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Judge Denies SF Weekly's Motion for New Trial Against Guardiannew
With little comment, Judge Marla Miller on Friday denied requests from SF Weekly to overturn the verdict in favor of the Bay Guardian or to order a new trial, the Guardian reports. The ruling means the predatory-pricing case will likely head to the California Court of Appeal.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
07-21-2008 8:14 am |
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East Bay Express' 'Best of the East Bay' Party Was 'Hella Fun'new
Amoeba Records' Blog |
07-21-2008 12:48 pm |
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Sitcom About Alt-Weekly 'Percolating in the Script Stage' at ABCnew
That's according to Variety, which reports in its inimitable varietyese that "The Weekly" is a "single-camera workplace comedy ... set in the office of a dishy alternative weekly publication and blog." Huh? Furthermore, "project is penned" by the impossibly named Flint Wainess, according to The Bible of the Entertainment Industry.
Variety |
07-18-2008 11:24 am |
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Tags: Editorial, Management
Local Daily to Distribute Creative Loafing Tampanew
The paper formerly known as The Weekly Planet signed a distribution deal this week with the St. Petersburg Times, according to the Tampa Bay Business Journal. The Business Journal also reports that publisher Sharry Smith "assured the staff that protection clauses were added to the agreement to keep Creative Loafing stories confidential until the actual release date." Although the Business Journal says the agreement "cost 19 people jobs," Smith tells AAN only one staff person was laid off.
Tampa Bay Business Journal |
07-18-2008 10:57 am |
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Cleveland Free Times, RIPnew
After 16 years, Cleveland's oldest AAN member published its last issue today. Started by labor lawyer Richard Siegel in 1992, the alt-weekly survived even after its founder died a year later, always striving to remain faithful to his mission of providing "tough-minded, responsible and gutsy coverage of what's really going on in" Cleveland. Although Free Times survived a temporary shutdown in 2002-03, this time it appears to be closing for good. In its final issue, the paper publishes a series of tributes, remembrances, and critiques.
Cleveland Free Times |
07-16-2008 7:43 pm |
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AAN Member Executive Passes Away
Bob Thomas, one of the original organizers of the annual AAN West conference held each year in San Francisco, died on Saturday after a long bout with a neurological disease which he battled valiantly for a number of years, according to his colleagues at the Palo Alto Weekly. Thomas served as the general manager of East Bay Express before joining PAW-parent Embarcadero Publishing, where he launched Pleasanton Weekly in 2000 and facilitated the start-up of another community weekly several years later. Bob is survived by his wife Candy and their two children, according to an email circulated by ex-Embarcadero VP Franklin Elieh, who called his best friend "a gentle giant (who) treated everyone with respect." Funeral services will be held Saturday, Aug. 9 at the Presbyterian Church in Burlingame, Calif.
AAN Staff |
07-15-2008 11:29 am |
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Tags: Management, Palo Alto Weekly
Hawaii Island Journal Editor Plans to Launch 'Some Kind of Publication'new
Peter Serafin has told Hunter Bishop that he and his staff hope are planning to have a publication out next month. The Journal ceased publishing last month, one week after it was accepted as a member of AAN. It is unclear if the new publication will be a resurrected Journal, or something entirely new.
HunterBishop.com |
07-11-2008 5:20 pm |
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Tags: Management, Hawaii Island Journal
Rebecca Schoenkopf on Taking Over at CityBeat and Leaving the OCnew
The "Commie Girl" columnist and former OC Weekly staffer was named editor of Los Angeles CityBeat this Spring amidst a relaunch of the paper. She says she's already receiving hate mail. One person wrote in to ask: "'Who's this inane, vulgar, rambling, trite girl who's a terrible writer and has a potty mouth'," she tells the Guardian. "And I was like, 'You live in Los Angeles, are you really that sheltered?'" Schoenkopf also says that she's now realized she willing blinded herself about notoriously conservative Orange County while she was there. "It's not the conservatism that bothers me: it's the nastiness," she says The nattering classes I'd thought were fringey were in fact the decision makers."
