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Washington Post and The Onion End Their Publishing Partnershipnew
Washington City Paper |
02-02-2009 3:44 pm |
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Tags: Management
Another Cartoonist is Dropped by Alt-Weekly Clientsnew
Lloyd Dangle reports that The Stranger and Metro Silicon Valley have cut his "Troubletown" cartoon. "[The papers] said that they might bring Troubletown back when things get better," Dangle writes, "but for newspapers, I don't know anybody who thinks it's going to get better." Meanwhile, Max Cannon of "Red Meat" has posted "an urgent message" on his website, saying "the alternative comics apocalypse has begun."
Troubletown Blog |
01-29-2009 2:58 pm |
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Baltimore Examiner to Closenew
The free daily tabloid that launched in Baltimore in 2006 will deliver its last issue Feb. 15, Baltimore City Paper reports. Examiner parent company Clarity Media Group reportedly wanted to focus its East Coast efforts on its Washington, D.C., edition and was looking for someone to buy the Baltimore edition. But when the search came up empty, the company made the decision to close up shop.
Baltimore City Paper |
01-29-2009 1:15 pm |
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Tags: Management
East Bay Express Article Helps Save the Plug-In Hybrid Industrynew
The California Air Resources Board backed away last Friday from strict new regulations that would have put Berkeley startup 3 Prong Power out of business and dealt a severe blow to the nascent plug-in hybrid industry, the Express reports. 3 Prong president Daniel Sherwood credited an Express cover story published a little more than a week before the air resources board meeting with helping save the rapidly-growing industry. After the story came out, the board received more than 130 comments on the proposed strict new rules, the vast majority of which were opposed to them.
East Bay Express |
01-29-2009 9:08 am |
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Ten AAN Members That Bucked the Trends and Grew in '08new
In the old days, when the media reported on problems in the newspaper industry, alternative newspapers weren't included. But alt-weeklies are immune no longer: In 2008, many AAN papers faced some of the same issues afflicting their mainstream brethren in the print media. However, you can still find alt-weeklies that had a pretty good year in 2008. That's just what AAN's editor Jon Whiten did, and he reports on 10 papers that increased revenue in a story published by Editor & Publisher.
Editor & Publisher |
01-28-2009 1:42 pm |
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VVM Suspends Syndicated Cartoonsnew
Tom Tomorrow broke the news yesterday on his blog that the ailing economy is forcing Village Voice Media to suspend publication of syndicated cartoons "at least through the rest of the first quarter, and quite possibly beyond." City Pages editor Kevin Hoffman tells the Minnesota Independent he expects some reader backlash, but says the suspension is part of an effort to "trim where we can while inflicting the least damage -- realizing that we're already cutting bone." MORE: Syndicated cartoonists Jen Sorensen and Derf weigh in.
This Modern World | Minnesota Independent |
01-27-2009 4:10 pm |
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Dayton City Paper Changes Handsnew
Owner and publisher Kerry Farley sold the paper to local radiologist and nightclub owner Mehdi Adineh, who hired Paul Noah to be his publisher. Noah brings a diverse background to City Paper, including stints as a radio personality and in radio sales. Most recently he ran a promotions and marketing agency in Dayton. He tells AAN News he "has no intention from deviating from the path" set by Farley, who has been publisher of the paper since 2001 and its owner since 2005. Farley tells us that after he finishes up a stint advising the new owner and publisher, he will do a little traveling and then decide what comes next. "I've been doing this for 15 years," he says. "It's kind of time." Terms of the deal, effective Jan. 1, were not disclosed.
Dayton Daily News |
01-27-2009 3:47 pm |
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Creative Loafing Critic Finds Himself in Conflict-of-Interest Controversynew
St. Petersburg Times journalist John Fleming claims that CL theater critic Mark E. Leib faces a conflict of interest working as both a critic and a playwright in the Tampa Bay area, and that objectively reviewing plays at a theater that also happens to be staging one of Leib's works should be frowned upon. "I've been theater critic for Creative Loafing for more than ten years, and this is the first time that anyone has suggested that my opinions have been influenced by any sort of favoritism for any sort of reason," Leib writes. "I don't like it and I'm not going to sit back quietly while it happens." MORE: Village Voice critic Michael Feingold, who is also a playwright, offers his take.
