AAN News
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) Names New Publishernew
Luann Labedz will take over on June 2 for departing publisher Dave Schmall, chief operating officer Kirk MacDonald told the staff Thursday morning. Labedz comes to Creative Loafing after 18 years at Gannett Co., most recently as director of market development at the Citizen-Times in Asheville, N.C. During her tenure at Gannett, she was responsible for niche publications, product development, strategy and advertiser partnerships. "It's not broken here, so I want to build on that," Labedz says. "There's a great deal of energy here."
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
05-29-2008 2:01 pm |
Industry News
John Sugg Retiring from Creative Loafingnew
"This company has been my home for almost 13 years, I love it and own a tiny bit of it, so I won't disappear," the CL group senior editor, columnist, and shareholder says in announcing his retirement at the end of January. He says he'll "likely continue" writing his column, "in large part because our CEO, Ben Eason, and editor, Ken Edelstein, are guys who passionately care about Atlanta." Sugg plans on starting a think tank which will "look for radical, yet effective, alternatives to urban dilemmas."
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
12-20-2007 10:31 am |
Industry News
Seven Creative Loafing Employees Laid Offnew
"Friday was a rough day at the Loaf, perhaps even rougher at our new brethren papers in Washington and Chicago," writes Creative Loafing (Atlanta) editor-in-chief Ken Edelstein. "In Atlanta, we laid off four sales people, a marketing assistant, a sales assistant and our wonderful assistant distribution manager." He adds that the six-paper company is going through the same sort of difficult transition that's hitting other media companies, before noting that his paper's online readership continues to grow. "How that audience growth translates into ad dollars is the business question that [CEO] Ben [Eason] and the folks on the sales side of our business are going to have to grapple with for a long time -- and continuously."
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
12-10-2007 1:16 pm |
Industry News
CL's John Sugg: Our New Chain is More than a Balance Sheetnew
The columnist and Creative Loafing shareholder says his company's acquisition of the Chicago Reader and Washington City Paper is neither an "idealistic foray" nor a "hostile takeover of independent papers." The way Sugg sees it, the two papers were caught up in a "broader crisis in the publishing business" that their former owners weren't nimble enough to navigate. He also defends CEO Ben Eason, who hasn't exactly been welcomed with open arms in Chicago and Washington. "He believes alt-weeklies can help readers strengthen their communities," says Suggs. "Eason loves to see controversy in his newspapers. He admits mistakes, takes risks and has an ambitious vision for new media. His lieutenants often disagree with him; he listens ... sometimes."
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
08-02-2007 3:41 pm |
Industry News
Atlanta's Creative Loafing Celebrates 35th Anniversarynew
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
05-18-2007 4:27 pm |
Industry News
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) Launches New Dining Blognew
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) Press Release (PDF file) |
05-16-2007 10:43 am |
Press Releases
Creative Loafing Writer Named Atlanta's 'Journalist of the Year'new
The Atlanta Press Club bestowed the honor on senior writer Mara Shalhoup at their annual gala last week. Shalhoup was cited in part for her three-part series on the rise of the Black Mafia Family, a cocaine-trafficking network with ties to a music label and violent crimes. "Since late 2004, my editor and I knew what an important story the Black Mafia Family's was," Shalhoup says. "Creative Loafing deserves a round of applause for its devotion to publishing the series." She will receive a $1,000 prize.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) Press Release (PDF file) |
05-08-2007 8:28 am |
Honors & Achievements
Creative Loafing Food Editor Selected as James Beard Award Finalist
Creative Loafing Press Release |
03-21-2007 11:42 am |
Press Releases
Creative Loafing Story on White Nationalists Causes a Stir
The Atlanta alt-weekly's story on the Stormfront White Nationalist Community web forum, "A Kinder, Gentler Racism," led to a landslide of hateful and nasty comments on the paper's website. The avalanche may have been triggered by a post on the Vanguard News Network Forum encouraging "everyone here [to] take a minute, breeze through the article and comment on the Creative Loafing site about it." Despite charges of censorship leveled by the white nationalists, Web Editor Lea Holland says that only one comment has been deleted, "because the link was dead." The incident highlights the balancing act papers perform while monitoring their sites' comments. "While we all have mixed feelings about this, I think ultimately our readers and the public good are better served by letting these guys show who they are," Editor Ken Edelstein tells AAN News. "I have enough faith in our readers to know that the overwhelming majority will be repulsed by what they see -- but also informed at the same time."
AAN News |
03-02-2007 3:19 pm |
Industry News
Rodney Carmichael Named Creative Loafing Music Editor
Former Rolling Out senior writer joined alt-weekly's staff Jan. 4
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Creative Loafing (Atlanta) press release |
01-08-2007 5:34 pm |
Press Releases
Man Issues Press Release Refuting Creative Loafing Article -- From 2004
Don Boys chose an unusual method to complain about his portrayal in a Creative Loafing cover story: He waited two years, then issued a 1,400-word press release. The focus of his ire is "America the Theocracy" by John F. Sugg, which was published in Atlanta's Creative Loafing on Mar. 25, 2004. According to Boys, the piece suggests he is "a spokesman for Christian Reconstructionism," when he is not part of the movement. In fact, Suggs' feature-length article only mentions Boys in a few paragraphs, but it does include the following quote: "Denying that he's a Reconstructionist ('They're mostly Presbyterians,' he says), Boys nonetheless told me last fall, 'I agree with just about all they say.'" Sugg tells AAN News that Boys did contact him by telephone about a year ago to ask for a retraction, but Sugg has not heard from him since.
07-21-2006 2:03 pm |
Industry News
Creative Loafing Atlanta Welcomes (Another) New Publishernew
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
06-29-2006 11:07 am |
Industry News
Creative Loafing Atlanta Hires Former Gambit A&E Editornew
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
06-07-2006 11:39 am |
Industry News
Creative Loafing's Web Staff Ponder the Online Future of Alt-Weeklies
Webmaster Aaron Karp and Online Editor Laura Fries turned their Loafing successes and failures into advice on the "Mostly ITP" podcast April 20. Their tips included making podcasts listenable (use segments, include interaction between two or more people, and have a pre-set structure), including advertising in podcasts and blogs (make sure it is inobtrusive and relevant to the audience) and the next big thing (social networking). The show is available for download here.
05-09-2006 7:45 am |
Industry News
Publisher Terry Coe Leaves Seattle Weekly to Join Creative Loafingnew
Creative Loafing Media CEO Ben Eason (pictured) has tapped Coe to become the Atlanta paper's fourth publisher in less than three years, according to a story on its Web site. The last publisher, Michael Sigman, only lasted 10 days. Coe worked for New Times, Inc., for 17 years and Village Voice Media for three years before the two companies merged last October. "I felt like the opportunities for me in Atlanta were going to be greater than they might be in this combined, larger company," he says. Coe will be focusing on building revenue and expanding the weekly's online presence; editorial content "is best left to the editors," he says. Eason has also hired a new associate publisher for the newspaper: David Schmall, formerly of Sacramento News & Review, Minneapolis's the Rake and the Dallas Morning News' free commuter daily, Quick.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
05-01-2006 7:41 am |
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