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Charleston, S.C., Daily Embarks on Distribution Schemenew
Evening Post Publishing, parent of the daily Post and Courier, has offered cash to at least 50 local retailers and restaurants to replace the various newspaper racks in their establishments with single multi-publication boxes, Charleston City Paper reports. The Evening Post would then turn around and charge the city's free publications for space in the new boxes. City Paper publisher Noel Mermer says the alt-weekly will not be involved in this distribution "partnership." "The City Paper cannot and will not pay the Post and Courier for the relationship that we have built with local businesses over the years," Mermer says. The situation in Charleston is similar to ones increasingly faced by alt-weeklies in other markets, such as Jackson, Miss., where the Jackson Free Press and the publishers of other publications developed the Mississippi Independent Publisher's Alliance and distributed their own consolidated boxes.
Charleston City Paper |
08-15-2007 2:07 pm |
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S.C. Supreme Court Rules Against Charleston CP in Defamation Suitnew
Linda Erickson could be awarded millions of dollars in actual and punitive damages, her lawyer told The Post and Courier in Charleston. Erickson sued the City Paper's parent company, Jones Street Publishers, claiming that the newspaper defamed her in a January 2000 story on court-appointed guardians for children. The story contained "unfounded allegations against Erickson's professional abilities" made by the grandmother of a child for whom Erickson was a guardian, even though Erickson was not identified by name, according to The Post and Courier. A new jury will be seated to award damages.
The Post and Courier |
04-11-2006 6:54 am |
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