AAN News
Yesse Near the End
Kerry Farley, now general manager of Impact Weekly, says Yesse Communications "will probably only continue to exist as long as it owes money." Meanwhile, several key employees are back on the job at Impact, and Farley tells AAN News a sale of the paper is not imminent. In Springfield, Ill., Bud Farrar is busy taking back Illinois Times, a paper he owned for 20 years before selling it to Yesse in 1997.
(FULL STORY)
Ann Hinch |
07-31-2002 3:16 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Dayton City Paper
Arizona Juvenile Facilities Under Investigation after Hangingsnew
David Horvath hanged himself in an Arizona
juvenile corrections
facility earlier this
month, the second
youth to kill himself in
the state facility this
year. Now, two juvenile
corrections officials --
both of whom quit in
disgust after Horvath's death -- tell Phoenix New Times writer Amy Silverman the agency is
hiding evidence of suicidal behavior by youths in their custody to shield the agency from bad
press and insurance claims by families.These deaths come in the midst of a broad
investigation into the agency by the federal Justice
Department, an inquiry sparked by earlier New
Times stories on the state corrections department.
New Alt-Weekly Debuts in Des Moines
Pointblank, a start-up alternative weekly, challenges Cityview as it celebrates its 10th anniversary. Three former Cityview staffers, including former Editor Jon Gaskell, say they will provide a genuine alternative voice in Iowa's capital city. Cityview Publisher Connie Wimer says she welcomes the competition.
(FULL STORY)
John Dicker and Amanda Pierre |
07-30-2002 9:46 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management
Online Anorexia: In Praise of a Life Ever-Fastingnew
Deep in the Web underground are pro-anorexia sites and chat rooms where Ana and Mia (anorexia and bulimia) are goddesses. Many of these "pro-ana" sites were dropped from Yahoo and MSN last year due to heavy public pressure. Baltimore City Paper's Natalie Davis found that they are still out there, offering comfort to the anguished, tips on losing weight, triumphant messages about getting to 65 pounds and mourning for those who die. Davis, who has flirted with eating disorders herself, peeks into a hermetic world rarely seen by outsiders and even more rarely understood.
Former New Times Exec Joins Salt Lake City Weeklynew
Jim Rizzi has been named vice president of sales and marketing for Salt Lake City Weekly, Publisher John Saltas announced today. Rizzi has had a 20-year career with New Times Inc., most recently as publisher of New Times Los Angeles.
Salt Lake City Weekly news release |
07-29-2002 3:13 pm |
Industry News
New Publisher, Editor at Southland Pubs
Marc Brancaccio leaves New Times Los Angeles to become publisher of Pasadena Weekly, replacing Charles Gerencser, who has moved to San Diego to start up San Diego CityBeat. At Ventura County Reporter, Sharon McKenna, also an alt-weekly veteran, becomes editor, replacing David Rolland, who is editor at CityBeat.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
07-29-2002 12:50 pm |
Industry News
The Hobohemiansnew
A century ago, working-class men hopped freights to get around. Today, a new breed of train-hoppers meet up at the annual Hobo Gathering. Ben Ehrenreich of LA Weekly catches a piggyback car north to Dunsmuir, Calif., gets thrown off by police near Stockton, meets Longhaired Donnie and Buzz Blur, Magoo and Tennessee, New York Ron and Crazy Angel (and his dog Meathead), and sees what America looks like from the open door of a boxcar. Photographs by West Coast Virginia Slim, better known to Weekly readers as Virginia Lee Hunter.
Rizzi Named VP at Salt Lake City Weekly
Former New Times exec responsible for all revenue operations
(FULL STORY)
07-29-2002 1:25 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Management, Salt Lake City Weekly
Half-Truths at Whole Foodsnew
Whole Foods' Madison, Wis., store is the first to vote to unionize. What does this bode for the 133 other stores in the enormously profitable healthy foods chain, asks John Brewer of the San Antonio Current. CEO John Mackey, a native of Austin, Texas, once compared unionization to having herpes, so one suspects a hard fought anti-union war.
Tent City for Homeless Proposed in New Orleansnew
A New Orleans police captain tells Gambit Weekly's Katy Reckdahl that tent shelters would be a temporary solution to the problems of New Orleans' homeless. The city's homeless need something, say advocates, but not this, and street people are wary of the latest clean-up in the French Quarter. "Lately, seems like police have increased hatefulness toward us," a homeless man tells Reckdahl. "Sometimes I wonder if they're being told, 'It's us against the homeless.'"
Stranger Smooches Advertisers' Behindsnew
The Stranger this week publishes its First Annual "Best of [our advertisers in] Seattle 2002" issue, taking a few pot shots at Seattle Weekly's recent "Best of Seattle" issue in the process. "We know when we're licked," the newspaper says in its introduction to the feature. "Dump the irony, screw the humor,
and cut out the fucking middleman. Kissing the asses of advertisers
is a game that two can play."
The Stranger |
07-25-2002 1:04 pm |
Industry News
New Owner, No Sex Ads, at Illinois Timesnew
Ownership of Illinois Times reverted today from bankrupt Yesse Communications to former owner, Fletcher "Bud" Farrar. Immediate changes include dropping sex ads, increasing circulation and moving distribution back inside grocery stores. Farrar says in a news release he intends to make 27-year-old Illinois Times more "family friendly" and transform it into a community newspaper "in the best tradition of small-town weeklies."
Illinois Times news release |
07-25-2002 11:17 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Columnist Asks: What's Wrong With Sex Ads?new
Dallas Observer's Eric Celeste understands why the local daily rejects them, but he's not sure why his own paper is cutting back. Publisher Alison Draper says it's because sex ads are "a managerial nightmare." And Editor Julie Lyons, who thinks the ads are "disgusting," calls Draper's decision to scale them back "the most courageous thing I've ever seen a publisher do."
Dallas Observer |
07-25-2002 10:55 am |
Industry News
