AAN News
Jim Rizzi Steps Down as Publisher of Salt Lake City Weeklynew
Founder John Saltas will assume the role of interim publisher.
Salt Lake Tribune |
04-26-2012 2:05 pm |
Industry News
Planet Jackson Hole Acquires Local Snowboarding and Golf Magazinesnew
The publisher of JH Weekly has announced the purchase of two niche publications: Jackson Hole Snowboarder and Jackson Hole Golfer.
pitchengine.com |
04-25-2012 11:50 am |
Industry News
Colorado Springs Independent Promotes Carrie Simison-Bitz to GMnew
Colorado Springs Independent |
04-25-2012 10:36 am |
Industry News
San Francisco Bay Guardian Confirms Impending Sale, Brugmann Steps Downnew
Bay Guardian co-founders and publishers Bruce Brugmann and Jean Dibble will step down from day-to-day operations. The paper will also sell its headquarters building for $6.5 million in a separate transaction.
SFBG.com |
04-24-2012 9:56 pm |
Industry News
Miami New Times Series Inspires $25 Million Movienew
Pain & Gain, starring Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson and Mark Wahlberg, is based on a three-part series that was published in 1999.
Miami New Times |
04-24-2012 1:55 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Miami New Times
The Media Oxpecker: What Hath Tumblr Wrought?
How the technology that analyzes – and monetizes – social media data could radically transform the economics of publishing.
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AAN |
04-20-2012 2:20 pm |
Media Roundup
Three Alt-Weekly Reporters Earn Spots at McCormick Specialized Reporting Institute
Three alt-weekly reporters will be among 31 participants of a McCormick Specialized Reporting Institute, "Investigating Super PACs," taking place in Washington, D.C. this weekend.
(FULL STORY)
Sunlight Foundation |
04-19-2012 5:45 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Alt-Weekly Pulitzer Prize Winners: 1981-2012
From the Village Voice in 1981 to The Stranger in 2012, a brief history of alt-weekly Pulitzer Prize winners.
(FULL STORY)
AAN |
04-17-2012 2:45 pm |
Honors & Achievements
'He Was Willing to Say What No One Else Would'new
Jennifer Hopper, whose horrific experience was recounted in Eli Sanders' Pulitzer-winning feature story, visited the office of The Stranger yesterday after the award was announced.
The Seattle Times |
04-17-2012 12:05 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Eli Sanders
The Stranger's Eli Sanders Wins Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writingnew
Sanders is the first alt-weekly writer to win a Pulitzer since Jonathan Gold in 2007.
The Stranger |
04-16-2012 4:20 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: The Stranger, Eli Sanders
L.A. Weekly Promotes Amy Scattergood to Food Editor, Hires Former Creative Loafing Critic Besha Rodellnew
L.A. Weekly has hired former Creative Loafing (Atlanta) food editor Besha Rodell as food critic and promoted food blog editor Amy Scattergood to food editor.
L.A. Weekly |
04-16-2012 5:00 pm |
Industry News
The Media Oxpecker: Lessons From the Week in Newspaper News
Last month's Pew numbers are worse than you think; David Carr finds the answer to newspapers' business dilemma; the reporter who got fired before he was hired; and how copy editors are destroying America's newspapers.
(FULL STORY)
AAN |
04-13-2012 12:30 pm |
Media Roundup
Remembering the Great Alt-Weekly Internet Outage of 2012
Dedicated to the memory of the blog posts we lost.
(FULL STORY)
AAN |
04-11-2012 5:19 pm |
Very Recent History
Jacksonville TV Host Rips 'GOP Rats' Cover Off Folio Weekly On Airnew
Jacksonville TV host Casey Black — who is married to a GOP House candidate — was not pleased with a Folio Weekly illustrated cover that depicted Republicans as rats.
Folio Weekly |
04-11-2012 12:38 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Design & Production
Three Alts Are National Sigma Delta Chi Winnersnew
Independent Weekly, Miami New Times, and New Times Broward-Palm Beach were named winners of the Society of Professional Journalists' 2011 Sigma Delta Chi Awards.
Society of Professional Journalists |
04-11-2012 11:35 am |
Honors & Achievements
