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Medical Marijuana in Arizona a "Charade," and What's Wrong with That, Exactly?

See also: -Arizona Organix Steps Out as the State's First Authorized Medical-Marijuana Dispensary This is near-heresy to say in my current position as a scribe for an alternative publication, but when Arizona Republic columnist Laurie Roberts writes that our state's medical marijuana program is a " ... More >>

Jeff Kraus Explains What's Cool About Food Trucks, Waxes Nostalgic for S.O.S. and Names Four Over-Hyped Food Terms He Wishes Would Go Away

See also: Tastemaker #40: Jeff Kraus See also: A Sneak Peek at Jeff Kraus's New Crepe Bar Jeff Kraus Crepe Bar 7520 S. Rural Road, Tempe 480-247-8012 www.facebook.com/TruckinGoodFood This is part one of my interview with Jeff Kraus, chef-owner of the recently opened Crepe Bar and former owner of T ... More >>

AZCentral.Com Shake-Down: Online Content to Cost $10 a Month, Print Subscription Prices to Increase

See also: Art Critic Richard Nilsen Leaves His Post at the Arizona Republic See also: Arizona Republic Lays Off 30 to 40, Announces Closure of Chandler Offset Plant Azcentral.com will cost $10 a month to access after September 10, the Arizona Republic reports. Home deliveries of the print editio ... More >>

Arizona Republic Lays Off 30 to 40, Announces Closure of Chandler Offset Plant; "Yes" Fashion Magazine Ending

"Yes?" No.​ About 40 people have been laid off at the Arizona Republic, which also announced plans to close a Chandler press that prints USA Today and various inserts. The local pink slips come as part of a 2 percent layoff at Gannett's publishing division nationwide. About 700 people are lo ... More >>

Gannett Rolls Out Pay Walls at Three Newspapers; Parent Company of Arizona Republic Testing Future Plans

Will symbols like these become the norm for newspapers of the future?​ Gannett Company, the parent company of the Arizona Republic, launched pay walls for three of its newspapers yesterday, charging Internet users to look at the papers' content. The new, pay-to-read format at the Tallahassee D ... More >>

Gannett to Institute Another Round of Furloughs Despite Rise in Company's Stock Prices

​Gannett, the behemoth parent company of the Arizona Republic, is issuing another round of furloughs despite financial improvements, according to an internal memo sent out last week. This will be the third round of furloughs for the company since the first quarter of 2009 and is hopeful to pr ... More >>

Sal Reza, Bob Dylan, Phoenix Public Market, and Paris Hilton

​In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Help Sal Reza's Macehualli Center Tomorrow by Eating at Applebee's Up on the Sun: The Lo ... More >>

Tucson Citizen Reporter Claims She Was Stiffed By Gannett When Paper Went Bust

www.seattleweekly.com​A former journalist at the now-Web-only Tucson Citizen is claiming that Gannett, the paper's parent company, didn't live up to its end of the bargain after the 138-year-old paper went bust back in May.Alice Flick, the longtime TC scribe, who wrote under the byline A.J. ... More >>

Gannett Bastards Screw Over Employees, Siphon State Resources

​New Times and the Arizona Republic used to be fiercely competitive -- and we used any slip-ups on their part as an excuse to point out how much better we were.Today, in this brutal time for newspapers, we're just mourning their losses. Which is why we found a story in yesterday's New York Times s ... More >>

July 28 In Blogs: David Irving, The Wiggles, Comic-Con, and Aerosmith

​In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: David Irving, the Cowardly Holocaust Denier, and His Gal Friday Jaenelle Antas Up on the Sun ... More >>

Gannett Scores Profit -- Thanks to Cost-Cutting Moves Like Layoffs

The Arizona Republic posted an online article from the Associated Press today about how its parent company, Gannett, recorded a profit in a recent earnings statement.We couldn't help but notice -- especially after someone pointed it out to us -- that the article doesn't mention the "L" word.As the W ... More >>

Gannett Could be Ready to Cut 4,500 More Jobs, Blog Reports

  Gannett Blog reports that the media company might be preparing for more across-the-board layoffs. The blog, which has done a good job predicting previous layoffs, says it receives a comment recently from one its best sources that says:  1. Principal executive and Chief Financia ... More >>

Tucson Citizen Lawsuit Filed by State Gets Dismissed; AG's Office Says Suit Unlikely to Force Change

Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard filed a motion Tuesday afternoon to have his lawsuit against the owners of the Tucson Citizen dismissed because it wouldn't accomplish anything. Goddard had already failed last week to convince a judge to force the owners, Gannett and Lee Enterprises, to keep ... More >>

Tucson Citizen Owners Could be Forced to Publish Paper; Judge to Rule Tueday

After a 90-minute hearing in federal court, Judge Raner Collins said he will decide Tuesday whether to order the corporate owners of the Tucson Citizen to keep publishing the 138-year-old newspaper.State Attorney General Terry Goddard, who accuses Gannett and Lee Enterprises of trying to monopolize ... More >>

