AAN News
Newspaper War Heats Up in Lafayettenew
Steve May, who sold the Times of Acadiana
to Thomson in 1996, tells Gambit Weekly it was
subsequent acquirer Gannett that brought
him out of retirement. May says he started his new
paper, The Independent, because Gannett
is "on the verge of owning Louisiana. They
are two markets away from total ownership
concentration." Ted Power, who serves as
publisher of both the Times of Acadiana
and
Gannett's local daily, The Advertiser, admits the
weekly has declined in quality since Gannett's
acquisition. "The Times has been neglected," he says,
promising to revamp the paper, moving it further
away from its alternative-weekly roots
Gambit Weekly |
09-11-2003 12:34 pm |
Industry News
Advice and Descentnew
As the Bush administration calls for billions more
in funding to resocialize war-battered Afghanistan
and Iraq, Pasadena Weekly asked
politicians, pundits, writers, artists, actors and
other well-known figures where they think
America stands at the two-year mark of the war on
terrorism. Most deplored the war on terror's
biggest casualty -- Americans' own freedoms. But
leftie icon Christopher Hitchens says we should
all get used to living under the cloud of war
and stiffen our resolve to destroy the enemy
that wants to kill us.
Toyota to Boost Ad Spending on Hybrid Carnew
Toyota Motor Sales USA is giving its second-
generation Prius a bigger and broader media
push -- an estimated $30 million in the 2004
model year -- in the hopes it can educate
consumers who still have misconceptions about
the car's hybrid gas-battery technology.
Advertising Age |
09-11-2003 8:40 am |
Industry News
Media Execs Debate the Value of Sponsorshipsnew
ROI was the major focus of the Kagan World
Media conference on sponsored programming
and product placement, which was held
Wednesday in New York.
Media Post's Media Daily News |
09-11-2003 8:33 am |
Industry News
Ben Fulton Named Editor of Salt Lake City Weeklynew
After working at the paper for over a decade
and filling in as interim editor on three
separate occasions, the veteran Admissions
Committee
member is named to replace John Yewell. There
are two Ben Fultons, says Publisher John Saltas: The
one who "has a special rapport with
budding writers
and the respect of veteran wordsmiths," and the
"worry-wort" who "is consumed with the curse of
being only nearly perfect."
Salt Lake City Weekly |
09-11-2003 2:01 am |
Industry News
Jarrett Joins Free Times as Ad Director
Free Times |
09-11-2003 2:52 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Management, Columbia Free Times
Darts Back at Ya
Michael Hoyt |
09-11-2003 1:26 pm |
Letters to the Editor
Alcohol Marketers Change Ad Guidelinesnew
Council of the U.S. and the Beer Institute
announced they will only buy advertising in media
that has an audience that is 70% adult, up from
the current 51%. The new figure could mean
some TV shows and magazines might have fewer
beer ads and could make attracting a teen
audience less desirable to media programmers,
but both alcohol groups said the ad changes
would be very limited.
Advertising Age |
09-10-2003 10:10 am |
Industry News
NAA to Develop Campaign Targeting Advertisersnew
NAA's Display Federation announced it will
develop a brand statement targeting advertisers
in the hopes of reinforcing the value of
newspapers.
Editor & Publisher |
09-10-2003 9:17 am |
Industry News
Project Censored!new
The Bay
Guardian's Camille T. Taiara compiles
and digests the top 10 censored or underreported
stories from this year's Project Censored! The
neocons' plan for global domination tops
the list of
big stories the mainstream news media
downplayed or ignored in 2002. "The
neoconservative blueprint for U.S. military
domination is hardly a secret. A group called the
Project for a New American Century -- a think tank
founded by hawks who now hold prominent jobs
in the White House -- released a version of it three
years ago. The document is shocking in its
candor: it asserts that the United States should be
moving unilaterally to assert military control
around the globe and that all that’s
necessary to
jump-start the effort is a 'new Pearl Harbor,'”
Taiara writes.
Blogger Flays Alt-Weeklies in CJR Piecenew
In a 3700-word article about the blogging
phenomenon, Matt Welch uses his first
660 words to castigate AAN members,
calling them "conformist," politically correct and
"politically monochromatic." According to Welch, he
attended AAN West in February and learned that
alternative newspapers and the people
who work for them are all "the same,"
which led him to question whether they still deserve
to be called "alternative."
Columbia Journalism Review |
09-09-2003 10:25 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
