McGinnis, who is management information systems (MIS) director for PW parent company Review Publishing, says they started sketching out the new site at the end of 2007. The Weekly unveiled the redesign early last month. "From a design perspective, it was about making [the site] look more pleasing," he says. "From a traffic perspective it was about decreasing bounce rate and increasing time on site."
The Weekly says it will be linking to stories from the Seattle Post Globe, and the new site will be doing the same with Weekly stories. In addition, the alt-weekly's sales staff will be selling ads on the new site. More on the Seattle Post Globe from the Seattle Times.
Steve Brill and his partners say they're building an automated system to allow newspapers and magazines to charge for online access, including a subscription that would allow access to multiple publications.
Industry executives and analysts tell the New York Times that many large papers will be reporting the sharpest drop ad revenue in generations as they begin to release first-quarter results this week. Small papers aren't faring quite as badly as large ones, according to the Times, and there is a hope among publishers that losses for the rest of 2009 will not be as steep as the first quarter's.
The alt-weekly is rolling out a program "designed to help exceptional businesses get off the ground in exchange for a share in the growth." Once a business is chosen, it will be officially paired with the Express as a marketing/community partner. The paper will subsidize the local marketing of the business in exchange for seeing a return when it grows.
"Despite reforms enacted by Congress and an order from the last administration to do a better job, federal agencies continue to give those seeking information a frustrating and oftentimes unsatisfying experience," according to a quantitative review by the Sunshine in Government Initiative of federal agency FOIA reports.
The alt-weekly's 17 staff members are taking a five percent pay cut this quarter to cope with the economic downturn, the 'Ville Voice reports.
While last year's verdict in favor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian in its predatory pricing lawsuit against SF Weekly and Village Voice Media is being appealed, the Guardian claims VVM is ducking its debts and hiding its assets in an effort not to pay the $15.6 million it owes in damages. VVM executive editor Michael Lacey says that's not correct. "The case is on appeal. You are not entitled to a penny," he writes in a blog post.
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