Whispers and Warnings For June 1st

Published on June 1, 2005

This Week:

• Plenty magazine – Didn’t pay promised kill fee until WritersWeekly stepped in.
  
• The Baltimore Sun – News groups support this paper’s appeal against governor
  
• Solanco Sun Ledger, the Sunday News of Lancaster and the New Era of Lancaster – Pennsylvania appeals court reinstates libel suit against these papers.
  
• The Business Journal – This twice-monthly business paper lost a lawsuit filed against the mayor for banning city employees from speaking to reporters.
  
• BBC – Staffers call off planned strike
  
• The Green Bay News-Chronicle – Is going out of business.
  
• The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Names new senior vice president for circulation in wake of lawsuit alleging circulation fraud.
  
• Niche Media / Boston Common, along with three new staffers – Sued by Boston Magazine, which alleges theft of advertiser database by three former employees