AAN News
Long Island Press's Dogged Coverage Exposed Newsday Scandalnew
When an attorney for Newsday advertisers filed a federal racketeering suit against the daily paper last February, alleging circulation fraud, the AAN-member newsweekly, Long Island Press, jumped on the story. Reporter Christopher Twarowski found evidence of undelivered papers dumped in landfills, wooded lots and recycling bins, and interviewed former distributors and retailers who supported some of the lawsuit's claims. This week Newsday publisher Raymond Jansen announced his early retirement, and Twarowski reports that a grand jury has been impaneled in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn to hear testimony on the alleged fraud.
Long Island Press |
07-22-2004 4:13 pm |
Industry News
New Times Media Licenses Integrated Advertising Solutions
07-22-2004 10:04 am |
Press Releases
How Willamette Week Broke Big Story on Oregon Ex-Governornew
The story was percolating for some 20 years. Reporters pursued it but not far enough. And then, Jill Rosen reports in American Journalism Review, a feisty Oregon alt-weekly made a stunning revelation on its Web site May 6. Former governor Neil Goldschmidt, when he was mayor of Portland, had had sexual relations with a girl who was only 14. A lead from a state senator, followed by intensive records searches and interviews, helped Willamette Week's Nigel Jaquiss pull the story together.
American Journalism Review |
07-21-2004 5:05 pm |
Industry News
New York Press's Sister Sports Paper Disappearsnew
Last week, Avalon Equity Partners shut down New York Sports Express. "There was a struggle, and in the end someone in the accounting department reached for a knife," Matt Taibbi writes in New York Press, an AAN-member paper that is also owned by Avalon. The Express dared to take sports not too seriously, Taibbi writes, and Express editor Spike Vrusho recognized "that Karim Garcia, while not a very good baseball player, was a comic gold mine and needed to be in print as much as possible."
New York Press |
07-21-2004 4:19 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management
Recordings of Convention Talks Available
AAN Staff |
07-21-2004 7:59 pm |
Association News
New Daily-Owned Free Weekly to Launch in Milwaukeenew
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel announced Monday it will start an entertainment- and lifestyle-oriented publication and companion Web site in the fall. The target age group is 25- to 34-year-olds. The still unnamed tabloid "will not be a news publication," Rick Romell reports in the Journal Sentinel. Shepherd Express, an AAN member, is also published in Milwaukee, Wis.
Journal Sentinel |
07-20-2004 11:45 am |
Industry News
One of Spokane's Alt-Weeklies Stops Publishingnew
The last issue of The Local Planet, an AAN-member paper in Spokane, Wash., was distributed July 8. A year ago, publisher Matt Spaur's wife, founding editor Connye Miller, died, and Spaur said he no longer had the interest or energy to keep publishing. During the "feisty" paper's four-year run, it "poked at Spokane's conservative establishment and took readers on irreverent romps through the region's political, music and dating scenes," The Spokesman-Review's John Stucke writes. Spokane is home to another AAN member, The Pacific Northwest Inlander.
The Spokesman-Review |
07-20-2004 11:23 am |
Industry News
A Texan's Take on the First Amendment
Jared Jacang Maher |
07-20-2004 7:28 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Clear Channel Moves to Limit Advertisingnew
Clear Channel Radio plans to announce today that it will begin limiting the number of commercials its more than 1,200 stations can play, in a move that analysts say may ripple through the industry even before it takes effect on Jan. 1.
New York Times |
07-19-2004 9:18 am |
Industry News
ANA Blasts Senate Tobacco Ad Restrictionsnew
Worried about its potentially crippling effects on tobacco marketers, and what they believe would be a dangerous step toward more widespread regulation of the advertising industry, The Association of National Advertisers on Friday blasted the U.S. Senate's decision to pass major regulations over tobacco advertising.
Media Daily Post |
07-19-2004 9:15 am |
Industry News
Village Voice Art Critic Discusses His Craft and New Booknew
Jerry Saltz knows it hurts to be criticized, but, he tells ArtsJournal.com, "If all criticism is enthusiastic it sells the art world short." He remembers after he wrote his first piece for the Voice, on Kara Walker's "painful, uneven show" at Wooster Gardens in 1998, he was terrified he'd be fired. A collection of his Village Voice reviews and essays, "Seeing Out Loud," has been published by The Figures press.
ArtsJournal.com |
07-16-2004 6:21 pm |
Industry News
More Circ Trouble for Tribunenew
Tribune Co. disclosed further circulation misstatements at two of its newspapers Thursday, the latest lapses in a costly scandal that has resulted in heavy claims by advertisers and censure by the group that audits circulation.
Associated Press via Editor & Publisher |
07-16-2004 1:12 pm |
Industry News
Publisher Del Favero to Leave Nashville Scene
07-15-2004 6:21 pm |
Press Releases
Former Philadelphia City Paper Columnist Publishes Debut Novelnew
Between being an alt-weekly columnist and writing her novel, "The Big Love," Sarah Dunn worked as a Hollywood sitcom writer. Her novel is about an alt-newsweekly columnist who struggles to come to terms with her evangelical Christian background after her boyfriend abandons her. "Dunn stresses that many of the quirky and salacious character details came straight from her imagination, and not from her actual experiences at CP," Philadelphia City Paper's Arts & Books Editor Lori Hill writes.
Philadelphia City Paper |
07-14-2004 6:48 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Sarah Dunn
Alt-Weeklies Hope to Ride Second Wave of Online Innovationnew
Alt-weeklies have largely let the Internet revolution pass them by, losing ground to classified sites such as Craigslist.org and Match.com, and content sites such as Alternet.org and Salon.com, Mark Glaser writes in USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review. But now alt-weeklies are launching a number of online initiatives, including New Times chain's Back Page, Artvoice's multimedia site, Jackson Free Press's Weblogs, VillageVoice.com's Soapbox section and SelectAlternatives' personals.
Online Journalism Review |
07-14-2004 11:03 am |
Industry News
