AAN News
Witch Hazel Targets Gen Xnew
Brandweek |
08-23-2007 8:58 am |
Industry News
Tags: Marketing, Retail Advertising
Consumer Study Suggests Ads Perform Better in Traditional Medianew
Media Daily News |
08-23-2007 8:49 am |
Industry News
'Dilbert' Creator Gives Seattle Weekly Cartoonist a Makeovernew
On the Dilbert blog, Scott Adams has been suggesting ways that Scott Meyer's comic "Basic Instructions" might be made ripe for daily-newspaper syndication, Seattle Weekly reports. The strip currently runs only in the Weekly and on Meyer's website. The readers of Adam's blog have been serving as the focus group as Meyer has tried the various tweaks proposed. "I'm keeping an open mind and giving a shot to anything he suggests," Meyer tells the Weekly.
Seattle Weekly |
08-22-2007 1:13 pm |
Industry News
Charleston City Paper Turns 10new
"Our early years were fun and full of possibility, but man, were they lean and mean," founding editor Stephanie Barna writes in an editor's note introducing the paper's anniversary issue. "We moved here in the middle of the summer from other cities, confident that we could figure out Charleston fast enough to put out an informed and relevant newspaper," she writes. "We relied on our previous experience in the alt-weekly world to establish a newspaper that reflected the city, not so much the people who put it together."
Charleston City Paper |
08-22-2007 11:27 am |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Management, Charleston City Paper
Former City Pages Editor to Launch 'Web-only Local Publication'new
Steve Perry, who left the paper earlier this year, tells the Minnesota Monitor that his new project is "a professional journalism site, but it's just as importantly conceived to be a community-and-conversations site." Though he won't reveal the site's name yet, it's set to launch in October or November. He says he's pulling inspiration from sites as diverse as The Stranger's, the Gothamist chain of city sites, and the Gawker Media sites. "I love the idea of building a forum that wantonly blurs the lines between 'professional' and 'amateur' voices wherever appropriate," Perry says. "After we started blogging extensively at City Pages, I was struck by how much I learned from the comments and correspondence it generated."
Minnesota Monitor |
08-22-2007 8:31 am |
Industry News
Advertisers: Web Market Research Still Not Accuratenew
Fortune via CNN |
08-22-2007 10:59 am |
Industry News
City Newspaper Unveils Redesign
City Newspaper Press Release |
08-22-2007 8:22 am |
Press Releases
Tags: City Newspaper, Topaz Design
Alt-Weekly Editor Releases His First Marvel Comicnew
Philadelphia City Paper editor and crime novelist Duane Swierczynski has teamed up with artist Jefte Paolo for "Moon Knight Annual" #1, which is set for release by Marvel this November. He tells Comic Book Resources that the book originated with fellow crime writer Ed Brubaker asking him if he ever wanted to get into writing comics. "That was like asking Lindsay Lohan, 'Hey would you ever want to get high and go driving?' Of course I wanted to write for comics," he says. "Consider me a silly happy bastard," Swierczynski writes on his blog. "It's not often a 25-year-old dream comes true."
Comic Book Resources |
08-21-2007 11:44 am |
Industry News
Creative Loafing CEO on New Papers: 'Why Would You Change Anything?'new
Responding to fears that out-of-town owners will change the ethos of the Chicago Reader and Washington City Paper, Ben Eason tells the St. Petersburg Times that he doesn't want to make any major changes, because the papers "are already at the top of their game." He says his goal with the new six-paper chain is to create "a national platform, national quality technology, that features local content." Creative Loafing also doesn't "have a mandate to share editorial," according to Eason. "If you put your efficiency hat on, could one film reviewer do the same job for everybody? Perhaps, but that connection to film and the local community is something I'm proud of."
St. Petersburg Times |
08-21-2007 8:42 am |
Industry News
E&P: What Makes a Paper 'Alternative' These Days, Anyway?new
Editor & Publisher |
08-21-2007 2:42 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management
New Print Council Website Touts Value of Print Advertisingnew
Editor & Publisher |
08-21-2007 2:16 pm |
Industry News
Jenna Bush + Henry Hager: National Media Turning to Style Weekly
Style Weekly Press Release |
08-21-2007 11:46 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Style Weekly
The Future of MLSnew
Inman Real Estate News |
08-21-2007 9:28 am |
Industry News
Tags: Classified Advertising
Weekly Dig Reveals Author Faked 'Oprah' Visit in Promo Materialsnew
A few weeks back, the Dig noted that Provincetown author Bill Schneider's claims of being on Oprah and of his book being selected for the media maven's book club seemed odd, since his novelette hadn't achieved any of the fame usually associated with the big O. Turns out the paper was right -- last week Schneider admitted he'd lied about Oprah, calling it "an error in judgment." Quite a difference from just weeks ago, when he was extolling the virtues of what the show can do for an author to the Dig. "Your whole life changes after Oprah," he said.
Boston's Weekly Dig |
08-20-2007 2:50 pm |
Industry News
Business Organization Pulls North Coast Journal Over Pot Covernew
The Arcata (Calif.) Mainstreet (AMS) has pulled all copies of last week's North Coast Journal from its periodical room and many of the businesses that belong to AMS have followed suit, the Arcata Eye reports. The paper was pulled for one week due to "the connection it made between very, very real needs of students and pot" in its back-to-school issue, says Taffy Stockton, AMS executive director. (The cover's subhead reads "Your student guide to housing, transit, surfing and weed.") Not everyone in town agrees with the position of AMS, though. A Humboldt State University public affairs officer tells the Eye that the university had no intention of removing any Journals from campus. "That would be Stalinist," Paul Mann says. North Coast Journal editor Hank Sims adds that banning his paper won't do much to reverse the cultural association of Humboldt County and pot. "Sorry, but that's what it's known for around the world," he says. "You can't close your eyes and make it go away." He added: "Humboldt County has a very high percentage of people who are pot smokers or are simply interested in the issue and we want those people as our readers."
The Arcata Eye |
08-20-2007 8:27 am |
Industry News
