AAN News
The Winner and Still Championnew
Last year about this time, Miami New Times
published a special report on the City of
Miami, which had recently earned the dubious
distinction of being named America's poorest
big city. A year later, even as real-estate
developers rush to build a sea of high-priced condos
along Biscayne Bay -- wiping out modest apartments
and single-family homes in the process -- New
Times revisits the territory it explored last
year, paying followup calls to people struggling to
survive and the politicians who've made promises to
help them.
Former AAN Paper Tacoma Reporter Folds
The small, 24,000 circulation weekly,
founded in 1996, appears to have published its final
issue sometime around mid-August, reports John
Ferri. The Reporter was hit hard by 9/11 and the
brutal Pacific Northwest recession, which
cut its annual revenue in half, according to the
paper's owners. When talks to sell the weekly fell
through, the undercapitalized paper couldn't hang
on.
(FULL STORY)
John Ferri |
10-21-2003 7:58 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Tacoma Reporter
Westword Hosts Film Shoot
The offices of Denver’s alt weekly were
transformed into a movie set last week for director
John Sayles’ (pictured) next movie,
Silver City.
Presently lensing
in the Mile High City, Sayles' film is about a “George
W. Bush-like” character, played by Chris
Cooper,
who’s running for Colorado governor. Westword
Editor Patricia Calhoun will have a small
role in the movie if she doesn't end up on the
cutting room floor.
(FULL STORY)
Whitney Joiner |
10-21-2003 10:50 am |
Industry News
Tags: Westword, Patricia Calhoun
Marketing Cars: Appealing To Youth and the Not-So-Youngnew
As the American population grows older and as
new car prices rise (even with incentives), the
average buyer of new vehicles has ventured far
into middle age. Among the major automakers,
the average buyer's age ranges from 41 years old
for the Volkswagen and Mitsubishi to 64 for the
Buick.
New York Times |
10-21-2003 8:54 am |
Industry News
Dailies, Mags Pick Fight With TVnew
If the print media were an ancient civilization, it
would be the Gauls, getting pummeled into souffle
by Caesar's legions. If it were a basketball team, it
would be those patsies that always get clobbered
by the Harlem Globetrotters by 100 points. And if
print were a man, it would be Lou Costello, getting
slapped around by a taller, better-looking guy
who always got the girl. The Romans, the
Globetrotters and, hey, Abbott would, of course,
be broadcast television.
Editor & Publisher |
10-21-2003 8:49 am |
Industry News
No Funnew
Ian MacKaye's Fugazi has survived 15 years
in the music biz without ever coming close to
selling out to a major label, all the while
holding firm to the quaint notion that it's actually
possible to give one's fans more than their money's
worth. What could possibly be wrong with that?
Plenty, says Michael Little, who complains that the
band has "cast a long pall over the Washington,
D.C., music scene" and saddled the area with
humorless, moralizing music made by people who
don't understand that rock is supposed to be
hedonistic, degenerate, and lewd.
Dem Voters Don't Use Dailiesnew
Voters in Democratic districts of California relied
mostly on the televised debate and network and
cable news to make their decisions in the
gubernatorial recall. Those in GOP districts more
often sought out information from newspapers
and cyberspace.
Editor & Publisher |
10-20-2003 1:05 pm |
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TV Watching Among Guys 18-34 At All-time Lownew
For the first three weeks of the season, the level of
men 18-34 using television is down 8% in prime
time. Viewing levels in the demo are down in
other dayparts as well and across the broadcast
networks. That's with one exception: baseball-
heavy Fox, which is up 3% in the demo in prime
time but doesn't come close to accounting for the
sharp overall decline.
Broadcasting & Cable |
10-20-2003 11:50 am |
Industry News
MTV Launches Multimedia Mag Packnew
Major magazines are generally introduced with a
great deal of fanfare: news releases, lavish
parties and bold statements about the paradigm
shift the new publication represents. The much
awaited MTV magazine will land a bit more
quietly this week. There will be on-air and on-Web
promotion, but for the most part, MTV is letting the
first issue speak for itself.
New York Times |
10-20-2003 8:50 am |
Industry News
Dailies Release Rosy Online Ad Resultsnew
The New York Times Co. (Quote, Chart)and The
Tribune Co. (Quote), Chart)) both reported
significantly higher online ad revenue than over
the same period last year. Revenue increases for
interactive were far larger than the gains in other
operating units for both companies.
InternetNews.com |
10-20-2003 8:32 am |
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Gannett to Launch New Louisville Weekly Dec. 3new
Although Velocity is aimed at young
adults, it is "not being positioned as a direct
competitor" to the 13-year-old AAN-member
Louisville Eccentric Observer, claims
Ed Manassah, publisher of the local
Gannett daily responsible for the new paper.
Nevertheless, Manassah sends a shot across
LEO's bow when he claims the young-adult
"marketplace" is "not being serviced." The new
publication's name "is a play off the word
`city,' but then there's also the connection to a faster
pace and speed," the paper's new editor explains
helpfully.
The Courier-Journal |
10-20-2003 12:19 pm |
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Time Servednew
City Paper Staff Writer Anna Ditkoff
thought the cops on her front porch were there
because of trouble on her block. It turns out they
were there for her, which led to an up-
close and all-too-personal look at life inside
Baltimore's Central Booking intake facility,
where overcrowding is standard, medical attention is
hard to come by, and no one on the other side of the
glass will look you in the eye.
Dan Savage: "I want The Stranger to be conflicted and divided"new
In an interview with mediabistro.com, the editor/sex
columnist describes his contrarian
philosophy and his paper's brand of journalism
("The Stranger does advocacy journalism, and for the
politicians we like we stump like hell for them");
opines on what
separates good alt-weeklies from bad ("They
have a really great sense of play") and names the
ones he likes; and defines the
daily-newspaper problem in a nutshell: "(I)f
you don't have anything in your paper that's going
to upset a five-year-old then 35-year-olds are going
to look elsewhere for the kind of writing
that appeals to them and speaks to them."
mediabistro.com |
10-17-2003 1:35 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Dan Savage
What Really Happened in the LA Times Newsroomnew
As the campaign to recall California Gov. Gray Davis
drew to a close, Jill Stewart accused the LA
Times of delaying publication of their Grope-
gate expose of Arnold Schwarzenegger until
the eleventh hour; leaking word of the
impending story to the Davis camp; and refusing to
report on allegations that Davis mistreated
women in his office. Last week, Times' Editor
John Carroll wrote an editorial refuting the
charges. This week, Ventura County Reporter
publishes Stewart's response.
CareerBuilder Revenue Up 41%new
Editor & Publisher |
10-17-2003 10:24 am |
Industry News
