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Worcester Magazine Debuts New Design and Format, Shortens Name
The Massachusetts alt-weekly unveils a new format today with more color pages and a stapled bind. Savvy readers may also notice that the publication's title is five letters shorter: Worcester Mag is the official title of the paper now. "We are embracing the abbreviation so many readers have used for years," publisher Gareth Charter says. "We are not a magazine in the traditional sense of that term. We are an alternative news voice; in print once a week and online 24/7."
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Worcester Mag Press Release |
07-02-2009 11:28 am |
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Arkansas Times Launches Web Coupon Programnew
Arkansas Times |
07-02-2009 9:28 am |
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Independent Weekly's Blogs Get a Redesign from DesignHammernew
DesignHammer Media Group Press Release |
07-02-2009 9:24 am |
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Salt Lake City Weekly Wins State Awards, Including Best Reporter
Salt Lake City Weekly won a total of 19 awards in the Utah Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists' annual awards on June 12. The Weekly's Stephen Dark was named Best Newspaper Reporter (his colleague Ted McDonough received an honorable mention in the same category). "Dark had the most diverse and interesting subject matter," the judges wrote. "His ability to tell a story in a clean and compelling manner also stood out." The alt-weekly also won first-place awards for Consumer Reporting, Government Reporting and Military Reporting.
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Salt Lake City Weekly Press Release |
06-30-2009 8:24 am |
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Voice Local Network Partners With Urbanspoon
Village Voice Media Press Release |
06-30-2009 12:26 pm |
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LikeMe.Net Introduces Next Generation of Lifestyle Social Recommendation Engine
Partnership with Village Voice Media gives social search network instant penetration; Palm® Pre™ application powers LikeMe's mobile connectivity
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LikeMe.Net Press Release |
06-30-2009 10:24 am |
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Online Classified Postings for Small Businesses Increase Dramatically
Backpage.com Press Release |
06-26-2009 10:29 am |
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Senate Approves Sunlight on Proposed FOIA Exemptions
Sunshine in Government Initiative Press Release |
06-18-2009 1:10 pm |
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Village Voice Announces Additional Artists, After Party for Siren Music Festivalnew
The Village Voice Press Release |
06-17-2009 2:32 pm |
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The Texas Observer Names MOLLY Prize Winnernew
Houston Chronicle columnist Rick Casey has been awarded the 2009 MOLLY National Journalism Prize for a series about immigration. The awards, presented annually by the Texas Observer, recognize great American journalism and honor the memory of former Observer editor Molly Ivins. "Molly would have been thrilled at the scores of worthy entries and taken a little amused pride that this year's winner is a columnist for the Houston Chronicle, the newspaper where she began reporting as a summer intern," Observer CEO and publisher Carlton Carl says.
The Texas Observer |
06-16-2009 8:27 am |
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VVM Launches Local Online Ad Network
The Voice Local Network will allow select publishers to monetize their content using Village Voice Media's locally based sales forces. VVM says the network is designed for web publishers that match both the content and the core demographics of its newspapers. "We've been working the streets, merchant to merchant, for years developing personal relationships in all of our cities," VVM president and chief operating officer Scott Tobias says. "Through these connections, we've developed a very high local CPM web business, and it's a natural evolution to help other publishers tap into our network of advertisers."
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Village Voice Media Press Release |
06-15-2009 1:01 pm |
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Alt-Weekly Cartoonist Publishes Latest Collection
Brian McFadden has self-published Fun Stuff for Dum-Dums, the latest collection of his weekly comic strip, "Big Fat Whale." The comics collected in Fun Stuff "ridicule the politics and pop culture of the last four years; from the end of the Bush years to the first months of the Obama Administration," according to a press release.
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Big Fat Whale Press Release |
06-15-2009 9:18 am |
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Sunshine in Gov't Initiative Reacts to Miriam Nisbet Appointment
Sunshine in Government Initiative Press Release |
06-11-2009 2:11 pm |
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Metro Spirit Editor to Leave Paper
Tom Grant, who has edited the Augusta, Ga., alt-weekly since October 2005, will be leaving his post in late July. "The last four years have been an exciting time for Metro Spirit and we've accomplished a lot together," Grant says in a statement. "Metro Spirit is ready for a new voice and the paper and I have agreed that it's a good time for someone new to write the next chapter of Spirit's history." The paper is currently undertaking a nationwide search for a replacement.
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Metro Spirit Press Release |
06-09-2009 3:01 pm |
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Another Livingston Win for Village Voice Media
VVM points out that with John Dickerson of the Phoenix New Times' win this week, the company's writers have racked up four Livingston Awards in the past decade.
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Village Voice Media Press Release |
06-05-2009 1:35 pm |
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