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Web Ad Bubbles and the Future of Searchnew
Search Insider |
10-23-2007 9:48 am |
Industry News
Restaurants Feel Impact of Declining Number of Women in the Workforcenew
Advertising Age |
10-23-2007 9:46 am |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising
Writers Guild Strike Will Impact Ad Campaigns, Placementsnew
Advertising Age |
10-23-2007 9:42 am |
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Tags: Retail Advertising
'Influentials' Skeptical of Product Reviews Found on Social Net Sitesnew
Adweek |
10-23-2007 9:36 am |
Industry News
Society of Professional Journalists Condemns New Times Arrestsnew
Society of Professional Journalists Press Release |
10-23-2007 8:35 am |
Press Releases
State Bar Investigates New Times Case; Daily Paper Seeks Documentsnew
As we reported late on Friday, all charges against Phoenix New Times have been dropped. The paper and its executives faced charges for publishing Sheriff Joe Arpaio's home address on the internet and for disclosing grand jury information. Now the Arizona Republic is reporting that the State Bar Association has launched an internal investigation into Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and special prosecutor Dennis Wilenchik, in part for their actions in the New Times case. In addition, attorneys for Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., which publishes the Republic, have filed a motion to unseal all transcripts and court filings related to the case. Lastly, New Times reports that the disorderly conduct charge that reporter Ray Stern received last week for looking at public documents has not been dismissed.
Arizona Republic | Phoenix New Times |
10-22-2007 1:19 pm |
Industry News
Were Orlando Weekly Arrests Retribution for Critical Reporting?new
"Orlando Weekly believes these arrests are an outrageous abuse of process and an attempt to censor the First Amendment rights of a newspaper that has reported critically on the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation," publisher Rick Schreiber
says in a statement. Orlando Sentinel columnist Scott Maxwell seems to agree. "You'll have to forgive me if I'm a bit skeptical about the MBI's arrest of three staffers," he says, noting that the Weekly has "been all over the MBI like fleas on a dog in recent years." He continues: "And yet, in our story today, MBI director Bill Lutz seemed to deny that his department had a grudge against the paper. If that's what he's saying, it's a crock." For more coverage of the arrests, and links to past Weekly coverage of the MBI, check out the paper's blog.
Orlando Weekly | Orlando Sentinel |
10-22-2007 12:25 pm |
Industry News
Online Ad Growth Being Stunted by Conflicting Measurementsnew
Online advertising is expected to generate more than $20 billion in revenue this year, but questions remains about how much clashing traffic figures will hold the market back, the New York Times reports. Visitor measurements being taken by large online publishers are coming in much higher than the numbers provided by third-party firms like ComScore and Nielsen/NetRatings. The discrepancies are caused by a number of factors, including the use of raw server data (by publishers) vs. extrapolating audience figures based on panel samplings (by third parties). In addition, while the "impression" has largely become the accepted metric used to measure an online audience -- and set ad rates -- each company uses a different methodology to calculate that number, according to the Times. "It's hugely frustrating," the president for media at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia says about the clashing numbers. "It's one of the barriers preventing us from really moving forward."
The New York Times |
10-22-2007 10:56 am |
Industry News
Canadian City Bans News Boxes in Downtown Corenew
New Westminster, which sits about 12 miles from Vancouver in British Columbia, has approved the ban as part of a series of measures to address "livability and enforcement issues" in the city, the Georgia Straight reports. The ordinance, set to take effect Jan. 1, would affect more than 20 of the Straight's boxes. It's "very likely" that the city has violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, says Vancouver media lawyer David F. Sutherland: "There is a constitutional right, not only in the newspaper to distribute by traditional means in public space, but also on the part of readers to receive it in that way." Still, the news box ban isn't quite as draconian as an earlier restriction New Westminster had on the alt-weekly: In 1968, the city banned the Straight across the entire municipality.
The Georgia Straight |
10-22-2007 9:13 am |
Legal News
Chemical Co. Drops Suit Against Monterey County Weeklynew
The alt-weekly was being sued by Suterra for referencing one of its product's "inert" ingredients in print, but on Friday afternoon lawyers from the company notified the paper that the suit was being dismissed "without prejudice," the Santa Cruz Sentinel reports. Then over the weekend, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered the ingredients be made public, and also ordered that the state immediately resume spraying the product, known as Checkmate LBAM-F. It is being used to eradicate the light brown apple moth.
Santa Cruz Sentinel | Monterey County Herald |
10-22-2007 8:36 am |
Legal News
Three Things to Remember When You're Writing a Marketing Plannew
The Marketing Minute |
10-22-2007 10:09 pm |
Industry News
Some Blogs are Very Profitablenew
San Francisco Chronicle |
10-22-2007 10:03 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Retail Advertising
The Hottest Digital Agencies Aroundnew
Advertising Age |
10-22-2007 5:00 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising
All Charges in New Times Case Droppednew
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas announced this afternoon that he was dismissing the case against Village Voice Media executives Jim Larkin and Michael Lacey, who were arrested last night after publishing a story revealing that their Phoenix New Times was a target of a grand jury probe. Thomas said that the case had been grossly mishandled, according to the Arizona Republic.
"It has become clear to me the investigation has gone in a direction I would not have authorized," Thomas says. The grand jury had been convened to investigate charges that the New Times violated the law when it posted Sheriff Joe Arpaio's home address on its website in 2004.
Arizona Republic |
10-19-2007 7:32 pm |
Industry News
Three Orlando Weekly Employees Arrestednew
Orlando police arrested the paper's classified advertising director and two account executives this afternoon on charges of aiding and abetting prostitution, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The Weekly's office was also "served notice on racketeering charges for contributing to the prostitution industry," according to the Sentinel. The charges stem from a two-year operation dubbed "Operation Weekly Shame." As part of the investigation, two female agents went undercover and presented themselves as prostitutes to three Weekly account executives, according to police. Criminal defense lawyer Daniel Aaronson says the Weekly did nothing wrong by taking adult-oriented advertisements. "The papers aren't doing anything illegal," he says. "They're taking ads. If an ad uses suggestive language, the stopping of these ads threatens the First Amendment."
The Orlando Sentinel |
10-19-2007 2:54 pm |
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