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AAN Staff |
01-10-2002 9:53 am |
Association News
Mindich Fires Back at Dailies in Flap over Son's Wild Partynew
Boston Phoenix |
01-10-2002 9:26 am |
Industry News
Tags: Boston Phoenix, Stephen Mindich
Health Journal Tracks Alt-Weekly Tobacco Adsnew
The American Journal of Public Health has released results of a five-year study of tobacco advertising and promotions in alternative newsweeklies. It concludes that tobacco companies are using the entertainment sections of the alternative newsweekly industry to target young adults. The study tracked tobacco ads and promotions over five years in the San Francisco Bay Guardian and the Philadelphia City Paper. From 1994 to 1999, tobacco-related advertising jumped from single digits to more than 300 a year in each paper. "These efforts appear to be bearing fruit; smoking rates are increasing in this age group," the authors write.
American Journal of Public Health |
01-09-2002 3:48 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising
Court Upholds Publishers on Atlanta Airport Newsracksnew
A three-judge federal appeals court panel has upheld a lower court ruling that Atlanta can't force newspapers into city-owned newsracks that bear Coca-Cola advertisements at Hartsfield Airport, Editor & Publisher reports. The city also planned to charge the newspapers $20 a month for the boxes, more than the administrative cost of maintaining them, E&P says. The city may ask the full 12-member 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to rule in the case.
Editor & Publisher |
01-09-2002 9:43 am |
Industry News
Memphis Flyer's Dennis Freeland Dead at 45new
Dennis Freeland, a longtime editor and sports writer for the Memphis Flyer, is dead at 45 after a struggle with a malignant brain tumor. Freeland was managing editor of The Flyer from 1992 to 1994,
editor from 1994 until 2000, and the paper’s sports columnist throughout
his tenure. He died.Sunday at his home. "One of the last times he smiled was when he heard that Steve Spurrier had resigned," his sister tells The Flyer.
Memphis Flyer |
01-07-2002 2:35 pm |
Industry News
Past and Future Dark for Haitian Tonton Refugeenew
Kathy Glasgow of Miami New Times interviews Marilese, who came to the United States in 1992 fleeing political violence in her Haitian homeland. Now she has three children, an uncertain place in the United States and a heart filled with dark memories. "Marilise's story of
degradation, poverty, and fear begins to reveal a person who in some ways has
been an innocent victim all her life, except there's really no such thing," Glasgow writes. "It's
hardly inspirational. Perhaps it's allegorical, a story not too far removed from
that of every other Haitian woman who ever came here on a boat, except in
degrees of darkness. She tells it in a stream of consciousness, pouring out
vignettes then suddenly skipping to a different incident years removed. It
sounds too awful to have happened, but so do too many stories from Haiti."
Tags: Miami New Times
Ted Rall Describes His Afghan Nightmare
Ted Rall, who went to Afghanistan with his wife as a correspondent for The Village Voice and two radio stations, tells the Los Angeles Times about his "12th century experience." Rall, a cartoonist by trade, has an acerbic and cynical take on the war. For example, Rall descibes how Taliban surrender means a quick shave and a change of headgear. "The next day they are Northern Alliance troops. ... This is a fashion war," Rall tells the LA Times. "They could change hats again tomorrow -- and they probably will."
Los Angeles Times |
01-07-2002 9:57 am |
Industry News
Bay Guardian Challenges SF Weekly's Business Practicesnew
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
01-06-2002 8:48 pm |
Industry News
