AAN News
Alt-Weeklies Mine Roots To Drive Web Revenuenew
According to Tim Keck, publisher of Seattle's The Stranger and Portland, Ore.'s Mercury, alt-weeklies can draw on their iconoclastic voice, strong local entertainment coverage and close relationships with local businesses, to take the online lead in their communities and build their online revenue.
NetNewsCheck |
02-01-2012 7:00 am |
Industry News
Is There Anything Tim Keck Can't Do?new
Founder of The Onion, publisher of The Stranger, and the head of on online empire that includes an iPhone app, a CMS, and a daily deal service, Tim Keck has earned himself a 2,300+ word profile — and a 17-image photo gallery — in The Seattle Times.
The Seattle Times |
07-28-2011 1:05 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Altperks: Local Deals For Local Publishers
Index Newspapers has announced the launch of Altperks LLC, a “deals” ad network for local publishers that is a hyperlocal alternative to Groupon and Living Social.
(FULL STORY)
The Stranger |
01-14-2011 3:47 pm |
Press Releases
'Savage Love' iPhone App Released
Index Newspapers (parent company of The Stranger and Portland Mercury) and Night & Day Studios have released a Savage Love iPhone app, which provides "an interactive take on the love, sex, and relationship advice Dan Savage has been serving up for nearly 20 years," as the press release puts it. The app features a "Question of the Day" updated each afternoon, previous columns and podcasts, and exclusive text and video content. "We thought for sure that the app store would reject this but they approved in record time," Stranger publisher Tim Keck says. "I guess we've lost our touch." The app sells for $1.99, and is tagged in the iTune app store as having "Frequent/Intense Sexual Content or Nudity," "Frequent/Intense Profanity or Crude Humor," and "Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes." In other words, everything you love about Savage Love to begin with.
(FULL STORY)
Index Newspapers Press Release |
06-04-2010 10:50 am |
Press Releases
How The Stranger Uses 'Social Q&A' to Build Communitynew
The Stranger's "Questionland" is like other web Q&A features like Yahoo Answers, but as publisher Tim Keck points out, the local focus of the Stranger's readership makes it even more valuable. "It's different from throwing a question out into the whole wide world," he tells VentureBeat. "You run into these people on the street, and they know each other."
VentureBeat |
03-09-2010 12:45 pm |
Industry News
The Stranger Publisher Talks About the Web & the Future of Newpapersnew
In a round table discussion with representatives of other Seattle news organizations, Tim Keck discusses how The Stranger fits in to the transformation of the news business. He says that 2007 was the paper's best year ever, and '08 was slightly down due to the tanking economy. While he says that The Stranger has "probably three times the number" of online readers, he notes that print circulation hasn't dropped that much either. "The media compan[ies] that can navigate different mediums [are] going to be the ones that survive," Keck says. "The thing that really moors them is no longer the medium -- a print publication -- it's going to be the community and the brand."
The Seattle Channel |
12-15-2008 1:32 pm |
Industry News
The Stranger's Keck on The Onion's Originsnew
In a preview of an on-campus panel discussion about The Onion, Tim Keck tells a student newspaper that he and Chris Johnson (now publisher of Albuequrque's Weekly Alibi) started the satirical newspaper in their dorm room in 1988 in honor of Keck's hometown paper. "At the time, (the Oshkosh Northwestern) was really bad, and the headlines were unwittingly hilarious," Keck says. He also tells the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire's The Spectator that Johnson's uncle came up with the name, which derives from the steady diet of onion sandwiches that penury compelled the co-founders to consume during their college days.
The Spectator |
02-08-2007 12:02 pm |
Industry News
The Stranger's Leaders Avoid the Pollsnew
Dan Savage (in photo) and Tim Keck
haven't fully participated in the electoral
process lately, and their cross-town rivals are
calling
them on
it. Seattle Weekly's Mark Fefer culled
county voting records and determined that Editor
Savage missed several recent elections and
Publisher
Keck isn't registered to vote. Fefer contrasts their
actions with The Stranger's brash
encouragement to its readers to join the
political process.
Seattle Weekly |
09-25-2003 1:07 am |
Industry News
Tags: Dan Savage, Tim Keck
The Stranger Publishes Guide to Seattle
Since its mid-June release, “The Stranger Guide to Seattle: The City’s Smartest, Pickiest, Most Obsessive Urban Manual” has been flying off bookstore shelves and out of dot.com mail-order warehouses -- and not just in Seattle.
(FULL STORY)
John Ferri |
08-01-2001 11:50 am |
Industry News
Rocket Deal Crashes for City of Roses
Negotiations end as new competition arrives.
(FULL STORY)
Christine Iwan |
05-26-2000 11:50 am |
Industry News
The Stranger to Start a New Paper in Portland
Keck Says "The Time is Right"; Willamette Week Looks Forward to the Competition.
(FULL STORY)
Amanda Fazzone |
02-18-2000 11:51 am |
Industry News
