AAN News
Gambit Remembers Susan Crichton Martineau
In a fitting tribute, the paper dedicates the Best
of New Orleans issue to its former ad director,
who succumbed to cancer earlier this week. “Sue
represented the best of Gambit,” says publisher
Margo DuBos. “In a lifetime, you can only
hope to know someone as wonderful as Sue.” News &
Reviews’ Jeff von Kaenel, who worked with
Crichton to organize AWN, says, “Putting it together
was complicated because getting alternative
newspaper publishers to work together is like
herding cats. And Sue was one of the few people I
met who could herd cats.”
(FULL STORY)
Allen Johnson Jr. |
08-21-2003 3:31 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Gambit
Former Boston Phoenix Sales Execs Acquire Local Weekliesnew
Sue O’Connell and Jeff Coakley
yesterday acquired the largest gay-and-lesbian
newspaper in New England and a Boston
neighborhood paper, according to Dan Kennedy.
Coakley was the Phoenix’s director of classified
advertising in the mid ’90s; O'Connell served two
tours of duty as the paper's entertainment sales
manager before leaving in 1998 to become associate
publisher of Bay Windows, a 22,000-
circulation publication targeting the region's GLBT
community.
Boston Phoenix |
08-21-2003 12:33 pm |
Industry News
Dailies Experiment to Reverse Readership Trendsnew
In a desperate bid to attract young readers
"who have been deserting daily newspapers in droves
and driving news executives to distraction,"
mainstream media companies "are churning out ...
easy-to-
read publications that are light on serious
journalism, heavy on the partying scene, and,
for the most part, free," reports Mark Jurkowitz. "I
think it's a silly strategy because it's all
about what they're putting out in daily papers that's
driving [young] readers away,'' Nashville Scene's
Albie Del Favero tells Jurkowitz. ''Daily
newspapers in general write in a style that is not at
all appealing to young readers.''
Boston Globe |
08-21-2003 11:01 am |
Industry News
Bringing the War Homenew
Army Spc. Justin Hebert was the 52nd American
soldier killed in Iraq since President Bush
declared the war over on May 1 and the first
combat fatality of this war from
the state of Washington. Friends, family and
veterans bade him farewell in the quiet
valley
where he was born and raised, and then he was
buried in one of the special caskets reserved just
for soldiers. "As they laid Justin Hebert to rest, it
was hard to square the death of the 20-year-old
with what we know now about the invasion of
Iraq," Rick Anderson writes in Seattle
Weekly.
The Mighty Wind in West Texasnew
Way out in West Texas, near the small town of
Iraan, north of the Fourmile Draw and and south
of the Texas Pecos Trail, the wind blows mightily.
There, at the Desert Sky Wind Farm, 107 turbines
jut 328 feet above the mesa and catch the wind as
it rolls off the Barilla and Del Norte mountain
ranges. The wind belongs to no one, but its
power belongs to San Antonio: Desert Sky
generates 160 megawatts of electricity and City
Public Service buys it -- enough to power about
40,000 homes each year. San Antonio Current
News Editor Lisa Sorg looks at the power
of the
Texas wind.
Marketing Survey Results Released
AAN Staff |
08-20-2003 10:28 am |
Association News
Tags: Marketing
NY Press Owner Launches New Sports Paper
Point-of-view reporting. A hip, irreverent
voice. In-depth coverage of local underdogs. And, of
course, free circulation. New York Sports
Express applies the elements of alternative
journalism to create a new kind of paper: the local
sports weekly. "No one else has done it -- and I like
the action of creating new product," says President
and Publisher Chuck Coletti. The paper's
goal, says Editor Spike Vrusho, is
"just to keep the way-too-serious sports fans
laughing."
(FULL STORY)
Whitney Joiner |
08-19-2003 12:54 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, New York Press
Gay Family Life in Nevadanew
If you learn one thing from same-sex parents, it’s
that gay and straight families are pretty similar,
Mairi Hennessy writes in Reno News &
Review. The 2000 census tallied more than
600,000 same-sex U.S. households, 55 percent
with children. Conservative Nevada now ranks
eighth in the nation in the number of households
headed by gay or lesbian couples. Hennessy
talks to some of those couples about their
trials and triumphs, and the simple joys of
raising children.
True Teen Babes Case Implodesnew
When police raided the Denver offices of
trueteenbabes.com last spring, a media circus
ensued. The Arapahoe County sheriff went
on TV to announce that officers had busted
"perhaps the largest pornography ring in
Colorado history." Hundreds of thousands of
pictures of underage girls had been confiscated,
investigators said, and the case could have
"national and international implications." The chief
suspect, James Grady, was charged with an
astounding 886 criminal charges. But the media
didn't have much to say a year later, when the
case against Grady -- who turned out to know the
law and the realities of Web commerce a lot better
than the cops who busted him -- fell spectacularly
apart. Westword staff writer Eric Dexheimer
reveals that some of the same reporters who
trumpeted news of Grady's arrest also played a
key role in getting him busted in the first place.
On the Hilton's Bartenders
08-18-2003 2:36 pm |
Letters to the Editor
