Steve May, who sold the Times of Acadiana to Thomson in 1996, tells Gambit Weekly it was subsequent acquirer Gannett that brought him out of retirement. May says he started his new paper, The Independent, because Gannett is "on the verge of owning Louisiana. They are two markets away from total ownership concentration." Ted Power, who serves as publisher of both the Times of Acadiana and Gannett's local daily, The Advertiser, admits the weekly has declined in quality since Gannett's acquisition. "The Times has been neglected," he says, promising to revamp the paper, moving it further away from its alternative-weekly roots
As the Bush administration calls for billions more in funding to resocialize war-battered Afghanistan and Iraq, Pasadena Weekly asked politicians, pundits, writers, artists, actors and other well-known figures where they think America stands at the two-year mark of the war on terrorism. Most deplored the war on terror's biggest casualty -- Americans' own freedoms. But leftie icon Christopher Hitchens says we should all get used to living under the cloud of war and stiffen our resolve to destroy the enemy that wants to kill us.
Toyota Motor Sales USA is giving its second- generation Prius a bigger and broader media push -- an estimated $30 million in the 2004 model year -- in the hopes it can educate consumers who still have misconceptions about the car's hybrid gas-battery technology.
ROI was the major focus of the Kagan World Media conference on sponsored programming and product placement, which was held Wednesday in New York.
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