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
07-11-2008 8:04 am |
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Seattle Weekly Columnist Inks Book Dealnew
Penguin imprint Gotham Books has signed the "Uptight Seattleite" columnist to do a book version of his popular advice column. Publication date is set for Spring 2010.
Seattle Weekly |
07-11-2008 7:21 am |
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The Village People Use Village Voice Classifieds to Recruit Membersnew
WWNY-TV |
07-11-2008 7:42 am |
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SF Weekly and Bay Guardian Argue Weekly's Motion for New Trial
The two papers were in San Francisco Superior Court on Tuesday to argue the Weekly's motion for a new trial and its request that the judge overturn a jury verdict in the predatory-pricing suit. Judge Marla Miller has until July 18 to rule on the motions; if she rules against the Weekly, it will take the case to the California Court of Appeals. In dueling blog posts, the Weekly lays out the four chief arguments put forth by its lawyers and pokes a little fun at the Guardian's lawyers, while the Guardian details the Weekly's "at times highly technical" arguments, which "hinged on the finer points of the definitions of words."
SF Weekly | San Francisco Bay Guardian |
07-10-2008 10:01 am |
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Nearly Two Years After Jackson Free Press Story, Mayor is Indictednew
Mayor Frank Melton and two of his bodyguards have been indicted by a federal grand jury for demolishing an alleged "drug house" in Aug. 2006, a story first reported by the Jackson Free Press in Sept. 2006. "The three men were charged in connection with a conspiracy to tear down a private home in Jackson and thereby violate the civil rights of the owner and resident of that home," a Department of Justice press release reads. They are also charged with using a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence. Melton, who is running for a second term, tells the Clarion-Ledger that he's "very disappointed, because I have worked so hard on fighting crime in this city."
Jackson Free Press |
07-10-2008 9:37 am |
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The Independent Weekly's Editor Leaves for Politicsnew
Scott Jordan is leaving the Lafayette, La., paper at the end of the month to become communications director for the Louisiana Democratic Party. Prior to joining the Independent at its inception, he worked at Gambit Weekly for five years. "This fall's elections, both statewide and national, promise to be historic," Jordan says. "And after 15 years of working as a journalist and editor, I've decided I want to be directly involved in politics in a different role." Kevin Allman, blogging for the Gambit, congratulates Jordan on his new role, and adds: "We hope never to have to write 'Scott Jordan, spokesman for the state Democratic party, did not respond to a request for comment.'"
The Independent Weekly |
07-10-2008 8:44 am |
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Creative Loafing's Southern Papers Join Ruxton Media Group
CL's publications in Atlanta, Tampa Bay, Charlotte and Sarasota have joined the company's Chicago Reader and Washington City Paper as members of Ruxton, according to a press release issued this afternoon by Village Voice Media's national advertising firm. Under the arrangement, Ruxton will serve as Creative Loafing's exclusive representative for national print advertising and also will provide non-exclusive representation for online advertising.
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Ruxton Media Group Press Release |
07-09-2008 4:27 pm |
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Cincinnati CityBeat Files Federal Suit Against Coalition Groupnew
CityBeat has filed a federal lawsuit against a number of local government officials and a coalition of local religious and nonprofit leaders led by Citizens for Community Values (CCV) who last month publicly asked the paper to stop publishing adult-oriented classified ads. The suit charges the coalition with violating the paper's First Amendment rights, conspiracy to violate its First Amendment rights and tortious interference with its business relationships. "When government officials use their position of authority to threaten a media organization with implied legal action unless a certain demand is met, that's wrong. And when CCV, ministers and nonprofit leaders conspire with government officials to threaten the media, they're wrong, too," writes CityBeat co-publisher and editor John Fox. "We've decided the only way to prevent permanent damage to our business is to ask a federal judge to intercede on our behalf and protect our right to exist."
Cincinnati CityBeat |
07-09-2008 11:36 am |
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