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Village Voice Readers Respond to Sylvester Incidentnew

The Village Voice  |  03-07-2006  12:24 pm  |  Industry News

Circulation Software Makes Life Easier at Alt-Weeklies

A recent survey of AAN papers revealed that the applications alt-weeklies are using to track circulation are as diverse as the newspapers themselves. A few papers rely on their in-house wiz for a custom-made program, but for the rest of the industry, a commercial package is the only sophisticated option. Alt-weekly circulation insiders describe their woes, successes, and dreams of better uses for the numbers. (FULL STORY)
Isaiah Thompson  |  03-06-2006  10:53 am  |  Association News

Tag-Based Classifieds: One to Watchnew

E-Media Tidbits (Poynter)  |  03-06-2006  3:10 pm  |  Industry News

Pew: One in 10 Web Users Visits Dating Sitesnew

Online Media Daily (reg. req.)  |  03-06-2006  7:00 am  |  Industry News

Pitchmen Convene at AAAA to Pitch More Pitchesnew

New York Times (reg. req.)  |  03-06-2006  6:56 am  |  Industry News

Sunshine Week Promotes Information Accessibilitynew

Muskogee Phoenix  |  03-06-2006  10:31 am  |  Legal News

Chico News & Review Editor Resignsnew

Tom Gascoyne is ending his 11-year tenure at CN&R, he announced in his regular column yesterday. Gascoyne jokes that he was "scooped" by the Chico Enterprise Record, which published a front-page story on his resignation. ("Talk about your slow news days," he says.) Gascoyne told AAN that he has "become sort of disenchanted with the game. While we try, as a wiser newspaper person once said, to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, in the end it is the comfortable who buy all the advertising."
Chico News & Review  |  03-03-2006  11:50 am  |  Industry News

Ted Rall's Lawsuit Drive Kicks Into High Gear

In a blog post dated Feb. 28, Rall announced that he had raised $21,000 toward legal fees for a potential slander lawsuit against Ann Coulter. In February, Coulter said in a speech and a later column that "in response to the Muhammad cartoons, one Iranian newspaper is soliciting cartoons about the Holocaust. (So far the only submissions have come from Ted Rall, Garry Trudeau and The New York Times.)" Rall wrote in a syndicated column that he had received e-mails calling him "an anti-Semite and anti-American traitor."
03-03-2006  9:15 am  |  Industry News

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