlies.
Sacramento News & Review |
05-08-2009 3:30 pm |
Industry News
It's Official: The Onion Kills California Editionsnew
Confirming rumors that rippled through the blogosphere earlier this week, The Onion has announced it is discontinuing its distribution in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The company claims readership had actually increased in the two markets, according to SF Weekly, but bowed out due to an "abysmal" advertising climate.
SF Weekly |
05-07-2009 3:05 pm |
Industry News
'Alternative Media' Ends Up in Federal 'Domestic Extremism Lexicon'new
A report by the Department of Homeland Security analyzing extremist ideologies in the U.S. was released in March and recalled within hours amid a firestorm of criticism. In a glossary included with the report, DHS defined "alternative media" as "a term used to describe various information sources that provide a forum for interpretations of events and issues that differ radically from those presented in mass media products and outlets." Fox News notes the description is pejorative despite the fact that "the term is commonly used to describe blogs and popular publications like New York's Village Voice." MORE: The Voice weighs in on being defended by Fox News.
Fox News |
05-07-2009 12:33 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, The Village Voice
Amazon's Newest Kindle Takes Aim at Newspapersnew
Fortune |
05-07-2009 10:02 am |
Industry News
Did RedEye Rip Off a Chicago Reader Cover?new
Reader media critic Michael Miner points out the striking similarity between a cover RedEye ran yesterday and one the Reader ran less than a month ago. But RedEye's editor claims no one from his paper ever saw the alt-weekly's April 9 issue. "As for the design, I had not seen that issue of The Reader, nor had my staff," Tran Ha says. "I mean, it was a story about parking meters - and some parking meters say 'fail' when they don't work."
Chicago Reader |
05-06-2009 9:09 am |
Industry News
Jen Sorensen Explains Her 'Ironic Great Depression' Cartoonnew
In this weekend's Washington Post, the "Slowpoke" creator talks about how she got the idea to do a strip on how our irony-drenched culture will handle the economic downturn. Sorensen says that a number of readers tuned into a "tiny background gag" -- a billboard advertising The Grapes of Snark -- and told her they thought it was the funniest part of the strip.
The Washington Post |
05-05-2009 3:17 pm |
Industry News
The Stranger Launches Happy Hour iPhone Appnew
Cocktail Compass, which the alt-weekly rolled out last week, gives iPhone users information on the happy hours currently happening at bars close by. The app allows users to search for bars that have specific attributes, like wifi, dancing or outdoor seating, and it also includes a feature to call a local cab company when the drinking is done. Seattle Weekly responded to the Stranger's news by saying it had launched "the Ripper," a "game-changing new rotary phone app."
The Stranger |
05-05-2009 2:38 pm |
Industry News
