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...walk off with the market. "If we pulled our launch, you wouldn't see London Lite on Monday," he says. Auckland asserts that London Lite has been three years in the making. Regardless, both papers now have the tricky task of luring advertisers. Deprived of an income from newsstand sales, both free sheets are at the mercy of an advertising market that's "not in great shape," says Alex DeGroote, media analyst at London stockbrokers Panmure Gordon. British papers' share of overall British ad spending is expected to drop to 34% this year, down from 40% 10 years...
...Irving Klaw had run a newsstand for several years before he noticed that girls looking at movie magazines were cutting out pages with their favorite stars. So he corralled thousands of the display photos that theater owners threw out after the movie had played and sold them in his store, now called Movie Star News...
...this week’s FM). “The class allows us to express ourselves in any way possible, with no limits on our creativity.” For their first assignment, students enrolled in “Loitering” are required to linger around a newsstand, and then purchase a magazine that they would not normally pick up. Students will then bring these intriguing publications to class where discussions and reactions will ensue. Prina plans to maintain the mysterious aura surrounding the class by not providing a syllabus so the students do not know what to expect...
...Analyst distributes to every dorm room and panders to the uninformed with articles like “Employee Stock Options 101.” But if they want to be taken seriously as an academically rigorous publication, they need to stop trying to act like a general interest newsstand glossy. In Harvard’s overgrown media landscape, publications need to carve out their corners, and stay in their lanes...
...local license has been a godsend to retired farmer Clair Leo Maguire, 74, of Danbury, Iowa, a town of 450. He loves driving to the restaurant, the newsstand and the post office, and he never goes outside his limits. "It's a pleasure to drive," he says, "but the farthest I go is five blocks to town--all paved streets...