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Cartoonist Matt Bors Teams Up With ACLU for 'Civil Discourse'new
The bi-weekly comic strip is part of the ACLU's StandUp campaign, "an ongoing project that educates younger audiences about today's pressing civil liberties issues," and can be found online at www.aclu.org/StandUp. "Matt's cartoons are often about civil liberties violations and other injustices," ACLU executive director Anthony Romero says in a statement. "We're excited to have someone as original and talented as Matt help us inspire the next generation of civil libertarians."
ACLU Press Release |
03-24-2008 9:34 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Design & Production
Councilman Looks to Ban Folio Weekly from City Propertynew
Jacksonville city councilman Clay Yarborough is calling on mayor John Peyton to remove Folio and its distribution racks from public property after seeing the March 11 issue featuring a cover story on sadomasochism, the Times-Union reports. In his email to the mayor and council leadership, reprinted on Folio's blog, Yarborough says he's worried about children seeing the story, and objects to ads with photos of "scantily clad women." Ironically, the very distribution location that raised Yarborough's ire -- a coffee shop inside the library -- isn't even under city authority, according to the mayor's spokesperson.
The Florida Times-Union |
03-24-2008 8:44 am |
Industry News
Google's Search-Within-Search Feature Alarms Some Publishersnew
The New York Times |
03-24-2008 2:25 pm |
Industry News
Major Media Companies Keep Forming Ad Networks to Fight Portalsnew
The Associated Press via Editor & Publisher |
03-24-2008 1:44 pm |
Industry News
San Diego CityBeat Arts Editor on Cross-Border Work/Life Balancenew
Kinsee Morlan "lays her head down in one country, earns her bread and reputation in another, and co-runs an arts collective somewhere in between," SignOnSanDiego.com, an online project of the San Diego Union-Tribune, writes. Morlan has lived in Tijuana for close to two years while working at CityBeat. She says while working at the local NBC affiliate to supplement her CityBeat income, she was asked to do a story on a waterskiing squirrel, and realized she had to figure out a way to "not have a horrible part-time job and just work at CityBeat." Moving to Tijuana, which has much lower rents than San Diego, was her answer, and she's been there ever since.
SignOnSanDiego.com |
03-21-2008 8:50 am |
Industry News
Longtime Seven Days Columnist Hangs it Upnew
Peter Freyne, who started writing for the Burlington alt-weekly two months after it launched in 1995, announced in this week's "Inside Track" column that it would be his last, the Times Argus reports. After beating cancer last year, Freyne says he realized that writing about state politics had begun to bore and depress him. "That's why the column and the blog stopped two weeks ago. We finally acknowledged the unhappiness generated by writing them," he writes. "And you know what? We haven't felt this good in years!" While he's ending his column, he will remain affiliated with Seven Days as a contributing editor and blogger. U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy says that Freyne's retirement is a "big loss" for Vermont. "I went to his blog every day," Leahy tells the Times Argus. "He is the type of writer who clearly knows hypocrisy. But he also knows the difference between healthy skepticism and cynicism."
The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus | Seven Days |
03-20-2008 12:32 pm |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Explains Why it Held Photos ... Then Publishes Them Allnew
As we reported last week, the California Supreme Court squelched the Santa Barbara Independent's last legal hope in a long fight over turning over some unpublished crime scene photographs. With the court declining to hear an appeal, the paper and staff photographer Paul Wellman faced criminal punishment -- including possible jail time -- if they continued to hold the photos. So the Independent, rather than give the photos to the district attorney, decided to publish all 334 of them on its website this week. "We did make a point of dragging this case out to the bitter end," explains news editor Nick Welsh. "This was in part inspired by the assault on the media that's been taking place for the past eight years, and the utter contempt for the public's right to know -- anything -- displayed by the Bush Administration."
Santa Barbara Independent |
03-20-2008 8:46 am |
Legal News
Study: Younger Online News Consumers Are Not Newspaper Readersnew
Center for Media Research |
03-20-2008 8:49 am |
Industry News
State of the News Media: Mixed Forecast for Alt-Weekliesnew
The annual report issued by the Project for Excellence in Journalism finds the alt-weekly industry still struggling with an aging readership, stalled circulation, and increased competition, especially online. However, the report notes that the overall reader migration from print to web might eventually benefit alt-weeklies, since online is "a platform well suited for a sector that specializes in niche, intensely local content." Also noted: small and mid-market papers are seeing the most growth in revenue; and alt-weekly readers are "perfect" media users, with "a tendency to be avid consumers of other media, more so than the public overall."
The Project for Excellence in Journalism |
03-18-2008 11:50 am |
Industry News
Federal Court Says Craigslist Isn't Subject to Fair Housing Lawsnew
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Craigslist should not be held liable for discriminatory housing ads posted on the site, the Associated Press reports. The decision upholds a Nov. 2006 ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, which ruled that Craigslist serves as an intermediary party, not a publisher, and that the federal Communications Decency Act protects sites that allow users to post unedited messages and communicate freely in forums.
The Associated Press via the San Francisco Chronicle |
03-18-2008 9:12 am |
Legal News
Survey: More People See Federal Government as Secretive
According to a Sunshine Week survey by Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University, 74 percent of American adults view the federal government as secretive, and nearly nine in 10 say it's important to know presidential and congressional candidates' positions on open government when deciding who to vote for. The findings indicate a "significant increase" in the percentage of Americans who believe the federal government is very or somewhat secretive, up from 62 percent of those surveyed in 2006. Sunshine Week, a non-partisan open government initiative, is this week.
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Sunshine Week Press Release |
03-18-2008 8:34 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial
Ogg's World Cartoonist Redefines Beatles With 'What If' Web Project
Ogg's World Press Release |
03-18-2008 9:27 am |
Press Releases
State Supreme Court Declines to Hear Alt-Weekly's Contempt Casenew
The California State Supreme Court on Wednesday denied a petition from the Santa Barbara Independent and staff photographer Paul Wellman asking the court to review a Santa Barbara County Superior Court judge's decision to hold the paper and Wellman in contempt of court for not handing over photos from a murder last year, the Independent reports. This exhausts the legal options the paper had to fight the initial ruling. "I'm not surprised," Independent attorney Mike Cooney says. "Even though I'm devoted to the concept the subpoena was overbroad, it's difficult for appellate courts to review during criminal proceedings." Wellman faces potential imprisonment and the paper faces fines if they continue to refuse the subpoena, but both parties haven't yet decided what to do.
Santa Barbara Independent |
03-14-2008 9:58 am |
Legal News
Las Vegas Weekly Names New Editornew
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports the Weekly has named former executive editor Stacy Willis as the new editor, replacing Scott Dickensheets, who left last month for Las Vegas CityLife. The Weekly has also named Ken Miller managing editor.
Las Vegas Review-Journal |
03-14-2008 8:27 am |
Industry News
Google News Gave Financial Times Website a 75 Percent Traffic Boostnew
Editor & Publisher |
03-14-2008 9:03 am |
Industry News
Tags: Electronic Publishing
