AAN News
Web Turns Some Alt-Weeklies into Dailies
Reporters with a great scoop no longer have to sit tight trying not to burst while they wait for the next week’s paper to roll out, freelance writer Charlie Deitch reports for AAN News. It’s possible to publish online 24/7. Several AAN papers are moving away from the static Web site that remains the same for seven days and then has its contents refreshed all at once. A few alt-weeklies post new material daily, and others turn first to the Web whenever they’ve got an especially hot story.
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Charlie Deitch |
03-18-2004 6:50 pm |
Industry News
Favored Constitutional Party Candidate Admits He's Fallennew
In an e-mail to Baltimore City Paper, presidential hopeful Michael Anthony Peroutka notes that even as "a believer in the Lordship of Christ," he knows he's a "fallible, fallen creature who falls short every day." Van Smith reports on some of the Maryland attorney's apparent failings, which seem at odds with his campaign's emphasis on morals and strong families. They include turning his wife's two daughters from an earlier marriage over to the state foster-care system and making political donations that Common Cause has identified as exceeding state limits.
ABC Board Approves New Standardsnew
With circulation declines hitting the industry, more and more newspapers are emphasizing readership and subscriber profiles. In 1999, the Audit Bureau of Circulations introduced a method for tracking reader profiles and did the same in 2001 for subscriber profiles. This month the board further revised these standards on the recommendation of the reader and subscriber profile committee, which consists of buyers, newspapers, magazines and researchers.
Editor & Publisher |
03-18-2004 10:14 am |
Industry News
Study of Poor Black Youth Finds Open Disdain for Womennew
Hoochie mama, 'hood rat, 'ho, gold digger. When The Village Voice writer Thulani Davis watched videotaped focus groups, it struck her that none of the 15 terms low-income African American teens used to describe females was positive. The cultural impact of such hard attitudes is early sex without intimacy, a high incidence of AIDS, and devaluation of women by both men and themselves. Having multiple partners was a way to combat the sense of worthlessness, some female teens said. Others tried to escape mistreatment from men by engaging in openly homosexual relationships. Davis comments on the findings of a study by Philadelphia research company Motivational Educational Entertainment.
Survey: More Companies to Hire in 2Qnew
MILWAUKEE - People looking for work this spring could find the strongest U.S. job market in more than three years, even as companies remain reluctant to hire, a new survey shows.
AP via Yahoo! News |
03-16-2004 4:42 pm |
Industry News
What Ralph Nader Is Doing to the Greensnew
The media has already discussed the ways in which Nader's decision to run as an independent candidate for U.S. president could hurt presumed Democratic Party candidate John Kerry. Now Adam Reilly of The Boston Phoenix looks at how Nader could damage the Green Party he put on the political map when he ran in 2000. That year he gave the Greens ballot status for the first time in seven states and boosted the third party's registration nationwide. If the Greens choose to run their own candidate this year, they'll be drawing on the same pool of progressive voters as Nader and could end up losing ballot status in some states, Reilly writes. He quotes Green-Rainbow co-chair Grace Ross, who says, "Divisiveness for a young party is not helpful."
Tags: Boston Phoenix
Weekly Resolves Not to Use Word That Offended—Except in Quotesnew
Alt-weeklies may have to stop branding themselves as the papers unafraid to print the word "fuck." Editor Ben Fulton says Salt Lake City Weekly was briefly kicked out of Wal-Mart "because we used the f-bomb in our paper," Glen Warchol reports in The Salt Lake Tribune. City Weekly lost a week's distribution at the chain after a self-identified Christian stumbled upon the word in its pages and complained to the store's regional managers. Wal-Mart let the paper return based on promises of increased vigilance about the use of profanity.
The Salt Lake Tribune |
03-15-2004 11:50 am |
Industry News
Alternative Weeklies Buck Negative Trends, Says Journalism Studynew
An increase in outlets for journalism has meant static or even shrinking audiences for most news sources. The only sectors experiencing growth are "online, ethnic and alternative media," according to a report issued today by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. The report also said "alternative weeklies are arguably the most dynamic of all the media" and often delve "into areas that the mainstream dailies avoid or do not cover extensively—from city politics to government to entertainment."
Journalism.org |
03-15-2004 10:49 am |
Industry News
Yellow Pages Advertising on the Rise, Both in Print and Onlinenew
Pointing to a sunnier overall economic outlook as well as to the continued strong ROI that marketers are getting from the Yellow Pages, Norton commended the industry for embracing change while at the same time tending to its core strengths. "We're not just paper anymore," he noted. "Most of the paper companies are online now, plus some of them have CD-ROMs and some are moving into wireless. Publishers are doing a good job of getting information to consumers wherever and whenever they want it."
Media Daily News |
03-15-2004 8:25 am |
Industry News
Village Voice Website Expands Management Team
03-15-2004 11:09 am |
Press Releases
Tags: The Village Voice
Memo Suggests Link between Donations and Lawsnew
Working from the notes of a fundraiser for Texans for a Republican Majority, Jake Bernstein and Dave Mann explore possible connections between campaign contributions and laws passed by the Texas Legislature. They scrutinize bills that allow line-of-credit home equity lending and increases in customers' gas bills. "The big lie of politics is that money doesn't influence legislation," they write in The Texas Observer, contending the matter was only made worse when legislative districts were redrawn along partisan lines.
Tags: The Texas Observer
Upcoming Sierra Club Election Snags on Immigration Debatenew
The president of the well-funded environmental organization has warned members of "an unprecedented level of outside involvement" in this year's election. Leaders worry a takeover by proponents of non-environmental causes—including white supremacists and animal-rights extremists—could compromise the club's mainstream appeal. Matt Kettmann reports in The Santa Barbara Independent that the board candidates labeled as anti-immigration are far from being "right-wing wackos" and gives voice to arguments that the influx of foreigners, coupled with uncontrolled population growth, endangers biodiversity and food production in California.
Yahoo Intensifies Push for Local Adsnew
Internet portal Yahoo has ramped up its efforts to capture a share of the local advertising market with an improved mapping tool that allows people to quickly find local restaurants, movie listings, ATM machines or other services.
MercuryNews.com |
03-12-2004 10:24 am |
Industry News
Gambit and Willamette Week Are Food Award Finalists
03-12-2004 3:58 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Willamette Week, Gambit
South Carolina’s Free Times Wins Five State Awards
03-12-2004 1:16 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Columbia Free Times
