AAN News
Chicago Reader Publisher Resignsnew
Reader media columnist Michael Miner reports that publisher Michael Crystal resigned from the paper yesterday. The interim publisher is Kirk MacDonald, who is chief operating officer of Creative Loafing, Inc. He expects to spend three days a week in Chicago, according to the Reader. Steve Timble, the founding publisher of Time Out Chicago, has been named the new associate publisher, and is "Crystal's heir apparent," according to Miner. Crystal, who had been publisher since 2004, will move back to Seattle. "[He] was an unruffled sort of executive whose manner recalled the good old days at the Reader, when there was nothing much to get ruffled about," Miner writes. "Those of us who remember those days remember them fondly." In other Reader news, this week the paper launches a pullout music section and additional design updates.
Chicago Reader |
09-17-2008 8:31 am |
Industry News
Newspaper Website Valuations Hit $450 Millionnew
Online Media Daily |
09-17-2008 11:02 am |
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How Wall Street Meltdown Will Affect Ad Spendingnew
Advertising Age |
09-16-2008 9:26 am |
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Study: Mobile Users Are Open to Retail Offersnew
Online Media Daily |
09-11-2008 8:49 am |
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The North Coast Journal Trims Paper Sizenew
The Humboldt Herald |
09-11-2008 8:48 am |
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Study: Mobile Advertising is Growing, but Facing Hurdlesnew
The number of U.S. mobile subscribers who recall seeing ads on their phones was up 81 percent from last year, to 77 million people, according to a new study by Nielsen Mobile. However, the report notes that mobile advertising continues to lag behind mobile media usage. For example, 63 percent of mobile ad viewers see ads just once a month or less, while less than two-thirds of page views of top mobile sites carry advertising (half of that is taken up by unpaid house ads). Nielsen points to three factors holding back mobile advertising: Advertisers and agencies are not yet fully aware of the size of mobile content audiences; the complexity of the mobile ecosystem intimidates media buyers; and a lack of trust in the medium because of survey results showing that consumers are not receptive to mobile advertising.
Online Media Daily |
09-10-2008 2:49 pm |
Industry News
Study: Marketers Taking Cautious Approach With Online Medianew
Online Media Daily |
09-10-2008 8:25 am |
Industry News
Gambit Weekly is Back in Business
After distributing this week's issue one day early, on Saturday, so readers fleeing Hurricane Gustav could grab a copy on their way out of town, about half of Gambit's staff are back in the office today, publisher Margo DuBos tells AAN News. The entire staff of 35 are expected back tomorrow. Much of New Orleans is still without power, but Gambit is running on a generator purchased after Katrina, furiously working on next week's issue, which will see the light of day on Monday, just one day after the paper's unusual Sunday street date. The alt-weekly also kept a steady pace of blogging over at the Blog of New Orleans before, during, and after the storm.
AAN News |
09-04-2008 1:40 pm |
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JPMorgan, Citing 'Macroeconomic Weakness,' Cuts Online Ad Outlooknew
Online Media Daily |
09-04-2008 8:32 am |
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Ruxton Media Group Continues to Expand
Six more AAN members have joined Ruxton and industry veteran Yolanda Luszcz was promoted to head the national advertising agency's burgeoning digital network, according to a press release issued this morning. The Shepherd Express, the Memphis Flyer and Gambit Weekly have all chosen Ruxton to represent them for national sales in both print and digital mediums, while Boise Weekly, Seven Days and Isthmus have joined the Ruxton Digital Media Network (RDMN) for non-exclusive representation of their digital products. Ruxton has also created a Publishers Advisory Committee (PAC) for RDMN, "to ensure that Ruxton's publisher partners are fully vested in the rapidly changing world of digital marketing and advertising." The first elections for PAC reps will be the week of September 15, and the PAC's first meeting will be October 23 in Houston.
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Ruxton Media Group Press Release |
09-03-2008 8:08 am |
Press Releases
San Diego CityBeat Trims Paper Sizenew
San Diego CityBeat |
09-03-2008 8:50 am |
Industry News
More Staff Cuts Could Be On the Horizon at Washington City Papernew
DCist reports that City Paper's parent company Creative Loafing needs to cut the paper's budget by $170,000. The belt-tightening could lead to additional layoffs at the alt-weekly (some production and editorial staffers were laid off after CL purchased City Paper and the Chicago Reader last year). "Like a lot of media companies, we are going through an exceptionally rough period, and indeed we are discussing how to cut expenses," editor Erik Wemple tells DCist. "I don't want to cite any figures at this point because we are trying our best as a company to minimize the impact. But yes, layoffs are part of the discussion."
DCist.com |
09-02-2008 8:28 am |
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New Owners Shuffle the Editorial Deck at Worcester Magazinenew
With the exception of one person, the entire editorial staff will no longer have jobs at the paper tomorrow when the sale to Holden Landmark Corp. closes, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette reports. Three non-editorial staffers also will not be offered jobs with the new company, and one full-time position will be made part-time. "As we merge the Holden Landmark Corp. and Worcester Magazine, we are retaining 88 percent of the combined company's employment base," the paper's new publisher Gareth Charter says in a staff memo explaining the changes. Jim Keogh, current editor-in-chief of the Holden Landmark newspaper group, will take the reins as editor of Worcester Magazine, and Doreen Manning will be the paper's arts & entertainment editor. Outgoing editor-in-chief Noah Bombard tells the Telegram & Gazette that while he expected to lose his job as a result of the sale, he was "stunned" by the depth of the changes. "Cuts were expected, but nobody expected them at this level," he says. MORE: Read Bombard's farewell email.
Worcester Telegram & Gazette |
08-28-2008 8:30 am |
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New Forecast for '08 and '09 Lowers Overall Ad Outlook, Boosts Onlinenew
Online Media Daily |
08-28-2008 8:46 am |
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Palo Alto Will Tweak News Rack Ordinancenew
The city is drafting an amendment to add flexibility to the nine-year-old ordinance, a senior project manager for the public works department tells the Palo Alto Daily News. The amendment, which requires city council approval, would allow daily papers to use abandoned boxes that had been reserved for weekly publications.
Palo Alto Daily News |
08-25-2008 12:34 pm |
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