AAN News
Pittsburgh City Paper Takes Pulp to Court
Pittsburgh City Paper has obtained an injunction ordering the new weekly Pulp not to place its papers in City Paper racks. The judge, however, has told both sides to reach a final agreement on other distribution issues without further rulings from the bench. City Paper Publisher Michael Frischling says he wants Pulp to “make an investment in racks.” Pulp’s Publisher Catherine Nelson, former publisher of In Pittsburgh, says what City Paper is demanding amounts to Pulp not distributing, period.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
04-09-2002 5:57 pm |
Industry News
Lakewood Church: Power House of the Lordnew
The Lakewood Church service is a glorious
spectacle of marketing genius, a
happy marriage of television
know-how, motivational
speaking and Jesus, Houston Press reporter Jennifer Mathieu writes. At a time
when mainline Protestant
churches are hemorrhaging
members and are desperate to
understand why, this
self-described charismatic,
nondenominational congregation
has grown so rapidly since Joel
Osteen took over that church
leaders have ambitious plans to
move the whole operation into
Compaq Center in 2003. Some
business and city government
leaders aren't too happy about
turning the public arena into a
church, so Lakewood has come
under a level of scrutiny
that it is unaccustomed to, given
that it has gone out of its way to
avoid political involvement.
Creative Loafing Consolidates Production
The Creative Loafing chain is consolidating its entire layout, design and production operation in Atlanta. The move assures consistency of appearance and quality of design, and also will save the chain’s five papers as much as $22 per page, says CL’s CEO Ben Eason. Eight or nine jobs were eliminated but all affected employees were offered jobs in Atlanta, where the production staff will number about 24.
(FULL STORY)
04-08-2002 2:17 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Design & Production, CL, Inc.
AAN Joins Amicus in Putnam Pit Case
Journalist wants Pit link on City Web site
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
04-08-2002 1:43 pm |
Association News
Lucan Advises on Web Use of Images [members only]
Alice Neff Lucan |
04-08-2002 10:50 am |
Association News
Tags: Alice Neff Lucan
Fort Worth Weekly Hires Another Pulitzer Winnernew
His name is Dan Malone, and he won his Pulitzer in 1992 at the Dallas Morning News, reporting on abuses of power by Texas law enforcement officials. Malone joins an editorial staff headed by another ex-Morning News Pulitzer winner, Gayle Reaves. Meanwhile, ex-Houston Presser Anthony Mariani has accepted a position as the Weekly’s arts and entertainment editor.
Fort Worth Weekly press release |
04-05-2002 4:33 pm |
Industry News
Grand Rapids Alternative Shuttered
The Paper, an alternative weekly out of Grand Rapids, Mich., has
ceased publication, although there are indications that it is
"retooling to return as a monthly". When it became an AAN member in 1998, the
Admissions Committee deemed The Paper, "the most
encouraging of the new applicants."
(FULL STORY)
Matt Pulle |
04-05-2002 12:25 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, The Paper
Some Alt-Weeklies Cut Back on Adult Advertisingnew
Does the alternative newspaper business have a problem in the back of the book? A lengthy disquisition on the subject in Fort Worth Weekly doesn't draw any conclusions, but reporter Jeff Prince finds an "evolution" in the alt-weekly universe, with many papers "reducing the number of adult ads and restricting their size, display, and content."
Fort Worth Weekly |
04-04-2002 7:24 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising
Life at 125 Million Polygons Per Secondnew
Derided as the province of teenaged boys and college stoners, video games have always gotten a bad rap from the press. But last year the industry outgrossed U.S. movie ticket sales, and new and more realistic games are appearing every week. LA Weekly's Alec Bemis makes a convincing case that the new generation of machines and games are creating the first new medium of the 21st Century, offering hyperreality and interactivity rather than traditional media's alienation and passive viewing experiences.
Growing Up Behind Barsnew
Raised in a broken home by a drug-abusing mother, Edwin Debrow Jr. quickly fell into
a life of crime. He was finally arrested for killing a San Antonio cab driver during a botched robbery that won him a 27-year prison sentence. Debrow was 12 when he was shipped off to prison; he'll be middle-aged before he ever leaves. In the latest installment of Dallas Observer's series on juvenile justice, Editor Julie Lyons takes a bleak, chilling look at the violence and despair facing violent children convicted under Texas' new get-tough juvenile justice system.
