AAN News
Australian Court Rules Against Dow Jonesnew
In a case involving jurisdiction in Internet
publication cases, an Australian court
has ruled that Dow Jones cannot
have a defamation case moved to the
United States. Dow Jones had
argued that the Barron's story in question
was published in the United States and
only downloaded in Australia. AAN has
joined other news organizations in filing
an amicus brief supporting Dow Jones'
position, arguing such jurisdictional
issues would have a chilling effect on
Web publishing.
The Wall Street Journal |
12-10-2002 9:28 am |
Industry News
AAN Marketing a Success with Gambit Advertisers
Gambit Weekly has used AAN's
marketing materials to create a whole
line of customized sales collaterals,
and the payoff has been new sales,
Ad Director Sandy
Stein tells AAN News. "We loved it the minute we saw it,"
Stein says, describing
the materials as sleek and beautiful. "The best
thing for me is we're all slammed all the
time, and there's no use to reinvent
the
wheel," she says.
(FULL STORY)
Ann Hinch |
12-10-2002 11:50 am |
Industry News
Forgotten Man Caught in War on Drugsnew
Steve Tucker served a 10-year prison
sentence for selling light bulbs.
Nearly a decade ago, he, his brother and
his sister-in-law were sent to prison in a
once-infamous federal drug case that
sparked national outrage for its rough
interpretation of justice, Scott
Henry writes in Creative Loafing
(Atlanta). "Watch out, you're talking to
a notorious ex-con," Tucker says to
Henry. His saga and the fate of his
brother testify to the human tragedies that
are the real product of the War on Drugs.
Feeding the Hoop Beastnew
There isn't a college in the country that
wouldn't mind having St. Louis schoolboy
prodigy Kalen Grimes as its starting
power forward in two years, Mike
Seely writes in Riverfront Times. "But
wooing prep hoop talent these
days is a lot like courting a potential
sweetie-pie. If you remember the orchid
and box of chocolates on date one, you
might flip skins by night's end. Show up
all by your lonesome with only the merits
of your program and a beat-up Ford
Taurus, and you'll end up sharing a bed
with the January issue of Hustler and a
squeeze bottle of hand lotion," Seely
says.
Diversity Foundation in Place, Academy Recruiting Begins
AAN Staff |
12-09-2002 5:12 pm |
Association News
Dan Savage in His Old Stomping Groundsnew
Dan Savage, editor of The Stranger and
author of the syndicated sex column
"Savage Love," goes home to Chicago,
where Chicago Tribune arts critic Sid
Smith catches up with him. "How did this
North Side Catholic boy, the son of a
Chicago homicide cop, become
America's down-and-dirty (and gay)
sex columnist -- and, now, defender
of the Left?" Smith asks, and then
provides some answers.
Chicago Tribune |
12-06-2002 10:50 am |
Industry News
Tags: Dan Savage
Homeland Insecuritynew
The Coast Guard and INS are being
pumped up to fit into the
Department of
Homeland Security. Under the new
bureaucracy, created by a bill Sen. Robert
Byrd, D-W.V., called a "hoax," the policing
half of the INS "is bulking up like a
football player in
training, while the clerkish services
division is shunted aside and told to
make do with what it already has," writes
Traci Rae Hukill of Monterey
County Coast Weekly. "It's a case of
enlargement
of the enforcement
gland. "
NPR Reports on VVM-New Times Anti-Trust Investigationnew
An anti-trust lawyer tells NPR's Laura
Sydell that the VVM-New Times deal
looks like a clear anti-trust
violation: "It was very public what they
did, and my only feeling is they could not
have had any anti-trust advice." The Bay
Guardian's Tim
Redmond decries the deal and
compares it to the monopolization of local
dailies, which, he argues, was the reason
the
alternative press "sprung up" in the first
place. But AAN's Richard Karpel
says there weren't enough ad dollars to
sustain two large alternative weeklies
in LA and Cleveland, and U. of
Maryland j-school dean Thomas
Kunkel says he was surprised by the
investigation: "Anyone who is looking at
the Justice Dept.'s attitude towards this
sort of transaction in the near past might
wonder what the fuss is about." After all,
he notes, Justice didn't seem
terribly disturbed as cities around the
country became one-newspaper towns.
NPR News "All Things Considered" |
12-05-2002 11:59 am |
Industry News
Clown Without Bordersnew
Why would a former San Francisco
stockbroker travel to war-torn countries
and refugee camps just to make
people laugh? Clowns Without
Borders takes Moshe Cohen to "zones of
conflict" like Chiapas, where the laws
of laughter are inverted, Bernice
Yeung writes in SF Weekly. He tries to
"bring a temporary lightness to places
that have been shadowed by grief and
hopelessness," she writes.
Alternative Newsweeklies Sharpen Their Edgesnew
As the alternative newsweekly industry
matures, competition from dailies and
other media for the desirable
18-to-34
reader intensifies, E&P's Lucia
Moses
reports in this week's cover story. Despite
the burgeoning youth-oriented offerings
from daily media empires, "it may not be
all that dire for alt-weeklies," she
concludes. "They are a long way from
being confused with dailies. They
still write with more opinion and attitude,
and take more risks."
Editor & Publisher |
12-05-2002 1:40 pm |
Industry News
AAN Issues Call for Entries in Alternative Newsweekly Award Contest
AAN Staff |
12-05-2002 11:16 am |
Association News
Anti-Trust Investigation of VVM/New Times "Risibly Misplaced"new
"Does the U.S. Department of Justice
really have so little to do it must
investigate why a couple of alternatives
were folded?" E&P asks in a Nov. 25
editorial. With so many media outlets in
both the Los Angeles and Cleveland
markets where the two alternative weekly
chains closed papers to end
head-to-head competition, advertisers
have plenty of places to go. "It's not an
argument Justice can make with a
straight face," E&P concludes.
Editor & Publisher |
12-04-2002 1:36 pm |
Industry News
Whitaker Disappointed in RedEye, Red Streaknew
Charles Whitaker, director of the Academy
for Alternative Journalism at Northwestern
University's Medill School of Journalism,
says the Chicago dailies' two new
youth-oriented weekday tabs "are
neither hip, nor
smart, nor in any way sophisticated."
Whitaker, a former editor of Ebony, says
he'd hoped the Tribune and the Sun
Times would have used their
considerable resources to achieve "a
radical rethinking of what newspapers
are and what they can be. ... Boy, was I
wrong."
Newsday |
12-04-2002 10:29 am |
Industry News
Buyers Calling Casco Bay Publishernew
Lael Morgan tells E&P's Lucia
Moses that buyers have been
calling since Casco Bay Weekly was
shuttered two weeks ago. Morgan
blames the economy and the Portland
Phoenix for the weekly's closure. "We
haven't had a national ad since they
arrived," she tells E&P.
Editor & Publisher |
12-04-2002 10:14 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Casco Bay Weekly
