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New JupiterResearch Study Shows How to Make the Most of MySpace and Facebooknew
Online Media Daily |
09-22-2008 1:08 pm |
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Media Owners Brace for Tougher '09new
Advertising Age |
09-22-2008 11:26 am |
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Oklahoma Gazette's Scott Cooper Elected SPJ's Region 8 Directornew
The Norman Transcript |
09-22-2008 8:09 am |
Honors & Achievements
Convicted Teen Freed After Independent Weekly Investigation
As a result of an Independent Weekly investigation, a Durham County Superior Court Judge dismissed all charges today against Erick Daniels, who was falsely convicted of robbery in 2001, when he was 15. The May 2007 story by Mosi Secret, "Stolen Youth," which won the the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism, detailed abundant evidence to to support Daniels' claims of innocence, and revealed the contradictions and problems in the case to constitute reasonable doubt. Daniels, who has served seven years in prison, is due to be released this afternoon.
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Independent Weekly Press Release |
09-19-2008 12:59 pm |
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New Tom Tomorrow Book is Out
The cartoonist behind "This Modern World" says on his blog that his new compilation, The Future's So Bright I Can't Bear to Look, is now in stock at Amazon.com. The book, which he calls "a cartoon chronicle of the end of the Bush era," is officially set for release Sept. 29 by Nation Books.
AAN News |
09-19-2008 8:24 am |
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Report: Growth in Online Display Market Stallednew
Online Media Daily |
09-19-2008 12:38 pm |
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2008 'How I Got That Story' Series Begins Today
After a two-year hiatus, the "How I Got That Story" series today returns to AAN.org to help shed light on the processes employed by first-place AltWeekly Award winners. This year, 19 winners were interviewed by Academy for Alternative Journalism fellows, and each week, two new interviews will be published on AAN.org. These interviews will also appear in the book Best AltWeekly Writing and Design 2008, which will be available soon. To read the first installment of the series, Rich Knight's interview with Washington City Paper art critic Jeffry Cudlin, click here.
AAN News |
09-18-2008 1:17 pm |
Association News
SF Weekly Theater Critic Inspires Playnew
"I never saw myself as much of a muse; I tend to piss off theater people more often than I inspire them," writes critic Chloe Veltman. She says she "didn't know whether to feel flattered or alarmed" when she learned that Tore Ingersoll-Thorp's new drama was created partly in response to one of her essays. The press release for the play, titled March to November, declares, "Inspired by SF Weekly theater critic Chloe Veltman's January 9, 2008, article entitled 'Election Stage Left,' which challenged Bay Area playwrights and theater companies to create more 'political' works, Sleepwalkers answers the call to arms with a classic hero story that assesses the relevance of overtly political theater."
SF Weekly |
09-18-2008 10:03 am |
Industry News
The Valley Advocate Celebrates 35th Anniversarynew
To mark the occasion, the paper has put together a package reflecting not only its 35th anniversary, but its purchase last winter by Newspapers of New England Inc. During "seven-plus years of corporate ownership" under the Hartford Courant and the Tribune Company, the Advocate "found itself in the hands of a corporation that prized uniformity over individuality, that worried more about its shareholders than its readers, that bought into a world view that has become endemic in mainstream publishing," editor Tom Vannah writes. "More than a simple marking of time, then, this 35th anniversary is part of the Valley Advocate's rediscovery of the virtues of being an independent alternative to the corporate brand of media we were born to challenge."
The Valley Advocate |
09-18-2008 9:38 am |
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How I Got That Story: Jeffry Cudlin
The 2008 AltWeekly Award winner for Arts Criticism talks about his work.
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AAN News |
09-18-2008 1:14 pm |
Association News
Study: One in Five US Wireless Households Could Forego Landlines by Year's Endnew
Online Media Daily |
09-18-2008 9:43 am |
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Social Media Ad Council Formednew
Media Daily News |
09-18-2008 9:41 am |
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Vue Weekly Cover Prompts Petition to Cover News Box Windowsnew
The cover of the Edmonton alt-weekly's annual sex survey features three naked people, backs turned to the camera, with any naughty bits obscured by text. But the image is still too racy for at least one local resident, who tells CTV Edmonton that she's starting a petition to have the transparent windows of news boxes covered, ostensibly to protect children. "It's basically the same thing you can get in an adult magazine," Michelle Gimenez says, adding that the news boxes are at eye-level with children. But others interviewed by CTV didn't seem to mind. "You see more graphic things on TV in the middle of the day ... it doesn't bother me," says one woman. Vue publisher Ron Garth defends the cover, saying "it's about pushing the limits in every respect (sic)."
CTV Edmonton |
09-17-2008 1:10 pm |
Industry News
Missoula Independent Wants City's Legal Noticesnew
At the Monday meeting of Missoula's city council, Independent owner and publisher Matt Gibson said he wants the city to be able to place its mandatory legal notices in the alt-weekly, rather than in a paid newspaper, the Missoulian reports. Gibson told the council that Missoula County places such ads in the Independent, and saves about $20,000 a year by doing so. The problem is that Montana law says cities must run the legal notices in a paid newspaper. Gibson told the council he'd like the Montana League of Cities and Towns to take up the matter during the upcoming legislative session.
The Missoulian |
09-17-2008 9:57 am |
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Ted Rall Elected President of Editorial Cartoonists Group
Rall, whose cartoons and columns appear in many alt-weeklies, took over as president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists on Sept. 12. "For some reason my colleagues have made me president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC), the organization for professional political cartoonists. (I suspect cartoonists' predilection for hard drinking had something to do with it.)," Rall writes in his weekly column. "Kidding aside, I'm honored." V. Cullum Rogers, the cartoonist at North Carolina's Independent Weekly, remains the group's secretary-treasurer, and Mikhaela Reid, whose work appears in Metro Times and other AAN papers, was elected to the group's board of directors.
AAN News |
09-17-2008 9:28 am |
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