Dodge Morgan, owner of the Casco Bay Weekly, has fired the alt-weekly's editor, deputy editor and both staff writers, the Portland Press Herald reports. Morgan tells the Press Herald the paper has been losing money for more than a year. He says the paper will keep printing despite the layoffs. When asked how, Morgan responds, "That's Lael's problem." Lael Morgan, his ex-wife, is the weekly's publisher.
Catherine Nelson, former publisher of In Pittsburgh, is returning to the market with a new weekly, Pulp, scheduled to launch March 15. Indiana Printing and Publishing Co., the owner, plans a local news, arts and entertainment publication. Steel City Media, owner of Pittsburgh City Paper, bought In Pittsburgh in September and closed it.
Narco News published a "white paper" today on what it calls ethics problems at AlterNet. "Today I explain for our readers why Narco News and I will no longer allow Alternet to republish our work," writes Al Giordano, who charges the alternative-news syndicate and its director, Don Hazen, with a variety of conflicts and misrepresentations.
A ruling on whether Boston can ban news-boxes in the Back Bay may be handed down as early as Monday, the Boston Phoenix, a plaintiff in the case, reports. "As far as the Back Bay is concerned, aesthetics are far more important than the exchange of ideas," Seth Gitell writes in the Phoenix.
At least 350 friends and relatives of Darrell Oldham gathered for a memorial service Monday in Seattle to mark the passing of one of the most beloved members of the alternative newsweekly tribe. Oldham died Feb. 16 of lung cancer. He was co-founder of Seattle Weekly and one of the original organizers of the National Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, now known as AAN.
Laura Miller, new mayor of Dallas, is the third politician with a strong connection to the alternative newspaper business since November to become mayor of a major American city. "There is definitely a trend in urban politics to be more progressive,” says John Rowley of the national political consulting firm Fletcher & Rowley in Nashville, Tenn. This shift makes urban voters “more receptive to the kinds of issues alt-weeklies like to belabor,” Matt Pulle writes for AAN News.
"Finally, a newspaper war," writes Carlos Santos in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. "Journalistic headbutting. A scramble for ads. Recruiting skirmishes. It's a grudge match to boot. Start the presses. Since earlier this month, two hip, breezy, irreverent, free weekly alternative newspapers have been locked in a bitter battle for advertising dollars and readers in a small market likely to sustain only one." In this corner, AAN-member C*Ville Weekly, and in the opposite corner, The Hook, launched by C*Ville's co-founder and former editor, Hawes Spencer.
National advertising in alternative weeklies nosedived the first few weeks of 2002. "We're kind of on a shoestring now, but that's how we started," says AWN Executive Director Mark Hanzlik. At least one AAN paper is pulling out the stops to shore up the local ad base: Chicago Reader has restructured its ad rates so that some advertisers now are paying 15 percent less.
Scott Ware, editor of The Sun of Bremerton, Wash., recalls his days marathoning with Ken Neill, publisher of the Memphis Flyer. Neill recently underwent quintuple heart bypass surgery, and now Ware is running again and watching the biscuits. "Now, let's start thinking about running the Dublin again — even if this time, it's only the 10K," Ware concludes.
Lisa Davis joins writers from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Yorker in winning a prestigious George Polk Award. Her two-part series, "Fallout", which won in the environmental reporting category, exposed mishandled radioactive waste at the San Francisco Naval Shipyard at Hunter's Point.
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