Von Buchau, a veteran arts critic who wrote for the AAN member Pacific Sun for almost four decades, was 67-years-old when she passed away, report the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle. The cause is believed to be complications from diabetes. Von Buchau won three AltWeekly Awards for arts criticism, including a first-place prize in 1999. "She was a brilliant woman, talented, irascible, and witty," former Pacific Sun managing editor Linda Xiques tells the Examiner.
Americans Aran and Margot Lee Shetterly will publish the third edition of their new English-language monthly, Inside Mexico, in January. Targeting both the large English-speaking expat population and tourists, the 20,000 circulation paper "has the look of an American alternative weekly but on higher quality newsprint to give it a magazine feel," reports Editor & Publisher. The paper is published and primarily circulated in Mexico City, but additional copies are distributed in Cancun, Merida, and Acapulco. "We look at this project as a way to build a bridge between English-speakers in Mexico and this country itself," says Aran Shetterly.
Jeff Koyen accuses the Village Voice's new editor of failing to reinvent the alt-weekly format in his first three months on the job. "I'm ashamed to admit that I was optimistic when Blum was hired to run the Village Voice," Koyen writes in the British daily Guardian. "Unfortunately, Blum is playing by the book." Koyen, who approves of the "cleaned house" that followed the Voice's acquisition by the New Times chain, formerly competed with the Manhattan alt-weekly when he worked for a number years at the New York Press, where he was editor from 2003 to 2005.
Having been allowed to read an advance draft of a critical story about him that the Washington City Paper is apparently preparing to publish, investigative reporter Murray Waas (pictured) beats D.C.'s alt-weekly to the punch with a rambling indictment on Huffington Post. Waas accuses the City Paper of baiting him to get juicy quotes for the story; making "degrading comments" about his experience as a cancer survivor; and using the newspaper as a tool to wage personal battles. "I believe that I have a clear obligation to other cancer survivors not to remain silent about such acts of prejudice and intolerance," Waas explains in defending his decision to go public.
The publication of a letter by Virginia Congressman Virgil H. Goode, Jr. in the Charlottesville alt-weekly has led to widespread coverage and condemnation, including commentary by the Council on American-Islamic Relations and The New York Times. In the constituent letter, Goode expressed negative views toward Muslim immigrants and the Koran, warning that "if American citizens don’t wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims [like recently elected Minnesota Representative Keith Ellison] elected to office." Goode's press secretary later told the paper that the Congressman has no intention of apologizing and stands by the letter.
Village Voice Media's headquarter's paper has been threatened with a felony indictment unless it removes the home address of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio from its Web site and agrees to never publish the address of a law enforcement officer online again, the paper's Stephen Lemons reports. The threat comes more than two years after the paper first published Arpaio's address in an article intended "to show the absurdity of [the sheriff's] home address' being readily available to any idiot with access to a computer when [he] used the very same law to justify hiding information on commercial real estate he owns." The alt-weekly has long been a critic of Arpaio, who it accuses of corruption and having a "vindictive streak." The paper's cover this week depicts an envelope containing a Christmas card addressed to the Sheriff at his home.
The struggling car giant will roll out a boundary-pushing campaign for its new model this week, reports Ad Age. The online component was developed in conjunction with Microsoft Corp.'s MSN.com and targets 30-somethings with tropes similar to those found in social networking forums. The campaign "really represents where advertising on the web is going -- into much more participatory media that lets consumers be part of the experience," says Gayle Troberman, general manager of MSN's Branded Entertainment unit. Another imminent Ford web initiative, www.fordurban.com, features downloadable music, creative videos and consumer chat rooms.
Silicon Valley start-up Attributor Corp. has begun testing a system capable of scanning the entire Web for copyrighted audio, video, images and text, reports the Wall Street Journal. The idea is to make it easier for owners of copyrighted content to monitor cases of infringement and request that violators remove content or pony up for rights. "We believe that we can provide an infrastructure that will align the interests of content owners, content hosts and search engines around legitimate syndication and monetization," says Jim Brock, Attributor's chief executive.
More than two-thirds of Internet users who were surveyed view online video content, and a majority of them remember online video ads, finds a new study by Burst Media. One in four of the users also said they prefer video to "inert online ads," according to a representative of the company. Burst Media is an Internet advertising network.
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