The Audit Bureau of Circulations' summer board meeting is still in progress in Vancouver but E&P has learned that newspaper publishers and advertisers have drafted a list of action items addressing the circulation scandals that hit the industry last month.
An advertiser sued the Tribune Co. in response to the company's announcement that it inflated circulation numbers at two of its newspapers.
Olympic Carpet's lawsuit alleges that Tribune defrauded advertisers by inflating the figures. Advertising rates are commonly set according to newspaper circulation.
On July 30, Fran Zankowski is leaving his role as chief executive officer of the company that publishes the Hartford Advocate, the New Haven Advocate and the Fairfield County Weekly, all in Connecticut, and the Valley Advocate in Massachusetts. He has been CEO of New Mass. Media since 1999, when the company was purchased by The Hartford Courant. Zankowski chairs the AAN board's Organization and Bylaws Committee, whose proposed amendments to the AAN bylaws were accepted at the annual membership meeting in June. He is also a member of the Admissions Committee.
Catherine M. Nelson, publisher of Madison's new Core Weekly, tells reporter Judy Newman of the Wisconsin State Journal that she's not going after readers of AAN member Isthmus. But Isthmus publisher Vince O'Hern says it's obvious that the arts-and-entertainment paper backed by Capital Newspapers will try to challenge the 28-year-old weekly. In the face of competition, alt-weeklies have to be sharp and good at what they're doing, he says.
Dirt is the name of the free weekday newspaper Boulder Publishing Co. will debut Aug. 20. The paper, which is geared toward the 18- to 24-year-old market, will be distributed in and around the University of Colorado campus, reports the Daily Camera, which is also owned by Boulder Publishing. The new paper will compete in the same market as AAN member Boulder Weekly.
Capital Newspapers, the publisher of The Capital Times and the Wisconsin State Journal, is investing in a new arts and entertainment weekly to be distributed in the same city as longtime AAN member Isthmus. The youth-oriented Core Weekly will launch in late August, The Capital Times announced. Catherine Nelson, associate publisher of Milwaukee's The Shepherd Express, has been named Core Weekly's publisher.
The word on the street (K Street) is that cash from 527 group coffers will start to flow online just as the broadcast ad ban hits, 60 days prior to the election. Dollars from these tax-exempt issue advocacy and voter mobilization organizations have already begun to trickle toward the 'Net, albeit tentatively. Prominent groups like America Coming Together and The Club for Growth, as well as lesser-knowns such as The Committee for the Advancement of Stem Cell Research, are poised to--or are currently running--Web ad campaigns.
Newspapers might be doing better than other media -- especially radio -- when it comes time for ad revenue growth, but that's not saying much. The torrent of ad revenue expected this year is turning out to be more of a trickle. According to a report released today by Goldman Sachs, investors are increasingly asking, "Where's the Beef?"
Westword staff writer David Holthouse won't face criminal charges for allegedly having a friend follow a man he accused of raping him when he was a child. The man and his wife had contacted police when they noticed they were being followed, but the case fell apart when they refused to help prosecutors, John Ingold reports in the Denver Post. Holthouse defended his decision to have the man followed in an interview with 9News reporter Paula Woodward.
The owner of the Atlanta Journal- Constitution no longer has a 25 percent stake in the chain of alternative weeklies. Tensions between Creative Loafing, Inc., and Cox executives erupted last year when the Journal-Constitution launched its own entertainment weekly, AccessAtlanta in the same market as Creative Loafing Atlanta, Caroline Wilbert reports in the the Journal-Constitution. Cox executive Charles "Buddy" Solomon told the Atlanta daily he agreed to the sale "to put all of this behind us."
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