AAN News
Redmond to Lacey: Thanks For Confirming My Storynew
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
09-09-2005 8:42 pm |
Industry News
The Stranger's Take on Potential New Times-VVM Mergernew
The Stranger |
09-08-2005 8:03 pm |
Industry News
Russ Smith Speculates About "Unlikely" New Times-VVM Mergernew
New York Press |
09-07-2005 4:03 pm |
Industry News
Gambit Fund Nets Almost $38,000 in First Day
AAN's non-profit foundation on Tuesday deposited $37,865 in tax-deductible contributions it received from members who had pledged donations on Friday and were so anxious to assist displaced Gambit Weekly employees they Fed Ex'ed checks and called in with credit cards. Included in the deposit were ten individual contributions, ranging from $25 to $500, from Village Voice Media and New Times employees participating in their companies' matching-funds program.
09-06-2005 7:24 pm |
Industry News
AAN Announces Relief Effort to Support Gambit Employees
AAN announced today that it had established a multi-pronged effort to provide immediate relief to employees of its New Orleans-based member paper
who have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The centerpiece of the effort is a special fund that the association has
established in its Alternative Newsweekly Foundation to accept charitable
contributions from members who want to provide immediate assistance to
Gambit Weekly employees. Several AAN-member companies have already announced significant contributions to the fund.
(FULL STORY)
09-02-2005 12:01 pm |
Association News
Bay Guardian Report: Documents Detail New Times-VVM Merger Plansnew
Executive editor Tim Redmond says his paper has obtained documents that
"include a May 27, 2005, draft of a merger agreement between Village Voice
Media and New Times." According to Redmond, "the draft calls for the
creation of a new company controlled by a nine-member board," with New Times
owning 62 percent of the new venture and controlling five board seats, and
VVM retaining the rest. New Times owns 11 AAN papers and VVM owns six.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
08-29-2005 4:12 pm |
Industry News
More Rumors of New Times-VVM Mergernew
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
05-26-2005 4:34 pm |
Industry News
L.A. Weekly Employees File Grievance Through Unionnew
At least five L.A. Weekly senior editorial and art department employees -- including veteran education reporter Howard Blume -- have filed grievances with management via the International Association of Machinists, the paper's bargaining unit, reports L.A. Alternative Press. Most are alleging that they're being pushed out of their jobs without adequate union process as specified in their contracts and only because they make some of the paper's top union salaries. These charges come on the heels of the September ouster of several veteran employees at The Village Voice, which, like L.A. Weekly, is owned by Village Voice Media.
L.A. Alternative Press |
10-06-2004 3:25 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
Publisher's Decision to Step Down Augurs New Era at Nashville Scenenew
"No one knows what Nashville Scene publisher Albie Del Favero's announced resignation will mean for the city's alternative newsweekly," the Scene's Matt Pulle reports, "and that's as much a testament to the man as it is to the hazards of chain ownership." In 1999, Scene co-founders Del Favero and Bruce Dobie entered a complex business agreement that resulted in the formation of Village Voice Media, which owns a half-dozen alternative weeklies around the country. The Scene's next publisher will be named by the publishing group's CEO in New York, David Schneiderman.
Nashville Scene |
08-02-2004 6:38 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 |
Industry News
Lacey Fires Back at Free Timesnew
New Times Executive Editor Mike
Lacey calls Cleveland Free Times'
recent attacks on New Times and
Cleveland Scene "an explosion of
bluster." Lacey accuses Free Times'
Editor David Eden and Publisher
Matt Fabyan of concocting
"conspiracies wrapped in an ad
hominem attack" and of publishing
"organ
discharge." He cites sales and profit
figures that starkly contradict Free Times'
assertion that it was winning the
alternative
newsweekly battle in Cleveland.
Cleveland Scene |
06-05-2003 12:37 pm |
Industry News
Village Voice Media Lawyers Bully Smaller "Voices"new
New York Press |
04-22-2003 5:42 pm |
Industry News
Riordan's Weekly Prototype Aims at Affluentnew
Still on the alternative weekly beat, Tim Rutten of the Los Angeles Times critiques former mayor Richard Riordan's new weekly prototype and finds the LA Examiner aimed at the people who elected him -- affluent, educated and mostly white. Rutten, who reported on the antitrust investigation of Village Voice Media and New Times, takes a last slap at the two chains for "a sad and venal chapter in an otherwise vigorous -- often courageous --
history" of the alternative press in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Times |
01-31-2003 1:59 pm |
Industry News
NT-VVM Investigation: Does It Strike You as Fishy?new
That's what The Village Voice's Cynthia Cotts asks when she looks at the consent decree signed by Village Voice Media and New Times that settled an antitrust investigation of their agreement to close competing papers in Los Angeles and Cleveland. She suggests the settlement, which requires the companies to resell assets to groups attempting to start new weeklies, "might represent a violation of the First Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, and/or the prohibition on selective prosecution."
Village Voice |
01-29-2003 9:24 am |
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