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Dan Savage: The Muslim Community in Seattle 'Gets It'new

AP via Seattle Post-Intelligencer | 02-10-2006 2:24 pm | Industry News

Tags: Editorial, The Stranger, Dan Savage

Weekly Alibi Reprints Letter That Led to 'Sedition' Chargenew

Weekly Alibi | 02-10-2006 1:42 pm | Industry News

Tags: Editorial, Weekly Alibi

Inaugural Monster Employment Index Canada Shows Slowdownnew

CNW Telbec (press release) | 02-10-2006 12:19 pm | Industry News

Tags: Classified Advertising, Electronic Publishing

AutoNation Profits Drop 31 Percent in 4Q, Wilma Cited as Causenew

Sun-Sentinel | 02-10-2006 12:05 pm | Industry News

Tags: Classified Advertising, Retail Advertising

David Carr on Alt-Weeklies, the Web, and the Merger

In an extensive interview in Rochester, N.Y.'s City Newspaper, the NY Times' media reporter and incipient blogger doled out some advice for the industry that used to provide him with a paycheck. Alternative journalism is "lippy discourse plus culturally literate recommendations plus listings," he said. Problem is, the same "fundamental assets" are also available on the Web, where they're "far more searchable." So alt-weeklies need to do a "better job of putting their brand into digital realms," and they need to compete with the Web "to keep refreshing that sort of children's crusade of talented young reporters (that) make alternative newspapers vital." Carr isn't troubled by the New Times-VVM merger because he's "a fan of the New Times version of newspapering. They do very robust, city-oriented coverage that I think is a force for good, or at least accountability in the cities that they do them in."

02-09-2006 9:37 am | Industry News

Tags: Classified Advertising, Editorial, Electronic Publishing, Financial, Marketing, City Newspaper

Rocky Mountain Bullhorn Shutterednew

Bullhorn Publisher Joseph Rouse announced yesterday that the newspaper's Feb. 2 issue had been its last, according to the Coloradoan. Rouse said negotiations to merge with another alt-weekly had been underway but ended abruptly on Wednesday. The Bullhorn was founded as a monthly in 2000 by Rouse and former editor Vanessa Martinez, then both 22. The newspaper was relaunched with a weekly format in 2003 and was awarded AAN membership in 2004.

The Coloradoan | 02-09-2006 8:17 am | Industry News

Tags: Circulation, Editorial, Financial, Management, Rocky Mountain Bullhorn, Joseph Rouse, Vanessa Martinez

California Closes Investigation of New Times-VVM Merger

Contrary to a Feb. 8 report in the San Francisco Bay Guardian that was linked from our Web site yesterday, AAN has learned that California Attorney General Bill Lockyer announced on Feb. 6 (PDF) that his office has closed its investigation of the merger without taking any enforcement action. In addition, the Bay Guardian article was in error in stating that "the two chains were caught in 2002 in an illegal market-allocation agreement." In fact, New Times and Village Voice Media signed a consent degree without admitting guilt in that case. Lockyer's letter stated that his office "will continue to monitor" the merged company's compliance with the settlement.

To read the Bay Guardian's Letter to the Editor in response to the item above, click here.

02-09-2006 11:04 pm | Industry News

Tags: Editorial, Management, Village Voice Media Holdings, LLC