AAN News
PBS Targets Media Buyers with Creative Pitchnew
Boston Herald |
05-01-2007 11:23 am |
Industry News
Tags: Marketing
Agency Execs Mixed on Yahoo Move to Buy Right Medianew
Online Media Daily |
05-01-2007 11:22 am |
Industry News
Tags: Marketing, Retail Advertising
Why Aren't More Latinos Working at Alt-Weeklies?new
"Latino journalists unfortunately fall quickly to the lure of the supposed glory of a daily byline," reasons OC Weekly reporter and ¡Ask a Mexican! columnist Gustavo Arellano. He tells the Rocky Mountain Chronicle that many Latinos stay away from alt-weeklies' low pay and often controversial positions and opt for "the security of a daily." Even so, he says there are "very, very few Latino journalists in mainstream media." In the sprawling Q&A with Vanessa Martinez, Arellano also touches on his forthcoming ¡Ask a Mexican! book, right-wing talk radio, and getting kicked off MySpace.
Rocky Mountain Chronicle |
04-30-2007 1:02 pm |
Industry News
Philadelphia Weekly Sale: 'There's Nothing Happening'new
That's what Review Publishing president Anthony Clifton is saying. (Review is the parent company of the Weekly.) "The word inside the PW offices is whatever possible deal was on the table is now dead," according to the paper's Philadelphia Will Do blog. This is the first time since rumors of the sale first surfaced in late March that Clifton has commented either way on the possible purchase.
Philadelphia Weekly |
04-30-2007 8:25 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Philadelphia Weekly
Auto Ad Spending Stallsnew
Adweek |
04-30-2007 9:56 am |
Industry News
New IAB Pres Complains About "Ancient" Measurement Methodsnew
Adweek |
04-30-2007 9:52 am |
Industry News
NAA Analysis Confirms Overall Daily Paper Circ Slidenew
Editor & Publisher |
04-30-2007 9:31 am |
Industry News
Supreme Court Will Not Hear Letter-to-the-editor Libel Casenew
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press |
04-30-2007 8:45 am |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial, Management
The Key to Getting an Alt-Weekly Writing Gig: Name-Drop 'Sassy'new
That's what we gleaned from an excerpt of Kara Jesella and Marisa Meltzer's new book, How Sassy Changed My Life. The book argues that the popular girls' magazine, "was less a teenage moment than an early feminist movement," according to NPR. In one excerpt, former Portland Mercury arts editor Julianne Shepherd recalls that "in the interview (for the job at the Mercury), I noted Sassy as a major influence on my inchoate writing voice," and Tim Keck, president of the parent company that owns the Mercury, "was essentially like, 'Right on! You're hired!'"
National Public Radio |
04-27-2007 3:23 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Veteran Newsday Investigative Reporter Hired by Village Voicenew
Graham Rayman will join the Voice staff as staff reporter on May 14, according to an email sent to the paper's staff by new editor Tony Ortega. Rayman racked up many journalism awards during his 11-year tenure at Newsday, and was a member of the paper's 1997 and 2004 Pulitzer Prize finalist teams.
Poynter Online: Romenesko Memos |
04-27-2007 3:03 pm |
Industry News
Open Government Coalition Asks Feds to Keep Guantanamo Records
A coalition led by OpentheGovernment.org yesterday sent a letter (PDF file) to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales protesting a 2004 U.S. District Protective Order (PDF file) that doesn't require the government to retain a set of records relating to detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The letter, which was signed by AAN and over twenty other media and non-profit organizations, was also sent (PDF file) to Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein, Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
AAN News |
04-27-2007 11:44 am |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Valley Advocate Joins Other Papers in Voluntary News Box Agreementnew
The memo seeks to avoid regulatory legislation of news box placement in the town of Greenfield, Mass. Under the agreement, labels with names and phone numbers of those responsible for it will be on each box, according to the Republican. Meanwhile, town officials are studying legislative approaches in case the publishers' agreement doesn't fix the problems of overcongestion, disrepair and poor placement.
The Republican (Springfield, Mass.) |
04-27-2007 8:20 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Editor's Film is Headed for Cannesnew
Zoo, a film co-written by The Stranger's associate editor Charles Mudede (pictured), has been accepted to the Directors' Fortnight segment of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. The film about bestiality, loosely based on an incident in Washington two years ago, opened in New York this week and hits L.A. in May. The Village Voice's Nathan Lee says it "moves the mind to reflect on fundamental questions of culture and psyche: the relation of man to animal, the limits of sexuality, the contours of community." The New York Times also weighs in on Zoo, saying it "wraps its sensationalistic core in a seductive mantle, an approach that appeals to viewers already predisposed to art and the Enlightenment, Sesame Street and all things not Rush Limbaugh."
The Stranger |
04-26-2007 1:56 pm |
Honors & Achievements
'Camouflage' is the Magic Word as Dallas Observer Wins Spelling Beenew
The Observer's spelling team edged out the Dallas Morning News yesterday at the Literacy Instruction for Texas spelling bee. Writer Andrea Grimes says the win is "sweet, sweet verbal revenge" for the "ass-kicking" the News gave the Observer in last year's softball league. She tells the News not to take the loss too hard: "We're sure those excellent batting averages are very helpful when it comes to putting out the daily paper."
Dallas Observer |
04-26-2007 10:42 am |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Management, Dallas Observer
