AAN News
Dept. of Defense Implementing Bush's FOIA Executive Ordernew
Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy |
02-07-2006 4:56 pm |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial
Transcript of Craig Newmark's Speech at AAN West
02-07-2006 2:50 pm |
Association News
API Symposium Will Seek New Ideas from Newspaper Industry Leadersnew
Editor & Publisher |
02-07-2006 1:55 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management
Palo Alto Weekly Story Inspires D.A. Statement in Support of Tolerance
A Feb. 1 story by Education Reporter Alexandria Rocha cited several incidents of harassment suffered by members of Palo Alto High School's Gay-Straight Alliance. According to The Paly Voice, a journalism Web site run by Palo Alto students, Supervising Deputy District Attorney Jay Boyarsky attended a faculty meeting at the school on Feb. 2 to make an official statement offering support for gay students. "I hope that my showing up and lending a hand to GSA will send a signal that intolerance and discrimination against any group is not acceptable," Boyarsky told the Voice.
02-06-2006 10:23 am |
Industry News
Bloggers Reject Tim Redmond's Craigslist-is-Wal-Mart Argument
In a Feb. 1 editor's note, the Bay Guardian's executive editor responded to Craig Newmark's AAN West keynote by arguing that the Craigslist founder's "building community" rap is "bullshit," and that his creation is the online-classifieds equivalent of Wal-Mart. The blogospere responded quickly. Tech exec Anil Dash says he lost his job at the Village Voice when the paper's classified revenue was decimated by Craigslist: "I am exactly the person Redmond is ostensibly arguing on behalf of, and so I can say with certainty that he's profoundly wrong," writes Dash. At BuzzMachine, Jeff Jarvis calls Redmond's editorial "jealous whining," then seizes on his example of Burlington, Vt., as a community where Craigslist's arrival could hurt locally-owned media. After doing a quick once-over on Seven Days' Web site, Jarvis declares the Burlington alt-weekly insufficiently digital, which leads to comments from Seven Days writer and blogger Cathy Resmer (who blogged about Redmond, too) and co-publisher and editor Paula Routly, who writes, "If we're behind Craig Newmark technologically, it's because we’ve been busting our asses for ten years trying to put out an excellent newspaper that serves, and reflects, this community." Click here to watch the blogosphere stomp on Redmond in real-time.
02-06-2006 8:59 am |
Industry News
SLO New Times Meth Story Sparks Controversynew
According to NBC-affiliate KSBY, some area residents were upset by the paper's Feb. 2 cover package on methamphetamine, which included a recipe for manufacturing the drug. After the paper hit the streets, one former meth user suggested that citizens should take matters into their own hands: "Everybody should just get [copies of the paper] and burn them. It's just ridiculous." The next day, KSBY reported that "angry readers, recovering addicts, police, and drug counselors" were removing papers from the streets and pressuring store managers to do the same. Andrew Carter of Cellular One, which spends $52,000 annually advertising on the back cover of the New Times, said, "As the lead advertiser in the publication, they've not only, in my mind, embarrassed themselves, but they've embarrassed us." SLO New Times Managing Editor King Harris noted that "instructions for making meth are readily available on the Internet" and said the paper's intention was to inform people, "especially worried parents, about what to look for and what to consider suspicious."
KSBY TV |
02-06-2006 7:56 am |
Industry News
New Line: Ninety Percent of Target Demo Gets Movie Info Onlinenew
Hollywood Reporter |
02-06-2006 8:49 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising
Dailies' Q4 Ad Results Weakest in Several Yearsnew
Editor & Publisher |
02-06-2006 3:05 pm |
Industry News
Amazon Reportedly Considering Ad Networknew
Information Week |
02-06-2006 3:03 pm |
Industry News
Newspaper Industry Under Siegenew
American Journalism Review |
02-06-2006 7:52 am |
Industry News
DVD Boom Slowing, Movie Studio Ad Spending Downnew
Media Buyer Planner |
02-06-2006 7:48 am |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising
Wave of Videogame Fatigue Afflicts Sales, Not Thumbsnew
New York Times |
02-06-2006 7:32 am |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising
Web Readers Hit the Books Less Frequentlynew
New York Times |
02-06-2006 7:29 am |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising
The Stranger's Music Editor Moves to SF Weekly
Jennifer Maerz's last column for The Stranger, "Goodbye to All That: Or, Our Music Editor Gets All Mushy on Her Way Out," appears in the Feb. 2 issue. Maerz is moving to San Francisco, where she will be the music editor for SF Weekly, in order to be closer to her boyfriend. Maerz writes, "I've really loved it here -- this paper carries a strong, funny, enthusiastic, and truly independent vision of what political and cultural coverage should be. That approach is rare to find." SF Weekly's former music critic, Garrett Kamps, wrote his final "OK Then" column for the Feb. 1 issue. Dave Segal will be the new music editor for The Stranger.
02-05-2006 2:44 pm |
Industry News
AAN CAN Winner Announced!
Jan Caldwell, a classified sales rep for Creative Loafing (Charlotte), is the winner of the AAN CAN trip to Peru. Caldwell won by selling the most new advertising in the AAN CAN network
between Nov. 10 and Jan. 31. When notified yesterday, she reacted with disbelief, then quickly called her daughter and the friend she is planning to take with her on her trip. Caldwell may rake in other goodies as well, since some classified managers decided to make the contest more interesting by wagering items such as wine and tour books via the AAN Classified Management mailing list.
02-03-2006 2:45 pm |
Association News
