AAN News
Anchorage Press Editor Moves to Honolulu Weeklynew
Robert Meyerowitz will find average temperatures 60 degrees warmer when he leaves Alaska in January to become editor of Honolulu Weekly. "In the five years that Meyerowitz has been editor, the Press has largely forsaken potty mouth to produce thoughtful and provocative journalism that you didn't have to agree with to admire," writes Rosanne Pagano in the Anchorage Daily News. Pagano, a journalism professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage, praises the Press (which is not an AAN member) for its wide range of stories, including a probe of a
for-profit business that managed rural school districts.
Anchorage Daily News |
12-05-2003 1:38 pm |
Industry News
New Regs for RX Ads on the Way?new
The Federal Trade Commission wants the Federal Drug Administration to drop its requirements that pharmaceutical print ads run detailed drug side-effects listings. Instead, it wants drug companies to be allowed to use the same kind of "brief summary" risk warnings in print ads that are now used in broadcast commercials.
Advertising Age |
12-04-2003 8:38 am |
Industry News
Record Growth Predicted for Online Shoppingnew
Online shopping is expected to grow faster this holiday season than it has since the peak of the Internet frenzy in 2000, even as some analysts predict moderate growth in retail sales over all. And much of the growth is being driven by search engines like Google and other sites like Amazon and the online marketplace eBay, which are sending shoppers to tens of thousands of online stores, many of them small, independent operations.
New York Times |
12-04-2003 8:33 am |
Industry News
Using Someone Else's Art
Alice Neff Lucan |
12-04-2003 12:51 am |
Legal News
Tags: Design & Production, Editorial
Awards Contest Entry Forms Available
AAN Staff |
12-04-2003 6:10 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
Entertainment Listings Magazine to Debut in Chicagonew
Time Out Chicago will debut next September, entering an already crowded field of publications with extensive entertainment listings in that city, David Carr reports for The New York Times. Distribution of the weekly magazine will be through mailed subscriptions and newsstand sales. “They have been successful in a number of markets, but I don’t think they have ever come into a market that does listings as well as we do,” Jane Levine, publisher of the Chicago Reader, told Carr. Time Out Group also publishes Time Out New York and Time Out London.
New York Times |
12-03-2003 5:25 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Chicago Reader
Market Research Drives Creation of New “Youth” Papersnew
To attract young readers, media companies are publishing free newspapers that capsulize the news and emphasize jazzy graphics. New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg describes what research studies say young readers want and how new papers like Quick, published by Belo Corporation in Dallas, and the 5 Minute Herald, published by Knight-Ridder in Miami, seek to address their needs and capture advertising dollars.
New York Times |
12-03-2003 5:17 pm |
Industry News
New Times Broward-Palm Beach Invents Anarchists’ Storynew
New Times reveals its exclusive story
claiming that antiglobalization anarchists planned to
infiltrate the Republican Governors Association
meeting in Boca Raton, Fla., was a ruse. Supposed
author Greg O’Shube himself was a hoax;
the name is an anagram for George Bush. O’Shube’s
surrogate even created a Web site for the invented
group, Anarchists for a
Better State. “It’d be easy to say this story is
about some bigger issue, like the fact that reporters
all too often base stories on e-mails and websites,
with little actual reporting…. But, hell, what it really
was about was simply pulling one over on
smarty-pants scribes and TV reporters,” O’Shube writes.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
12-03-2003 4:24 pm |
Industry News
Advertising Moving From "Push" to "Pull"new
Speaking at the Measuring Media in the Future
conference organised by the Institute of
Practitioners in Advertising on Tuesday, Professor
John Naughton said: "The ball game is over.
We're moving from an economic system
dominated by push media and moving to a
completely different world which is a pull world -
where consumers are empowered by digital
technology and only get what they want."
MEDIAWEEK.com |
12-03-2003 9:30 am |
Industry News
Study: Markets Influenced by Elite Consumersnew
That consumers shape markets is a truism, but
their influence is probably understated and
certainly not fully understood. Eric von Hippel, a
professor at the Sloan School of Management at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, argues
that a huge swath of innovation can be traced to
elite consumers whom he calls lead users. These
imaginative and technically adept consumers spot
a need and invent a solution, often changing
whole industries, from sports to software.
New York Times |
12-03-2003 9:23 am |
Industry News
"Cool Hunters" Target Advertisingnew
The question haunting Madison Avenue these
days is, to paraphrase Sigmund Freud, "What do
consumers want?" As changes in demographics
and lifestyles accelerate, consumer behavior is
becoming increasingly difficult to predict. More
people are surfing the Web, fewer are watching
the tube. And a many are becoming more
skeptical toward advertising in general. As a
result, advertising agencies are scrambling to
understand and predict consumer behavior, the
better to serve their marketer clients. The goal is
to identify and forecast trends and patterns before
they enter the mainstream and become obvious.
New York Times |
12-02-2003 10:28 am |
Industry News
U.S. Advertising Up 5.7% in Q3new
All but two media, outdoor and spot radio, saw
increases in spending, led as usual by Hispanic
TV, which grew 19.3 percent (see chart below).
Outdoor was down 1.6 percent and local radio
was off 0.8 percent. Local magazines, cable and
national newspapers followed Hispanic TV in the
pace of their growth, at 11.9 percent, 8.9 percent
and 8.8 percent.
Media Life Magazine |
12-01-2003 8:23 am |
Industry News
Holiday Ads For the Jadednew
Hoping to avoid a Christmas as blue as the past
few, retailers and marketers are experimenting
with ambitiously novel ways to woo consumers.
Along with traditional trappings like Santa's
workshops, decorated store windows and teddy
bears as gifts with purchases, shoppers will see
an assortment of unconventional campaigns, all
intended to encourage the impulse to buy among
those bored with or tired of holiday chestnuts
(literal and figurative).
New York Times |
12-01-2003 8:17 am |
Industry News
New Times Reporter Arrested Covering Protests in Miaminew
"Throughout the day I'd witnessed police provoke
protesters," writes Celeste Fraser Delgado,
who was reporting on the protests surrounding last
week's free-trade meetings.
"I'd seen young people cuffed and lined up along the
street, but I thought they must have done something
bad to be detained." Her perceptions quickly
changed when
she was handcuffed and jailed by
Miami police who ignored her press
credentials. Her crime: Doing "nothing but walking
down the street."
Miami New Times |
11-27-2003 10:31 am |
Industry News
Ad Buyers, Sellers Rip Online Data Accuracynew
Frustrated with the inadequacies in online-
measurement data, Web publishers, media
buyers and marketers want the two main
providers of online data to improve their research
methodologies, especially those used to analyze
the highly sought after at-work audience.
Advertising Age |
11-26-2003 6:27 am |
Industry News
