AAN News
Two Cleveland Scene Employees Charged With Threatening Competitornew
Editor Pete Kotz says the two ad department
employees had been out drinking and
were just "trash-talking over the phone."
Cleveland Free Times
Editor David Eden claims they threatened to murder
a Free Times employee and rape his wife.
Whatever it was, it's now in the courts. Adam
Simon and Brian LeBlanc face charges of
aggravated menacing, telecommunications
harassment and making threats over the
telephone, The Plain Dealer reports.
The Plain Dealer |
08-27-2003 9:16 am |
Industry News
Tags: Scene, Cleveland Free Times
New CEO at Times Publishing Co.new
James E. Dible becomes the first non-
member of the Mead family to head the Erie, Pa.,
publishing company that owns majority stakes in
AAN-members
Cleveland Free Times and the Louisville
Eccentric Observer (LEO), as well as the
daily Erie
Times-News, Editor & Publisher reports. Dible,
60, helped start Cyberlink, an Internet company,
and the paper's GoErie.com Web site. He
replaces Michael Mead, 65, who is retiring.
Editor & Publisher |
08-25-2003 2:14 pm |
Industry News
Board Wrestles with Membership Issues
AAN Staff |
06-06-2003 10:09 am |
Association News
Lacey Fires Back at Free Timesnew
New Times Executive Editor Mike
Lacey calls Cleveland Free Times'
recent attacks on New Times and
Cleveland Scene "an explosion of
bluster." Lacey accuses Free Times'
Editor David Eden and Publisher
Matt Fabyan of concocting
"conspiracies wrapped in an ad
hominem attack" and of publishing
"organ
discharge." He cites sales and profit
figures that starkly contradict Free Times'
assertion that it was winning the
alternative
newsweekly battle in Cleveland.
Cleveland Scene |
06-05-2003 12:37 pm |
Industry News
Free Times vs. New Times
06-02-2003 4:43 pm |
Letters to the Editor
Tags: Cleveland Free Times, Scene
Free Times Takes Aim at Scenenew
In its second issue since reopening after a seven-month closure, Cleveland Free Times writes a snarling cover story on the finances of its rival Cleveland Scene and its parent, New Times. The story by Editor David Eden charges that the Scene "is living on life support and is awaiting its day of reckoning."
Cleveland Free Times |
05-29-2003 4:05 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Scene, Cleveland Free Times
Cleveland Free Times Reemerges After Long Absence
The first alternative newspaper in history
to be spawned by an antitrust
settlement hit the streets last week
exploding with entrepreneurial energy
and vitriol directed at its main competitor,
Cleveland Scene. Debuting with
a summer-special issue weighing in at
112 pages, the new Cleveland Free
Times unleashed a fusillade of
name-calling and planted the flag of
"local" ownership even though all but a
sliver of the paper is owned by Times
Publishing of Erie, Pa.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
05-27-2003 10:16 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Cleveland Free Times
Pennsylvania Newspaper Family Invests in Cleveland Free Times
Former Village Voice Media President Art Howe is now CEO of a holding company formed by the Mead family of Erie, Pa., which owns the daily Erie Times-News, to pursue purchases of alternative newsweeklies. Cleveland Free Times is the first investment the company has made in an alt-weekly. The management team headed by former Free Times Publisher Matt Fabyan "has been made significant partners," Howe said.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
04-03-2003 3:38 pm |
Industry News
Antitrust Settlement Leads to New Competition in LA, Clevelandnew
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
04-02-2003 2:58 pm |
Industry News
Cleveland Free Times to Publish Againnew
A group of investors, including former Cleveland Free
Times Publisher Matt Fabyan, Editor in Chief David Eden and former Village Voice Media President Art Howe, has purchased the assets of Cleveland Free Times
from VVM and plans to resume publishing in early
May. Most of the former staff has been offered jobs and many plan to return, Fabyan says in a news release. Free Times was shuttered as part of a deal between VVM and New Times that closed papers in Los Angeles and Cleveland, ending head-to-head competition between the two chains.
Cleveland Free Times news release |
03-27-2003 3:36 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Cleveland Free Times
Cleveland Free Times to Resume Publishing in May
Cleveland Free Times news release |
03-27-2003 10:36 am |
Press Releases
Media Consolidation, Alternative-Stylenew
The Village Voice/New Times deal that
closed New Times Los Angeles and
VVM's Cleveland Free Times, is another
sign of an "imploding economy,"
Cynthia Cotts writes in The
Village Voice. She suggests that when
VVM's
venture capitalist owners start
looking
to cash out they could find a
buyer in
a daily newspaper chain or another
alternative media company.
Village Voice |
10-08-2002 2:24 pm |
Industry News
New Times/Village Voice Deal: Cutting Lossesnew
Iconoclastic alternative weeklies are doing business like the big boys, former Washington City Paper Editor David Carr writes in the New York Times. Carr reports that New Times received $8 million from Village Voice Media to close its money-losing New Times Los Angeles. "The willingness of the two ferociously competitive chains to make a deal in their common interest could mean that the next big deal by the companies could leave only one standing," Carr writes.
New York Times |
10-07-2002 10:33 am |
Industry News
New Times, VVM Cut Deal, Close Papersnew
Village Voice Media paid NT Media
more than $1 million to close New
Times Los Angeles, sources tell the
Los Angeles Times. New
Times paid VVM a lesser amount to
shutter
Cleveland Free Times, the daily
reports.
An anti-trust lawyer says the
transaction, negotiated quietly over the
past three months, "could raise rather
interesting antitrust issues."
Los Angeles Times |
10-03-2002 10:43 am |
Industry News
Cleveland Free Times Turns 10new
Eric Broder, managing editor at
the Cleveland Free Times, which
turns 10 this week, remembers a
time when the paper could hardly fill ad
space. "The issue is 24 pages,
consisting mainly of editorial. You don't
want that. You want ads in there, and
plenty of 'em. But this was the first issue.
It's tough enough to sell ad space for a
publication, and tougher yet for one that
doesn't exist." Broder reflects on the last
decade of a paper that was one
business deal away from never
happening.
Cleveland Free Times |
09-26-2002 2:51 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Cleveland Free Times, Eric Broder
