AAN News
2005 Alternative Newsweekly Awards Contest Site Is Launched
Ruth Hammond |
12-07-2004 5:26 pm |
Association News
Alt-Weekly Awards Contest Goes Online
Ruth Hammond |
10-07-2004 5:42 pm |
Association News
TPI Sues Competing Personals Ad Business, Alleging Patent Infringement
Tele-Publishing Inc. filed suit Sept. 22 in U.S. District Court in Arizona against Andrew B. Sutcliffe and his Tucson-based company, Sutcliffe Associates. Last year Sutcliffe, who was the founding president of TPI, launched a personals service, known as SelectAlternatives, that competes against the service of his former employer. TPI claims that Sutcliffe and five AAN papers that use SelectAlternatives infringed on four patents it owns, which Sutcliffe co-invented when he was TPI's president. The publishing companies that own the five AAN papers are named as co-defendants in the suit. Sutcliffe has issued a response saying that the suit is without merit, and he promises to mount a vigorous defense.
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Ruth Hammond |
09-29-2004 11:21 am |
Industry News
Marketing Campaign for AAN's Story-Sharing Site to Begin
For years, editors of AAN papers talked about having a Web site they could use to buy articles from each other in a pinch. This year DesertNet built them the site, AltWeeklies.com. Over the summer, editors filled the story-sharing site with news articles, commentary and reviews. And now AAN's director of sales and marketing, Roxanne Cooper, is promoting AltWeeklies.com to the public with the hope of building a broader online audience for all AAN papers.
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Ruth Hammond |
09-01-2004 8:47 pm |
Industry News
Syracuse New Times Reporter Wins Connye Miller Award
Ruth Hammond |
08-04-2004 8:54 pm |
Association News
Movie Ad Buyers Receive Thanks at ShoWest
Ruth Hammond |
03-26-2004 6:36 pm |
Association News
AAN East Marked by Feisty Exchanges and Nose-Flute Playing
Ruth Hammond |
02-11-2004 12:07 pm |
Association News
Contest Entries for 2004 Set Record
Ruth Hammond |
02-04-2004 11:31 am |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
Being Boring Is Way to Win the White House, Jerry Brown Says at AAN West
Ruth Hammond |
01-28-2004 6:37 pm |
Association News
National Ad Sales Up in 2003; Local Sales a Mixed Bag
If the economy is reviving, many AAN papers are still waiting for the signs to show up in their ad revenues. Although national ad sales went up last year, papers reported mixed results in local advertising, their mainstay. Reasons to be hopeful in 2004 include increases in real estate and recruitment ads, diversification of ad categories, and the notion that merchants and the public have grown tired of brooding and want to feel optimistic about their economic prospects again. Sales staff need to "get the message out there" about what alternative newsweeklies have to offer, says Jim Wolf, Village Voice Media's vice president of national advertising.
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Ruth Hammond |
01-07-2004 1:49 pm |
Industry News
Jackson Free Press, San Antonio Current Receive Diversity Grants
Ruth Hammond |
12-29-2003 5:23 pm |
Association News
Coast Weekly Reporter Embedded in Iraq
A reporter known for his environmental coverage expressed concern in an article last March that alternative newsweeklies were criticizing mainstream press coverage of the war but hadn't sent their own reporters to Iraq. "If you want to go, go," Coast Weekly Editor Eric Johnson told his reporter, Andrew Scutro. Scutro left for Iraq on Dec. 15.
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Ruth Hammond |
12-18-2003 11:18 am |
Industry News
