AAN News
Willamette Week Cover Leads to Comic Book Deal for Artistnew
Lukas Ketner -- whose Barack Obama illustration graced the cover of Willamette Week's 2008 endorsement issue -- says in the New York Times that he received "a lot of mileage" out of the cover, eventually leading to the launch of a comic book, 'Witch Doctor,' which will be released during this week's Comic-Con.
New York Times |
07-19-2010 12:57 pm |
Industry News
2010 AltWeekly Awards Winners Announced
At the 15th Annual AltWeekly Awards Luncheon in Toronto, Gustavo Arellano of '¡Ask A Mexican!' announced the winners of AAN's editorial contest and taught the audience a wide range of Spanish vulgarities and insults.
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Jason Zaragoza |
07-16-2010 6:04 pm |
Association News
Keep Up With the Toronto Convention on AAN's Live Twitter Feed
As AAN's Annual Convention gets underway in Toronto, attendees and non-attendees alike can follow events as they happen with the hashtag #aan2010.
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Jason Zaragoza |
07-15-2010 1:43 pm |
Association News
Tags: Electronic Publishing
Virginia Faux-Alt Foldsnew
The Richmond, Va. based faux-alt Brick is closing its doors after four years of publication, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. One observer notes that the current issue has only one advertiser, a local horse-racing track.
Update: Style Weekly's Jason Roop first reported on Brick's imminent launching in April 2006 when he noticed a help-wanted ad for an "Alternative Weekly Coordinator" position. At the time, Roop reported that parent company Media General wasn't even sure whether its product would be news or advertising focused. One year later, Brick fired its editor as the paper attempted to expand from "a lifestyle and attitude publication" to an ill-defined broader market publication.
Update: Style Weekly's Jason Roop first reported on Brick's imminent launching in April 2006 when he noticed a help-wanted ad for an "Alternative Weekly Coordinator" position. At the time, Roop reported that parent company Media General wasn't even sure whether its product would be news or advertising focused. One year later, Brick fired its editor as the paper attempted to expand from "a lifestyle and attitude publication" to an ill-defined broader market publication.
Richmond Times-Dispatch |
07-09-2010 10:56 am |
Industry News
Tags: Financial, Management
Boise Weekly Editor: 'It's Not OK' to Mix Editorial and Advertising
In an opinion column published yesterday, Boise Weekly editor Rachael Daigle affirms her paper's commitment to maintaining a wall between editorial and advertising. The column is in response to Chicago Reader publisher Alison Draper's recent declaration that her paper will "push" the line between the two. Daigle calls foul on the notion:
Blurring the lines between editorial and advertising is called advertorial. It's not journalistic, it's not ethical to pass it off as editorial content and it's the public that loses when editorial integrity is compromised.It just so happens that AAN editors will be discussing this topic during a roundtable session next Thursday in Toronto. (FULL STORY)
No matter how bad business was at BW during the heaviest part of the recession, we never once considered chipping away at the wall that separates our editorial and advertising departments. The day BW Publisher Sally Freeman announces her intention to "push" the line between editorial and sales will be the day I'll hand her my resignation. Thankfully, Freeman is BW's biggest protector of that line.
Boise Weekly |
07-08-2010 12:06 pm |
Industry News
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Chronicling the Bay Guardian's Efforts to 'Chase the Money'
In a detailed account of the San Francisco Bay Guardian's efforts to collect its court judgment against SF Weekly, California Lawyer delves into the behind the scenes legal maneuvering taking place as Bay Guardian attorney Jay D. Adkisson "search[es] for the end of the rainbow."
The story points out that cases are currently pending in three separate venues -- the First District Court of Appeal, the San Francisco Superior Court, and the state of Delaware -- and that the award settlement has grown from $16 million in 2008 to an estimated $22 million today. The article also explains that the Bay Guardian hired Adkisson for his expertise in both protecting and recovering assets. Speaking on the roadblocks they've encountered so far, Adkisson says, "We've got our hook into them, and they are one big fish. The closer we bring them to the boat, the more they wiggle." (FULL STORY)
The story points out that cases are currently pending in three separate venues -- the First District Court of Appeal, the San Francisco Superior Court, and the state of Delaware -- and that the award settlement has grown from $16 million in 2008 to an estimated $22 million today. The article also explains that the Bay Guardian hired Adkisson for his expertise in both protecting and recovering assets. Speaking on the roadblocks they've encountered so far, Adkisson says, "We've got our hook into them, and they are one big fish. The closer we bring them to the boat, the more they wiggle." (FULL STORY)
California Lawyer |
07-08-2010 11:15 am |
Industry News
Tags: Financial, Management
VVM Websites Notch 'Biggest Month Ever' in Web Trafficnew
Andy Van De Voorde, executive associate editor for Village Voice Media, writes that June was "the biggest traffic month in the history of VVMH." Websites owned by VVM received sixty-eight million page views in June, an increase of seventy percent compared to the same month last year.
