AAN News
Cincinnati City Council Votes to Subpoena CityBeat Reporternew
Some Cincinnati police officers claimed to be in two places at once so they could double-bill the city and the public housing authority, Leslie Blade reported in CityBeat on Dec. 10. Now the Cincinnati City Council wants to ask her questions about the scandal so badly it voted 5-4 last week to subpoena her. CityBeat Editor/Co-Publisher John Fox criticizes the decision to make a journalist an investigative tool of government.
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press |
01-15-2004 3:44 pm |
Industry News
Monterey County Coast Weekly Reporter Returns from Iraq
01-15-2004 9:39 am |
Press Releases
Former New York Press Owner Discusses His Return to "Tinytown"new
Haunted by what he witnessed from the roof of his building near the World Trade Center on 9/11, Russ Smith sold his upstart weekly, New York Press, and moved his family to Baltimore. He has disparaged the city where he once edited Baltimore City Paper as "Tinytown," but old friends say he has a strange way of showing his affection. Former City Paper staff writer Michael Anft offers an in-depth look at the man who now writes a conservative column for the Baltimore weekly he once owned. Smith has said that "if you wanted to find a list of his enemies, all you had to do was pick up the Baltimore white pages," Anft says.
Style Magazine |
01-09-2004 6:26 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Russ Smith
Good Company, Comfortable Digs, Hot Topics at AAN West and AAN East
AAN Staff |
01-08-2004 5:58 pm |
Association News
AAN Joins Motion to Intervene in 9/11 Detention Case
AAN Staff |
01-06-2004 3:50 pm |
Legal News
Ripsaw Goes Monthly
The struggling Duluth, Minn., alternative newsweekly marked its fifth birthday by announcing that the Dec. 30 issue would be its last weekly one. In February, Ripsaw will be recast as a glossy monthly arts and news magazine. By adding more local news and coverage of the symphony and ballet, the publication hopes to appeal to readers in their 40s and 50s as well as its present core audience of 18- to 35-year-olds, Publisher/Editor Brad Nelson tells the Duluth News Tribune. News Tribune Publisher Marti Buscaglia sees an opportunity to lure some of Ripsaw's young readers back to the daily paper. (The News Tribune Web site doesn't permit a direct link to the article.)
Duluth News Tribune |
01-05-2004 6:51 pm |
Industry News
Jackson Free Press, San Antonio Current Receive Diversity Grants
Ruth Hammond |
12-29-2003 5:23 pm |
Association News
Creative Loafing Board Censures Two Members from Cox Newspapersnew
President Jay Smith and his chief financial officer, Charles "Buddy" Solomon, voted against censuring themselves for "violating business and journalism ethical standards" but were overruled by the other six members of Creative Loafing Inc.'s board of directors. The resolution's author, Sterling "Jim" Soderlind, accused the Cox executives of getting "a very good education in the alternative newspaper business while sitting on our board," and then using that knowledge to launch a competing free newspaper, Access Atlanta. John Sugg's Nov. 20 report on the meeting was followed by Smith's response the next week.
Creative Loafing Atlanta |
12-23-2003 4:02 pm |
Industry News
Holiday Guides Can Be Naughty or Nice
"When you talk about holiday gift guides, it sounds very un-alternative," Baltimore City Paper Publisher Don Farley says. Maybe so, but while some AAN papers publish gift guides devoted solely to advertising, others season the ads with sex and satire and the kind of edgy content that would never make it past mainstream-media gatekeepeers.
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Ann Hinch |
12-22-2003 5:43 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Retail Advertising
City Newspaper Analyzes What to Expect from New Gannett Weeklynew
Chad Oliveiri, managing editor of the Rochester, N.Y., AAN member publication, talks to editors of other alternative newsweeklies to anticipate how a new Gannett weekly, tentatively named The InsideR, could affect his market. Free weeklies the media giant has already launched in Boise and Cincinnati compete with AAN papers for advertising and promotional opportunities. The silver lining is that Gannett is selling large mainstream advertisers on the concept of appearing in free weeklies, Cincinnati CityBeat Editor John Fox says.
City Newspaper |
12-18-2003 3:45 pm |
Industry News
Coast Weekly Reporter Embedded in Iraq
A reporter known for his environmental coverage expressed concern in an article last March that alternative newsweeklies were criticizing mainstream press coverage of the war but hadn't sent their own reporters to Iraq. "If you want to go, go," Coast Weekly Editor Eric Johnson told his reporter, Andrew Scutro. Scutro left for Iraq on Dec. 15.
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Ruth Hammond |
12-18-2003 11:18 am |
Industry News
Youth-Oriented Tabs Too Shallow for Gen-Xers, Says Columnistnew
Offering no substance and playing it safe aren't the way to win over the most educated generation of readers in the country, writes Scripps Howard News Service columnist Joe Donatelli. He was disappointed when he saw one of his columns reprinted in the Chicago Sun-Times' Red Streak at half its length and with all the humor expunged.
Evansville Courier & Press |
12-15-2003 11:23 am |
Industry News
Gannett's New Publications Threaten Independent Voices in Indianapolis, Writer Saysnew
The Indianapolis Star debuts its new tabloid, INtake Weekly, today, 12 days after its parent company, Gannett, launched IN, a glossy magazine that competes with the locally owned Indianapolis Woman. Brian A. Howey, writing for the online magazine Indianapolis Eye News, discusses tactics Gannett has used in the past to put newspaper competitors out of business and then raise its advertising rates. "If you're NUVO Publisher Kevin McKinney and his staff, INtake might as well be a gun aimed at your heads," Howey writes. He urges advertisers to continue to place ads in independent publications so Gannett doesn't become their only option.
Indianapolis Eye News |
12-11-2003 1:55 pm |
Industry News
New Youth-Oriented Papers Lack Vision, AAN Says
Free newspapers aimed at young readers are, for the most part, "just dumbed-down versions of a daily newspaper," writes AAN'S Roxanne Cooper, in an editorial published in the International Newspaper Marketing Association's monthly magazine. Basing a newspaper's content on market research instead of a creative vision is getting it backwards. And if young people have such short attention spans, why are so many of them reading books during their commutes?
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Roxanne Cooper |
12-11-2003 11:08 am |
Industry News
Alternative Weekly Food Writers Win National Awards
AAN Staff |
12-11-2003 6:47 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
