AAN News
Featurewell.com Signs New York Observer, New Internationalistnew
The "electronic marketplace"
syndication service will offer
columns by Village Voice alums
Andrew Sarris and Joe
Conason, and others from the New
York Observer, as well as news analysis
from British-based New
Internationalist after signing deals
with the two publications.
Featurewell.com news release |
06-13-2003 12:23 pm |
Industry News
Spring Street: Online Personals for Hipstersnew
"Self-revelation is often wrapped in
sarcasm and the straightforward
snapshot is a rarity," is how The
Washington Post’s Libby Copeland
describes the ads placed on Spring
Street Networks, the online personals
service used by Village Voice Media, New
Times and many other publications that
attract an urban demographic. The
dating service for the age of
irony, Copeland calls Spring Street,
which claims about 950,000 users
(compared with 8 million for Match.com).
The Washington Post |
06-13-2003 10:45 am |
Industry News
Featurewell.com Signs New York Observer, New Internationalist
Featurewell.com news release |
06-13-2003 12:15 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Featurewell.com
Burn This Issue! A Primer on Wildland Firenew
With another fire season looming in the
American West, Montana Governor Judy
Martz hopes to get a jump on the flames
by hosting the Western Governors'
Association in Missoula, which is being billed as a Healthy Forest
Summit. "The purpose of the Summit,"
the WGA has announced, "is to
accelerate locally driven projects that will
prevent catastrophic wildfires by reducing
fuel loads and restoring lands." In other
words, Missoula will this weekend
play host to to an official pep rally of
support for President George W. Bush's
latest bout with resource policy
doublespeak. To prepare, Missoula Independent devotes its
entire issue to the theme of fire, including
instructions for turning this week's
newpaper into a flaming fire kite. Burn,
baby, burn.
Angry Billionaire Pulls $120,000 in OC Weekly Adsnew
Donald Bren, a developer and GOP
stalwart in Southern California, is on both
Forbes' list of wealthiest Americans and
OC Weekly's list of "scariest" Orange
Countians. Despite OC Weekly's
frequent exposes of Bren's
“shenanigans,” his company was a
regular advertiser until a few weeks ago,
when it yanked ads worth about $120,000
a year. "Our crime? We’d forgotten to
adhere to Bren’s prime directive: thou
shalt not publicly discuss the actions of
my wandering penis," R. Scott
Moxley writes.
OC Weekly |
06-12-2003 11:29 am |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising, OC Weekly
A View of Pittsburgh from the Other Side of Pennsylvanianew
Howard Altman, editor of
Philadelphia City Paper, takes off on
Pittsburgh's new baseball park and that
City Paper's luxury suite, the tensions
between "New Timesers and Voiceniks"
and the new owners of Cleveland Free
Times, and what the association should
look like in the future. "Working at an
alternative, I know that the thrust of [Neal
Pollack's awards luncheon] punch lines --
that we are verging on the old and
irrelevant -- is something we should
be keenly aware of."
Philadelphia City Paper |
06-12-2003 11:15 am |
Industry News
Ebbin Wins Primary for Virginia House
AAN Staff |
06-12-2003 5:13 pm |
Association News
Tags: Adam Ebbin
Pittsburgh Convention At a Glance
Here's a look at the 2004 annual
convention by the numbers -- from
attendance to admissions, parties to
pierogies, board members to
brouhahas. The consensus seems to be
that Pittsburgh surprised and
delighted AAN.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
06-11-2003 12:26 pm |
Industry News
Oceans in Deep Troublenew
A new Pew Report adds to a mounting pile of evidence that the oceans are dying. Andrew Scutro looks at the report and talks to experts about how quickly and how catastrophically humans can damage ocean life, from pollution to overfishing. "It's going to be a war," Dr. Jeremy Jackson, director of the Geosciences Research Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, tells Scutro. "We always do these things, but if we do them late the consequences could be vastly worse than if we'd done them on time."
New AAN Member Already Thinking Dailynew
The owners of the Long Island Press, one of the seven applying papers voted into the association at the Pittsburgh convention, "have begun plotting how to take the paper daily to compete with Newsday," reports the New York Post. Jed Morey, CEO of the paper's parent company, the Morey Organization, which also owns three radio stations on Long Island, tells the Post: "We consider the weekly a trial balloon. The size of this market lends itself to two dailies."
New York Post |
06-10-2003 1:56 pm |
Industry News
Mainstream Coverage of Outing Column "Shallow" and "Homophobic"new
So says New Times Broward-Palm
Beach's Bob Norman, who had
hoped that his column last month outing
South Florida Republican Congressman
Mark Foley (pictured in photo)
"would do some good." But things
"spiraled out of control," says Norman,
after Foley said he wouldn't talk about his
sexual orientation and denounced
Norman's story and "rumors" about him
as "revolting and unforgivable."
According to Norman, the mainstream
media coverage that followed reduced the
debate "to a realpolitikal show, a
grand distraction."
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
06-10-2003 1:42 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Bob Norman
Free Times Says Local Daily Buried Antitrust Storynew
The national media "repeatedly
scooped" The Plain Dealer on
the New
Times-Village Voice Media antitrust
story that was brewing "in its own
backyard," says Free Times' Michael
Gill."I didn't have any trouble selling
(the story) upper right on the front page of
the business section on a Monday," the
New York Times' David Carr tells
Gill, "and that's tough space to get."
Commenting on the government's role in
the antitrust investigation that led to the
story, Carr also says, "I wish they'd aim
that gun at some bigger game."
Cleveland Free Times |
06-09-2003 3:54 pm |
Industry News
