AAN News
The Other Paper Acquired by Columbus Dispatch Parent Co.new
With the purchase, The Dispatch Printing Company now owns the major daily newspaper, monthly magazine and alt-weekly in Columbus, Ohio.
Columbus Business First |
09-27-2011 6:14 pm |
Industry News
Columbus Alive's New Owners 'Resuscitate' Paper With Redesignnew
Business First of Columbus |
06-09-2006 8:25 am |
Industry News
Sale of Columbus Alive Finalizednew
The Columbus Dispatch reported on Saturday that its parent company completed the acquisition of the AAN-member paper that had been announced on Aug. 31. Michael J. Fiorile, president of the Dispatch Printing Co., says his company was looking at launching a weekly aimed at 18- to 34-year-olds when the opportunity to purchase Columbus Alive arose. According to a page on its Web site, in addition to the area's largest daily newspaper, Dispatch Printing owns several other electronic and print outlets in central Ohio.
The Columbus Dispatch |
10-31-2005 10:51 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Columbus Alive
Daily Considers Buying Columbus Alive, Shifting Contentnew
Akron Beacon Journal (registration required) |
09-01-2005 10:30 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Columbus Alive
Daily Paper May Acquire Columbus Alive
The Columbus Dispatch reports today that its publisher, Dispatch Printing Company, has signed an option to purchase Columbus Alive's name, logo and Web site, along with the weekly's advertising contracts and some of its office equipment. According to the report, Dispatch Printing will evaluate the AAN-member paper's operations and "barring the unforeseen," complete the purchase before the option lapses on Dec. 1. Dispatch Printing says it plans to build on Alive's most popular sections, columns and features, and the alt-weekly's 12 current employees will have an opportunity to apply for positions with the new owner. (The full report is available online only to Dispatch subscribers.)
08-31-2005 11:02 am |
Industry News
Schedule Announced for Columbus Deep Focus Film Festival
04-14-2005 2:15 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Columbus Alive
Real Musicians Have Day Jobs
They need to make a living but can't afford to let the conformity demanded by some day jobs sap their creative spirit. Independent Weekly's Leslie Land, Tucson Weekly's Marc Desilets and others explain the migration of musicians to the classified sales departments of alternative newsweeklies. What's the appeal? Good pay, good vibes -- altogether a decent daylight gig for a breed that Cincinnati CityBeat's Chuck Davis has dubbed "rawker-ad-hawkers."
(FULL STORY)
Noel Black |
08-04-2004 11:02 am |
Industry News
Columbus Weekly Paper up for Awards
Alive news release |
05-01-2003 10:45 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, Columbus Alive
Alive Making Ad Push with Revived Brandnew
Columbus Alive Inc. is launching an e-mail brand campaign to call attention to its five-month-old redesign, its new focus on arts and entertainment and its new name: Alive. Publisher Sally Crane says the ad sales have climbed about 18 percent since the campaign began and projects an additional 25
percent through the end of this year. Alive's 2002 ad sales were more than $1 million, Kathy Showalter of Business First of Columbus reports.
Business First of Columbus |
04-15-2003 1:25 pm |
Industry News
Columbus Alive Shifts Focus, Changes Namenew
The Ohio weekly has changed its
name to simply Alive and is now
"the music, art and culture paper of
Columbus," Publisher Sally
Crane writes in an Oct. 17 editorial.
Saying the paper was "stuck in a rut,"
Crane says Alive will quench those who
"were thirsting for more of what they
find relevant to their lives" -- and
that's more on the arts, music and culture
scenes "with tips and top picks
in
each category." Crane says it's hard for
her, a former investigative reporter, to
admit, but the paper was taking itself "a
little too seriously."
Columbus Alive |
10-28-2002 3:44 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Columbus Alive
Columbus Alive Launches Spanish-Language Section
Column, advertising reaches
city's fastest-growing ethnic
group
(FULL STORY)
01-25-2002 4:21 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, Columbus Alive
Chemtrails: Messing with the Weathernew
Columbus Alive, in a thorough investigative report, reveals how secret experiments for both war and weather control are spewing weird chemicals into the air. The residue of the mysterious chemtrails includes toxic chemicals and carcinogens, sources tell the alt-weekly. One scientist tells the paper that original experiments with seeding clouds with aluminum oxide were conducted to prove that this should not be done. The same source cites rumors that the Bush administration will soon announce a program of weather modification and says that would be "political suicide."
Tags: Columbus Alive
