Norah Vincent, a lesbian columnist for The Village Voice and other publications, seriously ticks off much of the gay and lesbian community, The New York Times reports. Vincent, whose views are way right of center, says many in the gay community “dislike anyone they see as disagreeing with them.” Voice Editor Don Forst defends his decision to run her column: “She gets people to read her. And if she introduces thoughts that they haven't had, that's terrific."
When the Nashville Scene ran a five-part series skewering the Tennessean, the local daily countered with a string of full-page, color ads belittling the circulation figures of its alt-weekly competitor. Tennessean Publisher Craig Moon tells AJR that the Scene's take-out had nothing to do with his decision to run the ads. The Scene published its own ads in response and Editor/ Publisher Bruce Dobie warns darkly: "Never pick on someone smaller than you."
Atlantic Monthly wannabe Joe Sullivan bought Metro Pulse and helped make founding publisher Rand Pearson's vision of an alternative weekly in Knoxville, Tenn. a reality. Although he's "acutely conscious of (the paper's) shortcomings" and the economy hasn't been much help lately, Sullivan thanks the people who have helped him make Metro Pulse into a paper that is contributing to its community.
Since its mid-June release, “The Stranger Guide to Seattle: The City’s Smartest, Pickiest, Most Obsessive Urban Manual” has been flying off bookstore shelves and out of dot.com mail-order warehouses -- and not just in Seattle.
Ben Eason, president of Creative Loafing Inc., tells the Atlanta Business Chronicle that John Sugg will "set [Atlanta] on fire" when he arrives later this month. Sugg is moving to Atlanta from Tampa, Fla., to help improve Creative Loafing Atlanta's investigative writing and to write his own column, Eason tells the business paper.
Bill Boyd is a self-described man of many hats, the most recent of which he donned in June when he became publisher of Tampa’s Weekly Planet. “We are pushing very hard for revenue growth in all of our papers—but particularly this one,” Boyd says.
