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Dailies Create New Safeguards After Circ Scandalsnew
The recent acknowledgments of circulation inflation by three prominent newspaper companies have prompted at least a half-dozen other chains to install safeguards intended to bolster confidence in their circulation figures.
The new policies by the chains - including Knight Ridder, the McClatchy Company newspapers and E. W. Scripps - have all been put in place in advance of Nov. 1. That is the date when the Audit Bureau of Circulations, which acts as both an industrywide clearinghouse and umpire, is scheduled to release March-to-September circulation figures for about 1,000 daily papers.
New York Times |
10-26-2004 10:35 am |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation, Editorial
WPP Reports Weak Ad Revenue for 3Qnew
Signaling some doubts about the U.S. marketplace. WPP Group Tuesday reported relatively weak results for the third quarter of 2004. Revenues rose only 3.7 percent due to $1.962 billion due to weakness in the U.S. dollar, as well as weaker than expected performance in its advertising and media investment management units. WPP is the parent of Mindshare and Mediaedge:cia, and has agreed to acquire Grey Global and its MediaCom unit in a deal expected to close early next year.
Media Daily News |
10-26-2004 10:31 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Ad Urges Readers to Ditch Nader for Kerrynew
Nader-supporting alt-weekly readers living in 10 swing states will see full-page ads next week urging them to vote Kerry in 2004. The ads promote a statement by more than 70 former Nader supporters -- including Noam Chomsky, Ben Cohen and Susan Sarandon -- who endorse voting for Kerry in states where he's running neck and neck with Bush. Colorado Springs Independent publisher John Weiss, who organized the campaign, says, "Our goal is to reach voters who have been almost entirely neglected in this campaign: swing voters on the left."
The Unity Campaign press release |
10-21-2004 5:07 pm |
Industry News
Politicians Get Wild for Ragtag Alt-Weekly Audiencenew
Willamette Week co-sponsored Candidates Gone Wild!, an event that allowed candidates for Portland City Council, mayor and the 1st Congressional District to set aside substance for shtick. The politicians participated in a talent show, sat through satirical short films and weathered a Q&A session filled with hard-hitting questions that Oregonian news writer Douglas Perry contends, "would make Bob Schieffer pass out." That aside, Perry judges the event an "aggressively issues-free evening" attended by an audience that "views the popular 'Girls Gone Wild' videos as a wholesome tradition."
The Oregonian |
10-21-2004 2:28 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Marketing, Willamette Week
Ads in 10 Swing State Alt-Weeklies Will Urge Nader Supporters to Vote Kerry
Sponsored post by Associate Member Alternative Weekly Network
Barbara Ehrenreich, Bonnie Raitt and Tim Robbins to headline telephone press conference at noon EST, Oct. 22
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10-21-2004 3:51 pm |
Press Releases
Magazine Publisher Buys Majority Interest in Boston's Weekly Dig
10-21-2004 11:16 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Boston's Weekly Dig
Bay Guardian Sues New Times for Predatory Pricingnew
The San Francisco Bay Guardian filed a lawsuit in the city's Superior Court against SF Weekly, East Bay Express and New Times Media, LLC, which owns the two weeklies. The suit alleges that New Times repeatedly sold ads at less than the cost of producing them and offered secret deals to advertisers to keep them from advertising in the Bay Guardian. Both activities would violate California law. New Times owns 11 alternative papers, all of which, like the Bay Guardian, are members of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
10-20-2004 5:04 pm |
Industry News
LEO Founder Puts His Money Where His Mouth Isnew
Thanks to George W. Bush's capital gains tax cuts, John Yarmuth saved a lot of money when he sold Louisville Eccentric Observer last year -- money he's now using to defeat Bush. The founder and executive editor of LEO spent half that money contributing to the Kerry campaign, and now he's spending the other half to buy local TV time for a political ad that makes his case against the incumbent: "With record federal deficits and a war in Iraq, cutting taxes for fortunate people like me was the wrong priority," Yarmuth says in the ad.
Louisville Eccentric Observer |
10-20-2004 4:07 pm |
Industry News
ASA Announces Award for Reporting of Social Issues
10-20-2004 12:22 pm |
Press Releases
Circ Scandals Creating Negative Impressions with Advertisersnew
Barron's Online |
10-20-2004 12:06 pm |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Article Spurs Plagiarism Probe at Large Dailynew
Folio Weekly's Oct. 12 cover story accuses the Florida Times-Union -- and editorial page editor Lloyd Brown, in particular -- of publishing editorials with portions lifted directly from documents produced by right-wing groups. The article, penned by former Times-Union editorial writer Billee Bussard, has prompted the Jacksonville daily to launch an internal investigation, reports Editor & Publisher. Times-Union publisher Carl Cannon says, "I would never expect to find plagiarism at our paper, and I would be surprised if we did in this case." Brown tells reporter Joe Strupp: "I think we try to base our editorials on fact, and we have to get them from somewhere."
Editor & Publisher |
10-19-2004 4:07 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Folio Weekly
DMA Study Asserts Telemarketing Yields Greater ROI Than Emailnew
One year after coming out with a study stating that e-mail marketing yields more than three times the return on investment as telemarketing, the Direct Marketing Association has reversed course, and now says that telephone marketing gives the highest return rate.
Media Daily News |
10-19-2004 7:42 am |
Industry News
Tags: Classified Advertising
Report: Advertisers Will Triple Spending on Video Game Ads by 2008new
New figures from the Yankee Group claim the U.S. video games industry reaches more than 108 million gamers 13 years of age and older, who will have spent $7.4 billion by the end of the year. Advertisers have long wanted to penetrate the gaming market, but haven't yet been able to in any meaningful way. Despite the video games industry's size, advertisers only spent a meager $79 million on placing ads in games last year--a number the market research firm anticipates will grow to $260 million by 2008, according to the Yankee Group report.
Media Daily News |
10-19-2004 7:38 am |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising
Riverfront Times' Fleshy Cover Gets Cops Hot and Botherednew
The cover of the Oct. 13 edition of Riverfront Times features an aerial photograph of 57 naked women arranged to form a peace sign -- an image meant to bring attention to an antiwar arts event in St. Louis, Mo., called "Peace Out!" According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, several businesses have removed copies of the alt-weekly from display shelves -- and at least one did so after a visit from local police. Riverfront Times editor Tom Finkel says, "We put it out there knowing it was a provocative image, but never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that a police department would take actions to remove the publication from a newsstand."
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
10-18-2004 5:04 pm |
Industry News
New Times Writers Dominate NABJ Awardsnew
The recipients of this year's National Association of Black Journalists Awards were announced Oct. 9 in Washington, D.C. New Times writers fared impressively, winning nine of the 22 awards handed out to newspapers with a circulation of 150,000 or less. Dallas Observer, Cleveland Scene, Phoenix New Times and New Times Broward-Palm Beach each had writers take home awards, while Riverfront Times writers won four awards -- including a clean sweep of the business category by Randall Roberts and Mike Seely. According to the NABJ, the awards recognize "outstanding coverage of people or important issues in the African diaspora."
National Association of Black Journalists |
10-18-2004 2:43 pm |
Industry News
