About a month ago, a man named Joeff Davis rang my cell phone. He identified himself as a photographer with Creative Loafing. “I need to photograph you for our upcoming ‘Best Of’ issue,” said Davis, whose first name is pronounced “johf.” “Does this mean I’m going to be the ‘best of’ something?” I asked. “Can’t [...]
Archive for the ‘Creative Loafing’ Category
29 Sep
Too few “massage services” ads…?
The AJC reports that Creative Loafing has filed for bankruptcy. “CEO Ben Eason said the filing would help the chain improve its online business while it reorganizes its operations,” writes the AJC. Fresh Loaf has been linking to other blogs that predict trouble for other prominent free weeklies, including layoffs at the Village Voice. But [...]
18 Sep
Satanic majesties
No doubt, we weren’t the only ones who howled with laughter when we spotted the current Creative Loafing in a box in Decatur. The cover photo of Bob Barr is delightfully evil. It is among several taken during a Libertarian Party fundraiser. Photographer Joeff Davis — if that’s his real name — used the tried-and-true [...]
11 Aug
AJC Lite
It costs more now to print and deliver a newspaper. That’s the reason the AJC cited Sunday for announcing that it would eliminate its Sunday @Issue opinions section, starting next week. @Issue was the liveliest section of the newspaper. Yesterday’s @Issue consisted of two broadsheets folded into eight pages. We’re trying to picture how its [...]
28 Jul
AJC 2.0
As traumatic as it’s been for the AJC in the last 18 months— including a sizable, ongoing round of staff reductions and layoffs— it seems there’s more to come. The AJC has been targeting February 2009 as the launch of what it calls AJC 2.0. The date coincides with the use of a new printing [...]
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