The Liberal provincial government, in a press release posted on its home page, announced that it would review the newspaper tax exemption policy that had Vancouver's 36- year-old alt-weekly facing the prospect of a fine of over $1 million: "Clearly the Georgia Straight is a newspaper, yet it is not treated as a newspaper under the current policy. Accordingly (we will) review this policy and how it is applied, in order to solve this problem."
The annual income and poverty report recently issued by the U.S. Census Bureau showed an increase of 1.7 million people living below the poverty line. But the Census Bureau calculated the 2001 after-tax- income figures using incorrect tax rates, according to the Boston Phoenix; had the correct data been used, the picture would have been far worse. David S. Bernstein examines the mistake and reviews the Bush administration's effort to hide important economic data from the public.
The media conglomerate's corporate Web site is advertising jobs for "soon-to-be launched weekly" newspapers in Indianapolis, where its INtake is set to appear on Dec. 11; Cincinnati; Louisville, Ky.; and Palm Springs, Calif., according to E&P's Lucia Moses. Cincinnati CityBeat Editor and Co- Publisher John Fox tells E&P that he's not overly concerned with the new competition. "We've been around for nine years," he said. "We have numbers, we have relationships. I think we're going to be fine."
Online job search site Monster Worldwide Inc. asked for permission from the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell 6 million shares of common stock, the company said. Monster, which owns Monster.com, will use the sale proceeds for working capital and perhaps acquiring or investing in other businesses. There will be 118 million shares outstanding by the time the transaction is concluded.
Newspapers’ most recent attempts to weave an auction model into their Web operations take the form of local “events†that last from three to 10 days. Traditional and non-traditional advertisers provide products and, less frequently, services to the paper in exchange for print advertising space. Promoted in print and online, the newspaper- sponsored online auctions act as an additional selling channel for advertisers and exploit regional consumer demand. The auctions create a buzz for in-demand products and generate added awareness for area merchants and service providers.
She took a shotgun and blew out the brains of a beautiful, blonde homecoming queen in Chicago, but authorities chose not to charge her. She was accused of stalking and battering a beautiful, blonde TV newscaster in Florida, but a jury acquitted her. Georgia Roberts says her life's just like My Big Fat Greek Wedding, but others say Single White Female is more like it, according to the first in a two-part investigation by Bob Norman.
Seeking to "hook young people on the newspaper habit, with the hope that they might eventually graduate to more substantive, established fare," the Tribune Company's amNew York debuted in Manhattan on Friday. Free dailies like amNew York face a number of daunting challenges, says Jacques Steinberg, like distribution issues, lack of profitability and cannibalization of existing dailies in the same market. "But perhaps the biggest uncertainty surrounding such publications is how much attention busy young people will pay to newspapers whose short articles ... are in many instances supplied by news agencies like The Associated Press," notes Steinberg.
After years of weaving the worlds of art and fashion into its advertising, Absolut vodka is entering the music business with a CD of club music, according to the company. Called "Absolut Threetracks" the first CD has been distributed to 3,500 disc jockeys at clubs around the world and can be downloaded from Absolut's Web site.
Management consultants Cap Gemini Ernst & Young found only 17% of the 700 U.S. consumers it surveyed in the past six months said TV ads influenced their car-buying decisions. Ads on Internet search engines influenced 26% of consumers. Nearly half, or 48%, of the consumers said a direct-mail offer from a car dealer would influence their vehicle purchases, but the most influential measure was word-of-mouth, cited by 71% of consumers. Cap Gemini expects to release its complete findings this week.
A new, $1-million ad campaign from the Newspaper National Network LP -- the most extensive and expensive in its history -- was set to break today [Oct. 13] in trade magazines and online, and later in newspapers.
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