AAN News
Are Help Wanted Ads Coming Back?new
Ad spending has increased in newspapers since
a year ago August. The third quarter was
particularly kind to most of the big newspaper
publishing companies, with all but a few showing
slight or moderate growth. That's mostly held up in
the latest round of monthly revenue reports, but
there's one lagging indicator that's been dragging
down classifieds, ad it's one of the biggest cash-
flow generators for every newspaper: Help-
wanted.
MediaPost's Media Daily News |
11-19-2003 8:22 am |
Industry News
Magazines Face Readership Erosionnew
As if U.S. magazine publishers didn't have
enough to worry about, now they're also
experiencing eroding readership. Magazine
readership among major consumer magazines
measured by Mediamark Research Inc. (MRI)
declined 1.9 percent between the fall of 2002 and
just-released estimates from MRI's fall 2003
survey.
MediaPost's Media Daily News |
11-19-2003 8:15 am |
Industry News
Dallas Observer's Korosec, Schutze Honored
11-19-2003 11:56 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, Dallas Observer
Jim Rizzi Named Salt Lake City Weekly Publisher
Associate Publisher and Founder Swap Seats -- Sort
Of
(FULL STORY)
11-19-2003 12:45 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Salt Lake City Weekly
Hartford Advocate Staffer Dies in Car Crashnew
India Blue (pictured), 48, was a staff
photographer
and music writer at the alt-weekly since 1995.
According to the Hartford Courant, she was a
single
mother with two college-age sons who "was
very active in prison outreach and regularly
visited inmates in Niantic." Advocate Publisher Janet
Reynolds says, "She was a great woman
and a great employee."
Hartford Courant |
11-18-2003 10:59 am |
Industry News
Tags: Hartford Advocate
Napster Rolls Out New Marketingnew
The Napster Kitty is now the star of a new $20
million advertising campaign that includes a
series of multiple TV spots that reprise the history
of the outlaw online file swapping service that
triggered a revolution in the way music products
are consumed and marketed.
Advertising Age |
11-18-2003 8:33 am |
Industry News
USA Today on the "Bite-Sized Nuggets" News Trendnew
The Gannett paper that arguably started
the trend reports on the daily newspaper industry's
response to its ongoing readership decline.
Newspaper analyst John Morton claims the
industry's new quick-read publications "shout 'this is
not your father's newspaper.''' AAN's Richard
Karpel says they're "just dumbed-down news"
and complains, ''(a)t a time when 70% of the public
thinks Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11, the last
thing we need is dumber newspapers."
USA Today |
11-17-2003 1:17 pm |
Industry News
Where Have All the Blowhards Gone: An Iraq Invasion Retrospective!new
Nine months ago, these people were everywhere—-braying on street corners from Brea to San Clemente, waving flags the size of Montana, shaking handmade signs demanding we SUPPORT THE TROOPS and SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT. They appeared on radio and TV, spoke from city halls, and yelled from passing cars. They got their war, and now the body count is rising, the administration has no exit plan, we can’t find Saddam Hussein or his malevolent WMDs—-and where are all the blowhards now? An OC Weekly from the home front.
Publisher: "Why I'm Selling The Local Planet Weekly"new
After three stressful years during which his
wife and co-founder passed away and two of his
stepchildren were diagnosed with chronic illnesses,
Matthew Spaur says he decided to sell
because he "no longer (has) the energy to give (the)
newspaper the leadership it deserves." Taking over
the smaller of Spokane's two alternative weeklies is a
partnership led by Paulette Burgess, a
former writer for the paper and recent editor of the
local city mag.
The Local Planet Weekly |
11-13-2003 11:11 am |
Industry News
Sex Ads are "Law Enforcement Tip Sheets," says E&P Columnistnew
Like many big-city alternative newspapers, sex ads
fill the back pages of the New York Press,
and. according to the paper's classified manager,
"It's not a secret that most of the girls are
prostitutes." Furthermore, police officials "in
some cities" buy classifieds to set up sting
operations and they also "pressure" classified
managers to give up the names of their adult
advertisers, Allan Wolper reports. "We know that
almost
every one of those ads involve sex for money
," says Sgt. Chris Bray of Phoenix vice, which
places undercover ads in the Phoenix New
Times as well as The
Arizona Republic. "We make about 10 arrests a
month from the ads and get about eight
convictions."
Editor & Publisher |
11-12-2003 1:18 pm |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Editor: We're Driven By Passion, Not Profitnew
Responding to readers who accused the paper of
opposing a local smoking ban to further its own
economic interests, Austin Chronicle Editor
Louis Black says Publisher Nick
Barbaro is "the poster child for the financially
uninterested" and defends his paper in the strongest
terms: "This publication is free. We have neither
business plan nor profit target. The staff, in every
department, is passionately devoted to the
Chronicle, striving for quality beyond reason. ...
Over the years, just about everything we've ever done
where money was the primary motive has cost
us dearly. Most of what we did for love paid
off."
Austin Chronicle |
11-11-2003 4:27 pm |
Industry News
Agency to Clients: Now "Older" Guys Are Abandoning TVnew
Another major TV shop has joined the debate
over the disappearance of male TV viewers,
claiming that older men now seem to be
abandoning the major TV networks. The latest
revelation, courtesy of Carat's programming
department, finds that the older sub-segment of
the men 18- to 34-year-old demographic break
has begun to experience serious erosion in the
weeks following Fox's post-season baseball
coverage.
MediaPost's Media Daily News |
11-06-2003 9:59 am |
Industry News
New Airline Targets Youth Marketnew
If you are thinking that sounds like JetBlue, the
three-year-old upstart airline, who could blame
you? But Song, the new low-fare service Delta Air
Lines rolled out in April, is also trying to capture a
youthful market by selling style as much as
service.
New York Times |
11-06-2003 9:55 am |
Industry News
AAN Joins Amicus Brief in Texas Satire Case
AAN Staff |
11-05-2003 12:47 pm |
Legal News
