AAN News
Metro Pulse Parent Company Implements Pay Cutsnew
E.W. Scripps Co. exempt employees will see a 5 percent pay cut and the salaries of nonexempt employees will decline by 3 percent. The cuts also include a suspension of the company's 401(k) match and a freeze of the Scripps pension plan. The pay freezes are expected to last for at least a year.
The Knoxville News-Sentinel |
02-20-2009 8:28 am |
Industry News
Study: Search Engines Edge Out Print Phone Books for Local Searchnew
Online Media Daily |
02-20-2009 8:32 am |
Industry News
Yelp Responds to East Bay Express Storynew
"Today the East Bay Express ran a lengthy story that accuses Yelp of manipulating review order for money," the user-generated review site's CEO Jeremy Stoppelman writes. "As we've said many-a-time we do not do this." He criticizes the story for relying heavily on anonymous sources and adds that the piece essentially overturns its "accusatory thrust" at the end.
Yelp.com |
02-19-2009 11:35 am |
Industry News
Tucson Weekly Kicks Off Year-Long 25th Anniversary Celebration
"It's a big deal for any business to survive for 25 years," editor Jimmy Boegle says. "But after looking at what the Weekly's accomplished over 2 1/2 decades, I can say this paper didn't just survive; as far as its content, it's thrived." To celebrate, the paper will release a 25th Anniversary issue on Feb. 26, launch a new website in March and host the 32nd Annual AAN Convention in June. "Seeing daily newspapers collapse all around us is unsettling," publisher Thomas P. Lee says. "But Tucson will have the Tucson Weekly to kick around for many years to come. We have our excellent staff, and our loyal readers, to thank for that."
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Tucson Weekly Press Release |
02-19-2009 9:28 am |
Press Releases
Port Folio Weekly's Print Edition to be Suspendednew
As part of ongoing cost-cutting by its parent company, the 26-year-old alt-weekly will publish its last print edition next week. Its website will remain, and the paper may resume publishing when the economy improves, according to Maurice Jones, president and publisher of the Virginian-Pilot, which owns Port Folio. The Pilot is also laying off 30 employees, including some at Port Folio.
The Virginian-Pilot |
02-19-2009 9:11 am |
Industry News
Survey: Mobile Internet Becoming Necessity for U.S. Consumersnew
Online Media Daily |
02-19-2009 9:20 am |
Industry News
Tags: Electronic Publishing, Management
More Accusations of 'Extortion' by Yelpnew
Six businesspeople tell the East Bay Express that sales reps from the popular user-generated review site promised to move or remove negative reviews if their business would advertise. "In another six instances, positive reviews disappeared -- or negative ones appeared -- after owners declined to advertise," the Express reports. Similar accusations were made by California small business owners last fall. Yelp officials deny that they move negative reviews. "We wouldn't be in business very long if we started duping customers," chief operating officer Geoff Donaker says.
East Bay Express |
02-18-2009 8:32 am |
Industry News
Dan Pulcrano Buys Online Paper in Los Gatos, Calif.new
Pulcrano, the CEO and executive editor of Metro Newspapers Group, has signed an agreement to purchase the Los Gatos Observer. The site will be run by the division of Metro known as Boulevards.
Los Gatos Observer |
02-17-2009 1:17 pm |
Industry News
Four AAN Members Win Scores of Regional Press Awardsnew
Boston Phoenix staff writer David Bernstein was named Journalist of the Year by the New England Press Association. He also brought home two additional first-place awards for the Phoenix -- in the Investigative Reporting and Serious Columnist categories. "Mr. Bernstein's in-depth articles are compelling and hyper-relevant, challenging myths and assumptions with sharp, clear reporting and a highly readable writing style," the judges write. "Very impressive!" All in all, the Phoenix won another nine awards, including additional first-place wins for Convergence and Reporting on Religious Issues. Worcester Magazine took home six awards, including first-place finishes in the Personality Photo, Social Issues Feature Story and Local Ad: Color categories. Boston's Weekly Dig won four awards, finishing first in Educational Reporting, Infographics and Transportation/Commuter Reporting. The Portland Phoenix also won four awards, and placed first in the General News Story category.
New England Press Association (PDF) |
02-17-2009 8:38 am |
Honors & Achievements
Mobile Entertainment Foundation Releases Top 10 Trends for '09new
Mobile Entertainment Foundation |
02-17-2009 12:52 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Electronic Publishing, Management
Small Local Businesses Not Keeping Up With Online Presencenew
Though 63 percent of consumers and small business owners turn to the internet first for information about local companies and 82 percent use search engines to do so, only 44 percent of small businesses have a website and half spend less than 10 percent of their marketing budget online, according to new research from Webvisible and Nielsen.
The Center for Media Research |
02-13-2009 8:25 am |
Industry News
Judge Orders Web Publisher to Reveal Users' ID Informationnew
A judge in Texas has ordered the site Topix to reveal identifying information about 178 anonymous commenters who allegedly defamed Mark and Rhonda Lesher. The couple was indicted and later acquitted for sexual assault, but in the nine months that the criminal case was pending, people posted more than 25,000 comments to Topix message boards about the charges, some of which were defamatory, according to the 365-page lawsuit.
Online Media Daily |
02-12-2009 1:04 pm |
Legal News
'New' Models for Journalism Look a Lot Like Alt-Weekliesnew
Business Week's Michael Arndt and Hypercrit's Michael Becker let a little air out of two lofty plans for the future of journalism by noting that both bear some resemblance to an already existing business model. Business Week looks at The Printed Blog, the recently launched weekly print product that repackages blog posts and is currently operating in three cities. The paper's founder, Joshua Karp, says eventually he would like to publish more local content and do so more frequently. "In other words, it would evolve into an alternative newspaper," Business Week notes. At Hypercrit, Michael Becker deconstructs Jane Stevens' idea of "mini-metros," which would be built around a limited number of subjects, perhaps even one beat, but would be exhaustive in those areas. "Stevens' mini-metro model is not exactly a new idea," Becker writes. "The general idea of niche mini-metros has always been with us in the form of alt weeklies."
Business Week | Hypercrit |
02-11-2009 12:20 pm |
Industry News
Village Voice Media Execs Talk Web Strategy
VVM's digital publishing strategy has been in the news quite a bit lately, whether it was the company's partnership with a social-networking site or its use of Digg to help drive traffic to its stories. Chief operating officer Scott Tobias and web and digital operations director Bill Jensen spoke with AAN News this week about where the paper is going with web publishing. They tell us that digital is a growth area for VVM, both in terms of pageviews and revenue, and they talk about new projects like geo-targeted ads and a national food website.
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AAN News |
02-10-2009 4:28 pm |
Industry News
Judge: Companies Must Contract For 'Unique' Visitorsnew
Ruling on a lawsuit brought against WebMD, a New York judge says that the term "visitors" in an online ad contract does not mean "unique visitors." Judge Doris Ling-Cohan added that if companies want guarantees of unique visitors, they must spell out that expectation in the contract.
Online Media Daily |
02-10-2009 9:19 am |
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