Tucson Citizen to Print Its Final Edition On Saturday; Potential Buyer Says Gannett Screwed Over Paper

The Tucson Citizen is reporting today that it will publish its last print edition on Saturday. The 139-year-old newspaper is being closed by its parent company, Gannett, which has suffered severe drops in stock prices. The paper had been scheduled to close in March, but Gannett left it open on a da ... More >>

Tucson Citizen Tension in End Times for the 139-Year-Old Newspaper

Some employees at the Tucson Citizen believe a corporate handler planted by parent company Gannett has been charged with keeping unsavory news stories from being published in the paper's final days, says Gannett Blog this morning.In the post, a tipster relates the tale of high tension as nosy jo ... More >>

Gannett Furloughs: Read All About It in Leaked Memo

Every journalist loves a good leak, and Gannett's got enough of them to keep a whole Web site afloat. We told you about Gannett's latest round of furloughs yesterday (okay, that was after the Gannett-owned newspaper published its own an Associated Press article -- but azcentral buried it). Tod ... More >>

Arizona Republic and Channel 12 Employees Must Take Another Week of Unpaid Leave

  One employee of the Arizona Republic noted wryly in a Facebook status update that he was at home on a mandated, unpaid leave when news came of a second round of Gannett furloughs. The new mandate requires most of Gannett's 41,000 employees -- including those at the state's ... More >>

Tucson Citizen Publishing on "Day-to-Day" Basis While Potential Sale of Paper is Negotiated

  Today, Tucson Citizen employees have a job and the paper's customers have something to read. As for tomorrow -- wait and see. That's going to be the pattern for the next few days as the Tucson Citizen, the state's oldest newspaper, publishes on a "day-to-day" basis while waitin ... More >>

Arizona Cardinals Photos For Sale -- (Not Cheap) -- in Arizona Republic Bid to Make Quick Buck

The Arizona Republic's parent company, Gannett, is starting to look like the Black Knight in Monty Python's Holy Grail, losing an arm here, a leg there --- except no one's claiming these are just flesh wounds. On the heels of a companywide 10 percent cut in personnel last month, Gannett told it's ... More >>

Arizona Republic and Channel 12 News Employees Forced to Take an Unpaid Week Off

Gannett employees, including those at the Arizona Republic and Channel 12 News (KPNX), are being forced to take a mandatory week of unpaid leave between now and March in an effort to cut costs and avoid layoffs. It's the latest piece of bad news in an industry that's had more than its fair share in ... More >>

Sources: Scottsdale Republic Going From Five to Four Days a Week; Editor Roles Shifting

The latest shake-up at the Arizona Republic that resulted in numerous layoffs this week also includes the elimination of one day of publication for the six-year-old Scottsdale Republic insert, sources tell New Times. The insert, originally designed to better compete with the Eas ... More >>

Arizona Republic Journalists on Edge over Pending Layoffs

 To be kind, we're not awfully huge fans of the Arizona Republic around here. But we do admit to a camaraderie with some of the hard-working folks over there who're currently wondering if they're going to have a job come Christmas.  Word from inside the newsroom is that the latest round of la ... More >>

Merry Christmas to You: More Layoffs at the Arizona Republic in December

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"Involuntary Reductions" at the Arizona Republic

Moses Anshell as Refugee Central

Stuff White People Like has Marcos Najera culturally confused

Resurrecting gimmicky coverage aimed at Latinos is good for the bottom line, not for the residents of Brown Town

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, June 21, 2007

It's a Wrap

Can the Web save Arizona's largest daily newspaper?

Arizona Republic says, "Reapply, PHX peons..."

Shocket Shocker: It's alive!

The Republic's newsroom runs red with blood...and ink.

Slaughter in the Newsroom

Up in Smoke

The plumed one decries discrimination against smokers and Jenna Jameson, and reports on plundering in Phoenix's, um, Chinatown

BEST SPANISH-LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER

La Voz

Kid Drownings

After decades of failure, the well-intentioned still don't get it

Good Cops, Bad Cops?

Letters from the week of September 5, 2002

Strange Bedfellows

In a marriage made in boardroom heaven, the Valley's newspapers and television stations have begun merging their newsrooms

Ad Nauseam

Everything has its price. Even the Republic's front page.

Flashes

From the week of 11-09-2000

Unfinished Business

Susan Clark-Johnson has yet to leave the board of directors of Harrah's Entertainment

Let Freedom Ring

East Valley newspapers can only improve under new ownership known for innovation

Meet the New Boss, Same As the Old Boss

The nation's largest newspaper chain buys the state's biggest paper -- but will anyone even notice the difference?

Flashes 07-06-2000

The Republic of Gannet, and Disfelicity

Flashes

For the week of 06-15-2000

Barrister Behind Bars

Former "King of Probate" faces long prison term for ripping off elderly

AS HELPLESS AS CHILDREN

A PROMINENT MESA LAWYER AND HIS FLUNKY WERE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT THE ELDERLY IN THEIR CARE. INSTEAD, THEY PLUNDERED THE OLD PEOPLE'S ASSETS.