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Tower Records Files for Chapter 11new
Yahoo! Finance |
08-21-2006 8:14 pm |
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eMail and Loyalty Promotions to Capture Holiday Retail Businessnew
Center for Media Research (reg. req.) |
08-21-2006 10:50 am |
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Cigarette Marketers Face Daunting Rebranding Tasknew
Marketing Daily |
08-21-2006 10:47 am |
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Tags: Retail Advertising
Advocacy Ads: The Blunter the Betternew
Online Media Daily (reg. req.) |
08-21-2006 10:45 am |
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Greenwald: Bush Administration Is Trying 'to Neuter the Press'new
Democracy Now! |
08-21-2006 6:29 am |
Legal News
Justice Department Appeals Ruling on Warrantless Wiretappingnew
Editor & Publisher |
08-21-2006 10:03 am |
Legal News
San Luis Obispo New Times Marks 20 Years, New Ownershipnew
Twenty years after Bev Johnson, Alex Zuniga, and Steve Moss (pictured) produced the first issue of San Luis Obispo New Times, the newspaper is celebrating not only its anniversary but also having new owners who are familiar faces at the office. Founding owner Moss died in 2005; Zuniga, the art director, and Bob Rucker, the longtime general manager, had to compete with others to purchase the paper. Their majority co-ownership became official on Aug. 2. "We have a lot of potential to keep getting better," Zuniga says. "We're not done yet. Steve developed the philosophy and feel of the paper that we want to maintain: If it's important, accurate, and relevant, it should be in the paper."
San Luis Obispo New Times |
08-18-2006 12:57 pm |
Industry News
Former Alt-Weekly Writers Dish the Seattle Media Scene
Geov Parrish, former staff writer for Seattle Weekly, and Sandeep Kaushik, ex-writer for the Stranger, last week participated in a "Podcasting Liberally" panel about "the fate of the post-purge Weekly in Seattle’s tech-savvy, blog-heavy media market." Parrish worked at the Weekly for eight years before resigning last week, and he doesn't pull punches when describing his differences with the new Village Voice Media management, especially his feeling that they "don't get" online content. Other panelists, however, argue that the Weekly is "oppressed by the weight of its own history" and the VVM changes may bring a younger audience to the paper. The panel also discusses Slog as guilty pleasure and Skip Berger's resemblance to Jerry Garcia. The complete podcast is available for download here.
08-18-2006 12:12 pm |
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Bloggers Gauge Web 2.0 Features for Newspaper Sites Around Worldnew
Mediashift |
08-18-2006 2:06 pm |
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Tags: Electronic Publishing
Last Day at Seattle Weekly for Berger, Other Editorial Staffersnew
Seattle Weekly |
08-18-2006 1:07 pm |
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Denver Post Doesn't Hesitate to Break News on the Webnew
Westword |
08-18-2006 12:25 pm |
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Tags: Electronic Publishing
Study: Users Judge Web Sites in the Blink of An Eyenew
Editor & Publisher (sub. req.) |
08-18-2006 5:59 am |
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Tags: Electronic Publishing, Management
Win Breast Implants Courtesy of Miami New Times
As noted on Gawker, and confirmed by a call to the Miami New Times office, the Florida alt-weekly is sponsoring a contest to "win a free breast augmentation." The drawing is part of a promotion for a new branch of the Center for Cosmetic Surgery, a New Times advertiser.
08-17-2006 2:36 pm |
Industry News
New Voice Editor's Early Take on the Alternative Press
In an article appearing in the Oct. 17, 1979 issue of the Wall Street Journal, David Blum exhibited an early fascination with the alt-weekly format. Blum, who was recently named editor of the Village Voice, wrote: "Some newspapers do a lot of strange things. Take the Chicago Reader." In addition to exploring the Reader's free-classifieds strategy and its strong hold on both readers and advertisers, Blum questioned the paper's lack of political coverage: "[Co-owner Robert] Roth dates the paper's first issue, that of October 1971, as 'five months after the Kent State Shootings' -- which would seem hardly the time for an alternative paper to concentrate on suggesting what to do on a Saturday night." Blum's article is available for $4.95 in the Wall Street Journal archives.
08-17-2006 11:03 am |
Industry News
Rumors of the Beat's Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
A recent story about Gannett distribution networks published in Des Moines' Cityview mistakenly reported that Greenville, S.C.'s MetroBeat "now exists only online." (The mistake was repeated in a similar story published earlier this month in The Billings Outpost.) In fact, MetroBeat no longer exists, having been replaced by The Beat, which became an AAN member in June and celebrated its 1st anniversary on July 25. The confusion stems from the fact that the Beat's owner, James Shannon, was the editor of MetroBeat when it was shuttered and initially kept the name going online before launching his new publication in 2005.
08-17-2006 9:30 am |
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