AAN News
Monster.com Debuts TV Campaign Aimed at Passive Workersnew
Brandweek |
01-08-2008 10:16 am |
Industry News
Tags: Classified Advertising
Online Ad Business Recession-Proof, Analysts Saynew
Online Media Daily |
01-08-2008 10:12 am |
Industry News
Mobile Yet to Catch On as Significant Advertising Mediumnew
Online Media Daily |
01-08-2008 10:11 am |
Industry News
Seattle Weekly's 'Dategirl' Columnist Set to Release Booknew
"During my seven-plus-year tenure as a sex and love advice columnist, I've either experienced firsthand or read about dates so heinous, it's truly a wonder my vagina didn't seal itself shut," Judy McGuire writes in an excerpt of her new book, How Not to Date. The book, which collects many of the aforementioned "henious" dates, will be released Jan. 10 by Sasquatch Books.
Seattle Weekly |
01-07-2008 11:22 am |
Industry News
Louisville Eccentric Observer Co-Founder Diesnew
Robert Schulman, who joined John Yarmuth and three other investors to launch the paper in 1990, died on Sunday. "He was kind of a conscience of local journalism," says Yarmuth, who is currently serving in Congress. In addition to his role with the Observer, Schulman worked at the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times and was "one of the first full-time media critics in the nation." He was 91 years old.
Louisville Courier-Journal |
01-07-2008 8:36 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, LEO Weekly
New Year, New Look for Magazinesnew
Mediaweek |
01-07-2008 9:59 am |
Industry News
Politicians to Focus Media Spend on 25 Statesnew
Mediaweek |
01-07-2008 9:58 am |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising
Despite Drop in Demand, Newsprint Prices Expected to Risenew
Editor & Publisher |
01-07-2008 9:54 am |
Industry News
Tags: Financial, Management
Sale of Style Weekly Explored
As we noted yesterday, Landmark Communications, which owns both Style Weekly and Port Folio Weekly, has hired investment bankers to explore the possibility of selling the company's holdings, which include more than 100 publications and other properties, including The Weather Channel. "Although I was disappointed to hear the Battens were exploring a sale, our readers will continue to get the best of in-depth, local reporting on news, arts and culture," Style editor Jason Roop says in a press release. Publisher Lori Collier Waran concurs, noting that readers, advertisers and other business partners can expect business as usual. "We just celebrated our 25th anniversary, and we're still going strong."
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Style Weekly Press Release |
01-04-2008 11:33 am |
Press Releases
Departing New Times Columnist Talks About the Nightlife Beatnew
"Marya Summers is tired of hanging out in nightclubs, so she's quitting her job," South Florida Media Jobs reports. The New Times Broward-Palm Beach nightlife columnist is leaving to pursue an MFA in creative nonfiction. In this Q&A, she dispenses the notion that writing about nightlife is easy. "Most people are self-deceiving when it comes to who they are, so my column comes as a slap in the face," she says. "I've lost friends." Asked to give advice to the intrepid columnist who might want to replace her, Summers gets right to the point: "An expense account for a nightlife columnist is just incentive to drive drunk. Negotiate more pay instead of reimbursed expenses."
South Florida Media Jobs |
01-04-2008 9:01 am |
Industry News
Miami New Times Celebrates 20th Anniversary With 'Artopia'
Presented by the City of Miami Cultural Arts and Entertainment
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Miami New Times |
01-04-2008 1:20 pm |
Press Releases
Columnist & Former Bay Guardian Editor Helms New Gawker Blognew
Annalee Newitz, who was culture editor at the San Francisco Bay Guardian from 2000-2004 and whose Techsploitation column runs in many AAN papers, is now editing a new Gawker Media blog, Wired reports. i09, which tackles futurism and sci-fi, went live yesterday.
Wired |
01-03-2008 12:50 pm |
Industry News
Does the San Diego Reader Exist Only to Make Money?new
That's freelance writer Seth Hettena's take. "Week after week, I pick up the Reader hoping to find something worth reading over a cup of coffee only to fling aside moments later in disappointment," he writes on the Voice of San Diego website. He roundly criticizes the Reader for a variety of sins, saying editor and owner Jim Holman shows "contempt for his readers." He concludes: "The Reader is considered an alternative weekly, but it's not really much of an alternative to anything." However, not everyone agrees with Hettena's assessment, as the robust discussion unfolding in the story's comments section proves. "Thank God for the Reader and for the 164,000 members of its weekly audience who keep it alive and kicking the hell out of the bad guys in San Diego each week," says one commenter.
Voice of San Diego |
01-03-2008 11:19 am |
Industry News
Port Folio Weekly & Style Weekly Parent Co. May Go Up for Salenew
Landmark Communications, which owns those two Virginia AAN member papers, has hired JP Morgan and Lehman Brothers to "to assist in exploring strategic alternatives, including the possible sale of the company's businesses," Landmark's vice chairman tells the Roanoke Times. The company's 2006 sales figures were $1.75 billion, and it employs about 12,000 people at more than 100 publications and other media properties including The Weather Channel, the Times reports.
The Roanoke Times |
01-03-2008 8:48 am |
Industry News
Patricia Calhoun Remembers Westword Co-Founder Sandy Widenernew
"Sandy was fresh from Texas, a tiny blonde in even tinier hot pants, with a big personality," the current Westword editor says of Widener, who she first met at Cornell in the '70s. Widener, who died with her husband and one of her daughters in a car accident late last month, went on to co-found the Denver alt-weekly with Calhoun and Rob Simon. "With each reminiscence," Calhoun says, "I keep wanting to reach for the phone to call Sandy, to utter a few words and be rewarded with a shriek. I'll get several numerals into the call before I suddenly remember that she's gone." There will be a service for Sandy, her husband John, and their daughter Chase in a few weeks in Denver, when daughter Katy, who was spared in the accident, is well enough to attend. In the meantime, a memorial site has been set up at johnsandychase.muchloved.com.
Westword |
01-03-2008 8:39 am |
Industry News
Tags: Westword, Patricia Calhoun
