AAN News
Appliance Salesman Turns Gurunew
The Association of Happiness for All
Mankind, or AHAM, based in Randolph
County, N.C., leads followers across the
country in a voyage of self-discovery --
mostly over the
telephone, Linda Ray writes in
Independent Weekly. A 72-year-old former
appliance salesman named Dee W.
Trammell, now known simply as
Ramana, guides the faithful through
their teleconferenced meditation
sessions. "AHAM promises
perpetual happiness if you follow its
path of self-inquiry," Ray writes. "For
some it's the answer to a lifetime of
searching ... for still others, it's an
addiction ..."
New Times, VVM Cut Deal, Close Papersnew
Village Voice Media paid NT Media
more than $1 million to close New
Times Los Angeles, sources tell the
Los Angeles Times. New
Times paid VVM a lesser amount to
shutter
Cleveland Free Times, the daily
reports.
An anti-trust lawyer says the
transaction, negotiated quietly over the
past three months, "could raise rather
interesting antitrust issues."
Los Angeles Times |
10-03-2002 10:43 am |
Industry News
LA Weekly Ad Staff Rejects Unionnew
By a two-vote margin, LA Weekly's
advertising and promotional staff voted
not to join the union that represents
editorial employees, the Los Angeles
Times reports. The close vote and
hard-fought campaign have opened
wounds Publisher Beth
Sestanovich says she wants to heal.
Los Angeles Times |
10-02-2002 10:07 am |
Industry News
Journalists on the Witness Standnew
The trend toward international justice
could force journalists to
compromise their craft and
profession by testifying in tribunals.
What’s bad for the media is bad for the
public, Richard Byrne writes in
the Boston Phoenix. Major news
organizations on this side of the Atlantic
are fighting subpoenas from the
International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia (ICTY), based in The
Hague.
Tags: Editorial
Metro Newspapers Join the Ruxton Group
10-02-2002 10:13 am |
Press Releases
Strausbaugh's a "Rock Star"new
Taffy Akner interviews New York
Press Editor John Strausbaugh for
mediabistro.com and finds it "hard to tell
if
Strausbaugh is the coolest dude
ever... or
the world's biggest geek."
Conclusion? Whatever, he's a rock star.
mediabistro.com |
10-01-2002 4:57 pm |
Industry News
Gannett's "Alternatives"new
Can Gannett Co. create alternatives to
itself? Burl Gilyard, himself a former
alt-weekly staff writer, looks into Gannett's
plans to launch entertainment
weeklies in Lansing, Mich., and Boise,
Idaho, for AJR. Berl Schwartz, editor
of the alt-weekly City Pulse in Lansing,
says Gannett's targeting these small
markets because it
"wants to feed on the guppies
before it heads to the deeper waters."
AJR |
10-01-2002 4:35 pm |
Industry News
Gambit's Reckdahl Honored for Juvenile Justice Seriesnew
Katy Reckdahl wins a 2002
Casey Journalism Center Medal for
Distinguished Coverage of Children and
Family Issues. Her award in the
non-daily newspaper category is for her
"full and compelling report on the troubled
Tallulah Correctional Center for Youth"
that appeared last year in Gambit
Weekly, the center's release states.
The series won a first-place in the
news feature category of the
Alternative Newsweekly Awards.
The Casey Journalism Center on Children and Families |
10-01-2002 3:30 pm |
Industry News
Chicago Real Estate Ad Market Boomingnew
Ads for apartments have skyrocketed in the past year, Chicago Reader Classifieds Manager Brett Murphy tells Crain's Chicago Business. The jump has fueled 25 percent growth in ad volume at a time when help-wanted ads are down, and landlords who once took out a single ad to find a tenant now run one for many weeks, he tells the business newspaper.
Crain's Chicago Business (registration required) |
10-01-2002 10:26 am |
Industry News
Preventing the Fire Next Timenew
From London's wobbling Millennium Bridge to the collapse of the World Trade Center, engineer Tony Fitzpatrick has tackled some tough problems.
Fitzpatrick, a San Francisco-based engineer and world-renowned authority on tall
buildings, tells SF Weekly's Matt Smith that the most reasonable response to the World Trade Center disaster is
also one of the simplest: improved fire codes for skyscrapers
Reckdahl Honored with Casey Medal
Gambit Weekly |
10-01-2002 3:19 pm |
Press Releases
LA Weekly Names Cole Associate Publishernew
LA Weekly has named Natalie
Cole,
formerly director of sales
development and general merchandise
for the Los Angeles
Times, associate publisher. Cole is the
third former LA Times ad executive
hired
in the past month by LA/OC Weekly
Publisher Beth Sestanovich, who is
herself a former advertising director for
the Times.
LA Weekly news release |
09-30-2002 3:05 pm |
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