AAN News
Personals Giants Combinenew
Match.com and People2People/Tele-Publishing International, two of the biggest operators in online and voice personals, are coming together to offer users "a robust pool of potential dates and romantic partners," the two companies announced in a joint news release today. P2P/TPI, owned by Phoenix Media Communications Group, is the largest provider of voice personals. Match.com is a global provider of Internet personals. The two together will now have more than 1,000 media clients and reach millions of singles searching for romance.
Match.com/P2P/TPI news release |
05-20-2003 4:21 pm |
Press Releases
Local Display Flat, Real Estate Classifieds Strong in Q1
AAN member papers report that once again classified advertising sales, especially real estate and rental, are keeping overall revenues steady. At the two alternative newsweekly industry national ad sales networks, AWN and Ruxton, sales are running well ahead of last year’s first quarter, but that was one of the worst quarters on record for the industry. “Normally I’d be excited about 20 percent growth,” Michele Laven, president and COO of New Times’ Ruxton Group tells AAN News. “We have a long way to go.”
(FULL STORY)
John Ferri |
05-20-2003 10:39 am |
Industry News
Iraqis in America Look Back at Saddamnew
Expatriate Iraqis talk with Baltimore City Paper's Tom Chalkley about life under -- and after -- Saddam Hussein, about fear, torture, repression and eventually flight. Now they express the fears of many that Saddam is still alive and plotting return to power. "Even if you find his body, you still don't know," one expat Iraqi tells Chalkley. "Even if I killed him with my own hands, I wouldn't know if he's dead or not."
People 2 People Group and Match.Com Agree to Partner
Tele-Publishing International |
05-20-2003 10:58 am |
Industry News
AAN Editor Named NAJP Fellownew
Caryn Brooks, arts and culture editor at Willamette Week, has been named one of seven 2003-04 fellows of the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University. "In addition to pursuing coursework and other activities at Columbia, the fellows will participate jointly in a research project designed to inform news organizations, arts institutions and philanthropic organizations about important trends in the current U.S. artistic and journalistic environment," the program's release states.
National Arts Journalism Program |
05-19-2003 3:42 pm |
Industry News
New York Magazine Attracts Potential Suitorsnew
Jann Wenner and Mortimer Zuckerman want it. So do the Tribune Co. and the New York Times. "It" is New York magazine, which is perhaps coveted less for potential profits than for its media-historical cachet. Founded in 1968 by Clay Felker, who also owned and edited The Village Voice, New York's sharp take on the cultural and political life of the city and its hip version of service journalism invented the city magazine and had a profound influence on the development of the alternative newspaper. "For five or six years, Clay Felker's version of New York magazine did something revolutionary," New York Observer Editor Peter Kaplan tells The New York Times' David Carr. "It not only invented the city magazine, it restated the city around it. And that is a great thing."
The New York Times |
05-19-2003 10:57 am |
Industry News
New Times Writer Dead at 32new
Marnye Oppenheim, who wrote the "Bite Me" restaurant column for New Times Los Angeles for two years and continued it at Phoenix New Times, has died, the LA Times reports. She was 32.
LA Times |
05-19-2003 10:50 am |
Industry News
Did They Convict the Wrong Man?new
Last week, DNA evidence led to an exoneration hearing for Ryan Matthews, who had been convicted of the 1997 killing of a Bridge City, La., grocer. For one man, the news means hope. For another, re-opening the wound of his father's death is agony. Gambit Weekly's Katy Reckdahl looks at all sides of this story of miscarried justice.
AAN Trade Show Attracts 35 Vendors
AAN Staff |
05-19-2003 4:03 pm |
Association News
Village Voice 3rd Annual Siren Music Festival (UPDATE)
05-19-2003 12:47 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: The Village Voice
Alt-Weekly Stalwart Tower Up for Salenew
If you started at the beginning, in
1955, when The Village Voice was
founded, and ranked companies by how
much they spent on advertising in
alternative
newspapers, Tower
Records would probably end up at
the top of the list. After several years of
financial difficulty, the
Sacramento-based chain that
has long been a beacon of pop culture
was recently put on the block. "I expect
that the new owners will keep the values
... we stand for," Russ Solomon,
the company's founder and owner, tells
The Sacramento Bee. "(W)hich is the idea
that, as much as you can afford to, you
represent as many kinds of music, video
and books as you possibly can."
The Sacramento Bee |
05-18-2003 12:14 pm |
Industry News
Fife Symington's Just Dessertsnew
In any other universe, the concept of a disgraced former governor reinventing himself as a pastry chef -- and then siccing his high-powered Washington, D.C. lawyer on a newspaper that called him a "criminal" in a restaurant review -- would be too surreal for words. "But, hey, this is Arizona, a true alternate universe where J. Fife Symington, the only governor ever to resign from office following a conviction on felony bank-fraud charges, really did start whipping up desserts to die for after an appeals court threw out his case on a technicality," Phoenix New Times Editor Rick Barrs reports. Symington was pardoned by "that Krispy Kreme-eatin' bastard Bill Clinton" ... And really did get his tortes in a knot and make noises about suing after a Phoenix New Times food critic had the audacity to use the "c" word -- and we ain't talkin' "cheesecake" -- in a discussion of the various ways one can roll in dough."
