In a cover story for The Boston Phoenix, contributors Harvey A. Silvergate and Carl Takei examine the history of the Bush administration's efforts to classify a wider range of government documents. According to the authors, even before the introduction of the Patriot Act, the administration was working to reduce public access permitted by the Freedom of Information Act while, at the same time, declassifying selected documents from the Clinton administration in an effort to embarrass the former president. Now, they claim, under the umbrella of national security, the rise of governmental secrecy is adversely affecting not only the 4th Estate, but basic First Amendment rights and Civil Liberties.
Pop-up and pop-under ads should not display more than once during a user's visit to an individual Web site, according to new Web advertising guidelines issued by the Interactive Advertising Bureau. The announcement was one of a set of new guidelines released just before the IAB opened its national Leadership Forum meeting in New York City today. Other suggested guidelines deal with labeling and sizing.
The FAS-FAX report from the Audit Bureau of Circulations, released this afternoon, brought good news for the majority of the dozen biggest newspapers, but many other top 50 papers lost readers on weekdays for the six-month period ending March 31, compared with the same period last year.
NT Media of Phoenix, Ariz., has licensed iPIX AdPlus Prism software, a publishing tool offered by Publishing Business Systems. AdPlus allows advertisers to upload and edit their own photos and graphics, as well as proof their own layout for publication. NT says that the new online ad system will improve work flow and cut costs at its 11 papers by reducing support and maintenance needs in their advertising departments.
Julie Jargon has won second place in the John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism for her series, "The War Within," published by Westword. The series, which also won an Investigative Reporters and Editors Certificate this year, investigated patterns of sexual assault and institutional cover-up at the United States Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs. The Martin Award, now in its 16th year, is based out of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism where namesake John Bartlow Martin concluded his career in investigative journalism.
A free daily newspaper launched last fall, A.M. Journal Express, lost financial support from investors, the Associated Press reports. The Journal Express, published by American Consolidated Media, competed with Quick, a free daily still being published by The Dallas Morning News.
Doug Vanderlaan, of Jacksonville, Fla., didn't like what he was hearing on the Bubba the Love Sponge radio show. For two years he waged a campaign to get Bubba and all his lewd talk off the air, Jane Akre reports in Orlando Weekly. The result: Bubba was fired, his station (owned by Clear Channel) was hit with the largest fine in Federal Communications Commission history, and Clear Channel got on its knees before Congress.
Sometimes word of mouth is a more effective way of promoting a paper than a print ad. That's why some alternative newsweeklies send street teams out to bars, movie theaters and cultural events to hand out freebies and stir up interest in their papers. When they dispatch their street teams to public places, alt-weeklies like NUVO and Boston's Weekly Dig are relying on a centuries-old marketing technique the music industry revived.
In an interview with A.J. Daulerio of The Black Table, New York Press editor-in-chief Jeff Koyen doesn't disappoint those who expect from him "a certain level of infamy," as Daulerio puts it. Koyen claims the alt-weekly model "is dead or dying," and the aging, liberal editors of those "stale, homogenous products" have lost touch with the young. He admits the Press, too, was aging badly, but he's trying to convert it back into "a venue for emerging talent." The result is more and younger readers, he says.
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