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Impact Weekly’s Woes Deepen
Yesse! Communications, in bankruptcy since spring of 2001, is struggling to keep its last two papers alive, but bounced paychecks and unpaid medical claims have sent another flood of employees out the door. Now managers are pointing fingers. Kerry Farley, vice president of operations, blames Michael Stern, Impact’s former business manager. Others blame both Farley and Yesse! President Craig Hitchcock for indifferent management and neglect. Farley and Hitchcock insist the Dayton, Ohio, weekly is still viable.
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Ann Hinch |
06-17-2002 11:56 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Dayton City Paper
Young Accused Killers Tell Their Storynew
Four friends believed in dragons, vampires, and threats against
their lives. Then they became the
alleged killers in one of the most
publicized murders in Virginia
history. Now, two of them are
talking about the slaying of Robert Schwartz, one of the girls' father.
Jason Cherkis of Washington City Paper tells their story.
New Weekly in Salt Lake City Bans Gay Personalsnew
"We will be a hard-hitting, good, clean paper that will carry non-offensive ads," says Rich Kuchinsky, ad director for Utah Weekly, a free paper that debuted last week along the Wasatch Front. "(A)dvertisers are wasting their money" in the rival Salt Lake City Weekly, Kuchinsky claims, because "Moms" and "families" are offended by some of the ads in that AAN-member publication. Kuchinsky tells the Deseret News, "We have no problem with 'men seeking women' and 'women seeking men,' and that's where it will stop."
Deseret News |
06-17-2002 1:17 am |
Industry News
Creative Loafing at 30new
"Can you trust an alternative newspaper over 30?" Creative Loafing Atlanta's Senior Editor John Sugg asks. Well, yes and no. In a column published in Weekly Planet Tampa, Sugg's old stomping ground, he says alt-weeklies may be greying and corporate but they're still kicking the dailies' butts. Mainstream media have "dumbed themselves down to the point of imbecility," Sugg says. "Maybe now the alternative press will stand and achieve its true greatness, revealing what the powerful don't want revealed." If they don't, Sugg's hoping some firebrand now in high school is waiting in the wings to create the next underground press.
Weekly Planet |
06-14-2002 3:07 pm |
Industry News
Couple Sues Hospital for Providing Heroic Treatmentnew
Almost since her traumatic birth, Sidney
Miller of Houston, Texas, has been at the
center of a legal battle that has reached
the Texas Supreme Court and
will very likely not stop there. At her very
premature birth, her parents told the
hospital not to take any heroic
measures to keep her alive,
Traci Neal reports in the
Hartford Advocate. The hospital
refused, and the Millers have been paying
for it — emotionally and financially -- ever
since. Now they want the hospital to pick
up the tab for its actions. The courts'
decision could change the way hospitals
nationwide treat very premature, low
birth-weight and desperately ill
infants. Neal, a copy editor at the
Advocate, was herself a preemie and took
on the story voluntarily, interviewing
Connecticut neonatologists and medical
ethicists to give the national story a state
angle. "Most of my work
was done at home (with a 2- and
4-year-old tugging at my shirt) and
much
of the writing was done between the
hours of 10 p.m. and 2 a.m.," Neal tells
AAN News.
Cleveland Scene Disses Crosstown Rivalnew
Editor Pete Kotz eviscerates
alt-weekly competitor
Cleveland Free Times, saying its
"relentless strife still makes
for the best running sitcom in
town" and laying odds Free Times
will close. David Schneiderman,
CEO of Free Times' parent Village
Voice Media, in an e-mail to Kotz, calls the
Scene's claims "untrue and
outrageous." Free Times Publisher Matt Fabyan tells AAN News the article is "pathetic, desperate and sleazy."
Now Free Times Editor
David Eden is calling Scene
Publisher Ramon
Larkin, "badgering him about
(Scene's) finances," Kotz reports.
Payback may be in the offing.
Cleveland Scene |
06-13-2002 5:13 pm |
Industry News
Keeping the Boom-Boom Hush-Hushnew
What's it like to share a community with a top-secret paramilitary compound? Ask the people of Hertford, a small community nestled in eastern North Carolina. Located just outside the city is the fenced-in, heavily secured Harvey Point Defense Testing Activity where explosives are tested regularly. The knowledge of what exactly goes on at the base is limited, but the residents of Hertford are used to that, as Independent Weekly finds out.
Phoenix Media Critic Switches Position on Pearl Photonew
Dan Kennedy, the Boston Phoenix's
media critic, originally opposed
publication of the video and photo of
Daniel Pearl's grisly slaughter. Now that
his paper has carried through with its vow
to publish the images, Kennedy has
changed his mind. "It's important to
see the Daniel Pearl video because it's
important to look into the face of the pure
evil we're up against," Kennedy writes.
"It's important to see it because merely
reading a description of it cannot do
justice to its full horror."
Boston Phoenix |
06-13-2002 9:37 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Boston Phoenix
