The Simpsons creator and longtime alt-weekly cartoonist tells CNN that, after 22 years, "Life in Hell" is being dropped by its flagship paper. The cut is part of Village Voice Media's suspension of all syndicated cartoons. Groening hints he's thinking of discontinuing the cartoon. "I'm still in a bunch of other papers, so I may continue to do my strip," he says, "but it doesn't look good."
Some media executives are growing concerned that web curators like the Huffington Post are taking away potential readers and profiting from content paid for by others. The New York Times reports that lawsuits in this area are on the rise, and interested parties say the government hasn't clearly delineated how copyright law applies. "New modes of creation, reuse, mixing and mash-ups made possible by digital technologies and the internet have made it even more clear that Congress's attempt to define fair use is woefully inadequate," the director of the Citizen Media Law Project tells the Times.
David Westphal checks in with eight local news websites across the country to see how they're doing financially. "So far they're hanging tough. Business hasn't fallen much, if at all, and most are instituting expansion plans," he writes. "If they're a barometer, community news sites have some resiliency to them."
The research group IDC has reversed its online advertising growth estimates from 10 percent growth in 2009 to a 5 percent drop in revenues in the first quarter that could get worse in the second. It would be the first contraction in online ad spending since the dot-com bubble burst in 2001. TechCrunch's Sarah Lacy says that the online ad industry needs to come up with innovative products to thrive. "There's too much outsourcing to the ad networks and too much of an assumption by the portals and other large properties that gaudy eyeballs will be enough," she writes. "That's old media thinking. It's enough to get ads when times are good, but not necessarily to keep them when times get bad."
Holly Mullen left on Wednesday after nearly two years at the alt-weekly, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Neither Mullen nor publisher Jim Rizzi would disclose the reason for Mullen's departure, which she described as a "mutual decision to part ways." Rizzi says Mullen has been replaced by Jerre Wroble, who joined the paper as a copy editor in 2002 and has been managing editor since April 2005.
Kenneth Burns, the arts and entertainment editor of the Madison, Wisc., alt-weekly, finished second on yesterday's episode of the syndicated quiz show and will not return today. On Monday, Burns took home $21,600 by coming in first place.
According to the Kelsey Group, revenues from mobile advertising will jump to $3.1 billion in five years. Currently, mobile advertising sits at $160 million in 2008. The group also says expected revenues from local search will increase more than 130 percent per year to $1.3 billion by 2013.
On Monday's episode of Jeopardy!, Isthmus arts and entertainment editor Kenneth Burns finished in first place with $21,600. He will take on two new challengers on the syndicated game show tonight. Burns tells 77 Square that his episodes were taped in California in January -- in fact, he happened to have a taping on the day Barack Obama was inaugurated. "I remember at about noon, (a Jeopardy! staffer) looked at her watch and said, 'Oh, we have a new president,'" Burns says. "It was a tense group of people, as you can imagine, but that was a tension breaker."
Last week, City Pages announced that it was bringing longtime local radio host TD Mischke on to host a webcast streaming live on its website for two hours every weekday. Along with the daily web broadcast, Mischke -- who brought his own advertisers into the deal -- will screen original videos on citypages.com and publish a weekly column in the paper. MinnPost's David Brauer says the deal "show[s] how old and new media can be woven together."
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