AAN News
Architecture Firm Tapped to Expand and 'Green' Charleston City Paper Officesnew
Studio A Architecture Press Release |
10-22-2008 9:05 am |
Press Releases
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AAN |
10-20-2008 9:35 am |
Association News
UBS Cuts 2009 Ad Spend Estimates by 6 Percentnew
Media Daily News |
10-20-2008 9:09 am |
Industry News
East Bay Express Circ Manager Nabs Newspaper Thievesnew
Express president Hal Brody tells the Berkeley Daily Planet that the paper's circulation manager saw two men in a white van stealing free circulation newspapers from street racks on Wednesday morning and made a citizen's arrest. After the Berkeley police arrived and processed the arrest, the two suspects were charged with theft of free publications, driving on the wrong side of the road and driving with expired plates.
The Berkeley Daily Planet |
10-17-2008 10:44 am |
Industry News
Court Filings Shed Light on Creative Loafing's Financesnew
According to a case management summary (pdf) filed in Creative Loafing's bankruptcy proceedings on Monday, revenues are off at the six-paper alt-weekly chain. Atlanta Magazine's Steve Fennessy reports that when CL was looking for financing to purchase the Chicago Reader and Washington City Paper, it projected the expanded company would see revenues of $43 million in fiscal year 2008. But the court filing says that revenue in FY08, ending June 30, 2008, was $35 million, and predicts that sales in the first quarter of FY09 will be only $3.5 million. In other CL bankruptcy news, Washington City Paper has published a statement from one of the company's lenders, Atalaya, which says the bankruptcy filing was "unfortunate and unnecessary," and assures "all interested parties that Atalaya has no intention of attempting to shut down the business." MORE: City Paper editor Erik Wemple talks to the George Washington University student paper The Hatchet about the changes in store as the paper shifts focus.
Atlanta Magazine | Washington City Paper |
10-16-2008 11:43 am |
Industry News
Survey: Digital Ad Spend Up At The Expense of Traditionalnew
The Center for Media Research |
10-16-2008 8:58 am |
Industry News
Online Display Ad Prices Fall To Lowest Point This Yearnew
Online Media Daily |
10-15-2008 8:29 am |
Industry News
MySpace Launches Self-Service MyAdsnew
Media Daily News |
10-14-2008 10:12 am |
Industry News
Monterey County Weekly: Looking Good at 20
The Weekly celebrates an historic milestone with a special 20th anniversary issue that hit the streets (and the web) yesterday. The 200-page issue, which is saddle stitched and features the Weekly's first-ever glossy cover, "takes a long backwards glance at the people, the institutions, the buildings, the parties and the natural disasters that have helped shape the community" since Coast Weekly (the paper's original name) debuted in the fall of 1988. "The community support has been fantastic for this issue, in much the same way it has been for the last twenty years," says founder and CEO Bradley Zeve.
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Monterey County Weekly Press Release |
10-10-2008 8:18 am |
Press Releases
UBS Cuts Online Advertising Outlooknew
Online Media Daily |
10-10-2008 8:19 am |
Industry News
Charles Gerencser Leaves Southland Publishing for the Obama Campaignnew
The executive publisher of Southland's Los Angeles CityBeat and executive vice president of sales for the chain's other AAN papers announced yesterday that he's leaving on Oct. 17 to join the Barack Obama campaign as a fundraiser and committee leader for California and Nevada. "As a life-long Republican I am seen as a crucial leader in the fight to win votes and raise money for the Senator amongst undecided Republicans and Independents, particularly in the States of Nevada and Colorado which are key Western battleground states," he wrote in an email to colleagues. Gerencser was also a member of the AAN Marketing Committee. As for life after the campaign, he notes that he's applied to two doctoral programs for admission as early as Spring 2009.
LA Observed |
10-09-2008 11:15 am |
Industry News
Layoffs Hit Las Vegas Weekly and The Village Voice
Facing a tough economic climate, two AAN members had to lay off several employees last week. The Las Vegas Weekly let go "a writer and an art staffer," as part of larger staff reductions by parent company Greenspun Media Group, the Las-Vegas Review-Journal reports. In addition, The Village Voice laid off two staff writers and a deputy copy chief, according to Pop + Politics.
AAN News |
10-08-2008 9:56 am |
Industry News
Internet Advertising Up 15.2 Percent In First Half 2008new
Online Media Daily |
10-08-2008 9:15 am |
Industry News
Washington City Paper Editor Talks More About the Changes to Comenew
In a conversation with D.C.-area public radio host Kojo Nnamdi about "the changing face of City Paper," Erik Wemple says that "perhaps a little too much has been made of" his previous comments on the fate of long-form narrative pieces in the paper. Those stories are "an incredible abyss of work," he says. "We could not really sustain that sort of investment, while at the same time feeding the website." However, he adds, "it's not as if we will stop doing long narrative altogether," it will just be less often. He also notes that long-form narratives often don't generate much web traffic, and that Creative Loafing has made the web a priority. "If we don't come up with models that push web traffic, we are dead, and I am out of a job," Wemple says.
WAMU-FM |
10-07-2008 8:58 am |
Industry News
How Local Media Feel the Recessionnew
Advertising Age |
10-07-2008 12:58 pm |
Industry News
