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Tribune, Gannett's "Alternatives" Hitting the Newstandsnew
Noise, Gannett's new
"alternative" in Lansing, Mich., and
the Chicago Tribune's RedEye both
debuted last week, Mark Fitzgerald
reports in Editor & Publisher. The
Chicago Sun-Times answer to
RedEye is due to launch on
Wednesday, he reports.
Editor & Publisher |
10-28-2002 12:24 pm |
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Tribune Co. Transfers Advocate Staff to Courant Offices
Saying it’s "just business," the Tribune
Co. has ordered five
Advocate*Weekly billing and
administrative
staff to move their offices into the
Hartford Courant building. The
Tribune Co. says the move will help
consolidate different billing and other
business practices. "People over here
are saying that if they do this, what's
… next?" Advocate*Weekly CEO
Fran Zankowski
tells AAN News.
(FULL STORY)
Matt Pulle |
10-28-2002 11:21 am |
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Village Voice Demands That Cape Cod Voice Change Its Namenew
The world's most widely recognized
alternative weekly has asked The Cape
Cod Voice to ''cease and desist"
from using the name ''Voice'' in its print or
online edition, Mark Jurkowitz reports in
The Boston
Globe. The Village Voice says it ''has
worked hard and succeeded in gaining
recognition both nationally and
internationally. We will not allow
anyone to have a free ride on our name or
denigrate the good will associated with
it."
The editor and publisher of the 10,000
circulation biweekly
based in Orleans, Mass., says he won't
give up without a fight.
"I don't think any publication has the right
to tell people they don't have the right to
be the voice of their community,'' he says.
This isn't the first time The Village Voice
has fought this battle.
The Boston Globe |
10-28-2002 10:26 am |
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Special Report: The Iraq Debatenew
Saddam Hussein may no longer be enemy No. 1. With pressure building around the world and at the United Nations against an invasion, George Bush seems to be examining alternatives, however reluctantly. LA Weekly's Celeste Fremon hangs out with L.A.’s Iraqi community; Bruce Shapiro examines the reasons why the war in Iraq may never happen; David Corn sheds light on the new CIA report that details greater dangers than Saddam; and Christopher Layne gives the conservative case against the war.
RedEye Debuts Earlynew
The Chicago Tribune's new youth-oriented tabloid hits the streets today, five days early. The Trib pushed up the start date to get out of the gate before rival Chicago Sun-Times' version of an "alternative," Trib media writer Jim Kirk reports. The Sun-Times tab will be called Red Streak, Kirk says.
Chicago Tribune |
10-25-2002 9:34 am |
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Meditations on a Snipernew
"I am thinking about the East Coast man
who kills from afar. I am
thinking he's
an outcast who fantasizes about
being a Marine sniper. I
am thinking
he is a man in love with the taste of
power over human
life, a power
that can taste divine." Robert
Nelson follows the twists a human
mind can take.
AAN: Shaw, LA Times Got It Wrong
In a letter to the Los Angeles Times
responding to a column written by media
critic David Shaw, AAN
Executive Director
Richard Karpel says Shaw's
characterization of the alternative
newsweekly business "is both
inaccurate and misleading."
Countering Shaw's assertions, Karpel
claims AAN
papers "are
as unfettered as they ever were
and far
more independent than their competitors
in the mainstream press."
(FULL STORY)
Richard Karpel |
10-24-2002 4:52 pm |
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Tags: Financial, Management
AIDS in the African-American Communitynew
Disproportionately infected, blacks
confront the reality that AIDS is no longer
a white, gay disease. Seattle
Weekly's Nina Shapiro talks to
African-Americans with the virus and
looks at the latest developments in
the deadly plague. Dr. Helene Gayle,
former head of CDC's AIDS program, tells Shapiro the epidemic was simply going where epidemics usually go: into
"communities of the disenfranchised" -- those with poor access to health care,
high rates of drug use, and other social burdens that fuel disease.
Can Alternative Weeklies Cover "Hard News"?new
Washington City Paper hasn't covered the
D.C. area sniper attacks -- not one word,
a decision Washington City Paper
Editor Eric Wemple tells Philadelphia
Weekly's Steve Volk he agonizes about
every day. "We are in no position to
do" hard news, especially outside
the District, Wemple tells Volk. Even
though he can post breaking news on the
paper's Web site, he says "readers
aren't trained to go to our Web
site for a 34-car pileup on the
Beltway."
Philadelphia Weekly |
10-24-2002 9:55 am |
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