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FILTER RESULTS ►The Day of the Media Microfeud [Media Crack]
In your tendentious Wednesday media column: The Awl vs. the NYO, the Village Voice vs. the Austin Chronicle, Sam Sifton vs. Dan Abrams, dumb people vs. David Remnick, and the NYT vs. the WSJ, magazine-style. More »
If Gays In the Media Can't Even Tell You Whether Gay Media Is Dying, What Should You Believe?
Last week in the Village Voice, gay scribe Michael K. Lavers claimed gay print media was dying, which is true in one sense (gay media companies have been folding in sizable numbers), but the claim wasn't exactly backed up by hard data from, say, the National Newspaper Association.
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Gay print media needs to look to non-gay online hybrid media
Every time I read another piece lamenting the death of print media- the latest being Michael's piece today in the Village Voice lamenting how people like me are killing gay print media- I wonder why more traditional media outlets haven't taken on a hybrid Talking Points Memo approach. Show More Summary
TR Contest: Tweets from the Death Star
?I have a pretty great boss. He's Bill Jensen, director of new media for the Village Voice Media empire. Occasionally he asks me to whore things do things, but mostly he leaves me alone which as a...
How The Most Expensive Penis Joke Ever Killed Gothamist – Rainbow Deal
The multi-million dollar deal for Rainbow media to buy Gothamist and its family of local city blogs has fallen apart and, yesterday, the Village Voice wrote a post theorizing that most of the blame fell on an article and a tweet that Gothamist Jake Dobkin wrote criticizing Gothamist advertiser The New York Times. Show More Summary
Media giant Viacom issues "48 pages of internal corporate terrorism"
In what the Village Voice calls "48 pages of internal corporate terrorism," Viacom, the parent company of Paramount Pictures and TV networks such as MTV, Comedy Central and BET, sent out an employee standards document detailing how employees should present...
Sexy Banker Says She Wouldn't Get Fat To Keep Job
Everybody loves a "controversial" story featuring lots of clickable photos of an attractive woman, so obviously the rest of the local media has jumped on the Village Voice cover story about the Citigroup business banker who says she was fired because her male supervisors found her distracting. Show More Summary
Voice Editor Ortega to Kamer: ‘Stop Apologizing for Writing Such a Great Dick Joke’
Tony Ortega, the editor of the Village Voice, is sticking up for a dirty (but on point) joke his media blogger Foster Kamer made — even though it cost the struggling paper one million dollars in advertising. In a lengthy blog post...Show More Summary
Friday link dump: Million-dollar bash
Blogger Foster Kamer caused Village Voice Media $1 million in revenue when he made one bad dick joke about James Dolan, publisher of New York Newsday and the owner of Cablevision, MSG Entertainment (including Madison Square Garden,...Show More Summary
Dick Joke Costs the Village Voice $1 Million in Advertising [Media]
In March the Village Voice's Foster Kamer made a penis joke about Jim Dolan, the evil billionaire who controls Cablevision, Madison Square Garden, and Rainbow Media. Dolan was not amused. Now he's retaliated by getting $1 million of advertising pulled. More »
Following Cablevision's Lead, MSG And Live Nation Pull All Of Their Advertising From The Village Voice
Wow.
Live Nation has pulled all of its advertising from The Village Voice, the paper's Runnin' Scared blogger Foster Kamer explains in an item titled, "Media Mogul James Dolan Elects to Use 'Nuclear Option'"
Here's the back story:
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Village Voice Media puts up the money in Arizona
The parent company of the LA Weekly and OC Weekly, and more pertinently of Phoenix New Times, has battled through the years with the out-of-control local sheriff Joe Arpaio. Now, in a note to readers, Village Voice Media executive editor Michael Lacey and CEO Jim Larkin say they are underwriting the cost of the ACLU's legal challenge to the new Arizona immgration law.
Michael Sigman: No Goldman at the End of the Rainbow?
In olden times (circa 2000), Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street bankers borrowed heavily to buy Village Voice Media, the alternative newspaper chain where I...
Geek Media Round-Up: April 15, 2010
Art
Check out the Kick-Ass cover art created by Michael Cho for the cover of the Village Voice Spring Arts Guide 2010.
DarkSabata offers this Assassin’s Creed fan art at Deviant Art.
Fresh from the latest episodes of Clone Wars, the Zillo Beast attacks Coruscant in this new poster on sale at Star Wars.com.
Steve Thomas is selling retro [...]Show More Summary
Why Gawker Media Is Kicking Everyone's Ass
Courtesy of Foster Kamer at the Village Voice, we get to read Nick Denton's monthly letter to his Gawker Media editorial corps.
In it, Nick explains how to win in the brutally competive online news and content business. (Gawker Media...Show More Summary
Why Gawker Media Is Kicking Everyone's Ass
Courtesy of Foster Kamer at the Village Voice, we get to read Nick Denton's monthly letter to his Gawker Media editorial corps.
In it, Nick explains how to win in the brutally competive online news and content business. (Gawker Media...Show More Summary
Paper Fight
We’ve previously mentioned the fascinating battle taking place in San Francisco between the city’s two weekly newspapers: The San Francisco Bay Guardian (who won a $21 million dollar judgment against Village Voice Media for monopolistic practices) and the VVM-owned SF Weekly. Well The Stranger has the full scoop on the story, one which includes (but is [...]
'A newspaper war straight out of the last century in its ruthlessness and its destructive potential'
The Stranger Bay Guardian owner Bruce Brugmann (left) and Village Voice Media co-owner Michael Lacey "have hated each other for decades, but with increasing venom since 1995, when Lacey showed up in San Francisco in cowboy...Show More Summary
Village Voice Media Declared in Default on $80 Million Loan
The latest development in the increasingly high-stakes war between the independent San Francisco Bay Guardian and the Village Voice Media-owned SF Weekly? According to court filings just shared with The Stranger, today VVM told a San...Show More Summary
"SF Weekly is not going out of business," says owner
Westword A memo to Village Voice Media employees says: "The near-manic intensity with which the [San Francisco Bay] Guardian is attempting to scrape together cash reflects the true nature of this case: That it is the Guardian,...Show More Summary
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