AAN News
Film Critic Roger Ebert Joins Long Island Press
The Press Becomes the Area's Only News Publication to Publish Ebert's Reviews
(FULL STORY)
12-03-2004 11:08 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, Long Island Press
Nashville Scene Hire Is the Latest Politico Alt-Weekly Publishernew
Effective Jan. 1, Chris Ferrell will take over as publisher of Nashville Scene, replacing founding publisher Albie Del Favero, who announced his retirement in July. "I hoped we could find [a successor] who was passionate not only about this paper but also about this community," says Del Favero, calling Ferrell "the ideal person for the job." Ferrell is a Nashville businessman and former Metro Council member. His hire comes on the heels of Pacific Sun's announcement regarding the appointment of another former politician, Sam Chapman, as that paper's new publisher. Chapman was chief of staff to U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer and a former member of the Napa County Board of Supervisors. He succeeds Steve McNamara, who recently sold the Sun after owning and operating the paper since 1966. "[Chapman] has an extraordinary varied background in journalism, law and politics, plus a longtime attachment to Marin County," says McNamara.
Nashville Scene | Pacific Sun Press Release |
12-02-2004 1:12 pm |
Industry News
Goldman Sachs: Business Outlook 2005new
Goldman Sachs, an investment firm not holding a conference next week, put together a handy primer on what to expect for 2005. And judging from analyst Peter Appert's views, it's not much.
Editor & Publisher |
12-02-2004 11:07 am |
Industry News
2004: Newspapers Take Largest Slice of Ad Pienew
Editor & Publisher |
12-02-2004 11:10 am |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising
Film Based on Stranger Column Accepted to Sundancenew
Robinson Devor's film Police Beat, which chronicles a week in the life of an African-born Seattle bike cop, has been accepted for the 2005 Sundance Film Festival Dramatic Competition, reports the Seattle Times. Devor co-wrote the film with Charles Mudede, whose Police Beat column in The Stranger provided its inspiration. Zimbabwe-born Mudede would visit police precincts, scan the log for interesting stories, interview the cops involved and incorporate their stories into his column. The film was selected into the prestigious competition from more than 700 submissions. (Free registration required.)
Seattle Times |
12-01-2004 1:15 pm |
Industry News
Tribune Sues New Times Over Two Sales Repsnew
On Nov. 9, America's second-largest newspaper publisher, Tribune Company, sued two of its ex-employees, as well as their current employer, New Times. Why? Because the employees in question, both entry- to mid-level advertising representatives, have agreements (that they don't remember signing) with Tribune that forbid their working for competing publications within a certain amount of time after leaving the company. An article in New Times Broward-Palm Beach calls the lawsuit an attempt to force the employees -- one a single mother, the other a divorced dad paying for his daughter's college education -- from their current positions.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
12-01-2004 12:49 pm |
Industry News
Boxer Aide Named Pacific Sun Publisher
12-01-2004 12:15 pm |
Press Releases
Dailies Padded Circ Figures to Keep Ad Rates Highnew
The trouble started in 1998, when the Chicago Sun-Times broke ground on a new printing press on the south side of Chicago. The start-up process was a "nightmare," the publisher said. The press malfunctioned, causing the paper to hit the streets late and leading to mass subscription cancellations.
Washington Post |
11-30-2004 12:40 pm |
Industry News
Post-Election Stranger Cover Becomes a Collector's Itemnew
Requests for the Nov. 11 edition of The Stranger are pouring into the Seattle alt-weekly's offices, largely from readers who found a degree of post-election solace in the issue's unorthodox cover, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The cover features text in a series of colored bars that reads "Do not despair," before reassuring readers that they're part of a "diverse, dynamic, and progressive … urban archipelago" that voted overwhelmingly for Kerry. "People really responded to it," says editor Dan Savage, who wrote the cover text. Incoming requests for the issue number around 500, and that's just the beginning. "People want T-shirts, people want posters," says Savage.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
11-30-2004 12:37 pm |
Industry News
Dailies Continue to Lose Young Readers to Internetnew
Young people just aren't interested in reading newspapers and print magazines. In fact, according to Washington City Paper, The Washington Post organized a series of six focus groups in September to determine why the paper was having so much trouble attracting younger readers. You see, daily circulation, which had been holding firm at 770,000 subscribers for the last few years, fell more than 6 percent to about 720,100 by June 2004, with the paper losing 4,000 paying subscribers every month.
Wired News |
11-30-2004 10:56 am |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation
2004 Athena Award Winners Announcednew
Newspaper Association of America |
11-30-2004 12:35 pm |
Industry News
AAN East and AAN West Programs Announced
AAN Staff |
11-29-2004 6:03 pm |
Association News
ABC Changes Circ Reporting Rulesnew
Editor & Publisher |
11-29-2004 9:01 am |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation
Strong Online Sales Predicted for Holidaysnew
Studies released yesterday by America Online and BURST! Media signal strong e-commerce sales this holiday season. AOL found that consumers who research and/or shop online intend to do 53 percent of their holiday shopping online, while BURST! reported that 57.6 percent of consumers surveyed online with a household income of $75,000 or more plan to do more than half of their shopping online.
Media Daily News |
11-24-2004 8:55 am |
Industry News
Tags: Electronic Publishing
Creative Loafing Publisher Stepping Downnew
Scott Walsey, publisher of Creative Loafing (Atlanta), will leave the paper at the end of the year, reports CL editor-in-chief Ken Edelstein. Walsey has been at the paper for 26 years, and has served as its publisher since the 2000 merger between Weekly Planet and Creative Loafing, Inc. "He's provided employees with leadership, stability and a great sense of humor," writes Edelstein. "[Walsey is] a wise and decent person who did things like remind folks to place family and friends above work." CL's next publisher will be Scott Patterson, an experienced newspaperman who has published dailies, community papers and shoppers.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
11-23-2004 12:20 pm |
Industry News
