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Chicago Reader Publisher Resignsnew
Reader media columnist Michael Miner reports that publisher Michael Crystal resigned from the paper yesterday. The interim publisher is Kirk MacDonald, who is chief operating officer of Creative Loafing, Inc. He expects to spend three days a week in Chicago, according to the Reader. Steve Timble, the founding publisher of Time Out Chicago, has been named the new associate publisher, and is "Crystal's heir apparent," according to Miner. Crystal, who had been publisher since 2004, will move back to Seattle. "[He] was an unruffled sort of executive whose manner recalled the good old days at the Reader, when there was nothing much to get ruffled about," Miner writes. "Those of us who remember those days remember them fondly." In other Reader news, this week the paper launches a pullout music section and additional design updates.
Chicago Reader |
09-17-2008 8:31 am |
Industry News
SGI Applauds House Oversight of New FOIA Ombudsman Office
Sunshine in Government Initiative Press Release |
09-17-2008 2:16 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial
Newspaper Website Valuations Hit $450 Millionnew
Online Media Daily |
09-17-2008 11:02 am |
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City Paper's 25th Annual 'Best of Baltimore' Issue Hits the Streets
Baltimore City Paper Press Release |
09-17-2008 8:51 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Baltimore City Paper
Report: Mobile Search Up 68 Percent from Last Year in U.S.new
Online Media Daily |
09-17-2008 8:32 am |
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Artvoice Sues for Public Records and Winsnew
The Buffalo alt-weekly had for months been trying to obtain meeting minutes and budget documents from a board charged with negotiating a merger between two area hospital operators. But the board claimed to be exempt from New York State's laws regarding open meetings and freedom of information and wouldn't turn over documents, so associate editor Buck Quigley joined a lawsuit to force the board to release them. On Friday, Judge Patrick NeMoyer ruled in favor of Quigley and the other plaintiffs on every count. Artvoice editor Geoff Kelly writes that, in addition to shining light on the board's activities, the ruling is "also a precedent: The next time a public/private authority claims to be exempt from New York State laws regarding openness, we have a court case to wave under their noses."
Artvoice |
09-16-2008 8:59 am |
Legal News
The Village Voice Announces Judges for 2008-09 Obie Awardsnew
Broadway.com |
09-16-2008 3:58 pm |
Industry News
Report: Privacy Key As Mobile Ads Continue To Grownew
Online Media Daily |
09-16-2008 11:42 am |
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How Wall Street Meltdown Will Affect Ad Spendingnew
Advertising Age |
09-16-2008 9:26 am |
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Alt-Weekly Film Critic Steps Behind the Cameranew
Moving Midway: A Southern Plantation in Transit, a documentary directed by longtime critic Godfrey Cheshire, was released last week and is garnering good reviews so far. Cheshire, a three-time AltWeekly Award winner for criticism published in North Carolina's Independent Weekly, "connects his longstanding interest in American popular culture with the lore attached to his ancestral home, a North Carolina plantation called Midway" in "a fascinating and complicated story of regional identity," writes A.O. Scott in the New York Times.
The New York Times |
09-15-2008 12:10 pm |
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Republican State Attorneys General Urge GOP Senators on Shield Law
Last week, 13 Republican state attorneys general sent a letter to Republican senators urging them to support the Free Flow of Information Act. "As our states' chief law enforcement officers, we are in a unique position to confirm that our shield laws have not resulted in any degradation in our ability to protect our citizens," the letter reads. "Still, important provisions have been added to this legislation to carefully and thoroughly protect national security and public safety." A House version of the bill was overwhelmingly approved last October, and the Senate Judiciary Committee also approved the bill in the same month.
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Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna Press Release |
09-15-2008 9:53 am |
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Local Pol: Bay Guardian's Endorsement 'Is the Big One'new
That's what San Francisco's school board president Mark Sanchez, who hopes to replace District 9 Supervisor Tom Ammiano, tells the Bay Area Reporter. Another candidate, David Campos, this week secured the backing of another important group, the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, but Sanchez downplayed not receiving that nod, saying the real prize will be the Bay Guardian's endorsement, which is expected in October. Campos agreed: "I think the Bay Guardian is definitely an important endorsement," he tells the Reporter.
The Bay Area Reporter |
09-12-2008 11:17 am |
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Washington City Paper Nixes Local Arts Column, Launches Sex Blognew
Washington City Paper |
09-12-2008 11:20 am |
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Arianna Huffington: 'I Love What Alternative Newsweeklies are Doing'new
Santa Fe Reporter |
09-12-2008 11:18 am |
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Alt-Weekly Reports U.S. Senator's Company Hires Illegal Immigrantsnew
Willamette Week's cover story this week reports that Republican U.S. Senator Gordon Smith's frozen food processing company employs undocumented immigrants, which is a violation of federal law. The Oregonian reports that Smith has said that he has told his firm, Smith Frozen Foods, to "go the extra mile" in ensuring that its work force is legal, and he reacted harshly to WW's piece yesterday. "It is wholly compromised of unsubstantiated and ridiculous allegations from a liberal tabloid whose purpose is to advance a left-wing agenda rather than the truth," Smith said in a statement. But WW editor Mark Zusman tells Politicker OR that no such agenda exists. "There is no purpose other than to seek to tell the truth about an important story," he says. "It's not unusual for a food processing plant to hire illegal immigrants as workers. But this is unusual because Smith is a United States senator." The WW story didn't offer definitive proof, but cited several workers who said illegal immigrants worked there. "We would not have published this story had we not been comfortable with the underlying issue -- that Smith had illegal workers," Zusman says.
The Oregonian | Politicker OR |
09-11-2008 12:10 pm |
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