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Californian Remembers Golden Days at Village Voicenew
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll waxes nostalgic about his stint as a replacement editor and West Coast editor for the New York City alt-weekly 30 years ago. He fondly remembers those days of lothario limeys, noisy Village cafes and fierce internecine battles. He worked back then with Richard Goldstein, the Voice's recently departed executive editor, whom he describes as "a cutting-edge rock writer, a significant figure in gay rights journalism, a funny, eager, smart, loyal, sometimes even puppyish, fondly remembered former colleague."
SFGate.com |
08-12-2004 4:19 pm |
Industry News
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Hip Hop Admennew
Some hip-hop admen are following the path to Madison Avenue laid down by entrepreneurs like Russell Simmons and Sean Combs, who was previously called Puff Daddy and is now known to fans as P. Diddy. Mr. Simmons is the founder of Def Jam Records, and Mr. Combs, whose ad company, Blue Flame Marketing and Advertising, part of his Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group, has taken on outside campaigns for, among others, a fragrance for Calvin Klein called Craze.
New York Times |
08-12-2004 10:06 am |
Industry News
The Onion to Launch Twin Cities Editionnew
The satirical weekly will start circulating a free print edition in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sept. 2. In addition to carrying stories published on its Web site, The Onion will print local reviews and calendar listings, the same type of content for which City Pages, an AAN member in the same market, is known. The Onion president Sean Mills claims that readers of the humor paper are significantly younger than readers of alternative weeklies. According to the Star Tribune, The Onion is looking next to start papers in San Francisco, Boston and Austin, Texas.
Star Tribune |
08-11-2004 1:05 pm |
Industry News
Newsweekly for Upscale Young Adults to Launch in Atlantanew
Patrick Best, a former ad salesman at Creative Loafing Atlanta, will launch The Sunday Paper next month, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. He hopes to reach affluent 25- to 44-year-olds tired of what he perceives as some alternative weeklies' left-leaning and pessimistic slant. "Being an American and living in the United States is a good thing," he says. "We will not be constantly, ad nauseam, critiquing it to the point people don't feel good about it." Fifty-thousand copies of the paper will be distributed each Saturday in the city's high-rent ZIP codes and northern suburbs.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
08-10-2004 5:45 pm |
Industry News
Metro Times Editor Firednew
Jeremy Voas, editor of Detroit's Metro Times since October 2001, was fired last week, reports the Detroit News. He contends the dismissal was prompted by his disagreement with publisher Lisa Rudy over the paper's mission in general and its emphasis on special sections in particular. "I thought if the paper wanted to do more of that kind of thing they needed to hire a special staff to do more promotional issues," he says. Curt Guyette, news editor at the Metro Times, says Voas' departure will be addressed in Wednesday's issue.
Detroit News |
08-10-2004 4:16 pm |
Industry News
ABC Expects More Circ Scandalsnew
Following the latest faulty circulation report, this time from The Dallas Morning News, the Audit Bureau of Circulations is anticipating that more papers will follow suit. "Do we expect more to come forward?" asks Martha Dittmar, spokesperson for ABC. "Yes."
Editor & Publisher |
08-10-2004 10:00 am |
Industry News
Study: Print Reaps Highest Ad Yield Relative to Usagenew
The 2004 edition of annual media industry statistics reveals that the relationship between the time consumers spend with media and the amount of money Madison Avenue invests in those media is growing is growing increasingly exaggerated in favor of the oldest media. Print media outlets generate a far greater yield of advertising dollar relative to their share of consumer time, according to a MediaDailyNews analysis of the data from the 2004 edition of Veronis Suhler Stevenson's annual Communications Industry Forecast & Report. Conversely, the analysis shows radio to be the most undervalued ad medium relative to consumer usage.
Media Daily News |
08-10-2004 9:53 am |
Industry News
Study: Online Ad Revenue to Dropnew
Analysts say spending on online adverts is set to slow, casting doubt over Google's prospects as it gears up for its stock market launch. Online ad sales will grow by just 11% in 2009, down from 65% in 2003, according to Jupiter Research.
BBC News |
08-09-2004 10:05 am |
Industry News
Ad Strategy Driving Googlenew
More than any other company, Google has built itself into an Internet powerhouse with the help of tens of thousands of advertisers like Singer. About 95 percent of Google's $962 million in sales in 2003 came from advertising, and it has been the key driver behind the Mountain View company's phenomenal growth over the past three years.
SiliconValley.com |
08-09-2004 9:58 am |
Industry News
The Village Voice Reduces Editorial Staffnew
Richard Goldstein, an executive editor who joined The Voice in 1966, was laid off last Monday in an ongoing restructuring that has seen the departure of at least a half-dozen editorial staffers, reports The New York Times. (Goldstein says he was fired, not laid off.) Publisher Judy Miszner tells the Times that advertising "could be better," and that the layoffs are an "ongoing thing relative to the changing environment and changes in how our audience is looking for information." Editor-in-chief Donald Forst says the restructuring is "tied into our efforts going from a weekly product to, with the Web, daily journalism electronically, in which we're putting stuff up on a daily basis, sometimes on an hourly basis."
New York Times |
08-09-2004 12:04 am |
Industry News
2004 AAN Convention Photo Gallerynew
AAN |
08-09-2004 5:32 pm |
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08-06-2004 2:18 pm |
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First-Time Convention Goer Remembers the Alamonew
There comes a point in every party girl's life when she has to stop drinking and start getting serious. Fortunately for Maui Time Weekly's Samantha Campos, that point wasn't in San Antonio, at least not during AAN's annual convention. Mingling with editors, publishers and other journalistic riff-raff, she found that "they tend to let it all out after the free booze and appetizers kick in."
Maui Time Weekly |
08-04-2004 1:24 pm |
Industry News
Real Musicians Have Day Jobs
They need to make a living but can't afford to let the conformity demanded by some day jobs sap their creative spirit. Independent Weekly's Leslie Land, Tucson Weekly's Marc Desilets and others explain the migration of musicians to the classified sales departments of alternative newsweeklies. What's the appeal? Good pay, good vibes -- altogether a decent daylight gig for a breed that Cincinnati CityBeat's Chuck Davis has dubbed "rawker-ad-hawkers."
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Noel Black |
08-04-2004 11:02 am |
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