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Tuesday, music editor Chuck Eddy was fired from The Village Voice, making him the 17th employee to leave the paper - either by termination or resignation - since Village Voice Media - then named New Times - took control following a $400 million merger in November, writes The New York Observer. Also, the Voice’s Robert Christgau recently discontinued his podcast, certain that he was next to be fired from the paper, writes the Gawker.
Michael Lacey, executive editor for Village Voice Media, heads up the organizational overhaul. He said that the changes would create space for more magazine-style reported content. The Village Voice’s current commentary practices have no place in the New Times regime, according to Lacey.
“I want our writers to start reporting,” said Lacey. “One of the things that happened with the internet and blogging is that it made simple punditry in newsprint irrelevant. It’s no longer timely.”
Lacey’s new strategy for the Voice may not be in tune with the new generation of readers who get their classifieds from Craigslist and their political commentary from The Daily Show, according to The Observer.
Lacey has also made the New York-based newspaper more locally focused. “What the new owners haven’t grasped yet,” staff writer Tom Robbins said, “is that New Yorkers care more about what’s going on in the Bush administration than they do what’s going on in the Bloomberg administration.”
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Glamour magazine is running its photo of Britney Spears not only on the cover of the U.S. edition, but on the covers in seven other countries, as well.
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Titan Worldwide has signed a five-year deal with the Delaware River Port Authority to manage out-of-home advertising for the Port Authority Transit corp.
The contract covers advertising on PATCO’s rail service and stations between Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia, writes Mediaweek.…
Publicis has acquired full-service agency W&K Communications, continuing its Asia expansion that began several years ago.
W&K will be pulled under the umbrella of Publicis’s Burnett agency network, and will be renamed Leo Burnett Beijing Advertising, writes Adweek.
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Top American non-luxury auto brands received higher ratings and less negative comments from online consumers than competing Japanese brands, according to an analysis of consumer opinions collected from automotive review websites by Biz360, MarketingCharts reports.
The research, which aggregated a year’s…
