Does the alternative newspaper business have a problem in the back of the book? A lengthy disquisition on the subject in Fort Worth Weekly doesn't draw any conclusions, but reporter Jeff Prince finds an "evolution" in the alt-weekly universe, with many papers "reducing the number of adult ads and restricting their size, display, and content."
Scott Hassenflu moves from the San Francisco Bay Guardian to take over the News & Review's flagship Sacramento paper. He replaces Dave Schmall, who returned to Minneapolis as associate publisher of Tom Bartel and Kris Henning's new monthly, the Rake. Meanwhile, Terry Garrett, former publisher of the Weekly Planet in Tampa, is moving to Marin County after being named sales director at Pacific Sun.
Los Angeles Magazine reporter R.J. Smith says the city's dominant alternative "has improved" since "smart and low-key" Laurie Ochoa took over as editor a year ago. Smith calls the paper Ochoa inherited "lucrative but dull, a cash cow in need of a prod" and says Village Voice Media CEO David Schneiderman -- who argues that "anxiety is healthy" -- is doing the prodding. "The pressure I'm putting on them is not because of investors," Schneiderman says. "It's so we don't become dinosaurs."
Leaders of the Vermont Senate are looking into charges by Seven Days columnist Peter Freyne that the Legislature pulled funding from Vermont Public Television in order to get him off the air, the Rutland Herald reports. Freyne's "Inside Track" column blisters legislators with great regularity. He has also been a regular guest and moderator on VPT's "This Week in Vermont" for some 20 years.
After a mini-firestorm of protest over the judging in Willamette Week's inaugural writing contest, Arts and Culture Editor Caryn B. Brooks explains it all. A mea culpa for not having told the three judges that their picks were merely advisory, not binding. And she says putting "Floozy" third rather than first was because the author hadn't been particularly inventive in plot and characterization launched from the required first line, "At 4 a.m. she found herself under the Broadway Bridge."
A new fortnightly arts and entertainment paper, the Wave, is ready to cross swords with the already warring San Francisco Bay Guardian and SF Weekly, Dan Fost of the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Both Bay Guardian Editor/Publisher Bruce Brugmann and SF Weekly Editor John Mecklin are dubious about the Wave's chances, Fost says. Also, Featurewell syndicate signs Mother Jones.
After a devastating drop in advertising sales in January, the first-quarter of 2002 is beginning to look better at the two major alt-weekly advertising networks. AWN’s Executive Director Mark Hanzlik projects a first-quarter sales decline of 37 percent, up from a more than 70 percent drop in January. Ruxton President and COO Michele Laven has also has seen a slight rebound.
Four Utah news organizations, including Salt Lake City Weekly, have sued Gov. Mike Leavitt alleging he is illegally destroying official e-mails. The governor routinely destroys his e-mails after three days. City Weekly Managing Editor Christopher Smart tells E&P the demand that Leavitt save official records is "common sense and reasonable. ... It's clear we don't seek to know about his personal communications."
Former Metro Pulse Editor Coury Turczyn announces plans to start a new Web-based archive of alt-weekly writing, to be called PopCult. Meanwhile, Sweeping Features announces its closing and with it the demise of the syndicated “doubleCross” puzzle. Meanwhile, Featurewell picks up Mother Jones.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune profiles brothers Tom and Mark Bartel, now operating competing publications, AAN-member City Pages (Twin Cities) and a new monthly, the Rake. Mark Bartel, publisher of City Pages, now seems secure out from the shadow of his older brother, reports Jon Tevlin. Tom Bartel and his wife and partner Kris Henning, are in their element spinning a new publication into existence.
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