AAN News
Maui Time Weekly Publisher Honored by Weekly Business Paper
Tommy Russo, owner and publisher of Maui Time Weekly, has been chosen as one of Pacific Business News' annual "Forty Under 40" honorees, AAN News has learned. Meant to highlight Hawaii's top rising young businesspeople, the awards were handed out at a June 26 ceremony. Russo, who founded Maui Time in 1996, was previously named Maui's Young Business Person of the Year in 2005.
AAN News |
07-21-2008 12:53 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Cleveland Free Times Editor Will Take Helm at the New Scene
AAN News has learned that Frank Lewis has been named the editor of the Scene, which is being merged with the Free Times by new owners Times-Shamrock on July 23. The announcement was made to the two staffs yesterday. Former Scene editor Pete Kotz began his tenure as editor of the Nashville Scene this week. Lewis joined the Free Times in 2005 after serving as the Scene's managing editor. Before that, he spent close to seven years at the Philadelphia City Paper.
AAN News |
07-03-2008 11:57 am |
Industry News
Illinois Times Editor Stepping Down
In an email, Roland Klose says he's leaving the paper in mid-August. Klose joined the Illinois Times in 2003, after a four-year stint at Riverfront Times. Prior to that, he had reporting and editing assignments at outlets including The Commercial Appeal of Memphis and The Tampa Tribune. "I've been doing journalism since the days of Jimmy Carter," Klose says. "I'm looking forward to a break, then diving into some projects I've put off for a long time."
AAN News |
06-24-2008 9:11 am |
Industry News
Asheville City Paper Calls it Quits
The paper, which was launched in Nov. 2007 by the independent weekly Columbia City Paper, has ceased publication, news editor and business partner Cecil Bothwell says in an email. "I gave it my best shot, but the publisher of the Asheville City Paper was underfunded," says Bothwell, a former Mountain XPress Staffer. "It is no more."
AAN News |
06-19-2008 8:47 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management
New Times Broward-Palm Beach Editor Heads Back to Alaska
Robert Meyerowitz tells AAN News that he's leaving the paper on May 9. He's been editor since last April, when he took over for Tony Ortega, who left to edit The Village Voice. Meyerowitz, who came to New Times from the Anchorage Press, and has also edited the Honolulu Weekly, has been named the Snedden professor of journalism at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks for the 2008-09 academic year.
AAN News |
05-07-2008 2:06 pm |
Industry News
Alt-Weeklies Fare Well in Colorado SPJ Awards
The winners of the Colorado Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists' 2008 Mark of Excellence awards were announced late last month, and both Boulder Weekly and the Colorado Springs Independent went home winners, AAN News has learned. The Indy won 13 awards total, including six first-place finishes -- in A&E Reporting, Education Reporting, Food and Beverage, Legal Affairs Reporting Personal Columns, and Political Reporting. Boulder Weekly won a total of four awards, including one first-place finish in the Science/Environment/Ag/Medical reporting category. In addition, Indy contributing editor Cara DeGette placed first in the blog category for her writing on ColoradoConfidential.com, the Denver-based website she helped launch in 2006.
AAN News |
04-11-2008 8:39 am |
Honors & Achievements
Baltimore City Paper Wins Two Out of Three 2008 A.D. Emmart Awards
AAN News has been informed that staff writer Chris Landers won the 2008 A.D. Emmart Award for his story on a man who was wrongly accused as a sex offender. In addition, City Paper contributor Laura Laing won one of two honorable mentions for "Raising a Glass."
AAN News |
04-09-2008 12:56 pm |
Honors & Achievements
AAN Board Member Carol Flagg to Step Down
The Austin Chronicle's advertising director -- and AAN Retail Advertising
Committee chair -- says she's leaving the paper in the first week of July.
Flagg plans to move back home to Phoenix to start a new company that
provides consulting services. She will step down from her position on the AAN Board of Directors following
the board's meeting in June in Philadelphia. Her departure means someone will be
elected at the convention to serve the one year remaining in her term as retail ad chair.
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AAN News |
04-08-2008 4:20 pm |
Association News
Eugene Weekly Holds Jingle Contest
The alt-weekly put out a call for local musicians to create 30-second jingles, and plenty responded. There are now 26 jingles in the running for the possibility of being featured in local radio ads for the Weekly. Readers are currently listening to and voting on the best jingles online, and the winner of the reader's poll will also receive a $500 prize. "We will probably cut the [radio] spot with an all-star band in different genres," says Bill Shreve, the Weekly's director of Marketing and Advertising. He adds: "We've gotten a pretty good buzz off this thing."
AAN News |
07-03-2007 3:08 pm |
Industry News
Sacramento News & Review Publisher Steps Down
Scott Hassenflu will leave the News & Review and the board of the Alternative Weekly Network (AWN) on May 18. In a letter sent yesterday to his AWN colleagues, Hassenflu says his "short term plans" call for "some much needed R & R" and a more active role in a home-furnishings store he co-owns. Hassenflu has served on the AWN board for the past 10 years, and has had a long career in the alternative press, including stints with the Dallas Observer and San Francisco Bay Guardian.
AAN News |
04-03-2007 1:38 pm |
Industry News
The Hearst Corp. to Launch San Antonio Faux-Alt
San Antonio Express-News says 210 SA, "a new weekly publication aimed at the 18-35-year-old reader ... is not unlike other free young-adult newspapers, such as Red Eye in Chicago and Quick in Dallas," according to an internal memo obtained by AAN News. 210SA, which will compete with AAN member the San Antonio Current, marks the first foray into faux-alts for The Hearst Corp.
(FULL STORY)
AAN News |
02-23-2007 12:34 pm |
Industry News
NOW Magazine Co-Founder's Documentary Hits SXSW
Alice Klein, editor and CEO of the Toronto alt-weekly, has recently completed her debut film, Call of the Hummingbird. The "full-frontal eco-manifesto," which Klein directed, produced and wrote, will premiere next month at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas.
AAN News |
02-20-2007 1:22 pm |
Industry News
Digg Founder to Speak at AAN West
Kevin Rose, who graced the cover of Business Week last summer, will serve as the keynote speaker at the regional staff-training conference in San Francisco this weekend, AAN announced today. Rose is the founder and chief architect of Digg.com, a user-driven social content Web site, and he is not worth $60 million. Prior to founding Digg, Rose produced and hosted hundreds of segments on cable-television network Tech TV. Here's what he Diggs right now.
AAN News |
01-22-2007 3:42 pm |
Association News
Tags: Electronic Publishing
AAN Diversity Intern Enjoys "Refreshing" Break From MSM
Victoria Williams returns to her campus newspaper after a highly productive four-month stint at the Oklahoma Gazette, AAN News reports. Williams says she found the freedom to write more in-depth stories at the alt-weekly a much needed break from the strictures and pressures of the daily newsrooms she worked in during earlier internships. Among the highlights of Williams' work for the Oklahoma weekly was her feature on a joint project linking female craft artists in Kenya to Oklahoma merchants. Established in 2001, the AAN Diversity Internship program awards four annual grants of up to $2,500 to talented young journalists of color.
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AAN News |
12-14-2006 6:42 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial, Oklahoma Gazette
