After five years of doing a little bit of everything at Missoula Independent, Andy Smetanka now works as a baker when he's not taking classes toward a Master's degree in creative non-fiction or drafting silhouette animation for the Decemberists. New West profiles Montana's Renaissance man. CORRECTIONS: According to the Independent, Smetanka was the paper's arts editor, not the art director, as New West reports. In addition, Smetanka, who left his full-time position at the Independent almost two years ago, still reviews film for the paper on a regular basis.
Syndicated sex columnist Amy Alkon knows how to get her man -- and manners. Recently, when a cafe patron sitting within earshot chatted too loudly on her cell phone, Alkon recorded and published details of the conversation, including the woman's name, telephone number, and plans for the afternoon. When the Wall Street Journal reported the incident but disguised Alkon's identity, Alkon wrote about that, too, taking credit for her coffeeshop intervention. She is scheduled to appear tonight on ABC's Nightline to discuss the "undermannered" and how to deal with them.
In a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee member Tom Davis (R-VA) also criticized the Department of Justice for the agency's efforts to prosecute San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams. The two were ruled in contempt of court in September after ignoring the subpoenas and refusing to reveal their sources to a grand jury in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative steroid case. Currently, their sentences are suspended pending appeal.
The Indianapolis alt-weekly "relaunched" this week with an expanded news section incorporating a "new secondary focus on practical issues that affect readers' everyday lives," and a new A&E section that consolidates the paper's fine arts and pop culture coverage, according to its new advertising newsletter. The paper also is reducing ad rates and applying a full-volume discount to all ads to coincide with the redesign. Other elements of the revamped NUVO include larger font, new featurettes, and a crisper presentation.
Unique visitors to blogs affiliated with the top 10 U.S. newspaper sites rose to 3.8 million in December 2006, from 1.2 million the previous year, according to data released this week by Nielsen//NetRatings. Those same blogs increased their share of page views at the papers from 4 percent to 13 percent in the same period.
The world's most famous satiric newspaper is gearing up for its Washington launch, reports the Washington Post, which will be partnering with the Onion to sell local ads. "We believe that The Onion will be very well-received among young Washingtonians," says the Post Co.'s Christopher Ma, who sees crossover readership potential between the Onion and the Express, the free Post Co. tabloid he helped launch in 2003. Washington will be the Onion's 10th city with paper distribution.
Jim Mullin, who edited the South Florida alt-weekly for 17 years, signed a letter of intent yesterday to buy the 25,000-circulation monthly The Biscayne Times, reports the Miami Herald (second item). Mullin, who has never owned a paper before, admits he has much to learn "about running the business from the business side. I have to learn to interact with advertisers in a way that I haven't before.'' The Biscayne Times, which has four full-time staffers, in 2005 was named ''best neighborhood newspaper'' by Miami New Times.
iDate, the annual conference of the Internet dating industry, kicked off at the Miami Beach Convention Center on Monday, reports the Miami Herald. One of the meeting's major themes will be how to win over (and win back) users of youth-oriented social networking sites like Facebook and iLike, which are being used by young people to find dates. ''Traditional online dating sites (like Match.com) are feeling the pinch,'' says one conference participant.
Advertisers are turning to the smallest nooks and crannies in public and private spaces to reach an increasingly distracted, on-the-go public, reports the New York Times. From supermarket eggs stamped with the names of CBS television shows to commercial jingles on school buses, marketers are trying to catch the public's eye no matter where they are or what they are doing. "What all marketers are dealing with is an absolute sensory overload," says Gretchen Hofmann, a marketing and sales executive at Universal Orlando Resort. "Ubiquity is the new exclusivity," says another exec.
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