News racks in downtown Philadelphia have been corralled by a non-profit charged with developing the center city. Philadelphia City Paper Publisher Paul Curci was supposed to be part of the committee planning the installation, but he says he got no chance to comment and was told only the day before the corrals were installed. Nevertheless, Curci says he has no complaints about them.
When Daniel Brook read that the Philadelphia school district was recruiting teachers from India, he noticed something no other reporter in Philly felt was worth pursuing—they wouldn't be members of the teachers' union. “It seemed like a situation ripe for exploitation (in hindsight, a very good hunch),” Brook tells AAN News. Brook interviewed the teachers after they had been in Philadelphia a while and got an earful: problems with debt, health insurance, wages, and working conditions. The dailies reported that there were Indian teachers in Philadelphia, but their plight was a Philadelphia City Paper exclusive.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the advertising market continues to slacken, with revenue in October and November falling even faster than it did in September, according to estimates from publishers and analysts. Merrill Lynch says newspaper advertising suffered an 11.5% decline in October, with help-wanted ads down as much as 50% at some papers.
Washington City Paper is getting great resumes for Howard Witt's old editor's job, and for sales positions, because of media layoffs, says Jane Levine, CEO of City Paper's parent, Chicago Reader Inc. Levine tells the Washington Business Journal: "It's a great time to be hiring. There aren't many silver linings to the clouds that are out there, but this is one of them."
Julie Lobbia, a writer for The Village Voice, died of ovarian cancer Thanksgiving Day. She also worked for Riverfront Times, rising to managing editor there before going to the Voice. The diminuitive columnist, who routinely biked 100 miles a week, crusaded to save the city's rent laws, which she maintained preserve New York's rich diversity. "Injustice set her on fire," says Voice Editor in Chief Don Forst, calling her "a giant unyielding in her pursuit of the truth."
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