AAN News
Alt-Weekly Cartoonists Losing Clients
Matt Bors and Tom Tomorrow both report that they have lost several papers in the last few months.
Bors Blog | This Modern World |
01-16-2009 11:09 am |
Industry News
L.A.'s Alt-Weeklies Suffer Additional Layoffs
The LA Weekly has eliminated its theater editor position and laid off film critic Ella Taylor, while LA CityBeat also axed its film critic, Andy Klein. MORE: Current and former staffers from both papers weigh in on the situation.
LA Weekly | LA Observed |
01-16-2009 10:19 am |
Industry News
Survey: Independent Retailers Outperformed Chains Over Holidays
A survey of 1,142 independent retailers by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance found that holiday sales among the indies declined by an average of five percent in 2008, far less than the loss of holiday business suffered by chain stores. The survey also found that independent retailers in cities with active "Buy Local" campaigns, such as the organized efforts that more than 70 AAN members took part in this year, reported much stronger holiday sales than indies in non-"Buy Local" cities.
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Institute for Local Self-Reliance Press Release |
01-15-2009 1:02 pm |
Press Releases
Arrests Raise Questions About Newspapers Running 'Prostitution' Adsnew
Editor & Publisher |
01-15-2009 2:03 pm |
Industry News
Creative Loafing (Tampa) Unveils Redesigned Homepagenew
Creative Loafing (Tampa) |
01-15-2009 1:05 pm |
Industry News
Las Vegas CityLife Office Moves Downtownnew
Las Vegas CityLife |
01-15-2009 1:04 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Las Vegas CityLife
Metro Pulse Scribe Reflects on 18 Months of Corporate Ownershipnew
"For the first time we don't have an owner who's making story suggestions and occasionally writing a column about a favorite cause. But it's understood, more than ever before, that we'd better make a living with this," associate editor Jack Neely says of life under EW Scripps. "I don't mean to suggest that corporate ownership is better. I do miss boasting that we're locally owned, even when it seemed mainly a theoretical thing. But it's good, for the first time, to have dental insurance."
Metro Pulse |
01-14-2009 11:57 am |
Industry News
Former Miami New Times Reporter Enters Political Worldnew
Rebecca Wakefield, who worked at the paper earlier in the decade, has signed on as manager for Maria "Beba" Sardina Mann's campaign for Miami city commissioner. "The journalism world is dying a horrible, hacking death," Wakefield says. "No one's paying me any more to snarkily opine on the local circus, so when Beba asked me to consider running her campaign, I thought I might as well grab a cigar and find out what's really going on in the smoke-filled rooms."
Miami New Times |
01-14-2009 11:51 am |
Industry News
Mountain XPress Editorial Consultant Diesnew
C.B. "Chick" Squire, who had been working with the weekly since the mid-1990s, died on Jan. 4 of natural causes. He was 88 years old. "Chick was the last of the old guard who stood by and believed in this publication," writes XPress publisher Jeff Fobes, "all the way from its inception as Green Line many years ago to the current weekly print and online avatars of Mountain Xpress." More from the News & Observer.
Mountain XPress |
01-14-2009 9:20 am |
Industry News
CJR Reviews Year-End Issue of Baltimore City Papernew
Columbia Journalism Review |
01-14-2009 10:14 am |
Industry News
Advocacy Groups Ask the FTC To Protect Mobile Privacynew
In a 52-page complaint to be filed with the Federal Trade Commission today, the Center for Digital Democracy and U.S. Public Interest Research Group allege that emerging mobile marketing shops are using "unfair and deceptive" behavioral targeting strategies. The groups are asking the FTC to probe how mobile ad companies deploy techniques like behavioral targeting and geo-targeting. The complaint also asks the FTC to force the companies to notify consumers about how their data is used, and seek explicit consent to its collection.
Online Media Daily |
01-13-2009 11:41 am |
Industry News
Former Seattle Weekly Editor Releases Collection of Columnsnew
Knute Berger, who edited the Weekly for nearly 15 years before leaving in July 2006, is releasing Pugetopolis: A Mossback Takes on Growth Addicts, Weather Wimps, and the Myth of Seattle Nice this month. Many of the essays in the book, which covers the region's identity, first ran as columns in the Weekly. "To me the book has been my sort of ongoing personal exploration to be a Seattleite," Berger tells the Seattle Times. "I hope that people will read it and just sort of enjoy thinking about our identity."
Sasquatch Books Press Release (PDF) |
01-13-2009 11:35 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Seattle Weekly
Call for Entries: The 2009 Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalismnew
The Journalism Center on Children & Families |
01-13-2009 1:38 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, Management
New Report Offers 206 Revenue-Boosting and Cost-Cutting Tipsnew
Kim A. Mac Leod of Regional Media Advisors and Seija Goldstein of Seija Goldstein Associates recently interviewed more than 60 regional publishers of every stripe, from alt-weeklies to business journals to city magazines, to find out what they are doing to generate revenue and reduce expenses. The results, broken down into 12 categories, are now available on the Regional Media Advisors website.
Regional Media Advisors |
01-12-2009 11:38 am |
Industry News
Flooding Forces The Stranger to Reprint Last Week's Issuenew
"Since it's printed in Yakima, a semi truck filled with tens of thousands of copies of The Stranger is sitting on the other side of the 10-feet-deep body of water that used to be known as I-5," editor Christopher Frizzelle wrote last Thursday. The alt-weekly reprinted the entire issue at the Seattle Times printing facility and distributed it a little late. "Enjoy this week's paper," Frizzelle wrote. "It was very expensive."
The Stranger |
01-12-2009 11:19 am |
Industry News
