Ben Eason, CEO of Creative Loafing Inc., confirmed last week that his company's board has agreed to buy out Cox's minority stake in the alt-weekly chain, Steve Fennessy reports in Creative Loafing Atlanta. In addition to the Atlanta paper, the alt-weekly chain publishes newspapers in Charlotte, Tampa and Sarasota. Cox bought a 25 percent stake in Creative Loafing in 2000, but friction resulted when the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a Cox-owned daily, launched its own free entertainment weekly last year. Eason says that if all goes well, the deal could be completed by mid-July.
As advertising springs back, here's something newspapers should keep in the back of their minds: Sixty-seven percent of marketers surveyed indicated that newspapers and magazines could do a better job selling themselves against other media, especially television, according to the Association of National Advertisers, which released its findings today.
Citing economic reasons, the general manager of Indiana Printing and Publishing Co. Inc. told Pittsburgh Business Times that the last issue of the arts and entertainment paper is on the streets this week. The two-year-old Pulp was unable to compete successfully for advertising with the larger and more established Pittsburgh City Paper, an AAN member owned by Steel City Media.
Fathers Day is not an easy time for children who've lost their dads, but it is especially difficult for dads who have lost their children, as hundreds of fathers have during the conflict in Iraq. Paul Rockwell reports on some of those bereaved men in San Luis Obispo New Times this week. He tells of Bill Mitchell, who was carrying a protest sign reading "Bring my son home now" a week before his son, Sgt. Michael Mitchell, was killed attempting a rescue in Iraq. Find Rockwell's stories and more at AltWeeklies.com.
The newspaper industry is starting to feel the effects of a rebound as overall spending on equipment and technology is expected to go up 74.1%, according to the Newspaper Association of America's annual Capital Equipment Expenditures Survey. The total amount projected for 2004 is $623.8 million, up from $358.3 million of actual spending in 2003. A total of 179 newspapers responded to the survey.
These days, advertisers brand interactive games to promote their wares, the U.S. Army uses them for recruitment, and police departments employ them to run virtual drills. Now, some groups are educating with Web games to promote social and policy issues. Serious Games themes range from HIV/AIDS and poverty to public policy and New York City's budget.
The Denver alt-weekly writer won a 2004 medal in the nondaily newspaper category for her story “Nowhere Boy,” which chronicles the struggle of an adoptive family to obtain mental health services for their severely emotionally troubled son. The article "touches on funding of the mental-health system, high-risk adoption and the various mental disorders and conditions linked to fetal alcohol syndrome. It’s a compelling subject done nicely," the judges commented. The awards are sponsored by the Casey Journalism Center on Children and Families.
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