Due to a 2004 change in the association's bylaws, five papers that have taken on new majority owners in the past two years will have their AAN membership reviewed in 2008. The Membership Committee will evaluate The Other Paper, Boston's Weekly Dig, East Bay Express, Metro Pulse, and Cityview, and will issue a report to members a week before the 2007 annual convention. To retain their membership, each paper must be affirmed by at least one-third of the members voting at the annual meeting in Philadelphia, which is tentatively scheduled for June 7.
The Hartford Courant announced plans Tuesday to sell the Valley Advocate, an alt-weekly covering western Massachusetts, to Newspapers of New England Inc., which owns newspapers in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Editor & Publisher reports that the sale lets the Courant focus its attention on its properties in Connecticut. The Advocate will continue to share content and do cross-market sales with the remaining alt-weeklies the Courant purchased in 1999 from New Mass. Media: the Hartford Advocate, the New Haven Advocate and Fairfield County Weekly. The sale is expected to close later this month; terms of the deal were not disclosed.
"Does firing real journalists actually cut costs?," asks Choire Sicha in the wake of last week's editorial layoffs at the two newest Creative Loafing papers. "A look at any newspaper's most popular stories suggests the most obvious thing of all: That reporting actually makes money for newspapers. ... So why does the Chicago Reader think ditching the asset of news will bring them profitability?" He thinks that there's "no reason" alt-weeklies can't own local web traffic, and that will in turn bring a more stable financial picture, but is dismayed to see that not happening. "So far, the owners' response to financial crisis seems to be: Devote fewer staff to both web and print and squawk a lot, which is just stupid," Sicha writes.
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