Free Newspapers & Pick-Up Publications - United States of America
By Erina Lin, Friday 18 May 2007 at 17:48 :: General :: #144 :: rss
by Tatiana Repkova
With a number of free dailies in North America now past the half-century mark and counting, it may be time for them to organize their own association, some publishers have said. Free daily executives will be testing the waters for an association at a seminar hosted by the St. Petersburg Times, publisher of tbt*/Tampa Bay Times. Organizers are billing the seminar, set for June 18 and 19, as the first ever dedicated to free dailies in the United States or Canada.
"As you probably know better than anyone, the newspaper industry has more associations than any industry I've ever run across, so we're a little hesitant to create another," Henry Scott, managing director of Gansevoort Media, the New York City-based newspaper product development company, who was the launch publisher of Metro New York, said in an interview. "But on the other hand, there are issues that are unique to free dailies."
Although Scott said an association is not a sure thing, it already has a name - the Association of Free Daily Newspapers, and. the seminar is offering attendees a 10 percentpercent discount on membership. Free daily publishers and mainstream papers looking to get into free publications have a lot in common, Scott said. For one thing, their distribution methods of unsolicited door-to-door delivery and street hawking don't always sit well with municipalities.
"In a number of cities, there are a lot of regulations that make that difficult," he said. "San Francisco, for instance, is very difficult. So is New York." http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003587572; May 18, 2007
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