AAN News
Ad Spend For Online Looks Rosy Despite Some Downturnnew
Marketing Daily |
08-11-2008 8:26 am |
Industry News
New Editor Named at New Times Broward-Palm Beach
Eric Barton, the managing editor of Village Voice Media's The Pitch in Kansas City, will take over soon as the company's top editorial employee in Fort Lauderdale. According to a VVM press release, Barton "was closely involved in the growth of The Pitch's website" during his tenure in Kansas City, and he helped Pitch.com "double its traffic by adding blogs, video, audio, podcasts and slideshows." Barton takes the reins at New Times Broward-Palm Beach on September 22.
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Village Voice Media Press Release |
08-08-2008 12:52 pm |
Press Releases
Non-AAN-Member, Non-Alt-Weekly Busted in Plagiarism Scandalnew
Slate's Jody Rosen yesterday published a lengthy investigation of the Bulletin, demonstrating that the Montgomery County, Texas newspaper that he called "a free alternative weekly" was filled with plagiarized content. (Most of the purloined content Rosen found was lifted from national sources like Slate and Salon, but one of the stolen pieces was originally published in the AAN member Dallas Observer.) Despite that fact that its only local content was comprised of rewritten press releases on issues like "A Weekend With The Kidz: Big Fun For Good Causes In Downtown Conroe," Rosen can be excused for mistaking the corrupt paper for an alt-weekly because it is a free-circulation tabloid that bills itself as the county's "weekly alternative" and, as he noted, "(l)ike many alt weeklies, the paper's bread-and-butter is politics." Rosen also reported that the paper's masthead "reveals that the Bulletin is part of the Alternative Weekly Network." AWN executive director Mark Hanzlik explains here that the Bulletin is not an AWN member, although the network has in the past placed ads with the paper.
Slate |
08-07-2008 8:16 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
SF Weekly Publisher a Reticent Witness in Antitrust Casenew
San Francisco Bay Guardian executive editor Tim Redmond reports that Josh Fromson "provided almost nothing" in his turn as a witness yesterday in the Bay Guardian-SF Weekly predatory-pricing lawsuit. Redmond suggests that Fromson feigned ignorance in response to questions posed by the Bay Guardian's attorney during a hearing designed to help the paper collect on its judgment against SF Weekly and its parent company, Village Voice Media. Earlier this year, a San Francisco Superior Court jury ruled in favor of the Bay Guardian, and the judge in the case set damages at $15.9 million. VVM announced last month that it plans to appeal the ruling.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
08-07-2008 7:06 pm |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Cartoonist's Latest Makes its Way to Gitmonew
"Through the miracle of email forwarding technology," Matt Bors writes, his latest comic eventually found itself in the hands of the military lawyer for Osama Bin Laden's former driver Salim Hamdan. Hamdan, who was convicted yesterday of providing material support for terrorism and acquitted of a conspiracy charge, apparently was "quite amused" when the cartoon was translated for him. "At first I was excited ... Then reality set in," Bors writes. "This puts 2 degrees of separation between me and Bin Laden ... With the flimsy standards of evidence preferred by the Bush administration, does this mean I could be tried in a military tribunal for giving aid and comforting humor to the enemy?" More from Willamette Week.
Bors Blog | Willamette Week |
08-07-2008 9:30 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management
Fairfield County Weekly Parts Ways With Editor
AAN News has learned that Tom Gogola is no longer the editor of the Tribune Company's AAN-member paper in suburban Connecticut. No replacement has been named. Associate editor Nick Keppler has temporarily assumed the editorial reins, according to Josh Mamis, group publisher for the Weekly and the three other New Mass. Media papers.
AAN News |
08-06-2008 1:27 pm |
Industry News
Portland Phoenix Launches 2008 'Portland Phoelympics'
The Portland Phoenix has created a local alternative to the Beijing Olympic Games, the 2008 Portland Phoelympics, which will be "free of smog, lead toys, forced child-labor, political oppression, and large, ancient walls," according to a press release. "The Phoenix is proud to have created an international event worthy of the great city of Portland," said Marc Shepard, associate publisher of the Phoenix and president of the IPC (International Phoelympic Committee). "We expect the economic impact of these games on the city to be substantial, as we've already spent close to $47 on equipment, and that does NOT include our bar tab and first aid supplies."
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Portland Phoenix Press Release |
08-06-2008 9:02 am |
Press Releases
Dispute Spotlights comScore Ad Network Rankingsnew
Online Media Daily |
08-06-2008 9:27 am |
Industry News
TV Passes Newspapers as Dominant Ad Platform; Online Hot on Trailnew
Veronis Suhler Stevenson's (VSS) annual Communications Industry Forecast notes that newspapers, long the dominant U.S. advertising platform, have fallen behind broadcast TV this year, which itself is poised to be usurped by the internet within the next three years, Media Daily News reports. The VSS report also shows that traditional media are increasingly claiming online ad space. VSS estimates that traditional media operators will account for nearly half (49.5%) of online ad dollars this year. That share is up from less than a third (29.1%) in 2002, and is projected to take a dominant position by 2011.
Media Daily News |
08-05-2008 12:15 pm |
Industry News
Philly City Paper Writer Sells Her Documentarynew
Electile Dysfunction, a documentary about political campaigns that City Paper's Mary Patel made with Joe Barber, has been bought by an independent film studio, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Cinema Libre plans to distribute the doc, which uses the 2006 U.S. Senate campaign in Pennsylvania as "a case study to explore how campaigns work," through Netflix, Blockbuster and Amazon. Patel tells the Inky that Electile Dysfunction will be out next month.
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
08-05-2008 8:13 am |
Industry News
Survey: College Students Getting Richer and Pickiernew
Media Daily News |
08-05-2008 12:03 pm |
Industry News
Small Businesses Embrace Social Medianew
Online Media Daily |
08-05-2008 11:36 am |
Industry News
Tags: Electronic Publishing, Management
MSN City Guides Tap Zvents for Event Listingsnew
Online Media Daily |
08-05-2008 11:34 am |
Industry News
Tags: Electronic Publishing, Management
Tom Robotham Out as Editor of Port Folio Weeklynew
"The reasons for my departure are complicated, but at the heart of the matter is a fundamental disagreement with the management of our parent company over editorial philosophy," Robotham wrote in an editor's note last week. "The higher ups here believed that Port Folio under my leadership had become too staunchly liberal." Robotham, who had been at Port Folio for ten years, has been replaced by a co-editing team of former arts editor Leona Baker and contributor Jeff Maisey, according to the Virginian-Pilot. The daily also notes that the aforementioned "higher ups" have penned a response to Robotham to run in this week's paper. "It has to do with a need for significant change," the column by publisher Colleen Nabhan and general manager Edward Power reportedly says. The paper "has experienced a graying of its audience" and must "embrace new audiences in more inventive and effective ways," they argue.
Port Folio Weekly | The Virginian-Pilot |
08-04-2008 9:10 am |
Industry News
Maui Time Weekly Announces New Editor
Jacob Shafer has replaced Anthony Pignataro as the paper's editor, according to a press release. Shafer comes to Maui from Northern California, where he served as calendar editor and later staff writer for The Pacific Sun. "Jacob has a firm grasp of important environmental issues that are so critical to our delicate and precious market, an isolated island in the middle of the Pacific. He contributes a maturity level way beyond his years to this gift that we offer our community," says Maui Time publisher Tommy Russo.
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Maui Time Weekly Press Release |
08-04-2008 8:01 am |
Press Releases
