AAN News
Federal Court Rules for Newspapers in Internet Casenew
In an important ruling on Internet
publishing, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals has dismissed a Virginia
prison warden's lawsuit against The
Hartford Courant and the New Haven
Advocate. The court ruled that
articles posted on the papers' Web sites
were not aimed at a Virginia audience.
The decision reversed a lower court's
ruling that the warden could sue in his
home state "because that is where he
claimed his reputation was damaged,"
E&P reports.
Editor & Publisher |
12-18-2002 11:03 am |
Industry News
Year Ends on Brighter Revenue Note
After a dismal 2001, alternative
newsweeklies are looking at year
over year gains in sales, publishers
tell AAN News. National ad sales are still
languishing at the two main networks and
at individual papers, but local display
and classifieds are taking up most of the
slack. In fact, the economic pinch
has made some AAN papers take
stock and get tougher, John Ferri
reports.
(FULL STORY)
John Ferri |
12-18-2002 10:13 am |
Industry News
Tags: Financial
Snooping on the Snoopernew
SF Weekly
columnist Matt
Smith had
a simple
idea back on
November 27.
Angered by
former
Iran-Contra
conspirator
Admiral
John
Poindexter's
proposed
electronic data-base on all Americans--a
frightening
effort to compile the financial, medical,
employment,
school, credit and government records
of all citizens
-- he proposed in his column that
people do a
little snooping on Poindexter himself.
Smith helpfully
provided the
phone number -- and two weeks later,
his suggestion
is snowballing into a bona fide
crusade for
civil libertarians. In his latest column,
Smith provides
a fascinating progress report, and
learns that, in
the Information Age, when it comes to
messing with
someone who wants to mess with you,
calling their
home phone number is truly just the tip
of the iceberg.
Texan Takes Reins in Montananew
The Missoula Independent has hired
alt-weekly veteran Brad Tyer as
its new editor. Tyer, a native of
Houston, takes over from Interim
Editor David Madison, who will
become the paper’s
Flathead Bureau Chief in Kalispell, Mont.
Tyer was previously editor of the Texas
Observer and before that a staff reporter
at the Houston Press.
Missoula Independent news release |
12-17-2002 11:22 am |
Industry News
Gay Activist Turns from GOP Politics to the Priesthood
Patrick Baikauskas was a rising star in the GOP when he arrived in the Illinois state capital. He had worked for a Republican Congressman, two Illinois governors, and the first President Bush. But after being outed on the front page of the daily State Journal-Register, he noticed a "palpable, icy" change in the way he was treated at the statehouse, especially by his fellow Republicans, Pete Sherman writes in Illinois Times. Undeterred, he ran for Dick Durbin's Congressional seat and later made a run for City Council. He started the city's first AIDS Walk and hosted a cable-access show for the gay and lesbian community of central Illinois. Then he decided to become a Catholic priest. As Baikauskas settles into Dominican life, there are rumblings that the Catholic church may ban the ordination of homosexuals.
AAN CAN Sales Plunge
AAN Staff |
12-17-2002 2:13 pm |
Industry News
Missoula Independent Finalist in GLAAD Awardsnew
"Queer and Present Danger" by Ken
Picard
is among the finalists for Best
Newspaper Article in the 14th Annual
GLAAD Media Awards. "Diverse media
images continue to display the broad
spectrum of our lives and stories, and
this year's Media Awards nominees testify
once again to the culture-changing
power of those images," said Joan
M. Garry, executive director of the Gay &
Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation in
announcing the nominations.
GLAAD news release |
12-16-2002 1:42 pm |
Industry News
Long Island Paper Transformsnew
The New Island Ear will change from
a biweekly music and lifestyle
newspaper to
a news and entertainment weekly,
doubling its free circulation and aiming to
reach older, 25- to 49-year-old, Long
Islanders, Newsday reports. The Morey
Organization, which purchased the Ear
earlier this year, plans to
launch the Long Island Press Jan. 16 in
Nassau, Suffolk and Queens counties.
Newsday |
12-16-2002 12:44 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management
Go Figure: Save Forests by Cutting Them Downnew
Mark Rey, former timber lobbyist, is
"truly feared" by
environmentalists in his new job as
steward of the nation's dwindling
wilderness, Andy Ryan reports
in Seattle Weekly. "He never met a
tree he wouldn't cut," Bill Arthur,
director of the Sierra Club's Northwest
office in Seattle, tells Ryan. "The timber
executives ponied up a million dollars for
Bush's election campaign, and Mark Rey
intends to make sure their investment is
richly rewarded." Nevertheless, some
Northwestern enviros are talking
about making a deal with the devil:
sacrificing younger trees to save old
growth forest.
Missoula Independent Hires Brad Tyer as Editor
Houston native eager to amp up
the Big Sky
(FULL STORY)
12-16-2002 6:08 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Missoula Independent
New Mass Media Promotes Two Publishersnew
Andy Sutcliffe and Janet
Reynolds have been named group
publishers for New Mass Media's four
alternative newsweeklies. At the first of
2003, Reynolds becomes group
publisher for the Valley and Hartford
Advocates, while Sutcliffe takes the same
title at the New Haven Advocate and
Fairfield County Weekly. "These
appointments further assist in the
re-organization of New Mass. Media,
Inc. into a more streamlined and efficient
publishing house," says CEO Fran
Zankowski.
New Mass Media memo |
12-13-2002 12:42 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management
KRS-One on the State of Hip Hopnew
In a rare post-show interview with Santa
Fe Reporter's
Dan Frosch and Jonanna
Widner, legendary rapper KRS-One
ruminates on
hip-hop: from young turks trying to battle
him to elder statesmen
passing away. He also muses on how
the industry perpetuates
poverty among its own musicians
and precipitates its own downfall with
buffoonish caricatures of hip-hop
life.