Village Voice Media |
07-02-2010 3:28 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation, Electronic Publishing
Willamette Week Kicked Out of Press Conference for Missing Boynew
During a press conference held by the family of a missing Oregon boy, Willamette Week reporter James Pitkin -- who had earlier reported on the family's troubled history -- was asked to leave for failing to be a "team player." A reporter for the local daily, The Oregonian, was also escorted out. As Pitkin noted, the end result was that the two largest papers in Oregon had essentially been sidelined because the family didn't approve of the negative coverage.
Romenesko / Willamette Week |
07-02-2010 3:02 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Willamette Week
Publisher Says Chicago Reader Will "Push" Line Between Editorial and Advertising
More details have come to light on the CL, Inc. decision to fire long-time Chicago Reader editor Alison True. Speaking to senior editor Michael Miner -- who on Friday described True's firing as a "tragic misjudgment" -- Reader publisher Alison Draper indicated that the paper's next editor will be expected to collaborate more often with the business side:
"The editor of the Reader," said Draper, "has to work closely with sales to find innovative ways to take our fair share of the dollars that are shrinking and shrinking quickly." She promised me that she wouldn't "blur" the line between editorial and advertising, but she would "push" it. The distinction was clearer to her than it was to me.Miner goes on to explain that True was fired at a Starbucks after the paper's Best of Chicago issue came out. It was, Miner says, the "fattest, most successful issue in years, a triumph True and Draper should have been sharing in." (FULL STORY)
Chicago Reader |
06-29-2010 5:53 pm |
Industry News
Former District Weekly Writers Launch New Websitenew
Former writers of the District Weekly, which shut down in March, have launched the website GreaterLongBeach.com. Dave Wielenga, former writer for OC Weekly and the now-defunct New Times Los Angeles, is the publisher of the new site.
LBPost.com |
06-25-2010 6:16 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Electronic Publishing
Alison True Out as Editor of Chicago Reader
Alison True has been fired as editor of the Chicago Reader after twenty-six years with the paper. According to senior editor Michael Miner, the decision was announced during a staff meeting this morning by Reader publisher Alison Draper. Said Miner, "I consider this act unfathomable — a tragic misjudgment by two people, Draper and [Creative Loafing CEO Marty] Petty, whom I respect. I suppose they have a vision of tomorrow's Reader they think True is wrong for."
According to Chicago Business, True was caught completely off guard by the move.
According to Chicago Business, True was caught completely off guard by the move.
Chicago Reader / Chicago Business |
06-25-2010 5:55 pm |
Industry News
Jersey Shore Boys 'Tricked' Into Posing For Village Voice Queer Issue?
Three male cast members of MTV's hit show 'Jersey Shore' grace the cover of Village Voice's annual Queer Issue, which hits the streets today. The New York Post reports that the cast members weren't told how their pictures would be used. In a tweet responding to critics of the Voice's decision to run the photos, editor Tony Ortega said, "It's only unethical if you think being a gay icon -- or gayness itself -- is somehow bad."
New York Post / Village Voice |
06-23-2010 5:22 pm |
Industry News
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C.J. Janovy Says Goodbye to The Pitchnew
In a farewell column cloaked as a "Memo to Self," outgoing editor-in-chief of The Pitch C.J. Janovy tells readers (and herself):
Part of the reason you're handing over The Pitch to a new editor is because, after nearly 20 years as a journalist in this town, you've pretty much said everything about the city that you want to say -- for now, anyway.Janovy will be replaced by Westword web editor Joe Tone, who starts on June 28.
. . . it's time for me to do something else — and it's time for me to see what someone else can do with The Pitch.
The Pitch |
06-22-2010 12:28 pm |
Industry News
2.2 Billion Digital Media Users By 2011new
A new report by Ernst & Young says that declining per-unit prices of digital content will be counteracted by the rapid increase in overall digital media consumers. As a result, "revenue potential from the Internet and mobile devices [will] be key for big gains."
MediaPost |
06-21-2010 11:02 am |
Industry News
Tags: Electronic Publishing, Marketing
Book by Creative Loafing (Atlanta) Editor Goes International
BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family, by Creative Loafing (Atlanta) editor Mara Shalhoup, has been picked up by British publishing company Milo Books for distribution in the U.K. The book -- which first appeared in the U.S. this past March -- is based on Shalhoup's three-part series exposing the links between hip-hop label BMF Entertainment and an international cocaine-trafficking network. The series won first place in the Website Content Feature category of the 2007 AltWeekly Awards.
theBookseller.com |
06-17-2010 2:11 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Mara Shalhoup
