"Queer and Present Danger" by Ken Picard is among the finalists for Best Newspaper Article in the 14th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. "Diverse media images continue to display the broad spectrum of our lives and stories, and this year's Media Awards nominees testify once again to the culture-changing power of those images," said Joan M. Garry, executive director of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation in announcing the nominations.
The New Island Ear will change from a biweekly music and lifestyle newspaper to a news and entertainment weekly, doubling its free circulation and aiming to reach older, 25- to 49-year-old, Long Islanders, Newsday reports. The Morey Organization, which purchased the Ear earlier this year, plans to launch the Long Island Press Jan. 16 in Nassau, Suffolk and Queens counties.
Andy Sutcliffe and Janet Reynolds have been named group publishers for New Mass Media's four alternative newsweeklies. At the first of 2003, Reynolds becomes group publisher for the Valley and Hartford Advocates, while Sutcliffe takes the same title at the New Haven Advocate and Fairfield County Weekly. "These appointments further assist in the re-organization of New Mass. Media, Inc. into a more streamlined and efficient publishing house," says CEO Fran Zankowski.
Connie Wimer, owner/publisher of Cityview in Des Moines, is the first woman ever inducted into the Iowa Business Hall of Fame. Her company, Business Publicatons Corp., publishes the weekly Des Moines Business Record in addition to Cityview and six other publications.
Barrs, who was editor-in-chief and "The Finger" at New Times LA until it was shuttered, takes over at New Times' flagship paper, according to a NT Media press release. Joining him in Phoenix as associate editor is Tony Ortega, who worked for Barrs in LA after starting his career in Phoenix. Meanwhile, former Associate Editor Patti Epler is named managing editor.
Ida Ford comes to Cleveland Scene as classified advertising director from the Plain Dealer, where she directed inside and outside sales units for both real estate and recruitment advertising. Scene Publisher Ramon Larkin says her experience in these two vital areas, as well as her community and professional contacts, will be "a great contribution."
Two of the advertising industry's most respected forecasters predict ad sales will rebound in 2003. Robert J. Coen and John Perriss agree the improvement will accelerate in 2004 with a presidential election and the Olympic Games, Stuart Elliott reports in The New York Times. The two analysts made their forecasts at the opening session of the 30th annual UBS Warburg Media Week Conference in New York. To see a PDF file of Coen's report, click here.
Gambit Weekly has used AAN's marketing materials to create a whole line of customized sales collaterals, and the payoff has been new sales, Ad Director Sandy Stein tells AAN News. "We loved it the minute we saw it," Stein says, describing the materials as sleek and beautiful. "The best thing for me is we're all slammed all the time, and there's no use to reinvent the wheel," she says.
In a case involving jurisdiction in Internet publication cases, an Australian court has ruled that Dow Jones cannot have a defamation case moved to the United States. Dow Jones had argued that the Barron's story in question was published in the United States and only downloaded in Australia. AAN has joined other news organizations in filing an amicus brief supporting Dow Jones' position, arguing such jurisdictional issues would have a chilling effect on Web publishing.
Dan Savage, editor of The Stranger and author of the syndicated sex column "Savage Love," goes home to Chicago, where Chicago Tribune arts critic Sid Smith catches up with him. "How did this North Side Catholic boy, the son of a Chicago homicide cop, become America's down-and-dirty (and gay) sex columnist -- and, now, defender of the Left?" Smith asks, and then provides some answers.
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