AAN News
Amsterdam Weekly Debuts with Help from Chicago Reader
It's an extra challenge to be alternative in a town where marijuana coffee shops and prostitutes posing in brothel windows are the norm. Todd Savage, a former Chicago Reader freelancer, didn't let that daunt him. He debuted his new English-language alt-weekly in the Netherlands' largest city this week. The Reader is a major investor in the enterprise.
(FULL STORY)
Matt Pulle |
03-11-2004 1:40 pm |
Industry News
Devastating Storm Rocks The Memphis Flyer
After publishing more than 750 consecutive
issues, the Flyer was forced to skip an edition
when a July 22 storm shut the city down. The blend
of heavy rains and powerful winds forced
three employees from their homes, including
Publisher Ken Neill, who had an 100 foot
oak tree fall on his house, rendering it uninhabitable
until Christmas. The national press, focused on Uday
and Qusay, barely noticed the storm. "We have a
joke," Neill says. "If a tree falls in Memphis, does
it make a sound?"
(FULL STORY)
Matt Pulle |
08-08-2003 5:02 pm |
Industry News
Tags: The Memphis Flyer
City Pages Debuts Weblog Section
"Twin Cities Babelogue" has turned more than 20 writers, editors and freelancers loose on the paper's Web site to talk about anything they want, any way they want. The experiment is paying off so far, with 10 percent of all Web site visitors now checking out the Babelogue during their time on the site. "I figured it was going to be a waste of time and lobbied openly against it," Senior Editor Brad Zellar tells AAN News. "Turns out, however, that I've taken to it."
(FULL STORY)
Matt Pulle |
05-14-2003 1:40 pm |
Industry News
Tribune Co. Transfers Advocate Staff to Courant Offices
Saying it’s "just business," the Tribune
Co. has ordered five
Advocate*Weekly billing and
administrative
staff to move their offices into the
Hartford Courant building. The
Tribune Co. says the move will help
consolidate different billing and other
business practices. "People over here
are saying that if they do this, what's
… next?" Advocate*Weekly CEO
Fran Zankowski
tells AAN News.
(FULL STORY)
Matt Pulle |
10-28-2002 11:21 am |
Industry News
Huge Increase in Academy for Alternative Journalism Applications
AAN CAN drives the surge
(FULL STORY)
Matt Pulle |
05-16-2002 3:22 pm |
Association News
Grand Rapids Alternative Shuttered
The Paper, an alternative weekly out of Grand Rapids, Mich., has
ceased publication, although there are indications that it is
"retooling to return as a monthly". When it became an AAN member in 1998, the
Admissions Committee deemed The Paper, "the most
encouraging of the new applicants."
(FULL STORY)
Matt Pulle |
04-05-2002 12:25 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, The Paper
Another Former AANie Rises to Power
Laura Miller, new mayor of Dallas, is the third politician with a strong connection to the alternative newspaper business since November to become mayor of a major American city. "There is definitely a trend in urban
politics to be more progressive,” says John Rowley of the national
political consulting firm Fletcher &
Rowley in Nashville, Tenn. This shift makes urban voters “more receptive to
the kinds of issues alt-weeklies like to belabor,” Matt Pulle writes for AAN News.
(FULL STORY)
Matt Pulle |
02-25-2002 10:50 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Vet Plans AlterNet Rival
Ron Curran, a veteran writer and editor for LA Weekly and the San Francisco Bay Guardian, plans to launch a new alternative syndicate in the spring. The service, to be called Pulp Syndicate, takes aim at non-profit AlterNet, but Don Hazen, AlterNet’s executive editor, isn’t too worried. "We look forward to whatever healthy competition they might provide," Hazen says.
(FULL STORY)
Matt Pulle |
12-18-2001 3:59 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Radio Stations, Alternative Newspapers Make a Nice Pair
Alternative weeklies and
radio stations go together
like love and marriage, say three
companies that own both mediums. The
synergy is easiest to exploit in
cross-promotion, but it can also
help on the news side. AAN News
interviews several executives who have
tried this combo and like it.
(FULL STORY)
Matt Pulle |
11-20-2001 2:09 pm |
Industry News
New Owners of The Octopus Plan to Invest
Radio-station operator Saga Communications is the new owner of Champaign, Ill.'s The Octopus, which it bought earlier this month from Yesse! Communications. Senior Vice President Wayne Lada says Saga plans to add staff and build circulation.
(FULL STORY)
Matt Pulle |
10-23-2001 7:12 am |
Industry News
Creative Loafing Savannah Becomes Connect Savannah
Creative Loafing Savannah has
merged with Connect Savannah,
a community weekly. The non-AAN
alternative weekly was owned by
Debbie Eason founder of the
Creative Loafing chain, and its publisher
Kyle Sims.
(FULL STORY)
Matt Pulle |
10-19-2001 11:19 am |
Industry News
Tags: Financial, Management
Publishing Duo Help Lead Worcester Magazine
Co-associate publishers at Worcester Magazine are taking the pressure off owner-publisher Allen Fletcher as the parent company grows. Kathleen Real and Betsy Abeles-Kravitz, both seasoned alt-pub editors, continue to work with former publisher Peter Stanton, who’s now the parent company’s COO.
(FULL STORY)
Matt Pulle |
09-20-2001 7:00 am |
Industry News
New Times Promises Larger Edit Budget for FW Weekly
Staffers guardedly optimistic about the new owners.
(FULL STORY)
Matt Pulle |
08-17-2000 11:51 am |
Industry News
