news10.net
The McClatchy-owned Bee has had medical marijuana ads on its website for some time, but it just added them to the print edition. “It’s something that we’re doing because we have been asked to by the advertisers,” says Bee community affairs director Pam Dinsmore. A reader tells me that today’s Bee medical marijuana special section has a piece “about adding culinary flair – chocolate, nuts, iherb and other herbs – to cannabutter purchased from pot dispensaries.” Sacramento News & Review started running medical marijuana ads last year, and has been able to hire more reporters with the additional revenue. (A full-page ad costs $2,000.) “I don’t see how the News & Review running medical-marijuana ads is any different from TV stations running massive amounts of commercials for pharmaceutical companies selling drugs,” says the alt-weekly’s CEO.
> Medical marijuana a revenue blessing for newspapers (Oct. 2010)
> San Francisco Chronicle to launch marijuana special section (June 2010)
Uncategorized
Sacramento Bee begins running medical marijuana ads
More News
Press Foward’s first open call for funding focuses on historic inequalities
It includes $100,000 each in general operating support for more than 100 newsrooms
April 22, 2024
Opinion | Remembering Terry Anderson, AP reporter once held captive for 6 years
He had a long career, but he was most known for his horrific ordeal of being taken by Islamic militants while working in war-torn Lebanon in 1985
April 22, 2024
Trump says business records case about hush money is a ‘Biden trial.’ It’s a Manhattan trial
The Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into Trump’s business records began before Joe Biden was president
April 22, 2024
Topography of a news ecosystem: A first-of-its-kind study diagnoses the local news crisis in a single state
Media scholars at the University of Maryland documented the spread of local news dead spots — and unexpected vibrant areas — in that state.
April 19, 2024
$12 million Global Fact Check Fund opens applications for second year of grants
A partnership between Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network and Google and YouTube continues to support fact-checking initiatives worldwide
April 19, 2024
Comments are closed.
Comments