Jane Dalea-Kahn, former LA advertising director for Vogue magazine, has been named publisher of New Times Los Angeles, New Times announced today. She replaces Jim Rizzi, who "will be leaving New Times after contributing many years of work toward the company's growth in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver and Phoenix," the company says in a news release. Josh Cooperman, formerly a sales executive for Clear Channel radio powerhouses KFI and KLAC, joins the paper as retail sales director.
Annalee Newitz, culture editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian, joins nine other reporters from around the world in the 2003-03 class of Knight Science Journalism Fellows. Newitz is also author of the syndicated column, "Techsploitation," which she describes as "rants about high tech media and everyday life." She founded the online publication Bad Subjects in 1992. In 1997 she co-edited "White Trash: Race and Class in America," a small-press best seller.
Chicago attorney Maury Kravitz may be on the verge of finding Genghis Khan's tomb -- along with the greatest cache of treasure the world has ever seen, reports Chicago Newcity's Josh Schonwald. "Indiana" Kravitz already has TV and movie deals about the hunt for a treasure that would dwarf the discovery of King Tut's tomb. "King Tut? King Tut isn't a postage stamp compared to this. You've got to understand... This is the greatest conqueror in the world. He never lost a battle," Kravitz tells Schonwald.
Yesse! Communications, in bankruptcy since spring of 2001, is struggling to keep its last two papers alive, but bounced paychecks and unpaid medical claims have sent another flood of employees out the door. Now managers are pointing fingers. Kerry Farley, vice president of operations, blames Michael Stern, Impact’s former business manager. Others blame both Farley and Yesse! President Craig Hitchcock for indifferent management and neglect. Farley and Hitchcock insist the Dayton, Ohio, weekly is still viable.
Four friends believed in dragons, vampires, and threats against their lives. Then they became the alleged killers in one of the most publicized murders in Virginia history. Now, two of them are talking about the slaying of Robert Schwartz, one of the girls' father. Jason Cherkis of Washington City Paper tells their story.
"We will be a hard-hitting, good, clean paper that will carry non-offensive ads," says Rich Kuchinsky, ad director for Utah Weekly, a free paper that debuted last week along the Wasatch Front. "(A)dvertisers are wasting their money" in the rival Salt Lake City Weekly, Kuchinsky claims, because "Moms" and "families" are offended by some of the ads in that AAN-member publication. Kuchinsky tells the Deseret News, "We have no problem with 'men seeking women' and 'women seeking men,' and that's where it will stop."
