The Alternative Weekly Network announces six new members, including the Times Shamrock Alternative Newsweekly Group's four alt-weeklies, which moved over from the Ruxton Group. Three of the papers -- San Antonio Current, Detroit's Metro Times and Orlando Weekly (all except Baltimore City Paper) -- were former AWN members that shifted to Ruxton when their parent company, Alternative Media, Inc., was purchased by Times Shamrock in 1999. "They’re back now…and we could not be more pleased," AWN says in its September newsletter.
American kids, teenagers, and young adults, aged 8 to 21 years, have annual incomes totaling $211 billion, according to latest projections based on the findings of Harris Interactive YouthPulse, an online study of the Generation Y population. Results show that this group is spending at a rate of approximately $172 billion per year and is saving at a rate of $39 billion per year.
Citing weak job growth and economic risks including war, terrorism, and rising federal and private debt, newspaper economist and consultant Miles E. Groves lowered his forecast for 2003 newspaper ad spending but raised his outlook for 2004.
He's done drugs, participated in orgies, and doesn't hold a grudge against a Nazi war criminal. No wonder he's doing well in the polls. Sacramento News & Review's staff looks into the life of actor-turned-candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger and came up with 30 things voters should know about the man who would be California's governor.
The Newspaper National Network (NNN) has hired a cable industry veteran as it prepares to expand from four to 15 the number of national ad categories it will target in an attempt to grab share from television, particularly cable.
Buddy Jo Rishel was born in a man's body but lived as a woman named Jennifer Pate. She was found dead, apparently having been dragged behind a pickup truck after a night spent drinking with two long-haul truckers. The two men were cleared by a coronor's jury of any criminal acts, but the death haunts Jennifer's mother. “They got away with killing her. That’s how it looks to me,” she tells Missoula Independent's Mike Keefe- Feldman. "And I will never rest until I think justice is done.”
n an ironic twist, Nielsen Media Research this week began informing clients it will test a series of ad campaigns intended to boost cooperation from people it wants to recruit for its TV ratings panel, especially Hispanics, African American and young adult segments that are more difficult to recruit through conventional means.
