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Columbus Alive's New Owners 'Resuscitate' Paper With Redesignnew
Business First of Columbus |
06-09-2006 8:25 am |
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Survey: 59% of Consumers Love Free Standing Insertsnew
Editor & Publisher |
06-09-2006 6:27 am |
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Gannett Starts New Faux Altnew
AP via Editor & Publisher |
06-07-2006 12:42 pm |
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Tags: Circulation
Media Auditor Begins Probing Magazine Circ, Eyes Internetnew
Media Daily News (reg. req.) |
06-05-2006 6:05 am |
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Monterey County Weekly Story Picked Up For AOL's 'Worst Week Ever' Poll
Mehdi Shahbazi, a gas-station owner who posts signs accusing big oil companies of price-gouging, has been the subject of three articles by Raul Vasquez in Monterey County Weekly (Nov. 3, Jan. 26, May 4). However, that publicity probably did not prepare him for having his face run alongside Jennifer Aniston's on the AOL News homepage on Friday (screenshot below). Visitors to the site were invited to read Vasquez's stories and vote on whether Shahbazi or Aniston was having the "worst week ever." Aniston won the vote, but Shahbazi can take comfort in the fact that AOL calls him "a hero" who "doesn't suck."
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06-02-2006 2:24 pm |
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Weekly Planet to Change Name, For Real, in Septembernew
Tampa Bay Business Journal |
06-02-2006 10:59 am |
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Providence Phoenix Remains in Library, On Higher Shelfnew
The Westerly Sun |
05-31-2006 2:34 pm |
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Tags: Circulation, Providence Phoenix
6 Admit Guilt in Case of Circulation Fraudnew
New York Times (reg. req.) |
05-30-2006 6:46 am |
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Clarion-Ledger Publisher Responds to Distribution Controversynew
Jackson Free Press |
05-23-2006 7:42 am |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation, Jackson Free Press
Jackson Free Press Blogs Its Battle Against Gannett
The alt-weekly's "Goliath Blog," launched Saturday, will chronicle the fight between the local independent media and Gannett Corporation, which owns the daily Clarion-Ledger. Jackson Free Press Publisher Todd Stauffer detailed Gannett's strategy to control distribution spots in a May 9 article. The Goliath blog's first post contains a "Citizens' Guide to Fighting Gannett Corp. Scheme," which invites readers to take action.
05-22-2006 1:10 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation, Jackson Free Press
Gannett Begins Distribution Service in Sioux Fallsnew
"It may literally bankrupt some publications. Some may survive, but it's doubtful," Dan Siefken told local ABC affiliate KSFY in a story that aired March 2. Siefkin, the publisher of a small real-estate shopper, was talking about News Center Distribution, a service started late last year by Gannett's local daily, the Argus Leader. Like similar Gannett programs in Greenville, SC and Jackson, Miss., NCD signs exclusive distribution contracts with local businesses in South Dakota's largest city, and then charges a fee for competing publishers to reserve space in its racks. In an e-mail sent to KSFY, the Argus Leader claimed it was "facilitating competition through NCD. The mess that free publications can make in retailers' stores by distributing their own products will, eventually, drive these retailers to ban them or to institute service fees that are far in excess of NCD fees. That would hurt all of the publishers and the small ones more than the Argus Leader."
KSFY News |
05-18-2006 10:03 am |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation, Management
Jackson Newspapers Battle Over Rack Territorynew
WLBT-TV |
05-17-2006 2:09 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation, Jackson Free Press
Gannett Corp. Uses Questionable Tactics to Pressure Free Pubsnew
In an article published May 9, Jackson Free Press Publisher Todd Stauffer describes how Lee Warmouth, circulation director of the Gannett-owned Clarion-Ledger, asked him to sign a contract in order to continue distributing at some of the Free Press' already-existing spots. Ostensibly designed to reduce rack "clutter," the contract gives Gannett exclusive control of the display, and merchants are asked to sign a contract that forbids racks or boxes other than Gannett's. "In the meeting with Warmouth, it became clear to me that this 'service' was, in fact, not really aimed at the needs of local publications, but more about promoting The Clarion-Ledger's own growing stable of free publications while punishing anyone who dares to compete with them," Stauffer writes. He also discovered that merchants were being misled that Jackson Free Press had already signed on for the service.
Jackson Free Press |
05-16-2006 7:43 am |
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Tags: Circulation, Jackson Free Press
Some Dailies Showed Circ Gains in Latest FAS-FAXnew
Editor & Publisher |
05-09-2006 6:09 am |
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ABC: Dailies Circ Declines Again, Particularly at Major Metrosnew
Editor & Publisher |
05-08-2006 6:09 am |
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