What is it about men — and women — in uniform? The Hartford Advocate was inspired to ask about bus driver groupies after a bus driver complained one day about having slept little the night before: A groupie had appeared loudly on his front lawn at 3 a.m., he explained. He described the event as though it was as typical and wearisome as the electric bill. It didn't sound like a boast or a lie, so The Advocate's Edward Ericson, Jr., found out more -- much more.
David Schneiderman, CEO of Village Voice Media, wants to move LA Weekly/OC Weekly into "a larger media world in terms of advertising," he tells AAN News. He says asking Michael Sigman to resign as president and publisher last week was "not fun" and says the decision to cut the 20-year veteran loose was not driven by VVM investors. "My goal is to bring in as much revenue as possible so that I can keep putting money back into editorial and grow the editorial quality," he says.
AAN, along with more than two dozen other media companies and organizations, has joined an Amicus Curiae brief, filed Jan. 23 in federal court in Virginia. The case involves news coverage of the housing of Connecticut inmates in Virginia prisons and whether a newspaper’s Web site opens it to jurisdiction in distant states.
