AAN News
Former Georgia Straight Critic Paula Gustafson Dies of Cancernew
The Georgia Straight |
08-01-2006 2:12 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Georgia Straight
Government-Owned Ferries Evict Georgia Straight Boxesnew
The Georgia Straight |
07-06-2006 9:49 am |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation, The Georgia Straight
The Georgia Straight Faces Higher Fees, Cap on Boxes in Vancouvernew
24 Hours |
06-30-2006 1:42 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation, The Georgia Straight
Georgia Straight Reaches 2,000 Issues and Countingnew
"Week after week, a remarkably diverse group of individuals -- including straights in suits, freaks, tattooed, shaved, and pierced punk rockers, misfits, overachievers, iconoclasts, near hermits, jocks, geeks, and quite a few more surprisingly normal folks than you’d expect (and that just describes some of the receptionists) -- have cooperated to create what has been, by turns, a scurrilous left-wing rag, an alternative newspaper, a comprehensive entertainment guide, and an award-winning news, arts, and culture magazine," writes Dave Watson in this week's issue of Vancouver's alt-weekly. From its debut in 1967, through charges of vagrancy and obscenity and a brief spell as a music publication, to its "respectable" present incarnation, the Straight's story reveals a dynamic relationship with "the social, political, and cultural history" of the Terminal City.
Georgia Straight |
04-20-2006 2:00 pm |
Industry News
APT Falcon Online at Georgia Straightnew
Editor & Publisher |
02-21-2006 8:55 am |
Industry News
Georgia Straight Story May Lead to Wash. State Apology for Lynchingnew
The Georgia Straight |
12-29-2005 8:19 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Georgia Straight
B.C. Admits Georgia Straight is a Newspapernew
The Liberal provincial government, in a
press release posted on its home page, announced
that it would review the newspaper tax
exemption policy that had Vancouver's 36-
year-old alt-weekly facing the prospect of a fine of
over $1 million: "Clearly the Georgia Straight is a
newspaper, yet it is not treated as a newspaper
under the current policy. Accordingly (we will) review
this policy and how it is applied, in order to
solve this problem."
British Columbia Ministry of Provincial Review |
10-14-2003 4:24 pm |
Industry News
Tags: The Georgia Straight
Local Officials Hit Georgia Straight $1 Million Finenew
It's déjà vu all over again in Vancouver,
where the venerable alt-weekly is under attack from
B.C. Liberal ministers. In what Publisher & Editor
Dan McLeod calls "the biggest threat in its
36-year history," the Straight has been stripped of
its status as a newspaper under provincial
sales-tax legislation and assessed fines and
penalties that will total more than one million dollars
by year's end. McLeod, whose paper was "prosecuted
frequently under a wide assortment of trumped-
up charges" in its early years, calls the new
attack "a politically motivated attempt by the
government to silence one of its harshest
critics."
The Georgia Straight |
10-09-2003 1:09 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Georgia Straight
Straight Man McLeod Shakes up Sales
From a rebellious underground paper in the '60s, The Georgia Straight has grown to a 120,000 weekly circulation institution in Vancouver, B.C. It hasn't gotten that way by resting on its hippie laurels. Publisher Dan McLeod demonstrates that by once again shaking up his sales department, firing a vice president and parting ways with the consultant who helped double the paper's sales. "There's going to be some loud howling, but it's a way to grow the business," McLeod tells AAN News.
(FULL STORY)
Ann Hinch |
08-29-2002 4:21 pm |
Industry News
Seven New Members Admitted at Annual Meeting
New Board members elected and $1.23 million budget approved
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
07-15-2001 11:51 am |
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