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Recession or Not, Older Ad Forms Ailing as Marketers Shift to Web, CRMnew
Advertising Age |
09-17-2007 9:53 am |
Industry News
7 Reasons Why Niche Social Media Outlets are Better Than Diggnew
AjaxNinja |
09-17-2007 9:41 am |
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Tags: Electronic Publishing, Marketing
NAA Study Finds Link Between Newspaper Readership and Civic Activitynew
Editor & Publisher |
09-17-2007 9:36 am |
Industry News
Village Voice Revists its Reporting on 9/11 Cancer Linknew
Graham Rayman's cover story last week, "Clearing the Air About 9/11's Toxic Dust and Cancer," doesn't refer directly to last year's Kristen Lombardi story on the same subject, but it "reads nevertheless like an unequivocal attempt at refuting its claims," according to the New York Observer. Lombardi's piece, which won a first-place AltWeekly Award for investigative reporting, stipulated that exposure to the Ground Zero rubble was giving rescue workers cancer, while Rayman's piece argues that research on the topic is murky. The Observer asks editor Tony Ortega, who fired Lombardi in May, if Rayman's story was a way of distancing his Village Voice from the version published under previous editor David Blum. "There was no conscious effort to 'tie' this cover to anything," he says. "New editor, new writer, and a new look at an evolving story. Call it weird if you like." He added: "The piece he wrote does contradict what has been written by other journalists, and what the Voice has written in the past. But that's the nature of journalism -- we're always gathering new evidence and trying to make sense of what we find."
The New York Observer |
09-14-2007 2:47 pm |
Industry News
Daniel Hernandez Leaving L.A. Weekly to Write Book for Scribnernew
"He's leaving L.A. Weekly not because of some New Times conspiracy but because Scribner has asked him to write a book about Mexico City based on his amazing cover story from last year," OC Weekly's Gustavo Arellano writes. Hernandez, who Arellano credits as "the man who made my career" with a big profile in the Los Angeles Times, writes on his blog that the book will be "about the underground, basically -- youth and subcultures."
OC Weekly |
09-14-2007 8:47 am |
Industry News
Deloitte Study: Two-Thirds of U.S. Adults Pay More to Attention Ads in Print Than Webnew
eMarketer |
09-14-2007 10:47 am |
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How to Score Traffic, Ranking, Optimization Without Linksnew
SEOish |
09-14-2007 10:39 am |
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Tech Firm Integrates Email List Management, Web Analyticsnew
Online Media Daily |
09-14-2007 10:36 am |
Industry News
Report: Fragmentation Keeps Ads Off Local Online Medianew
The local advertising group Marchex estimates that only 5 percent of local ad dollars goes to local internet advertising. To get a larger piece of the local ad pie, a website needs to aggregate a large-scale local audience, according to "Unlocking the Potential of the Local Internet," a new report issued by the group. "There is no shortage of local content on the internet," said the report. "The problem for consumers is that this content is usually highly fragmented across a myriad of sites and is not optimized for decision making."
AdWeek |
09-13-2007 10:24 am |
Industry News
Creative Loafing Starts to Make Changes at the Chicago Readernew
CEO Ben Eason recently told the paper's distribution drivers that they would be terminated as salaried employees and made independent contractors following this week's issue, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. The change would result in both a drop in income and a loss of benefits, and the majority of the 20-plus drivers have thus far rejected the offer. "It's just not economically viable anymore, and I don't know of any other alternative paper that works that way now," says Eason, who indicated if the stalemate couldn't be resolved, he would bring on new drivers. There have also been staff changes, according to the Sun-Times. Advertising director Don Humbertson and art director Sheila Sachs, both longtime Reader employees, have left the paper. "I don't want people to think that because we were purchased that folks have come in and made decisions to act against our best interests," publisher Michael Crystal tells the Chicago Tribune. "It's very simple for people to point fingers at new ownership and all that kind of thing. We're just trying to wade through this in a way that makes sense."
Chicago Sun-Times (second item) | Chicago Tribune |
09-13-2007 8:33 am |
Industry News
How to Optimize Your Site for iPhone, Other Mobile Usersnew
A List Apart |
09-13-2007 12:32 pm |
Industry News
Volkswagen Eyes Larger Share of U.S. Marketnew
Brandweek |
09-13-2007 12:16 pm |
Industry News
Summit Entertainment Picks Mindshare for U.S. Media Dutiesnew
Adweek |
09-13-2007 12:14 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising
Google AdWords Goes Mobilenew
Search Engine Watch |
09-13-2007 12:05 pm |
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Senators Introduce Federal Shield Lawnew
The Free Flow of Information Act of 2007 "seeks to reconcile reporters' need to maintain confidentiality, in order to ensure that sources will speak openly and freely, with the public's right to effective law enforcement and fair trials," according to a press release. The bill was introduced Monday by Senators Arlen Specter (R-PA), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Richard Lugar (R-IN). "It is time to simplify the patchwork of court decisions and legislation that has grown over the last three decades," Specter says. "It is time for Congress to clear up the ambiguities journalists and the federal judicial system face in balancing the protections journalists need in providing confidential information to the public with the ability of the courts to conduct fair and accurate trials." The bill modifies earlier shield law legislation introduced in the House by Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), and in the Senate by Sen. Lugar and Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT).
U.S. Senator Arlen Specter Press Release |
09-12-2007 12:19 pm |
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Tags: Editorial, Management
