AAN News
LEO Founder's Congressional Race Heats Up
The 3rd District Democratic primary in Kentucky is a lively competition between four men, says David Hawpe with The Courier-Journal. Candidate John Yarmuth, who founded the Louisville Eccentric Observer (and wrote its political column until a few months ago), is "extremely well connected, as well as very well known," but he risks being seen as "a mere son of privilege." The Courier-Journal has received a complaint that Yarmuth made a campaign appearance at a drug court graduation, but Hawpe notes, "hey, those people (along with all the clerks, judges and other courthouse workers who were in the vicinity) vote, too, don't they? Maybe we have a real campaign."
03-20-2006 7:02 am |
Industry News
LEO Founder Is Victim Of False Wikipedia Entrynew
Last week an anonymous user posted the following misinformation about John Yarmuth, who recently declared his candidacy for Kentucky's 3rd Congressional District seat: "While charges have never been formally filed, Yarmuth has been widely linked to the disappearance of Chandra Levy. D.C. Police have continued to call him a person of interest." The accuracy and credibility of the online encyclopedia, which allows users to write and edit entries, has been called into question recently as a number of public figures have uncovered fraudulent entries. According to The Courier-Journal, the Yarmuth smear was included in a Wikipedia profile of the incumbent he seeks to unseat, Rep. Anne Northup, and was removed yesterday.
The Courier-Journal |
02-14-2006 8:56 am |
Industry News
LEO Editor: Former Editor's Candidacy Presents Challengesnew
Louisville Eccentric Observer |
02-01-2006 4:48 pm |
Industry News
LEO Founder Runs for Congressnew
John Yarmuth, founder and former executive editor of the Louisville Eccentric Observer, will run in the Democratic primary for Kentucky's 3rd Congressional District seat, which is currently held by Republican Anne Northup. Although Yarmuth sold LEO to Times Publishing in 2003, he has continued to pen a regular column for the paper. (LEO is suspending the column as long as Yarmuth remains in the race.) Michael Clingaman, the executive director of Kentucky's Republican Party, told The Courier-Journal that Yarmuth is "the most liberal of the liberals, and he's bragged about it in print for 15 years."
The Courier-Journal |
01-31-2006 1:18 pm |
Industry News
Media Outlets Extend Reach of KentuckyVotes.org
12-15-2005 5:03 pm |
Press Releases
Louisville Magazine Compares LEO and Gannett-Owned Weekly
The December issue contains a lengthy feature on the Louisville Eccentric Observer and its competitor for advertising dollars, Velocity. Velocity is a weekly arts & entertainment tabloid that was spun off from Gannett's local daily, the Courier-Journal. The paper's editor, Jim Lenehan, is confident his faux-alt will attract young readers: "We did a lot of focus groups that told us that this was what they really wanted to see -- that this was the kind of thing they would pick up week after week." (The article is not available on Louisville Magazine's Web site, but the publication kindly allowed us to post a PDF here.)
12-08-2005 2:48 pm |
Industry News
LEO Founder Puts His Money Where His Mouth Isnew
Thanks to George W. Bush's capital gains tax cuts, John Yarmuth saved a lot of money when he sold Louisville Eccentric Observer last year -- money he's now using to defeat Bush. The founder and executive editor of LEO spent half that money contributing to the Kerry campaign, and now he's spending the other half to buy local TV time for a political ad that makes his case against the incumbent: "With record federal deficits and a war in Iraq, cutting taxes for fortunate people like me was the wrong priority," Yarmuth says in the ad.
Louisville Eccentric Observer |
10-20-2004 4:07 pm |
Industry News
LEO Responds to Being Removed from Krogernew
The Louisville, Kentucky, weekly was among four publications banned from Kroger, three of them for having sexually suggestive content (in LEO's case, apparently, its adult ads). But what about the sexual content of Cosmopolitan, which is still on the racks, asks executive editor and founder John Yarmuth. He argues that the selective banning constitutes censorship. In an accompanying article, Tom Peterson interviews public relations professionals about Kroger's strategy.
Louisville Eccentric Observer |
05-19-2004 3:42 pm |
Industry News
Kroger Removes LEO, Other Papers from Grocery Storesnew
Two weeks after it refused to continue carrying a church newspaper, Kroger is removing three other weekly papers from its free distribution racks. Louisville, Kentucky's alternative weekly, LEO, is among the banned. A Kroger spokesman told reporter Peter Smith of The Courier-Journal that the store's biggest issue with some of the publications was "the sexual nature of much of the advertising they contain." John Yarmuth, LEO's founder and executive editor, calls the ban "a horrible business decision."
The Courier-Journal |
05-12-2004 10:32 am |
Industry News
Tags: LEO Weekly
Gannett to Launch New Louisville Weekly Dec. 3new
Although Velocity is aimed at young
adults, it is "not being positioned as a direct
competitor" to the 13-year-old AAN-member
Louisville Eccentric Observer, claims
Ed Manassah, publisher of the local
Gannett daily responsible for the new paper.
Nevertheless, Manassah sends a shot across
LEO's bow when he claims the young-adult
"marketplace" is "not being serviced." The new
publication's name "is a play off the word
`city,' but then there's also the connection to a faster
pace and speed," the paper's new editor explains
helpfully.
The Courier-Journal |
10-20-2003 12:19 pm |
Industry News
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
Times Publishing Buys LEOnew
A subsidiary of the Erie, Pa. company,
formed in March to invest in alternative
newspapers and headed by Art
Howe, acquires Louisville's
alt-weekly only months after its purchase
of Cleveland Free Times. Pam
Brooks, a longtime Louisville
resident and publishing executive, is the
new publisher, replacing Blanche
Kitchen Brewer, who is retiring. "It
was time," explains LEO Executive Editor
and co-founder John Yarmuth.
"My concern is the best
interest of this paper, and it supersedes
all personal agendas."
Louisville Eccentric Observer |
07-16-2003 12:16 pm |
Industry News
Suitor Woos LEOnew
Executive Editor John Yarmuth confirms to a LEO columnist that an acquisition of the Louisville, Ky., alternative is being discussed. Writer Tom Peterson says LEO’s suitors reportedly have an affection — rather than a formula — for operating alternative weeklies. "But as LEO staffers await news, the questions and the uncertainty fly, wafting through the offices, leaking from behind closed office doors and in the wake of hushed conversations," he writes. "Will it happen, and if it does, what will be different?"
Louisville Eccentric Observer |
07-07-2003 5:04 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, LEO Weekly
