The New York Daily News is trying to win back grocers with three advertorial sections. The Daily News lost up to $100,000 in weekly ad revenue because of its "Dirty Shame" investigation of supermarkets. All but one of the city's major supermarket chains stopped running ads after a series said many stores had failed state inspections. The series, based on state inspection reports, began on May 3. Ken Frydman, News spokesman, said the paper hopes the supplements, which were produced for the ad department by a freelance writer, will "bring supermarkets back into the newspaper."

Former Texas Governor Ann Richards will open a New York office as senior advisor for Texas-based powerhouse PR firm Public Strategies Inc.

Coffee giant Starbucks is being targeted by the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) for selling genetically engineered products and failing to seriously address the economic injustices and ecological damages of industrial coffee production. Starbucks has fired back with a New York Times advertisement saying it is "proud to partner with TransFair USA," a major promoter of fair trade coffee.