Clare Nisbet sold over $16,000 of new business to run away with the AAN CAN "Back To School" sales contest that ended on Friday. As a result, both Clare and her classified manager, Penelope Huston Baer, will receive an Apple Prize Package consisting an Apple G4 iBook, a U2 Special Edition iPod, and 200 free downloads from iTunes.
The Society of Environmental Journalists awarded the first-place prize for Outstanding Small Market Reporting to freelancer Wendy Lyons Sunshine for "Mud Wrestling," a three-part series about "the environmental damage caused by the fast-growing region's ravenous appetite for construction stone."
Alternative Weekly Network executive director Mark Hanzlik reports that audited returns from a group of 96 Verified Audit Circulation clients, who are also members of AWN or Ruxton, have declined from 6.9 percent in 2001 to a current level of 5.7 percent. Hanzlik bases his findings on a spreadsheet analysis of recent VAC data, which he compares to a previous VAC report encompassing 76 alt-weeklies. "We sometimes use this return figure in conjunction with the circulation audit information and readership reports to reinforce the value of alternative newspapers on the street!" says Hanzlik. The spreadsheet can be downloaded by AAN members from this page in the AAN Resource Library.
The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled unanimously that a Canadian trial court erred when it exercised jurisdiction over the Post Co. in a defamation suit based solely on the availability of an article in the archives of Washingtonpost.com. The article in question was published in 1997, when the Post had only seven subscribers in Ontario, and had subsequently been downloaded from the Post's archives once -- by the plaintiff’s lawyer. Moreover, the plaintiff lived in Africa when the article was published and didn't become a Canadian citizen until four years later. AAN joined a coalition of over 40 media organizations and advocacy groups that intervened in the case following the trial court ruling. According to the Post's counsel, if the ruling had been allowed to stand and had been followed by other courts, it would have meant that "any publisher, broadcaster or online news organization can be subjected to suit anywhere in the world based solely on the availability of its content on the Internet." Read more about Bangoura v. The Washington Post Co., here and here.
In his final column as editor of Miami New Times, Jim Mullin (pictured) touches on the "dramatic, dizzying change" that has taken place in the city since the paper debuted over eighteen years ago. Mullin says a paper like his, "with a small staff, closely reflects the personalities who produce it" and gives a shout out to all those who played a role in helping him chronicle the flux in this city that is "long on illusion and short on memory" and where "change is the only constant."
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