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L.A.'s Alt-Weeklies Suffer Additional Layoffs
The LA Weekly has eliminated its theater editor position and laid off film critic Ella Taylor, while LA CityBeat also axed its film critic, Andy Klein. MORE: Current and former staffers from both papers weigh in on the situation.
LA Weekly | LA Observed |
01-16-2009 10:19 am |
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Arrests Raise Questions About Newspapers Running 'Prostitution' Adsnew
Editor & Publisher |
01-15-2009 2:03 pm |
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Creative Loafing (Tampa) Unveils Redesigned Homepagenew
Creative Loafing (Tampa) |
01-15-2009 1:05 pm |
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Las Vegas CityLife Office Moves Downtownnew
Las Vegas CityLife |
01-15-2009 1:04 pm |
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Tags: Management, Las Vegas CityLife
Metro Pulse Scribe Reflects on 18 Months of Corporate Ownershipnew
"For the first time we don't have an owner who's making story suggestions and occasionally writing a column about a favorite cause. But it's understood, more than ever before, that we'd better make a living with this," associate editor Jack Neely says of life under EW Scripps. "I don't mean to suggest that corporate ownership is better. I do miss boasting that we're locally owned, even when it seemed mainly a theoretical thing. But it's good, for the first time, to have dental insurance."
Metro Pulse |
01-14-2009 11:57 am |
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Former Miami New Times Reporter Enters Political Worldnew
Rebecca Wakefield, who worked at the paper earlier in the decade, has signed on as manager for Maria "Beba" Sardina Mann's campaign for Miami city commissioner. "The journalism world is dying a horrible, hacking death," Wakefield says. "No one's paying me any more to snarkily opine on the local circus, so when Beba asked me to consider running her campaign, I thought I might as well grab a cigar and find out what's really going on in the smoke-filled rooms."
Miami New Times |
01-14-2009 11:51 am |
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Mountain XPress Editorial Consultant Diesnew
C.B. "Chick" Squire, who had been working with the weekly since the mid-1990s, died on Jan. 4 of natural causes. He was 88 years old. "Chick was the last of the old guard who stood by and believed in this publication," writes XPress publisher Jeff Fobes, "all the way from its inception as Green Line many years ago to the current weekly print and online avatars of Mountain Xpress." More from the News & Observer.
Mountain XPress |
01-14-2009 9:20 am |
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CJR Reviews Year-End Issue of Baltimore City Papernew
Columbia Journalism Review |
01-14-2009 10:14 am |
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Advocacy Groups Ask the FTC To Protect Mobile Privacynew
In a 52-page complaint to be filed with the Federal Trade Commission today, the Center for Digital Democracy and U.S. Public Interest Research Group allege that emerging mobile marketing shops are using "unfair and deceptive" behavioral targeting strategies. The groups are asking the FTC to probe how mobile ad companies deploy techniques like behavioral targeting and geo-targeting. The complaint also asks the FTC to force the companies to notify consumers about how their data is used, and seek explicit consent to its collection.
Online Media Daily |
01-13-2009 11:41 am |
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New Report Offers 206 Revenue-Boosting and Cost-Cutting Tipsnew
Kim A. Mac Leod of Regional Media Advisors and Seija Goldstein of Seija Goldstein Associates recently interviewed more than 60 regional publishers of every stripe, from alt-weeklies to business journals to city magazines, to find out what they are doing to generate revenue and reduce expenses. The results, broken down into 12 categories, are now available on the Regional Media Advisors website.
Regional Media Advisors |
01-12-2009 11:38 am |
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Flooding Forces The Stranger to Reprint Last Week's Issuenew
"Since it's printed in Yakima, a semi truck filled with tens of thousands of copies of The Stranger is sitting on the other side of the 10-feet-deep body of water that used to be known as I-5," editor Christopher Frizzelle wrote last Thursday. The alt-weekly reprinted the entire issue at the Seattle Times printing facility and distributed it a little late. "Enjoy this week's paper," Frizzelle wrote. "It was very expensive."
The Stranger |
01-12-2009 11:19 am |
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Publisher Says 'The Alt-Weekly is the Newspaper of the Future'new
"Boulder Weekly and our brother and sister alt-weeklies," Stewart Sallo writes, "are the next generation in the evolution of the newspaper." He notes that for the Weekly, "the past two years have been a watershed period for our organization, with unprecedented growth in readership and revenue, despite the unfavorable economic conditions we have faced."
Boulder Weekly |
01-12-2009 10:00 am |
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Phoenix Media Prez Talks About Purchasing a Spanish-Language Weeklynew
In an interview with New England Ethnic News, Brad Mindich explains why, when other media companies are slashing staff, he thought buying Boston's El Planeta newspaper was a good move. "This is a good niche product that expands what we do," he says, adding that the new acquisition will retain complete editorial control but will share content with the group's other titles when it makes sense. When asked why Phoenix Media chose El Planeta over other Spanish-language publications, Mindich says: "If you look at the other Hispanic newspapers published in this area, with all due respect, they are not very good." That comment has raised the ire of said publications.
New England Ethnic News |
01-09-2009 2:32 pm |
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More Papers Tighten Belts
Louisiana's Independent Weekly reports that in 2008 it had to lay off one employee and that it recently instituted "a single digit, company-wide salary cut." The Nashville Scene says it is eliminating its books section, as well as News of the Weird and the New York Times crossword. Boise Weekly's publisher says that even though the "last quarter of 2008 was very disappointing ... it might have been the best we will see for awhile." Meanwhile, the Chicago Reader says goodbye to two of its departing editorial staffers, and Nat Hentoff talks to the New York Times about his plans post-Voice.
AAN News |
01-09-2009 10:30 am |
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Federal Agencies Move to Restrict FOIA Accessnew
"Over the past few months, some federal agencies have issued rules that would eliminate public disclosure of information -- or, in some cases, make it more difficult for requesters to get information," ProPublica reports. Agencies that have passed rules include the Department of Energy, the Department of Education and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press executive director Lucy Daiglish tells ProPublica that reversing these and other rules in favor of secrecy implemented by the Bush administration will be a huge task for the Obama administration. "Saying in his inaugural speech that this will be the most open and transparent government in history will make it easier for agencies to come in and do it," she says. In other secrecy news, the House of Representatives passed legislation yesterday that would nullify Bush's 2001 executive order that limited access to records via the Presidential Records Act.
ProPublica |
01-08-2009 12:38 pm |
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Tags: Editorial, Management
