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More Movie Ads Move From Newspapers to Internetnew
Advertising Age |
09-03-2003 2:53 pm |
Industry News
Salt Lake City Weekly Dismisses Editornew
John Yewell (pictured) was fired last month
for
unspecified reasons and replaced for the interim by
Managing Editor Ben Fulton. "I'll be
carefully vague ... there were differences," Publisher
John Saltas tells the Deseret News.
According to the daily, "Some of the paper's
freelance writers heaved a sigh of relief on
hearing the news that Yewell was let go." Before
taking the position in Salt Lake City, Yewell had been
fired as editor of Independent Weekly.
Deseret News |
09-02-2003 2:04 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Salt Lake City Weekly
Corporate Takeover of Texas Legislaturenew
In Texas, history has a way of repeating itself.
Jake Bernstein and Dave Mann of The Texas
Observer reveal how last year a small group of
politicians and corporations bought
themselves a legislature and poured
hundreds of millions back into the pockets of the
corporations. The no-holds-barred campaign was
run through the Texas Association of Business
and U.S. House Whip Tom Delay's Texans for a
Republican Majority. Both entities took a
calculated risk, which paid off with the first
Republican Texas legislature in 130 years, but
both are now under investigation.
No Print Reporters for Ashcroft, Pleasenew
Attorney General John Ashcroft declared he
would only talk to TV reporters at a recent
Philadelphia news conference. Ashcroft's minions
escorted a stunned Howard Altman,
editor in chief of Philadelphia City Paper, off the
premises when he protested the ban on print
reporters at the Patriot Act "spin-tour" event at
National Constitution Hall. "I was not just
steamed, I was flabbergasted. Surely, these
people understand irony?" Altman writes.
Philadelphia City Paper |
08-29-2003 4:19 pm |
Industry News
Political Candidate Strips Alt-Weekly From Town Hall Racksnew
In an apparent effort to stop the public from
reading an article about his unsavory past,
Tim Yousik, currently running in the Republican
primary for Riverhead town supervisor, marched into
Town Hall and removed all copies of the
Long Island Press' Aug. 14 issue, witnesses
say.
Yousik was apparently attempting to make disappear
the cover story on his dirty past: a 1987 conviction
for third-degree sodomy and endangering
the
welfare of a minor in upstate New York.
Long Island Press |
08-29-2003 5:20 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Long Island Press
Out of Africanew
When thousands of Somali and Sudanese
refugees made their way to the American Midwest
in the 1990s, they were often hailed as
success stories. Starting at the bottom of the
economic ladder, they worked double shifts in
menial jobs and carved out lives for themselves
and their families, thankful just to have the
opportunity -- and to be safe from the violence that
plagued their war-torn homelands. But as Pitch
staff writer Kendrick Blackwood reports,
the Somalis and Sudanese brought something
with them besides a tireless work ethic: a culture
in which young men are taught never to back
away from a fight.
Developer to Planet: "Do the Right Thing -- Or Else!"new
Local politics in Spokane can get ugly, especially
when a reporter scrutinizes a development
deal involving a scion of the city's reigning
Cowles clan. "An e-mail
exchange
between real estate developer and Cowles
Publishing chair Betsy Cowles and her PR
lackey
Jennifer West shows the disturbing tactics they
employ to coerce local media, including AAN-
member The Local Planet Weekly," Editor/
Publisher
Matt
Spaur writes.
The Local Planet Weekly |
08-29-2003 12:33 pm |
Industry News
Drug Ed: When "Just Say No" Doesn't Cut Itnew
Police and school officials usually start and stop
drug education courses at promoting a "drug-
free society," which has about as much
relation to reality as promoting sexual abstinence.
The Georgia Straight's Roberta Staley
looks at the reality of how teenagers learn about
drugs -- from each other. Young people need
better information -- not only to protect themselves
and their friends from addiction and overdose, but
to
complete the complex process of growing
up, she argues.
Bay Guardian Story Leads to Freeing of Innocent Man
J.J. Tennison to be released 13 years after his
conviction
(FULL STORY)
08-28-2003 1:01 pm |
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