Citing the alt-weekly's five-month investigative series into repeated abuses and systemic failures on the part of Wexford Health Services, Governor Bill Richardson has ordered a termination of the company's $27 million contract to provide medical care within New Mexico's prison system. Richardson's spokesperson confirms the decision to axe Wexford was made based on the Reporter series. "They're done," spokesperson Gilbert Gallegos told the weekly. "We expect to have a new provider in a reasonable amount of time."
Bill Lueders' "Cry Rape," which details the sexual assault of a woman and her hellish ordeal navigating the Madison justice system, has been covered by more than 100 media outlets around the world, reports the Capital Times. The author and his subject also appeared last night on FOX News' "Hannity and Colmes" show. The woman's attorney tells the paper that he has also received a preliminary contact from a representative of Oprah Winfrey's production company. A second printing of "Cry Rape" is due in stores this week.
The 40,000-circulation SoCal weekly has hired the services of high-powered law firm Leopold, Petrich & Smith -- currently representing 20th Century Fox in the suits against the movie Borat -- in its legal battle against the Santa Barbara News-Press and its litigious owner, Wendy McCaw. McCaw's Ampersand Publishing accuses the alt-weekly of copyright infringement and a host of other offenses for posting a PDF of a story -- originally written for the News-Press -- about a public protest against the daily. Reporter Scott Hadly, who wrote the article, quit the News-Press after his story was killed by the assistant publisher. "We have never bowed to intimidation, and hope that by fighting [Ampersand], we are leading by example and showing that this little freebie weekly [isn't] going to roll over," writes Indy Pop Culture Editor Matt Kettmann.
After successful print tests in Orlando and Los Angeles, the Tribune Co. is planning more orders of paper from China's Shandong Huatai Paper Company. Tribune representatives are impressed with the "runnability and printability" of the Chinese paper, reports Editor and Publisher. Along with being "priced extremely competitively," says Tribune Co. Senior Manager of Newsprint, John Cannizzo, the paper from China "has really, really excellent formation," with "very consistent fiber distribution throughout the sheet." Gannett is also testing newsprint made in China.
Citing cost concerns, three-quarters of U.S. wireless phone users failed to sign up for mobile data services other than text-messaging during the third quarter of this year, according to a survey of teens and adults by technology research firm IDC. Text messaging, meanwhile, continues to see rapid growth. Nearly half of those surveyed sent or received at least one SMS message in the third quarter, while SMS subscription plans have crossed the 50% mark.
Call it Tennessee Idol -- contestants this week will compete at Nashville's newest White Castle hamburger restaurant for a 12-hour recording session at the city's East Iris Studios. The event, billed "Slyder Superstar," is being cross-promoted on cable TV and radio, and in print ads and podcasts in Nashville's alt-weekly, according to a company release.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation has purchased full-page ads in this week's editions of The Village Voice and LA Weekly, alleging that Pfizer's marketing of Viagra encourages unsafe sex. The ads, which highlight the dangers of mixing the erectile-dysfunction treatment with methamphetamine, will also eventually be placed in publications in South Florida and San Francisco, according to the Associated Press.
Many large dailies, including those with falling circulations, will raise ad rates in the new year, reports Media Life. The hikes reflect pressure from Wall Street to maintain profit margins even as the industry suffers increased competition from electronic media. Getting advertisers to pay the new rates, however, may prove more difficult than printing new rate cards: "If a newspaper says it's going to increase advertising 3 percent irrespective of circulation, that doesn't necessarily mean that everyone is going to pay a 3 percent increase," Len Kubas, a Toronto-based consultant, tells the Web site.
Voice art critic Jerry Saltz (pictured), dance critic Deborah Jowitt, and film critic J. Hoberman each took top honors in a poll of artists and industry insiders commissioned by Time Out New York and conducted by Samir Husni, chairman of the department of journalism at the University of Mississippi. Critics were rated in eight different categories; the Voice was the only New York publication to win three first-place awards.
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