The magazine industry, mindful of the song lyric that the days grow short when you reach September, is striving to build upon some improved advertising results this month with hopes of producing some momentum for next year.
Lather Weekly, a 9-month-old arts and entertainment publication founded by a former Independent Weekly editor, is dead. Mark Hornburg started the biweekly publication in December, hoping to reach "the Raleigh hipster scene," according to Joanna Kakissis of The News & Observer. Hornburg says the August 7-20 issue will be the paper's last, though he says he plans to revive the publication online. Lather's demise was announced only four days after the News & Observer ran a 2200-word feature story (see below) about the fledgling paper.
Battered for three years by a severe ad drought, Madison Avenue may finally have something to celebrate. Advertising spending in the U.S. jumped 6.8% in the first half of 2003, buoyed by increased ad outlays from packaged goods, automotive and entertainment companies, according to a new industry study.
Hollywood will win the war against illegal downloading but the battlefield will be littered with casualties, including the DVD and CD formats as physical means of distributing video and audio, according to a Forrester Research study.
“I hadn’t done investigative reporting before and now I’m definitely interested in it,” Porochista Khakpour, a graduate of the Johns Hopkins master’s program in writing, tells Medill News. Khakpour and nine other students recently concluded the residential summer program at Medill’s Academy for Alternative Journalism, where they completed stories ranging from "what happens to the wrongfully convicted to tracking a female urban explorer to investigating a skydiving company with a high mortality rate."
John Yewell (pictured) was fired last month for unspecified reasons and replaced for the interim by Managing Editor Ben Fulton. "I'll be carefully vague ... there were differences," Publisher John Saltas tells the Deseret News. According to the daily, "Some of the paper's freelance writers heaved a sigh of relief on hearing the news that Yewell was let go." Before taking the position in Salt Lake City, Yewell had been fired as editor of Independent Weekly.
In an apparent effort to stop the public from reading an article about his unsavory past, Tim Yousik, currently running in the Republican primary for Riverhead town supervisor, marched into Town Hall and removed all copies of the Long Island Press' Aug. 14 issue, witnesses say. Yousik was apparently attempting to make disappear the cover story on his dirty past: a 1987 conviction for third-degree sodomy and endangering the welfare of a minor in upstate New York.
Attorney General John Ashcroft declared he would only talk to TV reporters at a recent Philadelphia news conference. Ashcroft's minions escorted a stunned Howard Altman, editor in chief of Philadelphia City Paper, off the premises when he protested the ban on print reporters at the Patriot Act "spin-tour" event at National Constitution Hall. "I was not just steamed, I was flabbergasted. Surely, these people understand irony?" Altman writes.
Local politics in Spokane can get ugly, especially when a reporter scrutinizes a development deal involving a scion of the city's reigning Cowles clan. "An e-mail exchange between real estate developer and Cowles Publishing chair Betsy Cowles and her PR lackey Jennifer West shows the disturbing tactics they employ to coerce local media, including AAN- member The Local Planet Weekly," Editor/ Publisher Matt Spaur writes.
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