The Gazette won one of nine 2008 Sequoyah Awards in this year's Oklahoma Press Association Better Newspaper Contest. The Sequoyah Award, the highest honor in the contest, is based on total points accumulated in all events. The alt-weekly received first place awards in News Content, Layout & Design, Advertising, Sales Promotion, In-Depth Enterprise, Personal Columns, Feature Writing and Photography. It placed second in Editorial Comment; third in Community Leadership; and fourth in News Writing. "A quality alternative weekly," one judge commented. "Great photography. Clever headlines ... wish our paper could attract all those plastic surgeon ads."
VVM's digital publishing strategy has been in the news quite a bit lately, whether it was the company's partnership with a social-networking site or its use of Digg to help drive traffic to its stories. Chief operating officer Scott Tobias and web and digital operations director Bill Jensen spoke with AAN News this week about where the paper is going with web publishing. They tell us that digital is a growth area for VVM, both in terms of pageviews and revenue, and they talk about new projects like geo-targeted ads and a national food website.
In an all-star panel of journalism experts discussing the industry's future on the New York Times website, several people point to alt-weeklies as having an important role going forward. Columbia University Journalism School dean Nicholas Lemann says that alt-weeklies are one type of organization that will fill "the gap in independent reporting on matters of public importance left by ailing newspapers." Meanwhile, Arizona State University journalism professor Rick Rodriguez thinks that alt-weeklies, along with ethnic media, "mostly will survive, and possibly even thrive by specializing in coverage of fields like entertainment or local politics."
Portland attorney Robert L. Wolf's case boils down to this: Yes, I had sex with a 16-year-old girl, but she wasn't brain damaged. According to The Oregonian, Wolf claims that Willamette Week published stories about his 1988 incident with a minor that "falsely referred to the girl as 'brain damaged.'" Wolf says he demanded a retraction and editor Mark Zusman agreed in 1996 to eliminate references to brain damage in WW's subsequent coverage of the case, but that in March 2004, the paper published a story reporting that the girl had suffered "neurological damage." Wolf is asking for up to $58 million for alleged defamation, false light, breach of contract, fraud and intentional infliction of severe emotional distress. The Oregonian notes that "(t)he statute of limitations may have run out on some of those claims, because the article was published nearly five years ago."
Ruling on a lawsuit brought against WebMD, a New York judge says that the term "visitors" in an online ad contract does not mean "unique visitors." Judge Doris Ling-Cohan added that if companies want guarantees of unique visitors, they must spell out that expectation in the contract.
Although it was tops at the box office last week, we haven't seen He's Just Not That Into You yet, so we'll have to trust a review in Cleveland's Sun News that says Drew Barrymore (pictured) plays Mary, "a free spirit selling ads for an alternative newspaper." (It isn't the first time that Barrymore has "sold" alt-weeklies.) In other alt-weeklies-at-the-movies news, the Dead in the South blog notes that "a young reporter/publisher of an alternative newspaper" is one of the characters in The Wizard of Gore, the remake of the 1970 splatter film.
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