he board of directors of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, which just wrapped up its meeting in Vancouver, unanimously voted to slap the Chicago Sun-Times, Newsday of Melville, N.Y., and Hoy for circulation fraud. The most damning of the sanctions: All three papers are to be excluded from next year's FAS-FAX reports, issued every September and March. The reports will explain the absence of the papers by noting they are under "censure." Also, the papers must undergo audits every six months, as opposed to once year and they will be required to "submit to the ABC board a plan of action for correcting their practices."
Pittsburgh Catholic apparently believes that its hometown alt-weekly should be wrapped in a brown bag and handed out from behind the counter. "We need to ensure that our children are protected from unhealthy and exploitative images of sexuality," says a representative of the local diocese who thinks it's "unconscionable" that Pittsburgh City Paper is openly distributed in public. “I’m not running a day care center,” City Paper editor Andy Newman tells the paper. “I have a newspaper, and I feel like other people are responsible for supervising their own children.”
J.D. Power and Associates reports that online use among used-vehicle buyers has jumped sharply, with 54 percent of late-model used-vehicle buyers using the Web during their shopping process. That's up from 47 percent in 2003, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2004 Used Autoshopper.com Study released on Wednesday. "This is the most explosive growth in the used-vehicle automotive Internet user rate we have seen in three years," said Dennis Galbraith, senior director of research for J.D. Power and Associates. "Not only are shoppers using the Internet in greater numbers, but also far more of them are finding their purchase decisions are impacted by information found online."
Since The Topeka (Kan.) Capital-Journal ran an online auction in 2002, the first of its kind in the United States, these moneymakers have become increasingly popular at newspapers. More than 175 papers have held auctions since, with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and The Dallas Morning News two of the latest to do so, in a highly successful joint initiative, in April. Newsday in Melville, N.Y., followed with its own auction in May.
The Audit Bureau of Circulations' summer board meeting is still in progress in Vancouver but E&P has learned that newspaper publishers and advertisers have drafted a list of action items addressing the circulation scandals that hit the industry last month.
An advertiser sued the Tribune Co. in response to the company's announcement that it inflated circulation numbers at two of its newspapers.
Olympic Carpet's lawsuit alleges that Tribune defrauded advertisers by inflating the figures. Advertising rates are commonly set according to newspaper circulation.
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