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Chicago Reader Redesigns Websitenew
Chicago Reader |
03-13-2009 9:26 am |
Industry News
FOIA Ombudsman Gets $1 Million in New Budgetnew
The budget President Obama just signed includes $1 million for the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS), which will mediate disputes over FOIA requests and act as a government-wide ombudsman for FOIA issues. The budget also houses OGIS in the National Archives, not the Department of Justice, where the Bush administration had attempted to place it. "OGIS should help end stalemates and lengthy delays when faced with controversies over disclosure decisions," Rick Blum, coordinator of the Sunshine in Government Initiative, tells Broadcasting & Cable. "This investment will help agencies strengthen their responses to FOIA requests."
Columbia Journalism Review | Broadcasting & Cable |
03-12-2009 2:06 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Arkansas Times Publishes Concealed Weapons Data, Causes Backlashnew
The alt-weekly recently published on its blog a state database containing the names and addresses of Arkansans who hold permits to carry concealed handguns, but after an uproar from gun lobby and death threats made against Times editor Max Brantley and his family, the paper took the database down. Not long after, the state House of Representatives introduced and passed by a 98-1 vote a bill that would prohibit revealing "the identities or other information concerning concealed handgun licensees." Sponsors of the bill argued that doing so put handgun owners at risk.
Arkansas Times |
03-12-2009 11:49 am |
Industry News
LEO Weekly Eliminates Listings from Print Editionnew
As part of a larger redesign, the paper has decided to pull listings from the printed page entirely. "We simply don't have the resources -- in people-power or page count -- to continue" printing listings, editor Stephen George writes. He notes that Louisville's Gannett papers have replaced much of their cultural reporting and criticism with listings. "We've realized that instead of trying to compete, we should fill the gaps," he writes. "Our real value to you, we believe, is our judgment and expertise on matters of arts and culture." To that end, LEO is launching a blog that will hip readers to cultural events the paper finds worthwhile.
LEO Weekly |
03-12-2009 9:06 am |
Industry News
Creative Loafing Back in Bankruptcy Court Todaynew
Atalaya Capital Management said in court this morning that if it assumed control of the six-paper chain, it would continue to operate the newspapers "as a going concern" and put more money into the company rather than sell it off, Wayne Garcia reports. Atalaya, CL's biggest creditor, is seeking to wrest ownership of the company from CEO Ben Eason because it has "lost confidence" in his management. MORE: Later in the day's hearing, an expert on valuation testified that CL's value as a company had dropped more than $7 million in the three months after it declared bankruptcy. CL will make its case in court on Thursday.
Creative Loafing (Tampa) |
03-11-2009 1:27 pm |
Industry News
Reflections on the Underground Press of the 1960snew
There's "a bona fide resurgence of interest in the Vietnam-era radical press," David Downs writes in CJR, noting the Village Voice's scanning of its archives and a new book on "the graphic design of radical press." Underground press vets Abe Peck and Todd Gitlin tell Downs how the forebears to today's alt-weeklies came and, in many cases, quickly went. "For all their flaws, they captured the period," Peck says. "They were innovative in terms of their display and in terms of the prose that wasn't jibberish. Some of it was very smart. Some of it was very weird." MORE: For about a year, Voice editors have been working their way through old issues of the paper, posting excerpts on a daily basis. They're now up to Sept. 1962.
Columbia Journalism Review |
03-11-2009 12:20 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Google Starts Behavioral Targeting With a Hint of Transparencynew
Google will begin showing ads today to web users based on their previous online activities -- a practice known as behavioral targeting, the New York Times reports. Google will also give users the ability to see and edit the information that it has compiled about their interests. Like some of its rivals, Google also offering an option to opt out from what it calls "interest-based advertising."
The New York Times |
03-11-2009 10:40 am |
Industry News
In Mobile Ads, A Vast Potential to Micro-Targetnew
As more consumers adopt the use of smartphones for web browsing, the digital marketing industry is developing new ways to serve highly tailored ads to users, the New York Times reports. Mobile users can be sorted by demographic makeup and even by income; if the user downloads an application that uses a GPS tracker (like Urban Spoon), then there is potential for ads to be served based on exact location and travel patterns as well. Some privacy advocates have expressed concerns about the tracking, but the Times notes that "as long as advertisers don't use personally identifiable information, there is no current regulation or law" against such tracking.
The New York Times |
03-11-2009 9:59 am |
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Online Publishers Association Rolls Out New Display Ad Formatsnew
Business Week |
03-11-2009 12:35 pm |
Industry News
Craigslist Claims Fewer Adult Ads Due To New Listing Requirementsnew
Online Media Daily |
03-11-2009 10:03 am |
Industry News
East Bay Express Helps Recreate Andy Warhol's Silver Factorynew
On Friday night, the alt-weekly teamed up with record store Amoeba Music, art collective Off Space and the de Young Museum to bring the pop artist's famed Manhattan art studio to the East Bay for a free party attended by "as many as 4,000 people." Rotating crews of 15-30 people spent more than a month transforming the recently vacated warehouse -- Express sales and marketing director Terry Furry himself spent two weeks building the red couch, and another week making a proto-disco coffee table from 1,800 tiny mirrors. "When I was in art school, Warhol was mainly frowned on for being commercial and marketing himself," Furry says. "But he kind of set the tone for what artists need to be to thrive. They need to market themselves as well as their art."
The San Francisco Chronicle |
03-10-2009 11:39 am |
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Complaint Against Attorney for New Times Probe is Dismissednew
The State Bar has dismissed the final two complaints pending against Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, including one about his handling of the 2007 investigation of Phoenix New Times that ended with the arrests of Village Voice Media executive editor Michael Lacey and CEO Jim Larkin. "No one in their right mind has ever looked to the Arizona Bar as a beacon of courage, and it has certainly upheld its longstanding reputation with this dismissal today," Larkin says.
Phoenix New Times |
03-10-2009 8:53 am |
Industry News
More Than 1,000 Entries Submitted for 2009 AltWeekly Awards
Eighty-six alt-weeklies submitted 1038 entries for consideration in the 2009 AltWeekly Awards contest. The entries were spread over 21 categories, and, as expected, the total number of entries was down from 2008, by about 25 percent. Finalists for this year's contest will be announced in mid-May, and winners will be crowned at the AltWeekly Awards luncheon, to be held on Friday, June 26 during the 32nd annual AAN Convention in Tucson.
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AAN |
03-09-2009 1:20 pm |
Association News
Hospital Cites LEO Weekly Story as Reason to Shield Witnessnew
Lawyers representing Baptist Hospital East in a malpractice lawsuit filed by the family of hip-hop artist Static/Major contend that the privacy law known as HIPAA protects the identity of a patient who shared a room with the musician the day he died. To buttress their claim, the hospital points to a LEO Weekly cover story about the incident as an example of why the roommate's identity should be shielded. "If this patient becomes a witness to this suit, he will be subjected to similar to scrutiny (sic), and potential embarrassment," the defendants argue in a recently filed court document.
LEO Weekly |
03-09-2009 1:05 pm |
Industry News
Seven Days Names Three New Associate Publishers
The Burlington, Vt., alt-weekly has promoted three longtime employees to associate publisher positions. Online editor Cathy Resmer, creative director Don Eggert and sales
director Colby Roberts will retain their current roles while taking on an
increasing number of projects in the publisher realm. "Cathy, Don and Colby have emerged as real leaders at Seven Days and
have a lot to do with how far we've come as a media company," says
publisher and co-editor Paula Routly. "We want to recognize that by entrusting them with more responsibility for
our future growth and development."
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Seven Days Press Release |
03-09-2009 8:41 am |
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