City Paper Staff Writer Anna Ditkoff thought the cops on her front porch were there because of trouble on her block. It turns out they were there for her, which led to an up- close and all-too-personal look at life inside Baltimore's Central Booking intake facility, where overcrowding is standard, medical attention is hard to come by, and no one on the other side of the glass will look you in the eye.
Voters in Democratic districts of California relied mostly on the televised debate and network and cable news to make their decisions in the gubernatorial recall. Those in GOP districts more often sought out information from newspapers and cyberspace.
Although Velocity is aimed at young adults, it is "not being positioned as a direct competitor" to the 13-year-old AAN-member Louisville Eccentric Observer, claims Ed Manassah, publisher of the local Gannett daily responsible for the new paper. Nevertheless, Manassah sends a shot across LEO's bow when he claims the young-adult "marketplace" is "not being serviced." The new publication's name "is a play off the word `city,' but then there's also the connection to a faster pace and speed," the paper's new editor explains helpfully.
For the first three weeks of the season, the level of men 18-34 using television is down 8% in prime time. Viewing levels in the demo are down in other dayparts as well and across the broadcast networks. That's with one exception: baseball- heavy Fox, which is up 3% in the demo in prime time but doesn't come close to accounting for the sharp overall decline.
Major magazines are generally introduced with a great deal of fanfare: news releases, lavish parties and bold statements about the paradigm shift the new publication represents. The much awaited MTV magazine will land a bit more quietly this week. There will be on-air and on-Web promotion, but for the most part, MTV is letting the first issue speak for itself.
The New York Times Co. (Quote, Chart)and The Tribune Co. (Quote), Chart)) both reported significantly higher online ad revenue than over the same period last year. Revenue increases for interactive were far larger than the gains in other operating units for both companies.
In an interview with mediabistro.com, the editor/sex columnist describes his contrarian philosophy and his paper's brand of journalism ("The Stranger does advocacy journalism, and for the politicians we like we stump like hell for them"); opines on what separates good alt-weeklies from bad ("They have a really great sense of play") and names the ones he likes; and defines the daily-newspaper problem in a nutshell: "(I)f you don't have anything in your paper that's going to upset a five-year-old then 35-year-olds are going to look elsewhere for the kind of writing that appeals to them and speaks to them."
As the campaign to recall California Gov. Gray Davis drew to a close, Jill Stewart accused the LA Times of delaying publication of their Grope- gate expose of Arnold Schwarzenegger until the eleventh hour; leaking word of the impending story to the Davis camp; and refusing to report on allegations that Davis mistreated women in his office. Last week, Times' Editor John Carroll wrote an editorial refuting the charges. This week, Ventura County Reporter publishes Stewart's response.
South Carolina ranks low in many aspects -- education, road safety, SAT scores -- but it ranks number one for women who are killed by men in single victim, single offender cases. In 95 percent of those cases, the victims knew their killers. Of the victims who knew their attackers, 67 percent were wives, common-law wives, ex- wives, or girlfriends. To remember these women struggling to escape abuse, Charleston City Paper offers the personal story of one who made it out.
