AAN News
Interpretation of One California Law is Key in SFBG/SF Weekly Casenew
"Both sides appear to agree in court that the case boils down to a fight over whether a pivotal section of California law should protect businesses or consumers," the East Bay Express' Robert Gammon writes in his in-depth update of the legal fight between the San Francisco Bay Guardian and SF Weekly. "If the Weekly wins, it could effectively eviscerate a section of California's Unfair Business Practices law, and thus make it nearly impossible for small, independently owned companies to fight off well-heeled competitors who try to drive them out of business. But if the Guardian wins, it could end up hurting consumers, because corporations may be fearful of offering steep discounts on their products because they will be sued for 'unfair business practices.'"
East Bay Express |
03-05-2010 2:35 pm |
Industry News
VVMH Plans to Roll Out Glossy Covers for All its Publications
SF Weekly's debut of a new four-color glossy cover this week makes it the sixth Village Voice Media Holdings (VVMH) print publication to adopt the sleek, magazine-style format, and the company plans on rolling out glossy covers at all of its publications within the next eighteen to 24 months, according to a release. "The glossy is the next step in our evolution," president and chief operating officer Scott Tobias says in a statement.
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Village Voice Media Holdings Press Release |
03-05-2010 2:30 pm |
Press Releases
AWN Joins Sacramento News & Review in New Green Building
Sponsored post by Associate Member Alternative Weekly Network
After nearly 14 years apart, the Alternative Weekly Network (AWN) and the Sacramento News & Review are once again sharing office space, as AWN has moved into the News & Review's new green building. "We are returning to where it all began," AWN executive director Mark Hanzlik says. Hanzlik adds that in addition to the physical move, the company is currently retooling the AWN website, and upgrading some of the operational processes of the cooperative.
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Alternative Weekly Network Press Release |
03-05-2010 9:22 am |
Press Releases
Marketing Campaign for LEO Weekly Wins Local Ad Award
The LEO campaign, by local agency Red7e, won the Best of Show award, plus individual and campaign golds, at this year's annual Louisville Addy Awards. To see the campaign that won Best of Show, click here. To see other work Red7e did for LEO, click here.
AAN News |
03-05-2010 9:08 am |
Industry News
Michael Musto Celebrates 25 Years at The Village Voice with 'a Simply Marvelous Party'new
The Village Voice |
03-05-2010 9:34 am |
Honors & Achievements
Times Shamrock Taps Chris Keating as Scene Publisher
Chris Keating, who was most recently publisher at the San Antonio Current, has been named the new publisher at Times Shamrock sister paper the Cleveland Scene. Replacing Keating in San Antonio will be Michael Wagner, a former publisher of the Riverfront Times. He will take the title of general manager.
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Times Shamrock Alternative Newsweekly Group Press Release |
03-04-2010 9:25 am |
Press Releases
SF Weekly Goes Glossy
Starting with this week's issue, SF Weekly is becoming the latest alt-weekly to go with a high-quality glossy cover. "We feel that this attractive new format will increase the visibility of our cover stories and award-winning journalism," publisher Josh Fromson and editor Tom Walsh say in a release. "The upgrade also shows that SF Weekly continues to invest in its print product."
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SF Weekly Press Release |
03-04-2010 9:15 am |
Press Releases
Three Alt-Weeklies Among Bert Greene Award Finalistsnew
The International Association of Culinary Professionals has announced the finalists for this year's Bert Greene Awards, which honor "one of the most sophisticated and dynamic genres in contemporary journalism" -- food writing. This year, both the Houston Press and SF Weekly are finalists in the brand-new Blog category, and the Village Voice's Sarah Digregorio is a finalist in the Culinary Writing without Recipes category for her February 2009 piece on foie gras. The winners will be announced at a ceremony in Portland on April 22.
International Association of Culinary Professionals |
03-04-2010 9:00 am |
Honors & Achievements
Oklahoma Gazette Picks Up Dozens of Awards in Three Contestsnew
The Oklahoma Gazette received 18 honors at the 2009 Oklahoma Pro Chapter's Society of Professional Journalists awards, including five first-place wins. The Gazette also picked up 10 awards (including four firsts) at the 2009 Oklahoma Press Association's Better Newspaper Contest, and received seven honors at the Oklahoma City Ad Club's 44th annual ADDY Awards.
Oklahoma Gazette |
03-03-2010 11:47 am |
Honors & Achievements
Book from Seattle Weekly's 'Uptight Seattleite' Out This Weeknew
A Sensitive Liberal's Guide to Life: How To Banter With Your Barista, Hug Mindfully, And Relate To Friends Who Choose Kids Over Dogs is being published this week by Gotham Books. The book is a collection of the Weekly's "Ask an Uptight Seattleite" columns, where the aforementioned Uptight Seattleite, as Gotham's press materials put it, "delights his loyal readers each week with snide insight on everything from fashion ('Can I pull off a Rasta beret?') to ear-bud etiquette."
Seattle Weekly |
03-03-2010 10:30 am |
Industry News
Oklahoma Gazette Earns an Array of Awards and Accolades
Oklahoma Gazette |
03-03-2010 6:18 pm |
Press Releases
Metro Times' 13th Annual Blowout Music Festival Kicks Off Tonightnew
Metro Times |
03-03-2010 10:34 am |
Industry News
VVMH Partners with GoTime to Launch Happy Hours Mobile App
Village Voice Media Holdings, LLC announced today that it has partnered with happy-hour guide GoTime to launch a mobile app detailing more than 15,000 happy hour deals in 30 cities across the country. Users can search happy hours by name, location, time and even type of cuisine, all within one location-aware mobile application."We want to be everywhere our readers are, and that's out on the town, anywhere in the country," VVMH president and COO Scott Tobias says in a release. "We own the night -- and this app really delivers on that." MORE: Seattle Weekly's Mike Seely has more on the origins of the partnership with GoTime.
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Village Voice Media Holdings, LLC Press Release |
03-02-2010 12:45 pm |
Press Releases
Pew Study: News is 'Becoming Portable, Personalized and Participatory'new
A new study by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and the Project for Excellence in Journalism finds that a large majority of Americans -- 92 percent -- use multiple platforms to get their daily news, with the internet now the third most-popular news platform (behind local and national TV news). Other key findings in the study:
- 33 percent of cell phone owners now access news on their phones.
- 28 percent of internet users have customized home pages that include news from particular sources and about particular topics.
- 37 percent of internet users have contributed to the creation of news, commented about it, or disseminated it via postings on social media sites.
Pew Research Center |
03-02-2010 12:20 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Electronic Publishing, Management
Birmingham Weekly Editor Leaving After 10 Years at the Papernew
Glenny Brock tells Media of Birmingham that the decision to leave the Weekly was "mutually agreed upon" after conversations with publisher Chuck Leishman. Her last day at the paper will be March 11, and she says that special projects editor Jesse Chambers has been tapped to take over as editor. "I will always consider the Weekly my proving ground and the first great love of my professional life. I've done a lot of good work there and perhaps some great work," Brock says. "Now, after overseeing the completion of more than 460 issues of the paper and dozens of supplemental publications, it's time to do something else."
Media of Birmingham |
03-02-2010 11:10 am |
Industry News
