New York agreed yesterday to stop accepting adult ads after the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) threatened protests outside the magazine's offices, the Associated Press reports. "It's just the right the thing to do," New York spokeswoman Serena Torrey says. "The magazine is really prospering now and it's finally time to get out of a business that we were never comfortable being in." The pressure is part of an orchestrated campaign by NOW, which has been asking other local media to stop taking adult ads. It has won agreements to do so from 14 other publications including Time Out New York and the New York Press, but the Village Voice has resisted the group's efforts, the AP reports.
Fred W. McDarrah died in his sleep at home in New York City early Tuesday morning. He was 81. "Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off-Broadway actors, troubadours, politicians, agitators and social protests," the Voice reports. "He was really what I would call a reporter photographer," Voice writer Nat Hentoff tells the New York Sun. "Nobody could intimidate him." McDarrah was an enduring presence at the paper, remaining on the Voice masthead as a consulting editor to this day. "He was constantly sending suggestions," editor Tony Ortega tells the Associated Press.
As the Audit Bureau of Circulations released figures of continued circulation declines at American newspapers, numbers released by Scarborough Reports show that the overall number of people reading newspapers is not declining, but just shifting online. Scarborough's analysis of 88 major papers showed that in the last two years, about half had seen no significant change in combined print and online readership, or showed an increase, the New York Times reports.
The Chicago Tribune reports that Gannett Co., Tribune Co., Hearst Corp., Media News Group and Cox Newspapers are in talks to form a common ad sales force to offer national advertisers "one-stop shopping" for online ad space in seven of the top 10 U.S. media markets. The consortium would both overlap with and compete against Yahoo's national ad network.
The Audit Bureau of Circulations, the Newspaper Association of America, and Scarborough Research have developed Audience-FAX, a new measurement that combines newspaper circulation, readership and online audience, Editor & Publisher reports. In a conference call, industry leaders said that the new metric calls attention to the "full reach" of newspapers at a time when much of the media attention is on the decline of newspaper sales. More than 200 daily papers are participating in the Audience-FAX program.
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