Creative Loafing (Sarasota) |
01-27-2009 9:48 am |
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Alt-Weekly Film Critics Weigh in On Star Ratingsnew
"Film critics and scholars have a tumultuous relationship with a system that is meant to help guide readers but may also encourage some to skip the review entirely," the Wall Street Journal reports in a story on the ubiquitous star system. Boston Phoenix critic Gerald Peary, who is also the director of an upcoming documentary on film criticism, tells the Journal that he's required to hand out stars -- but he doesn't like it. "The apple has been bitten by everybody, and it's a rotten apple," Peary says. But Las Vegas Weekly critic Mike D'Angelo says he likes the system, especially when approaching a film as a fan. "I prefer that critics use some sort of scale, personally, because I don't want to know much about a movie before seeing it," D'Angelo says.
The Wall Street Journal |
01-26-2009 2:41 pm |
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Portland Mayor Decides Not to Resignnew
One week after Sam Adams first admitted to Willamette Week that he had sex with an 18-year-old legislative intern and then lied about it, the newly elected mayor says he'll be going back to work today. MORE ADAMS: The Portland Mercury argued this weekend that Adams should stay; the Oregonian wonders if Portland can move on; and the New York Times looks at a city in "turmoil."
Willamette Week |
01-26-2009 9:12 am |
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Year-Long Village Voice Series is Followed by Multiple Indictmentsnew
In July 2007 Graham Rayman revealed in the Voice that jail guards at Rikers Island were deputizing inmates "to beat up other inmates," sometimes paying them with cigarettes, and that internal reports were ignored, and at least one whistleblower was fired. "Young people tell me when they go in there, the culture is such that [youthful inmates] control the jail," a victim's lawyer told Rayman. When inmates beat 21-year-old Tyreece Abney to death, one of them was convicted of the crime -- but nothing changed, and in November Rayman reported on the death of 18-year-old Christopher Robinson by similar methods. Yesterday three guards were charged with conspiracy in Robinson's death.
"I feel like I'm one step closer to getting justice today," Robinson's mother tells the Daily News.
The Village Voice |
01-23-2009 2:48 pm |
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Another Axed Editorial Cartoonist Finds a Home at an Alt-Weeklynew
Steve Greenberg, who drew editorial cartoons for the Ventura County Star until a few months ago, will now draw weekly cartoons for the Ventura County Reporter. In December, Brian Duffy made a similar jump in Des Moines, Iowa. "The Reporter is giving me a chance to restart and recharge," Greenberg writes. "Sometimes, when the roller-coaster stops working, you've gotta give the Ferris wheel a spin."
Ventura County Reporter |
01-23-2009 9:21 am |
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Shepard Fairey Posters the Boston Phoenix Buildingnew
Fairey, the longtime street artist who gained even more recognition in 2008 as the creator of an iconic Barack Obama poster, stopped by the Boston Phoenix's offices yesterday to turn the building's facade into a wheat-paste poster mural. The alt-weekly has video of the project on its site.
Boston Phoenix |
01-23-2009 8:49 am |
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House Committee Approves Broadband Expansion Programnew
Online Media Daily |
01-23-2009 11:00 am |
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Tags: Electronic Publishing, Management
Village Voice Media Social-Networking Site Draws Controversynew
"(VVM) ... is using a social-networking company it owns to erode the wall between editorial content and advertising by promoting its advertisers under the guise of community buzz," reports The Stranger. The Seattle alt-weekly made the claim after scouring the user-generated reviews on the Yelp-like LikeMe.net and purportedly discovering that a majority were thumbs-up recommendations written by VVM ad staff. But in a response posted on Seattle Weekly's website, VVM says its employees posted the reviews to "test drive" the new site, which had yet to be officially announced, and that the number of posts do not constitute a majority. VVM also notes that earlier reports that it owns a controlling interest in the new "local recommendation engine" are erroneous.
The Stranger | Seattle Weekly |
01-22-2009 6:24 pm |
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