AAN News
AAN's Editorial Director Moves On
Ruth Hammond will be stepping down as AAN's editorial director on Dec. 23 to take a job as a senior copy editor with The Chronicle of Higher Education. During her two years at AAN, Ruth participated in the launch of AltWeeklies.com and kept the site running; she also administered the AltWeekly Awards contest, including the contest's move to an online format last year. In reflecting on her work at AAN, Ruth says, "what strikes me most is how much teamwork went into all my projects."
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Ruth Hammond |
12-13-2005 8:41 am |
Association News
Tags: Editorial, Ruth Hammond
AAN Develops 'No More Tears' Contest Rules and Web Site
Last year, for the first time, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies conducted its editorial contest online. Although there were some frustrating glitches, entrants overwhelmingly favored the online method of entering the AltWeekly Awards. This year, AAN used feedback from member papers and judges to make improvements, including more specific instructions to make uploading PDFs easier. The 2006 AltWeekly Awards Web site will be launched on Dec. 5.
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Ruth Hammond |
11-09-2005 2:50 pm |
Association News
Tags: Design & Production, Editorial
'How I Got That Story'
AltWeekly Award Winners Reveal the Secrets of Their Trade
The winners of the 2005 AltWeekly Awards unveil the process they went through to create their first-place articles, photography, cartoons and design. The series sheds light on the work found in the book "Best AltWeekly Writing and Design 2005."
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Ruth Hammond |
10-14-2005 2:16 pm |
Association News
Tags: Design & Production, Editorial
AltWeeklies.com's September Traffic Surpasses 250,000
A 33 percent increase in the monthly traffic count enabled AAN's collaborative news site to pass the quarter-million mark in unique visitors. AltWeeklies.com traffic has increased exponentially since April, when the number of unique visitors was less than 10,000. Most of that growth has come from AAN members who run AltWeeklies.com teasers, which have also increased traffic on their own sites.
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Ruth Hammond |
10-03-2005 3:14 pm |
Association News
AltWeeklies.com Can Now Sort Stories for Relevance
Ruth Hammond |
09-26-2005 6:33 pm |
Association News
AltWeekly Awards Book Released
This year AAN put out no ordinary awards book. Among the honored first-place entries is a Pulitzer Prize-winning story by Willamette Week's Nigel Jaquiss. "Best AltWeekly Writing and Design 2005" offers a wide selection of riveting reading, produced by some seasoned writers and others just beginning to make their mark. The bookstore-quality volume is designed to reach a wider audience than ever.
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Ruth Hammond |
09-21-2005 6:20 pm |
Association News
AltWeeklies.com Traffic Grows Exponentially
For the first time, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies' story-sharing site, AltWeeklies.com, has exceeded 100,000 unique visitors in a month. The rapid growth in traffic could have a positive impact on every paper that posts stories to AltWeeklies.
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Ruth Hammond |
08-02-2005 4:00 pm |
Association News
Judges' Comments on Award Winners Are Available
Judges' critiques of the 2005 AltWeekly Awards winners can now be downloaded for review. The same comments will appear in AAN Press's forthcoming book, Best AltWeekly Writing and Design 2005. Individual newspapers can also obtain summaries of remarks on all of their entries.
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Ruth Hammond |
07-26-2005 6:14 pm |
Association News
Judges for the 2005 AltWeekly Awards Announced
Ruth Hammond |
06-21-2005 2:15 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
AltWeeklies.com Turns One Year Old
A year ago, AltWeeklies.com was a fledgling Web site with just a hundred stories, intent on escaping the notice of many visitors besides the AAN editors who would buy and sell stories there. Now it is an active news site with more than 4,400 stories and a readership that is rapidly growing.
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Ruth Hammond |
05-18-2005 9:35 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
2005 AltWeekly Awards Finalists Announced
L.A. Weekly, Folio Weekly, Independent Weekly and The Texas Observer all had particularly strong showings in the 2005 AltWeekly Awards. The finalists in the 10th annual competition are listed here.
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Ruth Hammond |
05-10-2005 2:18 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
2005 Alt-Weekly Awards: Dispatch from the PDF Trauma Center
Months ago, AAN Editor Ruth Hammond was carried away by a flood of tearsheets and PDF files. She reappears with this behind-the-scenes look at the Alternative Newsweekly Awards contest, for which she's served as administrator and medic.
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Ruth Hammond |
04-15-2005 4:30 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial, Ruth Hammond
2005 Alternative Newsweekly Awards Set Another Record
Ruth Hammond |
03-14-2005 3:22 pm |
Association News
Reading Material for Editors and Writers Going to AAN East
Ruth Hammond |
02-04-2005 11:59 am |
Association News
Tags: Management
Frequently Asked Questions About Contest Web Site
Ruth Hammond |
02-02-2005 4:44 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
