AAN News
Michael Crystal Joins Chicago Reader as Publisher and COO
Chicago Reader Inc. news release |
03-11-2004 5:57 pm |
Press Releases
RedEye Hasn't Hurt Reader's Existing Advertisingnew
So says Chicago Reader Publisher and COO
Jane
Levine (pictured), who admits that Tribune
Publishing's new youth-oriented daily tabloid has
made it more
difficult to reach Tribune clients who don't
advertise
in the Reader. "It's just easier for them and
way
cheaper" to add RedEye to their Tribune
media
spend, Levine tells Media Daily News. "These
papers
are going after, and I don't think very successfully,
an age," Levine says. "They want 18 to 34, period,
young for young's sake. What the reader of our
paper
is and always has been is more of
psychographic
and a lifestyle."
MediaPost's Media Daily News |
09-17-2003 4:14 pm |
Industry News
Levine Changing Role at Chicago Reader
Jane Levine, chief operating officer of Chicago Reader, Inc., is beginning the search for a publisher, who will handle day-to-day operations. When that person is in place and trained, Levine will step back and decide what her role will be at the company. Levine has been in alternative newsweeklies since she started as an intern at the Reader in 1973. "I can't even think what the next step will look like
until we have a great publisher in place and I know what their skills
are," she says. "Right now there are too many trees in my way to see
the forest."
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
04-17-2003 10:36 am |
Industry News
Changes in AAN Board
Towler becomes president
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
01-22-2002 3:32 pm |
Association News
Chicago Free Papers Hold Up in Downturnnew
While publicly traded media companies are laying off employees and warning Wall Street of sharply diminished returns, Chicago's free circulation papers are holding their own, Kathy Bergen of the Chicago Tribune reports. "There isn't the voracious need to satisfy shareholders and start making layoffs," Richard Karpel, executive director of AAN, tells the Trib. Chicago Reader Publisher Jane Levine tells Bergen: "Our total revenue in 2001 will be about even with 2000, and I feel blessed for that."
Chicago Tribune |
12-11-2001 9:31 am |
Industry News
Resumes Rolling in for City Paper Editor's Jobnew
Washington City Paper is getting
great resumes for Howard Witt's old
editor's job, and for sales positions,
because of media layoffs, says Jane
Levine, CEO of City Paper's parent,
Chicago Reader Inc. Levine tells the
Washington Business Journal: "It's a
great time to be hiring. There aren't many
silver linings to the clouds that
are out there, but this is one of them."
Washington Business Journal |
11-27-2001 3:22 pm |
Industry News
Economy Hits Alt-Weekly Bottom Lines
Alternative newsweeklies are feeling the one-two punch of war and recession. National advertising is down across the board, but classifieds are providing a cushion. While several papers have had to lay off employees, others are taking the opportunity to add sales staff.
(FULL STORY)
Seth Wharton |
10-25-2001 8:19 am |
Industry News
