AAN News
Magazine Industry Still Licking Its Woundsnew
Advertising sales and circulation executives across all magazines, including business and trade, hope advertisers and consumers read somewhere the news that the economy is on the mend. Till then, all parties concerned are advised patience and unity.
Direct Marketer News |
03-05-2004 10:30 am |
Industry News
NYTimes.com Drops Ted Rall Cartoon Due to Tonenew
A spokesperson for the digital paper says it's obligated not to publish things that would offend "the reasonable sensibilities of our readers," Editor & Publisher reports. Rall believes the cartoon was dropped because of e-mail campaigns by conservatives. His award-winning cartoon appears in several AAN papers, including The Village Voice and Washington City Paper.
E&P |
03-05-2004 10:15 am |
Industry News
Tags: Design & Production, Editorial
Newspaper Readership Down among Youthnew
More people are reading daily newspapers, but in 2003 they spent a minute less on the weekday paper and seven minutes less on the Sunday paper than they did the previous year. Readership continues to drop in the 18- to 24-year-old age group "despite fresh efforts by many papers to reach younger readers," Editor & Publisher reports. Highest readership was found among African Americans and those 65 and older. Findings are from a survey by the Readership Institute, a division of the Media Management Center at Northwestern University.
E&P |
03-05-2004 10:01 am |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation, Marketing
AAN Editors Think Local in Adding Content
Rather than just deliver the same old reliable features and columns every week, editors of AAN papers look for ways to tweak their content, thus attracting new readers and re-engaging the faithful. But there's no sense rounding up a focus group to predict what new ingredients will work when freelancers, staff and the guy on the next barstool are all eager to give their advice. John Dicker interviews editors of four weeklies who messed with the mix to get happy results.
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John Dicker |
03-04-2004 7:27 pm |
Industry News
Tucson Weekly Whittles Off a Few Inches As It Turns 20new
Following an industry trend, the Arizona alt-weekly went down to 25 inches wide, from 27. At the same time it rearranged sections and added more music coverage, editor Jimmy Boegle announces in a special anniversary issue. Although columnists will be allotted 150 to 200 fewer words, the theory that readers don't like longer articles is "full of crap," Boegle says, and word counts in most news and arts stories will remain the same. AAN associate member Katherine Topaz of Topaz Design did the redesign.
Tucson Weekly |
03-04-2004 6:06 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Design & Production, Tucson Weekly
Girls Dig Tech Toys Too!new
Some argue that the sexual revolution has yet to place men and women on a level playing field. The digital revolution, however, may be closing that gap. Harris Interactive's annual 360 Youth College Explorer Study, released today, found that men and women engage in online gaming, downloading music, and digital photography, as well as text messaging, at similar rates. Commissioned by Alloy's youth media and marketing division, 360 Youth, the study evaluated consumer technology and entertainment usage of college students ages 18-30. Although differences between the sexes have emerged from the research, it's clear that this demographic on the whole--of which 65 percent uses the broadband Internet daily--is far more "wired" than the general population, of which only 37 percent uses broadband.
Media Daily News |
03-04-2004 9:25 am |
Industry News
Flu Scare Yields Vaccine Makers $450 Million in Added Profitsnew
Warnings of a "killer" flu strain that led Americans to be inoculated in record numbers last fall were overblown hype, Tara Servatius reports in Creative Loafing Charlotte. The experts who drove the story "either worked directly for the flu vaccine companies or served on the boards of special interest groups whose activities those companies funded," she writes. Not only was there no remarkable epidemic, but studies show the sought-after vaccine was only 14 percent effective in preventing the illness.
AAN East 2004 Photo Gallerynew
AAN |
03-03-2004 3:01 pm |
Association News
Secrecy Still Prevails in Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandalnew
Cardinal Roger Mahony's three-point plan for handling some 500 claims of molestation by priests continues to exploit those seeking reparations, Jeffrey Anderson writes in L.A. Weekly. He describes how judges, trial lawyers and the media have deferred to the cardinal's desire for secrecy, and says Los Angeles "has become a beehive of intrigue at the expense of the collective psyche of already damaged victims of child rape."
Tags: L.A. Weekly
Publisher Says 'Passion' Resurrects Libels against Jewsnew
There's no shortage of evidence that Mel Gibson has an anti-Semitic agenda in his film, "The Passion of the Christ," Stewart Sallo writes. The Boulder Weekly publisher says Jews historically have been most vulnerable to Christians' acts of "revenge" during the Holy Week before Easter, when passion plays were staged. Adolph Hitler praised one such performance in Germany as a convincing portrayal of "the menace of Jewry," Sallo writes. He raises concern about the potential of Gibson's film "to generate hatred and divisiveness."
Tags: Boulder Weekly, Stewart Sallo
TV Stations Gain Ground in Classifiedsnew
TV stations are winning a growing share of the annual $16 billion U.S. daily newspaper classified ad market, according to a new report from Classified Intelligence, a consultancy based in Altamonte Springs, Fla.
Editor & Publisher |
03-01-2004 9:40 am |
Industry News
Gannett Youth Weekly Debuts in Rochester, N.Y.new
Insider, a youth weekly that promises to bring readers "Rochester Remixed," debuted Friday. Editorial content includes weird news, breezily written mainstream news, snapshots of young people having fun, and two articles identified as "big stories." The free tabloid targets ages 25 to 34, according to the Gannett daily paper that publishes it. That age group is "wildly underserved," says Democrat and Chronicle Editor Mike Johansson. AAN member City Newspaper is published in Rochester.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |
02-27-2004 5:16 pm |
Industry News
Writer Accuses John Kerry of Covering Up Evidence of POWsnew
The Democratic contender's eagerness to normalize relations with Hanoi led him to suppress testimony and withhold intelligence information when he was chairman of the Senate Select Committee on P.O.W./M.I.A. Affairs, Sydney H. Schanberg writes in The Village Voice. Some veterans and relatives of missing soldiers believe that Vietnam held back American prisoners of war as a bargaining chip for war reparations. But the Kerry committee's final report, issued in 1993, said there was "no compelling evidence" proving anyone was still in captivity.
Tags: The Village Voice
Young Demo Lurks on Dating Sitesnew
Online dating sites are increasingly attracting 18-to-24-year-old lovelorn singles—offering prime opportunities for marketers to target the younger demographic, according to a new report on online dating by Hitwise.
Media Daily News |
02-27-2004 9:19 am |
Industry News
Nashville Scene Writer Chides Publisher for In-House Adnew
The ad offering a reward for information about damage to a Scene news rack included, in jest, a photo of the paper's restaurant critic. Kay West says it was disrespectful of publisher Albie Del Favero to run her mug without her permission. The Scene's Matt Pulle writes that he doesn't like the implications of the ad, which is one more episode in a dispute that began in October with West's not-so-flattering review of a pizza joint called MafiaOza's. He notes that "restaurant critics everywhere carefully guard their identities to avoid tipping off food establishments to their presence."
Nashville Scene |
02-26-2004 7:20 pm |
Industry News
