AAN News
Washington City Paper's Annual Crafty Bastards Fair is This Sundaynew
Washington City Paper |
09-25-2008 9:13 am |
Industry News
Dallas Morning News' Free Youth Tabloid Is Going Weeklynew
"Starting Oct. 30, Quick will become focused exclusively on entertainment and nightlife rather than its current offering of news summaries and entertainment-related stories," the Morning News reports. "It also will become a weekly appearing Thursdays, rather than publishing five days a week."
Dallas Morning News |
09-24-2008 12:32 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management
Former Boston Phoenix Editor Diesnew
P.J. Corkery, who was editor of the Phoenix in the early 1970s, died Saturday at Stanford Hospital in California after fighting non-Hodgkins lymphoma for two years, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. He was 61. After the Phoenix, Corkery went on to have a long and fruitful journalism career -- he was a columnist for the San Francisco Examiner, the author of the best-selling Carson: The Unauthorized Biography, and wrote for numerous newspapers and magazines. He also served as a judge for 2001's AltWeekly Awards.
San Francisco Chronicle |
09-24-2008 12:18 pm |
Industry News
Ad Spending Falls At Steepest Rate Since 2001new
Spending across the major U.S. media fell 3.7 percent during the second quarter of 2008, and 1.6 percent during the first half of the year, according to new data released this morning by ad tracking service TNS Media Intelligence. Media Daily News reports the decline, the steepest since 2001, reflects the worsening of the U.S. economy, and a slackening of demand from major marketers for most major media. TNS senior vice president for research Jon Swallen notes that spending in 2008's second half is likely to be "bolstered by the Summer Olympics and political elections," but warns that "sustained improvement will most likely depend on a turnaround in consumer spending that rejuvenates corporate profits and encourages marketers to expand their advertising efforts." The newspaper sector was the hardest hit, with total newspaper ad spending down 7.4 percent year-over-year, and local newspapers down 7.1 percent.
Media Daily News |
09-24-2008 8:47 am |
Industry News
Google's G1 Takes On iPhone and Mobile Webnew
Online Media Daily |
09-24-2008 8:48 am |
Industry News
Tags: Electronic Publishing, Management
How I Got That Story: Adam Sobsey
In the second installment of this year's "How I Got That Story" series, the Independent Weekly's Adam Sobsey talks to Rich Knight about how he got his start as a book reviewer, his playwriting career, and the differences between his work for daily newspapers and alt-weeklies. "I often have more space in the Indy than I do when I write theater reviews for The News & Observer," Sobsey says, "so there's an opportunity for me to say more about what I'm reviewing, either specifically or more broadly."
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AAN News |
09-23-2008 12:08 pm |
Association News
Washington City Paper Has a 'New-Found Promotional Intensity'new
That's according to managing editor Andrew Beaujon, who notes that the paper recently produced new promotional magnets and pens, on top of making promo hats earlier in the month. "As you may have read, we are facing budget cuts," Beaujon writes. "So I guess I'm wondering whether the hats are a tactic to comfort or maybe confuse us -- perhaps if our heads are warm, we may not worry so much about our newsroom possibly going kablooey?"
Washington City Paper |
09-23-2008 8:37 am |
Industry News
4Q Ad Spend: Holiday Numbers Expected To Plummetnew
Media Daily News |
09-23-2008 8:45 am |
Industry News
Gambit Weekly Food Columnist Pens Katrina Memoir
Ian McNulty's A Season of Night: New Orleans Life After Katrina "certainly ranks as one of the better Katrina memoirs," according to John Sledge, a columnist for the Alabama daily Press-Register. "McNulty's approach is defiantly, if quietly, personal," notes Gambit Weekly's Caroline Goyette. "It's this tight focus, combined with the author's fine eye for detail and his honest, introspective narration, that gives the book its considerable power."
AAN News |
09-22-2008 12:55 pm |
Industry News
Trespass Charges Against Journalist are Dropped in Hawaiinew
Joan Conrow, who was writing a story for the Honolulu Weekly about an oceanfront home being built atop a Hawaiian burial ground, was initially charged with trespassing when she covered a protest at the construction site. But when she went to the police station to be arrested Wednesday night, Kauai Police Chief Darryl Perry told her to go home -- and then had prosecutors rescind the charges, according to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Perry says that after looking at the arrest warrant, he decided that the arrest raised First Amendment issues. "She was covered by the First Amendment," Perry says. Her presence "didn't sit within the criteria of criminal trespass."
The Honolulu Star-Bulletin |
09-22-2008 8:07 am |
Legal News
iRex Technologies Releases a New E-Reader Modelnew
The New York Times |
09-22-2008 2:10 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Electronic Publishing, Management
New JupiterResearch Study Shows How to Make the Most of MySpace and Facebooknew
Online Media Daily |
09-22-2008 1:08 pm |
Industry News
Media Owners Brace for Tougher '09new
Advertising Age |
09-22-2008 11:26 am |
Industry News
Oklahoma Gazette's Scott Cooper Elected SPJ's Region 8 Directornew
The Norman Transcript |
09-22-2008 8:09 am |
Honors & Achievements
Convicted Teen Freed After Independent Weekly Investigation
As a result of an Independent Weekly investigation, a Durham County Superior Court Judge dismissed all charges today against Erick Daniels, who was falsely convicted of robbery in 2001, when he was 15. The May 2007 story by Mosi Secret, "Stolen Youth," which won the the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism, detailed abundant evidence to to support Daniels' claims of innocence, and revealed the contradictions and problems in the case to constitute reasonable doubt. Daniels, who has served seven years in prison, is due to be released this afternoon.
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Independent Weekly Press Release |
09-19-2008 12:59 pm |
Industry News
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