AAN News
Mountain XPress Spearheads Local Distribution Initiative
Facing increased scrutiny and concern over problems associated with freestanding news boxes, Mountain XPress distribution manager Sammy Cox (pictured) and publisher Jeff Fobes organized local publishers to form the Community Publishers Group (CPG). Members of the CPG now share the cost of purchasing and installing new multi-publication distribution units, which are installed in 36 locations throughout Asheville, N.C. According to Cox and Fobes, the new boxes conserve space and reduce clutter, and have pre-empted potentially harmful measures like news rack legislation. They spoke with AAN News recently by phone and email about the benefits these boxes and the CPG have had for Mountain XPress and the local publishing community.
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AAN News |
05-12-2008 1:41 pm |
Industry News
Arkansas Times Editor Talks About the Impact of Blogging on the Paper
The Times made the jump to blogging in 2004 at a time when many AAN papers had yet to do so with the simply-named Arkansas Blog. Since then, its website, which started as a niche resource for its print readers, has evolved into a daily must-read for just about everyone in the state, from politicians to daily newspaper editors and, with the additional in-house blogs Rock Candy and Eat Arkansas, music and food junkies. AAN News recently spoke with editor and full-time blogger Max Brantley on what blogging has done for the Times.
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AAN News |
11-21-2007 10:57 am |
Industry News
The Austin Chronicle Takes the Street-Team Concept to the Next Level [members only]
AAN News |
07-23-2007 11:45 am |
Industry News
Mobilizing Mobile Technology for Alt-Weeklies
They're everywhere -- bars, clubs, Laundromats, post offices, even churches: people busily typing away on the small keypads that are built into the various phones, Sidekicks, Blackberries, Treos and PDAs without which they couldn't survive. We take a look at what a few alt-weeklies are doing to get their content to this new mobile set.
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AAN News |
04-23-2007 3:00 pm |
Industry News
