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Sony Sponsors Video Podcasts for CNNnew
Reuters via Yahoo! News |
09-04-2006 4:20 pm |
Industry News
Monster Worldwide Sells Ad Agencynew
Editor & Publisher |
09-04-2006 4:16 pm |
Industry News
Help-Wanted Index Dips in Julynew
Editor & Publisher |
09-04-2006 4:15 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Classified Advertising
Tribune Buys Free Daily amNew Yorknew
Reuters |
09-04-2006 4:12 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Marketing
The Village Voice Lays Off Eight, Including Robert Christgaunew
Five of those dismissed yesterday were senior arts editors, including Christgau, who had been a music critic for the paper on and off since 1969. The other three employees were design staff, including Art Director Minh Uong. In a statement, Village Voice Media describes the layoffs as an effort "to reconfigure the editorial department to place an emphasis on writers as opposed to editors." David Blum, who was named the editor of the Voice three weeks ago, tells The New York Times, "It wouldn't have been appropriate for me to weigh in on these decisions before I even took over the job." Blum's first day is September 12.
The New York Times (reg. req.) |
09-01-2006 7:30 am |
Industry News
Music Editor Sam Machkovech and Dallas Observer Part Waysnew
Dallas Observer |
09-01-2006 4:53 pm |
Industry News
San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Office Says New Times Meth Story Found at Lab Sitesnew
KSBY-TV |
09-01-2006 11:44 am |
Industry News
Village Voice Undergoes a Staff Restructuring
Village Voice Media Press Release |
09-01-2006 9:23 am |
Press Releases
Weight Jokes in Willamette Week Create Uproar
Karla Starr, who compiles the listings of book-related events for Willamette Week, got a bigger reaction than she expected to an item in the August 23 issue. Starr wrote:
Are you a fatty? Want to be in a book? Waddle over to a computer, grab your typing stick (those sausage fingers hit too many keys at once, don't they?), go to stacybias.net, and fill out the contact form for your chance to contribute to Bias' FatGirl Speaks, a short-fiction anthology inspired by her event of the same name.According to a note in the Aug. 30 issue, "WW's email inboxes, voicemail and front desk were inundated by responses." The Letters to the Editor section includes six messages from angry readers, one from Bias, and an apology from Starr. "After experiencing firsthand the power of reading so many stories, my appreciation and respect for Stacy Bias' work and upcoming book has grown tremendously," Starr says.
08-31-2006 1:00 pm |
Industry News
Louis Black: AltWeekly Awards Honor Papers Most Like Glossy Mags
In the last issue of his alt-weekly's 25th year, Louis Black offers up "Ten Ways of Looking at an Austin Chronicle," one of which is as a "non-award-winning weekly." Black says that the Austin Chronicle staff usually doesn't have time to submit entries in the AltWeekly Awards, and even when they do, they "rarely win." (The Chronicle has won a total of five awards, including a 2006 first-place award for Drugs Reporting.) "I argue that this is because the awards have evolved to the point where they honor the weeklies that are the most like the glossy magazines, with very long, in-depth stories beating out most of the others," Black writes. "More often than not, many papers engage in the type of 'gotcha! journalism' in which a City Council member is exposed to be self-serving, using public money to enrich him or herself, and/or to be found with an underage boy or girl or animal of any age."
08-31-2006 12:15 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Austin Chronicle, Louis Black
Seattle Weekly Writer Objects to Dan Savage's Gun 'Experiment'
To make a point about proposed club regulations, The Stranger's editor, Dan Savage, walked into Seattle's City Hall carrying pot cookies and a fake gun. Seattle Weekly Staff Writer Philip Dawdy argues that Savage went too far because he used his press credentials to take the illicit materials into restricted areas of the building. In a post on The Daily Weekly, SW's blog, Dawdy notes that the Seattle press, including The Stranger, has fought to maintain access to offices in City Hall in the past; now, Savage's actions could "make the security folks at City Hall rethink who gets to go where and under what circumstances," he writes.
08-31-2006 8:50 am |
Industry News
¡Ask a Mexican!, Just Not in Spanish
"It's troubling ... to know that some people actually get upset when a U.S.-born-and-bred Latino isn't fully fluent in Spanish," Gustavo Arellano writes in a Los Angeles Times editorial published Monday. Arellano is a reporter for OC Weekly and the author of the controversial syndicated ¡Ask a Mexican! column. He explains that his parents taught him a rural Mexican dialect, which became "mangled" after he attended a public school where he only spoke English. The criticism of Arellano's Spanish intensified after a June appearance on The Colbert Report, but he swears he doesn't care: "I'm an English-language columnist; it's my job to help Americans understand Mexicans, not to write the next Don Quixote."
08-31-2006 8:12 am |
Industry News
Southland Publishing Buys Inland Empire Weekly
The sale of IE Weekly was announced yesterday; the 21-week-old California publication serves a large market in
Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. Publisher Jeremy Zachary, editor Stacy Davies and managing editor Rich Kane -- all former employees of OC Weekly -- will continue in their positions. "In today's merger climate it makes sense that we join the Southland Publishing family, allowing us to
better serve our advertisers locally, regionally and nationally," Zachary says.
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Southland Publishing Press Release |
08-31-2006 5:12 pm |
Press Releases
Survey: Advertisers Flock to 'Untrustworthy' Medianew
Brandweek |
08-31-2006 2:15 pm |
Industry News
Isthmus Announces 'Pint and Policy' Forum
How to Keep Madison from Becoming Milwaukee
(FULL STORY)
Isthmus Press Release |
08-31-2006 12:34 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Isthmus
