AAN News
Emergency Preparedness Seminar Added in Business Stream
Blood. Frogs. Vermin. Hail. Locusts. Slaying of your first editor. Whatever. If you publish a paper long enough, sooner or later you will be hit with a disaster. With eleven papers to worry about, the folks at New Times are always thinking about these things, and they have agreed to share their disaster-recovery plans with business-stream attendees on Saturday, June 18 at 4:45 pm.
05-20-2005 1:36 pm |
Industry News
New Times Reporters Named Finalists for Loeb Awards
Bob Norman of New Times Broward-Palm Beach and Bruce Rushton of Phoenix New Times were named today as finalists in the 2005 Gerald Loeb Awards contest. Norman and Rushton received two of the four nominations in the small-newspapers category, which includes papers with circulation under 150,000. The Loeb Awards, which recognize superior business journalism, have been presented by UCLA's Anderson School of Management since 1973.
05-17-2005 5:43 pm |
Industry News
Bay Guardian Suit Moves Forwardnew
On Feb. 18, a judge ruled that the paper's predatory-pricing lawsuit against New Times Media may proceed, and gave New Times 30 days to answer the complaint or appeal the ruling.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
02-23-2005 5:16 pm |
Industry News
SF Weekly Attributes Lawsuit to Bay Guardian Miscuesnew
In an article in this week's edition of SF Weekly, Editor John Mecklin suggests that the San Francisco Bay Guardian is facing financial problems brought about largely from the purchase of a new office building, and that these problems might be behind the Bay Guardian's suit against SF Weekly, East Bay Express and New Times, Inc. In order to counter the suit's claim that New Times' Bay Area papers are discounting ads below cost, Mecklin offers accounts of the Guardian engaging in those very practices.
SF Weekly |
02-04-2005 5:29 pm |
Industry News
Bay Guardian Sues New Times for Predatory Pricingnew
The San Francisco Bay Guardian filed a lawsuit in the city's Superior Court against SF Weekly, East Bay Express and New Times Media, LLC, which owns the two weeklies. The suit alleges that New Times repeatedly sold ads at less than the cost of producing them and offered secret deals to advertisers to keep them from advertising in the Bay Guardian. Both activities would violate California law. New Times owns 11 alternative papers, all of which, like the Bay Guardian, are members of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
10-20-2004 5:04 pm |
Industry News
New Times Writers Dominate NABJ Awardsnew
The recipients of this year's National Association of Black Journalists Awards were announced Oct. 9 in Washington, D.C. New Times writers fared impressively, winning nine of the 22 awards handed out to newspapers with a circulation of 150,000 or less. Dallas Observer, Cleveland Scene, Phoenix New Times and New Times Broward-Palm Beach each had writers take home awards, while Riverfront Times writers won four awards -- including a clean sweep of the business category by Randall Roberts and Mike Seely. According to the NABJ, the awards recognize "outstanding coverage of people or important issues in the African diaspora."
National Association of Black Journalists |
10-18-2004 2:43 pm |
Industry News
New Times and VVM Face New Lawsuit over L.A.-Cleveland Dealnew
Twelve former employees of the Cleveland Free Times have filed a lawsuit in Ohio against New Times and Village Voice Media, reports the San Francisco Bay Guardian. The suit is the latest fallout from an October 2002 deal between the two companies that shuttered Free Times and New Times Los Angeles. The deal led to a Justice Department antitrust investigation that culminated in a consent decree in which neither company admitted guilt. The suit alleges that the workers who lost their jobs when the two papers closed were terminated illegally; the lawyer who filed the suit is seeking class-action certification.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
09-16-2004 3:55 pm |
Industry News
Dallas Observer Hit with $1.1 Billion Lawsuitnew
A plaintiff who alleges the Observer wrongfully disclosed his HIV-positive status has sued the Dallas alt-weekly; its parent company, New Times; and other parties, Texas Lawyer reports. In "Fallen Angel," an article published last December, the Observer referenced the man by name. The plaintiff doesn't dispute that he's HIV-positive but contends that the paper didn't have the right to disclose his condition without his consent. By doing so, he claims, the paper violated the Texas Health and Safety Code. Miriam Rozen writes: "Most attorneys have assumed the statute applied to parties in the medical and insurance industries -- not media organizations." Three of the defendants are seeking the outright dismissal of the plaintiff's petition.
Texas Lawyer |
08-31-2004 3:48 pm |
Industry News
New Times Offers New Editing Tools to Advertisersnew
NT Media of Phoenix, Ariz., has licensed iPIX AdPlus Prism software, a publishing tool offered by Publishing Business Systems. AdPlus allows advertisers to upload and edit their own photos and graphics, as well as proof their own layout for publication. NT says that the new online ad system will improve work flow and cut costs at its 11 papers by reducing support and maintenance needs in their advertising departments.
Editor & Publisher |
05-03-2004 3:08 pm |
Industry News
New Times Reporter Arrested Covering Protests in Miaminew
"Throughout the day I'd witnessed police provoke
protesters," writes Celeste Fraser Delgado,
who was reporting on the protests surrounding last
week's free-trade meetings.
"I'd seen young people cuffed and lined up along the
street, but I thought they must have done something
bad to be detained." Her perceptions quickly
changed when
she was handcuffed and jailed by
Miami police who ignored her press
credentials. Her crime: Doing "nothing but walking
down the street."
Miami New Times |
11-27-2003 10:31 am |
Industry News
New Times Dominates NABJ Awardsnew
Newspapers in the Phoenix-based alt-weekly chain
picked up seven of the 11 awards handed
out last month in the under 150,000 circulation
category of the National Association of Black
Journalists' annual contest. Dallas Observer's Jim
Schutze and Julie Lyons, Cleveland
Scene's Thomas Francis and Riverfront
Times' Jeannette Batz all were named
first-place winners.
National Association of Black Journalists |
09-24-2003 1:05 pm |
Industry News
Libertarian Group Seeks to Intervene in VVM/NT Antitrust Casenew
Skip Oliva, president of the nonprofit organization Citizens for Voluntary Trade, filed a motion Tuesday with a federal court in Ohio to intervene in the Justice Department's antitrust case against Village Voice Media and NT Media. If granted intervention, Oliva says he will appeal the decision approving a government-mandated settlement in the closure of papers in Cleveland and Los Angeles. Oliva's 15-page brief to the U.S. District Court in Cleveland details numerous allegations of misconduct and unconstitutional abuse of prosecutorial power by Justice.
Citizens for Voluntary Trade |
06-26-2003 2:45 pm |
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