Alternative weeklies and radio stations go together like love and marriage, say three companies that own both mediums. The synergy is easiest to exploit in cross-promotion, but it can also help on the news side. AAN News interviews several executives who have tried this combo and like it.
The nation's big dailies are squealing about a proposal to audit free-circulation newspapers. Advertisers and ad agencies like the idea, and they dominate the membership of the prestigious Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC). "Free papers are taking money away from the newspapers you print. Going forward, there is going to be a need for an ABC audit of these publications," Terry Prill, newspaper strategist and special projects, tells the dailies in an Editor & Publisher article.
