Kathy Y. Wilson has turned "Your Negro Tour Guide: Truths in Black and White," a collection of her columns written for the Cincinnati alt-weekly, into a one-woman play, according to the University of Cincinnati's student paper. Wilson, who teaches at the university, tells The News Record she hopes the seats are filled for this evening's one-time performance: "What can be more important for college students right now in America, in this time of political excitement, with a bi-racial man and a white woman running for president of the United States, than to hear some black woman stand up and talk about the shit that made that all possible: race, gender and class."
Warwick Sabin, the alt-weekly's columnist, reporter and blogger, will leave next month to be associate vice president for communications for the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, Arkansas Business reports. Sabin, who joined the Times in 2004 after working for the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation and played an important role in creating the Times' popular Arkansas Blog, will earn $92,000 in his new job, according to the Times.
As online advertising continues to rise in popularity, traditional media are feeling pressure from marketers to change the way they measure their audiences, the New York Times reports. The fast-growing outdoor advertising industry, which has had particular trouble quantifying its effectiveness, is the target of two separative initiatives to develop new measurement systems, according to the Times.
Although the premiums remain on rate cards, major-market dailies are under increasing pressure from media buyers to reduce them, Media Life reports. Declining circulation and more local competition, especially online, have left the dailies vulnerable. "Advertisers are losing value in newspapers every day, but newspapers act like it is still 1970," complains one media buyer.
The focus of Saturday's panel was the Voice's impact on the theater, as drama critic Jerry Talmer, co-founder Edwin Fancher and cartoonist Jules Feiffer "trigger[ed] each other's memories about the early days of America's first alt-weekly," according to the Villager, a Greenwich Village community newspaper. The discussion ranged from the paper's creation of the Obie Awards -- Off-Broadway's highest honor -- to the merits of today's Voice to the role of World War II in the paper's origins. "There was the feeling in all of us that we have survived this ordeal, and they can't do anything to us," said Fancher, who, like co-founders Norman Mailer and Dan Wolf, served in the war. "We can have an open newspaper, and no one will shoot us."
Facing a continually declining readership, Cox Newspapers' Atlanta Journal-Constitution announced last week an overhaul "that's expected to funnel breaking news and youth-oriented content to the Internet, while reserving the print version for investigative news and long-form feature stories for older, more educated readers," Creative Loafing reports.
Prominent Hispanic businessman Robert Chavez has been suspended as president of the Tennessee Hispanic Chamber of Commerce for 90 days as a result of the alt-weekly's cover story detailing his "nefarious business activities and poor chamber leadership," according to NashvillePost.com, a website covering Nashville business and politics. One of the chamber's board members, Miguel Torres, tells the Scene: "You did a good thing for the Hispanic community ... without your article, we would never have known the true Chavez."
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