AAN News
Judge Unseals Some but Not All Records Requested by Alt-Weeklynew
Pittsburgh City Paper will be able to see the court order sealing details of the divorce between local publisher Richard Mellon Scaife and his wife, but it won't get access to the official schedule of proceedings. The alt-weekly hoped to see the docket "in order to keep abreast of future developments" in the case. MORE: City Paper editor Chris Potter weighs in on a "surreal few days."
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
05-14-2009 11:35 am |
Legal News
Isthmus Announces Lineup for 2009 Jazz Festnew
Isthmus Press Release |
05-14-2009 3:05 pm |
Press Releases
Theater Chain Says Moviegoers Use Web for Infonew
Reuters |
05-14-2009 2:52 pm |
Industry News
Newspaper Industry Lost About $18.7B from 2006-2008new
Media Daily News |
05-14-2009 11:42 am |
Industry News
Tags: Financial, Management
Analyst Says $1B Political Ad Spend Possible in '09new
TV Newsday |
05-14-2009 11:40 am |
Industry News
Craigslist Will Drop 'Erotic Services' Ads, Create New Adult Sectionnew
Under increasing pressure from attorneys general across the U.S., Craigslist says it is eliminating the Erotic Services ad section and replacing it with an Adult Services section where each post will be manually reviewed and where no "nude or graphic photos" will be allowed. MORE: Read the company's statement here.
ABC News |
05-13-2009 1:47 pm |
Industry News
Austin Chronicle Staffer Wins Award from Planning Nonprofitnew
Envision Central Texas, which advocates for regional cooperation and planning, has awarded Chronicle staff writer Katherine Gregor with a 2008 Community Stewardship Award for Raising Public Awareness. "Katherine presents an in-depth, objective, and realistic angle, even in the face of controversy," Envision says in a release.
Envision Central Texas |
05-13-2009 9:31 am |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Austin Chronicle, Katherine Gregor
AAN Listservs: A (Slight) Change is Gonna Come [members only]
Richard Karpel |
05-13-2009 6:47 pm |
AAN Staff Blog
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North Bay Bohemian Editor Tapped for NEA Program
Gretchen Giles is one of 12 U.S. journalists to win a place in the first International Arts Journalism Institute in the Visual Arts. The program, which provides mid-career art critics and writers the opportunity to participate in a two-week intensive training, is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. State Department.
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North Bay Bohemian Press Release |
05-12-2009 8:39 am |
Press Releases
Al Giordano Previews His AAN Convention Talknew
Giordano, a former alt-weekly reporter whose Friday afternoon session at the AAN Convention is on "how independent journalism is thriving on the internet and in other parts of the hemisphere," decides to "do some thinking out loud on those themes" in a blog post titled "Black and White and Dead All Over." Giordano says that daily newspapers are dying because they are crippled by institutional biases. "Memo to my remaining daily print colleagues and their nostalgia club: Get over it and get over yourselves," he writes. "In your arrogance, you established calcified 'rules' of 'journalism' and false 'objectivity' that neutered and spayed all of your reporters, domesticated so they would never again afflict the comfortable or comfort the afflicted."
Narco News |
05-11-2009 2:37 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Village Voice Editor: Industry Woes are a 'Business Model Crisis'
At a panel discussion earlier this month at the 92nd Street Y in New York, Tony Ortega talked about web publishing and the print media industry, along with Voice publisher Michael Cohen, Gothamist publisher Jake Dobkin and Alana Taylor of Mashable.com. While noting that, like most papers, the Voice is struggling to do more with less right now, Ortega says the product isn't the problem. "Newspapers have never been more popular in their history," he says. "It's just that our advertisers have no money to spend."
AAN |
05-11-2009 11:02 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Parts Ways with Writer After His Credentials Are Questionednew
Last year, John Sakowicz began writing "smartly prescient" pieces on the impending financial collapse for the North Bay Bohemian, editor Gretchen Giles writes, so she kept publishing him and even dubbed him contributing editor on the paper's masthead. However, as Sakowicz's work at the Bohemian landed him a local radio show and "expert" status at the Institute for Public Accuracy, some people started digging into his background. Ultimately, Giles found that she couldn't confirm some details of Sakowicz's biography, and the paper has cut ties with him. "It appears that Sakowicz, while talented at understanding and predicting the economic moonscape, does not have the exact background he claims to have, one that we underscored by repeatedly printing it at the end of his articles," Giles writes in a mea culpa. "A credible publication cannot publish the works of writers whose credentials cannot withstand scrutiny."
North Bay Bohemian |
05-11-2009 10:18 am |
Industry News
Tickets On Sale for Village Voice's 'Creative Block' Arts Party
The Village Voice Press Release |
05-11-2009 12:37 pm |
Press Releases
Forecast: Interactive Marketing To Grow 11 Percent in 2009new
Online Media Daily |
05-11-2009 10:19 am |
Industry News
Metroland Honored by Local Biz Groupnew
The Lark Street Business Improvement District's annual Champagne on the Park ball honored the Albany alt-weekly -- along with Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood -- because their "contributions to the neighborhood have been critical to the growth of the district," the Albany Times-Union reports. Metroland is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.
The Albany Times-Union |
05-08-2009 4:15 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Management, Metroland
