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Heterosexuals and Gays Share Passion for Gunsnew
The Pink Pistols is the first national gun club for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community, but it doesn't discriminate on the basis of sexual preference. About 20 percent of the members of the club's Northeast Ohio chapter are straight. Jimi Izrael reports on the national group that took its name from a 2000 Salon.com essay calling on gays and lesbians to arm themselves against hate crimes.
Tags: Scene
Pitch: Between 18 And 34 Reasons To Buy MTVnew
At its upfront presentation tonight, MTV Networks is expected to reveal new research showing that it's the prime beneficiary of the falling numbers of adults 18-34 at most of the broadcast networks. MTV Networks saw its 18-34 delivery jump 12 percent in the fourth quarter of last year compared to the same period a year earlier--the highest of only two networks that had double-digit gains in gross ratings points in the period.
Media Daily News |
05-05-2004 10:27 am |
Industry News
Bush Administration Slowly Reversing the Freedom of Information Actnew
In a cover story for The Boston Phoenix, contributors Harvey A. Silvergate and Carl Takei examine the history of the Bush administration's efforts to classify a wider range of government documents. According to the authors, even before the introduction of the Patriot Act, the administration was working to reduce public access permitted by the Freedom of Information Act while, at the same time, declassifying selected documents from the Clinton administration in an effort to embarrass the former president. Now, they claim, under the umbrella of national security, the rise of governmental secrecy is adversely affecting not only the 4th Estate, but basic First Amendment rights and Civil Liberties.
Tags: Boston Phoenix
IAB Moves to Rein In Pop-Up Adsnew
Pop-up and pop-under ads should not display more than once during a user's visit to an individual Web site, according to new Web advertising guidelines issued by the Interactive Advertising Bureau. The announcement was one of a set of new guidelines released just before the IAB opened its national Leadership Forum meeting in New York City today. Other suggested guidelines deal with labeling and sizing.
Advertising Age |
05-04-2004 6:20 am |
Industry News
Dailies Lose Weekday Circulationnew
The FAS-FAX report from the Audit Bureau of Circulations, released this afternoon, brought good news for the majority of the dozen biggest newspapers, but many other top 50 papers lost readers on weekdays for the six-month period ending March 31, compared with the same period last year.
Editor & Publisher |
05-04-2004 6:11 am |
Industry News
Westword Reporter Takes Second in Public Interest Contestnew
Julie Jargon has won second place in the John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest
Magazine Journalism for her series, "The War Within," published by Westword. The series, which also won an Investigative Reporters and Editors Certificate this year, investigated patterns of sexual assault and institutional cover-up at the United States Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs. The Martin Award, now in its 16th year, is based out of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism where namesake John Bartlow Martin concluded his career in investigative journalism.
Medill news release |
05-03-2004 2:01 pm |
Industry News
Free Daily Tabloid in Dallas Stops Publishingnew
A free daily newspaper launched last fall, A.M. Journal Express, lost financial support from investors, the Associated Press reports. The Journal Express, published by American Consolidated Media, competed with Quick, a free daily still being published by The Dallas Morning News.
Associated Press |
05-03-2004 12:31 pm |
Industry News
New Times Offers New Editing Tools to Advertisersnew
NT Media of Phoenix, Ariz., has licensed iPIX AdPlus Prism software, a publishing tool offered by Publishing Business Systems. AdPlus allows advertisers to upload and edit their own photos and graphics, as well as proof their own layout for publication. NT says that the new online ad system will improve work flow and cut costs at its 11 papers by reducing support and maintenance needs in their advertising departments.
Editor & Publisher |
05-03-2004 3:08 pm |
Industry News
Chemist Derails Clear Channel Shock Jocknew
Doug Vanderlaan, of Jacksonville, Fla., didn't
like what he was hearing on the Bubba the Love
Sponge radio show. For two years he waged a
campaign to get Bubba and all his lewd talk off the air, Jane Akre reports in Orlando Weekly. The result:
Bubba was fired, his station (owned by Clear
Channel) was hit with the largest fine in Federal Communications Commission
history, and Clear Channel got on its knees
before Congress.
Tags: Orlando Weekly
John Bartlow Martin Second Place Goes to Westword Writer
05-03-2004 2:34 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Westword, Julie Jargon
Street Teams Imitate Medieval Marketing Tactics
Sometimes word of mouth is a more effective way of promoting a paper than a print ad. That's why some alternative newsweeklies send street teams out to bars, movie theaters and cultural events to hand out freebies and stir up interest in their papers. When they dispatch their street teams to public places, alt-weeklies like NUVO and Boston's Weekly Dig are relying on a centuries-old marketing technique the music industry revived.
(FULL STORY)
Ann Hinch |
04-30-2004 1:45 pm |
Industry News
NYP Earns Reputation As Ultimate Media Hatchetnew
In an interview with A.J. Daulerio of The Black Table, New York Press editor-in-chief Jeff Koyen doesn't disappoint those who expect from him "a certain level of infamy," as Daulerio puts it. Koyen claims the alt-weekly model "is dead or dying," and the aging, liberal editors of those "stale, homogenous products" have lost touch with the young. He admits the Press, too, was aging badly, but he's trying to convert it back into "a venue for emerging talent." The result is more and younger readers, he says.
The Black Table |
04-30-2004 10:03 am |
Industry News
Tags: New York Press
Eye Camp Treats the Poor and Blind in Northeastern Afghanistannew
Metroland writer Travis Durfee spent the past month taking bucket baths, sleeping on mats and eating lamb kabob as he traveled throughout the Central Asian nation of Afghanistan. In the small city of Kunduz, he observed the crush of patients hoping for an appointment with an eye-doctor's assistant during a two-week camp run by the National Organization for Ophthalmic Rehabilitation. An estimated 2 percent of the country's population is blind, many of them from treatable conditions.
Tags: Metroland, Travis Durfee
New York Press Inaugurates New Designnew
Jeff Koyen, editor-in-chief of New York Press, introduces the weekly's new design and structure by way of reminiscing about his first nine years with the paper and the lessons he learned on his journey up the masthead. NYP's new look, which hit the stands March 31, was developed and shepherded by creative director Nick Bilton.
New York Press |
04-29-2004 2:29 pm |
Industry News
Marchers Demand: "Get Out of My Womb!"new
Orlando Weekly writer Deb Berry never had much use for
feminism, until she joined the March for Women's
Lives in Washington, D.C., and fell in with a group
of people who are mad as hell and aren't going to
take it anymore. She had to leave her protest sign, "John Ashcroft Is a Sexually Repressed Woman-Hater," behind in a broken-down bus and rely on her voice to respond to anti-abortion protesters who lined the route.
Tags: Orlando Weekly
