AAN News
Ten Things You Need to Know About Metricsnew
OMMA |
12-07-2007 2:51 pm |
Industry News
CNET Launches Publisher-Friendly Open Content Platformnew
Mediaweek |
12-07-2007 10:05 am |
Industry News
GM Tells Regional Dealers They Can Pick Their Own Ad Agenciesnew
Advertising Age |
12-07-2007 9:58 am |
Industry News
How Social Networks are Courting Advertisersnew
iMediaConnection |
12-07-2007 9:54 am |
Industry News
Tags: Marketing, Retail Advertising
Early Registration Deadline for AAN West is Tomorrow
This Friday is the deadline for early registration for this year's AAN West conference, to be held in San Francisco Feb. 1-2. For AAN members, early registration is $75 per person (non-members pay $150). After Friday, both of those rates go up $25 per person. You can register online here. In addition to the four streams of programming (Business, Design & Production, Editorial, and Sales), the AAN West Planning Committee has some parties planned that are sure to please. On Friday night, the North Coast Journal will host a cocktail reception featuring the best in Northern California wine, cheese, and beer. On Saturday night, the San Francisco Bay Guardian will throw down at Element Lounge. Be sure to check the AAN West website for full details on events and programming, as well as updates as we get closer to February. The registration deadline for the Web Publishing Conference is Jan. 4.
AAN |
12-06-2007 8:58 am |
Association News
Political Spending Expected to Soar in 2008 Election Cyclenew
Editor & Publisher |
12-06-2007 12:09 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising
Senators Urge Passage Of Revised FOIA Billnew
After talks to reconcile House and Senate versions of FOIA reform bills went nowhere, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, (D-Vt.), and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) yesterday presented a new version of their bill that would bring its financial issues in line with the House version, the AP reports. Talks between the House and Senate stalled over House rules preventing lawmakers from piling on debt to finance tax cuts or new spending programs. "We have a strong chance of Senate action on the bill this week, and I hope the House also will swiftly pass this legislation so the president can sign this important act before year's end," Leahy said in a statement.
The Associated Press via Editor & Publisher |
12-05-2007 3:16 pm |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Keith Olbermann Channels Bill O'Reilly, via Tom Tomorrownew
Taking a page from New York Mayor Fiorella LaGuardia, who famously read comics on the radio during the city's 1945 newspaper strike, Olbermann last week read a two-page Tom Tomorrow cartoon from The Village Voice out loud on Countdown. The comic, "Bill O'Reilly's Very Useful Advice for Young People, as Channeled by Vile Left-Wing Smear Merchant Tom Tomorrow," features 16 helpful hints for the "young generation." As far as we know, this is the only time the first-ever recipient of AAN's Molly Ivins Award has had the opportunity to reference his own penis size on air.
MSNBC |
12-05-2007 2:25 pm |
Industry News
Alt-Weeklies Commemorate Kyoto Protocol Anniversary
Fifty alternative newsweeklies in the U.S. and Canada will publish stories this week to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol. The editorial package, conceived and shepherded by staff at Sacramento News & Review, includes a retrospective by author and environmentalist Bill McKibben commissioned by AAN, a look-back by Kyoto participant Ed Smeloff, a drubbing of ABC News Correspondent and global-warming skeptic John Stossel, and a look at the controversial views of Danish environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg. Many of the papers participating in the project are also contributing their own stories focusing on local climate-change issues. Sacramento News & Review Editor-at-large Melinda Welsh says the anniversary was "a chance to reveal to millions of alt-weekly readers how little distance we've traveled these last 10 years toward a solution to this giant problem we've created for ourselves and future generations." Links to Kyoto Protocol Anniversary stories may be found at kyoto.altweeklies.com.
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AAN |
12-05-2007 10:27 am |
Association News
Monterey County Weekly Makes Editor & Publisher's 'Green Team'new
"Certainly, the Weekly has accomplished the showy side of going green," says the magazine, referring to the paper's installation of 162 solar panels on its roof earlier this year, "but the Weekly also strives to be green below its roof." Among the small-scale green programs E&P highlights: having a staffer repair bicycles for employees to use in commuting, buying organic produce from the "Vegetable Fairy," and using soy ink. Early last year, the Weekly began calculating its entire carbon footprint, including energy consumption from employee commutes and work routes, with a "Green Team" convening monthly to review the efforts. When the paper repeated its calculation this April, the footprint was 16 percent smaller. "For us this has been a several-pronged initiative," Weekly owner and CEO Bradley Zeve says. "One is around energy, one is around supplies and material, and a third is around our consciousness."
Editor & Publisher |
12-05-2007 9:12 am |
Industry News
NAA Analyst Predicts 1.2 Percent Ad Revenue Decline for Dailies in 08'new
Poynter's The Biz Blog |
12-05-2007 3:12 pm |
Industry News
New Business Model for Newspapers: Make the Online Sale First?new
followthemedia.com |
12-05-2007 1:44 pm |
Industry News
Eight States Sue R.J. Reynolds Over Rolling Stone Featurenew
Advertising Age |
12-05-2007 1:36 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Retail Advertising
Court Sides With Google in Fair Use Casenew
A U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in reviewing a case it initially considered in May, reiterated on Monday its finding that Google can display thumbnails of copyrighted photographs in search results, the Los Angeles Times reports. Adult publisher Perfect 10 was arguing that Google violated copyright law by displaying its images in search results. The justices ruled that a larger public interest in searching for information amounted to a "transformative use" that trumped copyright claims. The decision overturns part of a ruling by the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, which had found that Google's thumbnails of Perfect 10's nude models constituted infringement, according to the Times.
Los Angeles Times |
12-04-2007 2:15 pm |
Industry News
Editor & Publisher Decries 'The War on Alt-Papers'new
In the editorial of E&P's latest issue, the magazine rails against the "Soviet-style arrests" of Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin in the Phoenix New Times grand-jury subpoena fiasco and the "lavish waste of public funds" used by the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation to investigate and ultimately arrest Orlando Weekly employees for "aiding and abetting prostitution." E&P commends the local mainstream dailies in Phoenix and Orlando for sticking up for the alt-weeklies in these two cases. "But dailies too rarely make common cause with their local alt-weekly when they are targeted by the familiar harassments of police ad stings, library banishments, and 'litter' laws concerned more about free papers stacked in a store than candy wrappers on the sidewalk," the magazine says. "Usually that's because the mainstream paper's top people resent the snarky coverage they get from the alternative with its sneering cheap shots. But thuggish local authorities who believe they can act with impunity against alt-papers will soon wonder just how much they can get away with against the mainstream daily."
Editor & Publisher (subscription required) |
12-04-2007 9:22 am |
Industry News
