AAN News
Dailies Padded Circ Figures to Keep Ad Rates Highnew
The trouble started in 1998, when the Chicago Sun-Times broke ground on a new printing press on the south side of Chicago. The start-up process was a "nightmare," the publisher said. The press malfunctioned, causing the paper to hit the streets late and leading to mass subscription cancellations.
Washington Post |
11-30-2004 12:40 pm |
Industry News
Post-Election Stranger Cover Becomes a Collector's Itemnew
Requests for the Nov. 11 edition of The Stranger are pouring into the Seattle alt-weekly's offices, largely from readers who found a degree of post-election solace in the issue's unorthodox cover, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The cover features text in a series of colored bars that reads "Do not despair," before reassuring readers that they're part of a "diverse, dynamic, and progressive … urban archipelago" that voted overwhelmingly for Kerry. "People really responded to it," says editor Dan Savage, who wrote the cover text. Incoming requests for the issue number around 500, and that's just the beginning. "People want T-shirts, people want posters," says Savage.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
11-30-2004 12:37 pm |
Industry News
Dailies Continue to Lose Young Readers to Internetnew
Young people just aren't interested in reading newspapers and print magazines. In fact, according to Washington City Paper, The Washington Post organized a series of six focus groups in September to determine why the paper was having so much trouble attracting younger readers. You see, daily circulation, which had been holding firm at 770,000 subscribers for the last few years, fell more than 6 percent to about 720,100 by June 2004, with the paper losing 4,000 paying subscribers every month.
Wired News |
11-30-2004 10:56 am |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation
ABC Changes Circ Reporting Rulesnew
Editor & Publisher |
11-29-2004 9:01 am |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation
Quid Pro Quo? Newsday Reports Long Island Press Paper-Dumpingnew
Long Island Press has discovered that an employee of one of its carriers dumped papers at a salvage yard on at least two occasions, reports Newsday. The independent carrier has since fired the employee. According to the Newsday story, a separate (and unidentified) newspaper distributor says that he first notified Long Island Press about the dumping 15 weeks ago, and raised the issue again a couple of weeks ago -- when he saw enough papers being offloaded at the salvage yard "to fill a dump truck." Long Island Press recently ran stories about Newsday dumping papers, and Newsday is now under federal investigation for its circulation practices.
Newsday |
11-04-2004 6:16 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation, Long Island Press
Dailies Create New Safeguards After Circ Scandalsnew
The recent acknowledgments of circulation inflation by three prominent newspaper companies have prompted at least a half-dozen other chains to install safeguards intended to bolster confidence in their circulation figures.
The new policies by the chains - including Knight Ridder, the McClatchy Company newspapers and E. W. Scripps - have all been put in place in advance of Nov. 1. That is the date when the Audit Bureau of Circulations, which acts as both an industrywide clearinghouse and umpire, is scheduled to release March-to-September circulation figures for about 1,000 daily papers.
New York Times |
10-26-2004 10:35 am |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation, Editorial
Circ Scandals Creating Negative Impressions with Advertisersnew
Barron's Online |
10-20-2004 12:06 pm |
Industry News
Weekly Dig Balks at Removing Boxes Near Ballparknew
When the Boston Red Sox won the American League Division Series last year, rioters burned newspaper sidewalk distribution boxes near Fenway Park. Anticipating similar activity during this year's AL Championship Series, police asked papers to remove the boxes. "We are in full compliance," says Boston Globe spokesman Maynard Scarborough. "This is larger than the sale of our newspaper -- it's a safety issue." Boston's Weekly Dig is also in full compliance, although publisher Jeff Lawrence supports "an organized riot where fans can be allowed to burn the street boxes in special areas." He maintains the Dig would gladly allow fans to destroy the boxes if it would help the team. "The least we can do is lose money for the Red Sox to win," he says.
The Daily Free Press |
10-15-2004 4:22 pm |
Industry News
Dates for AAN West, East Announced
AAN Staff |
10-04-2004 6:00 pm |
Association News
Goldman Sachs Calls Newspaper Ad Trends "Sloppy"new
Any goodwill towards newspaper companies for strong performances in August may be short-lived. September is more than halfway through and already several companies are warning that in the end it won't look pretty.
Editor & Publisher |
09-21-2004 9:52 am |
Industry News
Dailies Struggle to Rebuild Confidence With Advertisersnew
The summer of scandal in the newspaper circulation business has left advertisers and agencies worried about what could possibly be next. Most say they are placing increased scrutiny on audience statements and newspaper ad budgets, though they believe the power of the medium will protect it from any immediate advertiser backlash.
Media Daily News |
08-25-2004 9:31 am |
Industry News
2004 AAN Convention Photo Gallerynew
AAN |
08-09-2004 5:32 pm |
Association News
First-Time Convention Goer Remembers the Alamonew
There comes a point in every party girl's life when she has to stop drinking and start getting serious. Fortunately for Maui Time Weekly's Samantha Campos, that point wasn't in San Antonio, at least not during AAN's annual convention. Mingling with editors, publishers and other journalistic riff-raff, she found that "they tend to let it all out after the free booze and appetizers kick in."
Maui Time Weekly |
08-04-2004 1:24 pm |
Industry News
