AAN News
Spanish Blame Oil Spill on Houston Firmnew
Fishermen and citizens harmed by what's been called the worst environmental disaster in Spanish history are looking to a Houston ship classification society to bear some responsibility, writes Josh Harkinson in the Houston Press. In November 2002, the oil tanker M/V Prestige sprang a leak, then split in half and sank 130 miles from the Spanish shore. Now the American Bureau of Shipping, which inspected the ship shortly before it sank, is the subject of lawsuits asking for $1 billion.
Tags: Houston Press
Online Sets New Ad Record, Q4 Sales Outpace Dot-Com Boom'snew
Online ad spending surged 38 percent during the fourth quarter of 2003, the fastest rate of growth of any quarter since the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers began tracking online ad sales in 1996.
Media Daily News |
02-13-2004 10:13 am |
Industry News
Two Pilots Claim Bush Never Showed Up at Guard Basenew
Two members of the Air National Guard unit in Alabama that President Bush was supposed to join in 1972 tell Jackson Baker of The Memphis Flyer that they were expecting Bush, they were waiting for him, and they're sure they never saw him. The Memphis Flyer posted on its Web site today its late-breaking, copyrighted story that responds to the question plaguing Americans: Was George W. Bush AWOL at a time he claims to have been serving in the National Guard?
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Federal Racketeering Suit Charges Newsday with Circulation Fraudnew
A Long Island Press news team looks at the implications of the $100 million class-action suit filed Feb. 10 by four Queens advertisers. They accuse Newsday of using a "Fudge ABC" computer program to fool the Audit Bureau of Circulation about its figures. The daily paper allegedly gave extra loads of unordered papers to distributors on audit days and regularly sent vanloads of unsold papers to the dump. Anonymous sources "with executive-level experience at the paper confirmed to the Long Island Press that at least the essence of the allegations" are true, the team reports. Other advertisers could join the class-action suit.
Tags: Long Island Press
Coast Weekly Changes Name to Monterey County Weeklynew
Not everyone in the paper's circulation area is at the beach. The new name better reflects where the alternative newsweekly's readers live and work, says executive editor and CEO Bradley Zeve. With a circulation of 40,000 in the communities of the Monterey Peninsula and Salinas Valley, the weekly is much better read than competing papers owned by media giants Knight Ridder and Gannett. Zeve says the weekly's mission of inspiring "independent thinking and conscious action" will continue.
Monterey County Weekly Press Release |
02-12-2004 3:48 pm |
Industry News
Religious Demonstrators Argue Both Sides on Same-Sex Marriagenew
Depending on your religious beliefs, the Massachusetts high court's ruling opening the door for gays and lesbians to marry can be seen as "an attack against civilization" or a welcome step forward in the civil rights struggle. Boston Phoenix writer Dan Kennedy listens to Catholics and Unitarians outside the Massachusetts State House while, inside, legislators debate whether the state constitution should be amended to ban such matrimony. "As the great political philosopher Jon Stewart has observed, making gay marriage legal doesn't make it mandatory," Kennedy writes.
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More Marketing Budgets Shifted to Online Strategiesnew
A growing number of large marketers are finding Internet direct-marketing and relationship-building strategies more effective than TV advertising, attendees at the iMedia Brand Summit heard. During a session that quickly became a seminar of negative comparisons to TV advertising, some of the country's largest marketers detailed how "on the cheap" Internet methods have become a central muscle of their marketing communications programs. Some described their successes with pure Internet plays, others with strategies that used economical Internet tie-ins to boost the impact of their TV buys.
AdAge.com |
02-12-2004 8:46 am |
Industry News
Is the Monster Coming Back to Life?new
And will all of that high profile Super Bowl advertising pay off this year? The online jobs giant today reported a fourth quarter profit earning $12.1 million or 11 cents per share. Not too shabby considering an economy that continues to sputter and compared to the same period a year ago when it posted a $51 million loss for the quarter. Quarterly sales nudged four percent to $170.8 million from $164.4 million compared to the same period a year ago.
Media Daily News |
02-12-2004 8:40 am |
Industry News
Next AAN CAN Contest Winner Can Go Wherever
AAN Staff |
02-12-2004 5:51 pm |
Association News
Coast Weekly Changes Name to Monterey County Weekly
02-12-2004 2:56 pm |
Press Releases
Nashville Scene Reveals That It Shows Stories to Sourcesnew
Obsession with silly rules gets in the way of good journalism, writes Willy Stern. His against-the-grain column stands up for an op-ed editor who was pilloried for offering to let the mayor of Austin, Texas, see a draft of an editorial. By the standards applied in that case, editor Bruce Dobie would be fired if he worked anywhere but the Scene, says contributing editor Stern, who is also a media ethicist. "At this weekly paper, prior to publication, we routinely show sources entire drafts of stories," he discloses. "We routinely read quotes to sources before we go to print. We even share drafts with sources' attorneys—including attorneys who have threatened to sue us." Stern presents six reasons for allowing subjects to read stories before publication.
Nashville Scene |
02-11-2004 5:14 pm |
Industry News
FBI Invites Reporters to Leave Their Thumbprintsnew
Sacramento News & Review contributor Harmon Leon hopes he'll get a closer relationship with the FBI when he attends FBI Media Day at the agency's Sacramento headquarters. Instead he suffers a case of blushing bladder after being escorted to the restroom, beats the polygraph test when he lies, and leaves his thumbprint and footprint for who knows what purposes. But he and other reporters do get an FBI official's assurance that the Patriot Act has "minimal effect" on what the agency does.
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Internet Erosion of TV Viewing Habits Deepensnew
Optimism, a sentiment often in short supply among interactive marketers and publishers since the bubble burst of 2001, reared its head at the iMedia Communications Brand Summit here today, as marketing executives and researchers pointed to signs interactive marketing is gaining traction as a supplement or even alternative to TV advertising.
Advertising Age |
02-11-2004 9:05 am |
Industry News
AAN East Marked by Feisty Exchanges and Nose-Flute Playing
Ruth Hammond |
02-11-2004 12:07 pm |
Association News
Florida Republican Plays Pivotal Role in Al Sharpton Campaignnew
" Roger Stone, the longtime Republican dirty-tricks operative who led the mob that shut down the Miami-Dade County recount and helped make George W. Bush president in 2000, is financing, staffing, and orchestrating the presidential campaign of Reverend Al Sharpton," the senior editor of The Village Voice reports. Wayne Barrett leads a team of reporters and researchers who uncover Stone's role in Sharpton's campaign and trace the Republican's subsidies to Sharpton's National Action Network. "Stone is apparently confident that he can use the Democrat-bashing preacher to damage the party's eventual nominee," Barrett writes.
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