AAN News
Auto to Account for 15 Percent of U.S. Online Advertising in '07new
Media Buyer Planner |
02-17-2006 9:09 am |
Industry News
Business Model Helps Publishers Implement 'Citizen Journalism'new
Yahoo! Finance (press release) |
02-17-2006 9:06 am |
Industry News
Google, Yahoo! Post Double-Digit Paid Search Growthnew
Online Media Daily (reg. req.) |
02-17-2006 9:03 am |
Industry News
Jackson Free Press Hosts Signing of AAN's AltWeekly Contest Book
On Feb. 9 at Lemuria Books in Jackson, two of the Free Press' most distinguished journalists, Editor-in-Chief Donna Ladd and freelance writer Ayana Taylor (pictured), read their award-winning entries from "Best AltWeekly Writing and Design 2005." More than 25 books were sold, and the evening was an all-around success.
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Natalie Collier |
02-16-2006 3:28 pm |
Association News
LA Weekly Staffers Play Rock 'N' Roll Bingo for Charity
A Los Angeles Times story describes how Operations Manager Sybil Nicholson and Ad Assistant Shelly Brown have created a monthly fundraising event for their favorite charities. The bingo is made "rock 'n' roll" through a "band name" component of the game, concert tickets as prizes, and hosts such as Weezer's Scott Shriner and Audioslave's Tom Morello.
02-16-2006 10:01 am |
Industry News
Tags: L.A. Weekly
Willy Stern Faces Nancy Grace's Confusion on CNN
The Nashville Scene relates how its former reporter faced a barrage of mistakes on the Feb. 13 episode of Nancy Grace. Stern, who now teaches journalism, was invited on the show to discuss an old murder case that he reported on in 1997. According to Scene Editor Liz Garrigan (and Stern's brother, who wrote about the show on his blog), Grace forgot details of the case, mixed up Southern states and cities, and referred to Stern as one of their reporters, which he hasn't been for several years. ("Not that we wouldn't love to claim him," Garrigan writes.) Garrigan also notes that CNN misspelled Stern's name as "Willie" in the show's transcript.
02-16-2006 9:00 am |
Industry News
At Voice, Reaction to Lacey Runs Gamut From 'Fear to Exhilaration'new
That's what a source told Boston Phoenix media critic Mark Jurkowitz after Village Voice Media's new Executive Editor Michael Lacey met with "about 30 staffers" in New York on Feb. 1. "This industry has been afflicted by this kind of shut-in mentality," Lacey told Jurkowitz. "Are people prepared to receive the message? There were a lot of people [at that meeting] who didn't like what I said." One of them was media columnist Sydney Schanberg, who said Lacey's "language was adversarial and pugnacious. ... He played the bully. I respond terribly to bullies." Voice columnist Nat Hentoff didn't respond well either, especially when Lacey criticized one of his columns and complained about "reporting that was stenography." But Hentoff decided not to resign because he's waiting to see how Lacey treats his work. Jurkowitz also covered the recent resignation of the editorial staff at the New York Press and interpreted the "turmoil" at both papers as "a sure indicator that the alt-weekly business ... is struggling for relevance in an increasingly fragmented marketplace."
The Boston Phoenix |
02-16-2006 7:55 am |
Industry News
The Stranger Posts Stack of Cartoon-Related Lettersnew
The Stranger |
02-16-2006 1:50 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Stranger
Conference Board Help-Wanted Index Rebounds in Januarynew
Yahoo! Finance (press release) |
02-16-2006 7:48 am |
Industry News
Tags: Classified Advertising
Google to Use Online Backchannel to Measure Offline Media Resultsnew
Media Daily News (reg. req.) |
02-16-2006 7:46 am |
Industry News
MySpace Reaches Young Demo, Gets 12 Percent of All Online Adsnew
CNN Money |
02-16-2006 5:02 am |
Industry News
Local Search, Yellow Pages to Reach $13 Billion by 2010new
Online Media Daily (reg. req.) |
02-16-2006 4:57 am |
Industry News
Is It Acceptable to Use Advertising to Trick Consumers?new
New York Times |
02-16-2006 4:53 am |
Industry News
Seattle Weekly Threatens to Move if it Doesn't Get New Arena
In this week's issue, Editor-in-Chief Knute Berger writes an impassioned plea for the city to provide his paper with public money to build "what the city's other franchises are getting" -- namely, an arena like the one the SuperSonics basketball team is asking for. Berger describes SW's "barely adequate" offices with duct-taped carpets and elevators that "frequently take riders to mystery destinations," then argues that a SW arena "would add to the economic vitality of this booming part of downtown," which he notes is "vibrant, historic, and, when our next lease comes due, it'll likely be unaffordable."
02-15-2006 1:47 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Seattle Weekly
The Stranger's Office Picketed -- By Four Catholic Abstinence Advocates
The Stranger's staff was ready for a protest after running the controversial Muhammad cartoons last week, Editor Dan Savage writes on Slog, The Stranger's blog. Instead, they were targeted by four members of Catholic Youth Abstaining (C-YA) who were upset by the paper's humorous coverage of their efforts to put the "Saint" back in "St. Valentine's Day." The blog also contains a photo of the four "humor-challenged, orgasm-deprived kids" holding a sign with a picture of Jesus and the words "be mine." Savage reports that the protest ended abruptly after 10 minutes and speculates,"Maybe they were afraid we were going to come down and fuck them?"
02-15-2006 1:14 pm |
Industry News
