AAN News
Gov. Huckabee's Office: No Comment on AAN Letternew
Arkansas News Bureau |
05-06-2006 7:28 am |
Industry News
New Orleans Media Experiences 'An Extraordinary Transformation'
Brooke Gladstone interviewed several New Orleans media notables for the April 28 edition of "On the Media" (transcript here; MP3 here) and concludes that since the disaster, residents have been consuming "barrels of information supplied by a reinvented media like a tonic." Gambit Weekly Managing Editor David Lee Simmons tells Gladstone that he has been asked, "How does it feel to compete with the daily newspaper when the daily newspaper is acting like an alternative newsweekly?" He interprets this as a "reenergizing" of the local daily, the Times-Picayune, but adds that "the challenge for them is to maintain that level of energy, and it's going to be interesting to see how they do that."
05-04-2006 8:54 am |
Industry News
Publishers Brace for Possible 11.4% Postal Rate Hikenew
Mediaweek |
05-04-2006 9:51 am |
Industry News
Daily Circ Expected to Fall Steeply Again in Upcoming FAS-FAXnew
Editor & Publisher |
05-04-2006 9:47 am |
Industry News
Early Registration Deadline for the 2006 Annual Convention Is This Friday
To receive a $50 early bird discount, members, associate members, and individual non-members should register online or by fax between now and end of day Friday, May 5. The cost will subsequently increase to $345 for members and $475 for non-members.
05-03-2006 12:58 pm |
Industry News
PRWeek: Village Voice's Fate Could Impact All Alt-Weekliesnew
"Have alternative papers jumped the alternative shark?" asks Hamilton Nolan. He decides that they haven't, at least not yet, since alt-weeklies continue to offer investigative journalism not available in most blogs. L.A. Weekly's Nikki Finke tells Nolan, "We go where mainstream papers fear to tread, we unearth what mainstream newspapers try to hide, and, in my case especially, we insult who mainstream newspapers fear to offend. ... How can there ever be a diminishing role for that?" However, Nolan also believes that the Village Voice is "the keystone brand in the entire alt-weekly world," and argues that "its future, and that of [Village Voice Media] as a whole, will play a large part in determining whether another generation will read alternative papers or read about them in memoirs."
PRWeek |
05-02-2006 8:07 am |
Industry News
Weekly Dig Drops Escort Ads, Saying They Skew to Older Readersnew
Boston Herald |
05-02-2006 6:28 am |
Industry News
CityBeat: Why Hasn't Lacey Touched L.A. Weekly Yet?new
Los Angeles CityBeat |
04-27-2006 1:54 pm |
Industry News
New Salt Lake Faux-Alt Doesn't Scare SL City Weeklynew
Salt Lake City Weekly |
04-26-2006 1:15 pm |
Industry News
Georgia Straight Reaches 2,000 Issues and Countingnew
"Week after week, a remarkably diverse group of individuals -- including straights in suits, freaks, tattooed, shaved, and pierced punk rockers, misfits, overachievers, iconoclasts, near hermits, jocks, geeks, and quite a few more surprisingly normal folks than you’d expect (and that just describes some of the receptionists) -- have cooperated to create what has been, by turns, a scurrilous left-wing rag, an alternative newspaper, a comprehensive entertainment guide, and an award-winning news, arts, and culture magazine," writes Dave Watson in this week's issue of Vancouver's alt-weekly. From its debut in 1967, through charges of vagrancy and obscenity and a brief spell as a music publication, to its "respectable" present incarnation, the Straight's story reveals a dynamic relationship with "the social, political, and cultural history" of the Terminal City.
Georgia Straight |
04-20-2006 2:00 pm |
Industry News
Isthmus: Covering Madison for 30 Yearsnew
"Thirty years -- that's a lot of water under the bridge. And you know, the river seems to flow faster and faster," Isthmus founder and Publisher Vincent O'Hern writes on the occasion of the paper's third decennial. The Wisconsin capital's weekly has come a long way from its self-described "Laurel and Hardy go to press" beginnings, and O'Hern promises the staff will be "celebrating, reflecting and commemorating throughout the year."
Isthmus |
04-20-2006 10:32 am |
Industry News
One Alt-Weekly's Eco-Footprintnew
Missoula Independent |
04-20-2006 11:23 am |
Industry News
Buffalo Paper Slams Gannett Faux Altsnew
The Buffalo Beast |
04-19-2006 2:21 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation, Financial
Former Weekly Alibi Staffers Launch Biweekly Papernew
The Albuquerque Tribune |
04-18-2006 11:28 am |
Industry News
Library Is Asked to Restrict Access to Providence Phoenix's Adult Section
The Westerly, R.I., town council has agreed to support local citizens in their bid to have the "adult" section of the Phoenix moved behind the reference desk at the Westerly Public Library, where it would be available only to adults who request it, the Westerly Sun reports. The Phoenix has been the subject of past complaints that resulted in its being relocated to a higher shelf behind the checkout desk.
At the council meeting last week, "one councilor indicated that should the library refuse to cooperate, councilors could weigh withholding its funding," according to the Sun, but library officials indicated that they would not "act in the place of parents."
04-17-2006 7:27 am |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation, Providence Phoenix
