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The Tribune Company has decided to distribute a free tabloid newspaper that is targetted to New York's "young, urban commuters." It will be call amNewYork; Gothamist is unsure if it's pronounced "a-m-New-York" (jocking off Aaron, if so) or "am-New-York." The press release from Tribune has a quote from amNewYork publisher, Russel Pergament: "With our commitment to urban commuters, we plan to provide news and information relevant to young readers’ everyday lives and create a targeted advertising alternative for marketers."
So all of you people who work out your homes or walk to work - screw you! You're not worth being marketed to! Really, all Gothamist can say is, "Brother." This is the company behind Red Eye, Chicago's crappy youth-oriented tabloid. Okay, Gothamist doesn't know if it's that crappy, but we like our relevant news and information coming from blogs.
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Red Eye (and the even less professional 'Red Streak' by the Sun Times) IS that crappy, Gothamist. Not sure what they're planning for NY, but as a Chicago resident who has to see this trash on a daily basis... well I HOPE the result has crashed/burned by the time we move east next year. Sheesh. Also see http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=36699".
"Journalism" at its worst.
There was a free tabloid in NYC put out by the Daily News in 2001. They stopped it, using 9/11 as an excuse.
Even the Washington Post is putting out a youth demo free paper these days so I'm somewhat surprised that it took so long to launch a similar one in NYC.
Maybe it took so long because it's a bad idea. Also, I think the market is a little easier to get into in DC. NY is rough.
Agreed, DC is a much easier newspaper town because the WP is pretty much the only game in town, despite the Moonie protest from the Wash. Times.
bwahahaha...red eye is so perfectly crappy it will swallow all ny papers whole! look out ny times, look out sun! our midwest mediocrity is being brought!
Crappy papers can make it NYC. For example the NY Post is still around.
right then, as a former chicago residence i will just confirm what others have posted and reiterate the fact that it is, in fact, really really crappy.
amNewYork has people out this morning (10/7) handing out a free preview, and Christ is it sloppy. Poorly written, and typos everywhere. The paper launches Friday, October 10, and I hope they have a copy desk in place by then.
But what really amuses me is the amNewYork manifesto: "Well this newspaper, amNewYork, will be read by people who will be running the country by tonight's pm."
Whee! amNewYork will enable the proletariat to seize the means of production and finally stick to those WSJ readers.
Got my hands on the first issue this morning (10/10). Most of the news is culled from the AP wires. There's some original reporting, not spectacular but at least amNewYork eschews the NY Post's penchant for !!! and other such frivolous punctuation.
I do like Joe Rappaport's column about the subways, but the entertainment section could use work. I'll give it a week to impress me.
Where the he** is amNY? I have seen no sign of it in downtown NY. No hawkers, no littered copies, and no copies in what appears to be the sole amNY box downtown.
NY needs a decent, quality paper. The NYTimes is so left-wing biased (and expensive) that it's an embarassment. The Daily News and Post are junk, in general, eventhough they are more mainstream than NYT. The Sun is a good idea, but useless. Somebody come into town and give us a worthwhile newspaper! Plese.
I get a copy of amNewYork shoved in my face every morning as I get OFF the subway (on the Upper West Side) but there's no sign of it where I really need it, at the station in Brooklyn that I get ONto in the morning. The paper itself seems pretty anaemic of you ask me -- anyone who listens to NPR or any other news-oriented radio program in the morning has heard all the news before the paper is in hand. It's nice to get a pithy horoscope every day, though...
I get a copy of amNewYork shoved in my face every morning as I get OFF the subway (on the Upper West Side) but there's no sign of it where I really need it, at the station in Brooklyn that I get ONto in the morning. The paper itself seems pretty anaemic of you ask me -- anyone who listens to NPR or any other news-oriented radio program in the morning has heard all the news before the paper is in hand. It's nice to get a pithy horoscope every day, though...
am newyork is great. i really enjoy the cropped down news stories, although they could use a young columnist who writes witty pieces about daily life in NYC
Gee, you can't please everyone (according to the comments that I've read on this topic). The paper is geared towards young commuters who lack the time and (more than likely) interest in making themselves aware of their environment. It may not be "the best" paper out there, but it could spark enough interest for the reader to actually fully research a brief article that they've read in amNewYork.
So amnewyork is not your most sophisticated paper out there, yet still look at the competition. The Times was once respected, but alas no more. so there goes our faith in actually paying money for crappy news. At least this thing is free. The transit news is pretty fair, but if you make amnewyork your only source for news than you are in huge oblivious trouble.
AM New York is targeted at young urban adults, it's fairly new as it try's to get right to the heart of the top stories of the morning. I say, give it a chance to see if they mis-guide our young adults or truly inform them.
(eye's R watch'in) Hopefully they will become a voice or platform for our young Urban people. Expand into other boro's and continue to encourage urban employment, time will tell keep up the good work.
JAWalkes
I have two teenage sons who only read the NY Post, only because they have limited time in their schedules to read any worthwhile news at all, I'm hoping that they will now have an alternative newspaper to help bolster their academic need for improving their speaking and reading skills as well as enlightening their knowledge of whats going on in the world around them. Thank you AM for providing this service to them and keeping it within their limited budget, because it's free!
Denise Doman
Bashing (tabloid) certainly shows how you stand with an others attempt to assist in giving our younger generation insight on New York culture.
New York culture is not about bashing or puttin down an others attempt to better.
Maybe you should lead by example and support not through bashing of others. Let me guess, your not fron around here, are you?
In reading all the other comments posted, I hope I can assist in their "reaching out". I go to alot of places, and know the best deals on good quality clothes, food, music. I am in finance, but I still embrace my artsy ways. I will attempt to assist in their entertainments sections and getting to my brothers down in brooklyn. They would show a great deal of support being on Flatbush and Fulton, 1 block away from the college, distributing the paper. I'll think of other good traffic locations where it would be appreciated. I work in Harborside financial. We really don't need it and there are no students or youth there.
I've been reading AMNY since it first got into my grubby little hands and got hooked from the get-go! Story contents are condenced and to the point,with very little personal commentary. I get the news in the short time I have to read a paper, which usually consists of a commute from Queens, and donot have to hassle through all those ads from Macy's, that I already get in the mail one-hundred fold! I especially do not have to annoy the commuter next to me when I am trying to turn pages!!!
This is NY's best newspaper ever, and, so far, it's free!!!