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Bulletin: An ad lead for free dailies
Budweiser has launched a new campaign with the slogan "Good Times ... They're Out There," and they want to reach drinkers in the 18-24 demo. According to Marketing News, Bud's interested in free...
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New evening free daily starts in Toronto
Newsboys and girls, dressed in poorboy caps and white oxford shirts yelling "Extra! Extra!," handed out copies of Toronto's newest daily, t.o.night, to people on the streets of Canada's most populous...
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Metro puts serifs on headlines
Metro in NY, Philly and Boston will unveil a redesign on Monday that a press release says will help the free daily in "targeting the hard-to-reach metropolitan." The big changes we see on the front...
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Good news, bad news
The good news ... Metro says it has become the 5th largest circulated newspaper in the United States, with a combined circulation (Boston, NY and Philly) of 590,553. Metro claims it is the country's...
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Buyer emerges for Arizona free daily
Randy Miller — the owner of a free daily in Telluride, Colo., and a weekly in Tucson, Ariz. — has reached an agreement to buy the free daily East Valley Tribune in Mesa, Ariz., rescuing it from...
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Chicago RedEye increases circulation to 250,000
Amid the financial disaster that is the Tribune Company, there is a shining star — RedEye, the company's free daily in Chicago. It attracts readers in the coveted 18-34 age group that its older...
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Washington Post redesigns Express
The Washington Post has redesigned its free daily, Express, by changing fonts, adding more color and going to a magazine approach on the front page.Instead, Express now has a cover story each day...
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Column about snow causes a storm
A controversy has erupted in Colorado over a free daily's firing of a reporter who criticized Vail Resorts for exaggerating snowfall reports.The reasons behind the firing of Bob Berwyn are in dispute.A...
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A big "oops" in Santa Barbara
When you print an apology that includes the sentence "The Daily Sound would never advocate for the assassination of our president or any other person," you know you're having a bad day.The free daily...
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Portland (Maine) free daily is intensely local
A veteran of the free daily industry has started a paper in Portland, Maine, that is intensely local. Of the issues we've seen of the Portland Daily Sun, every story on the front page has been local,...
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Bankruptcy filing squeezes free daily
Fifteen years after it started, there is cause for concern about the future of California's first and most successful free daily, the Palo Alto Daily News. Its owner, MediaNews Group, has made several...
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Name of Denver free daily is hijacked online
Kristie Hannon, publisher of the free Denver Daily News, was surprised as anyone to discover there was a Web site calling itself the Denver Daily News that was publishing local news stories. What's...
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Metro is the first free daily? Not exactly
We chuckled this morning when we read this news release in which Metro, the Swedish-based chain of free dailies, claimed it was "the first ever free daily newspaper."Metro's claim must have come as...
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Court OK needed for sale of Arizona paper
Randy Miller, former owner of the free Colorado Daily in Boulder, is inching closer to becoming the owner of the Pulizer Prize-winning East Valley Tribune in Mesa, Ariz., also a free daily.Miller has...
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Palo Alto free daily war gets national play
The New York Times has discovered there's a newspaper war in Palo Alto, California. But what the article downplays is that the battle is between two FREE daily newspapers. In one corner is the Palo...
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New owner of Arizona paper cuts newsroom
Veteran free-daily publisher Randy Miller wasted no time to cut costs after receiving a bankruptcy judge's approval to buy the East Valley Tribune in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa. The Phoenix Business...
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Paper drops home delivery program
The Santa Barbara Daily Sound, a free daily, is dropping its home delivery program "because of the current economic situation." The Daily Sound, which started in 2006, began delivering to homes on...
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Aspen paper silent after editor let off of DUI charge
In Aspen, Colorado — a city with two free daily newspapers — a police officer has been fired after she decided not to charge the editor of one of the papers with DUI following a conversation in which...
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Looking for a job? Free dailies are hiring
While the paid-newspaper industry has been endlessly laying off journalists, free dailies are hiring. Take a look at JournalismJobs.com. Six free dailies have job openings:• Metro Boston is looking for...
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Editor out after offering cop favorable coverage
The editor of the Aspen (Colorado) Daily News, who was caught on tape offering favorable coverage to a police officer in exchange for not charging him with drunken driving, has left his job by "mutual...
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Toronto paper tells its story with video
Everybody in the free daily newspaper industry should watch the five-minute promotional video the new Toronto evening paper "t.o.night" has created. Not only is the video an effective sales tool for...
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Metro New York launches zoned edition
Metro New York, which reports a daily circulation of 314,113, has launched a 40,000-circulation edition on Thursdays for the borough of Queens. The new edition allows Metro to sell ads at a lower rate...
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Publisher bungles editor's resignation
Nobody likes getting scooped. But it's even worse when the competition gets the scoop out of your own newsroom.That's apparently what happened at the free circulation San Francisco Examiner when...
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Lauletta returns to Metro as circulation director
While we're on the subject of circulation ... Joseph Lauletta has returned to Metro as U.S. circulation director. He was Metro’s circulation director from 2000-05 in Philadelphia and helped launch...
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10 ways to improve your distribution
A reader of this blog asked me if I had any ideas on how to improve his circulation. I told him to stop smoking and take a brisk walk every morning.As for the delivery of newspapers, I wish I had a...
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