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AAN Releases AltWeekly Awards Judges Bios & Comments
The judges came from academia and the newsroom, and they reviewed entries from as far away as Mexico City and Beirut. Many judges began their careers at an alt-weekly and several were fellows at the Academy for Alternative Journalism. A selection of their remarks on the winning entries has been compiled into a pdf document.
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AAN News |
09-01-2009 2:39 pm |
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AltWeeklies.com Launches Partnership With Indiebound.org
Starting this week, book reviews and profiles posted on AltWeeklies.com are also being featured on Indiebound.org, a website run by the American Booksellers Association. AltWeeklies.com content will appear, when it exists, on the information page for an individual book title. For examples of this partnership in action, click here and here.
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08-28-2009 2:06 pm |
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Evanston Dispatch: Editorial Cmte. Meeting and Writers Workshop Wrapup
Editorial Committee chair Julia Goldberg provides an update and a few videos from last weekend's committee meeting and Writers Workshop conference in Evanston, Ill.
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AAN News |
08-24-2009 10:24 am |
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Tags: Editorial, Management
AltWeeklies.com Related Stories Widget Now Available For Use
Using the tags on your stories, the new widget, developed by DesertNet, pulls in similarly tagged stories from AltWeeklies.com, giving your website additional related links for particular movies, bands or issue areas. Click here, here or here to see it in action, and visit AltWeeklies.com for more technical information or to download the widget.
AAN |
07-31-2009 3:39 pm |
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Registration is Open and the Schedule is Set for Writers Workshop
The annual workshop designed for alt-weekly writers and reporters is scheduled for Aug. 14 and 15 at the Medill School of Journalism on the Northwestern University campus in Evanston, Ill. Writers and editors from a number of AAN member papers will lead sessions covering everything from ethics to multimedia to political reporting, all in a way designed for staffers to get valuable, hands-on experience. Early registration rates are valid until Aug. 7, and the cut-off date to obtain AAN's discounted group hotel rate is this Friday, July 31.
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AAN |
07-27-2009 3:07 pm |
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Videos from AAN Convention Now Available
AAN staff experimented with digital video at this year's convention and managed to capture several presentations and panels in reasonably presentable form. The videos are now available for viewing in the members-only AAN.org Resource Library.
AAN |
07-07-2009 4:17 pm |
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See Magazine Publisher on Getting into AAN: 'I Had Goosebumps'new
"I felt like the kid who was the first to be picked for the school baseball team," See publisher Todd Kosloski says, describing how he felt at Saturday's annual meeting after his alt-weekly was admitted as an AAN member.
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07-02-2009 9:22 am |
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AAN Elects New President, Fills Ten Board Seats
At the annual meeting of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies on Saturday, June 27, Willamette Week's Mark Zusman was elected the association's new president. He succeeds Metroland's Stephen Leon, who will take the advisory role of Immediate Past President. The membership voted on nine other board seats on Saturday, including two that were created just minutes earlier when AAN's bylaws were amended.
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AAN News |
07-01-2009 2:42 pm |
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Tags: Circulation, Classified Advertising, Design & Production, Editorial, Electronic Publishing, Financial, Management, Marketing, Retail Advertising, Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, Mark Zusman, Stephen Leon, Fran Zankowski, Ellen Meany, Steve Delgado, Bill Jensen, Margaret Downing, Sally Freeman, Tim Redmond, Julia Goldberg, Michael Hollett
Full List of 2009 AltWeekly Awards Winners Released
L.A. Weekly led the large-circulation division for the second year in a row with four first-place wins, while Santa Fe Reporter led the small-circulation division, also with four first-place wins.
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AAN News |
07-01-2009 10:12 am |
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Two Newspapers Voted into AAN
At the annual meeting of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies this weekend in Tucson, AAN members approved the membership applications of Inland Empire Weekly of Corona, Calif., and Edmonton's See Magazine. In addition, the membership status of six current member papers that had changed hands in the last two years was affirmed.
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AAN News |
06-30-2009 3:19 pm |
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Lucy Dalglish Lays Out Her Biggest Post-Bush Worries at Convention
At Saturday's First Amendment Lunch in Tucson, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press executive director Lucy Dalglish expressed relief that the Bush administration was no longer in Washington, but said that challenges remain for open-government advocates.
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AAN News |
06-30-2009 1:28 pm |
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Full Text of Lucy Dalglish's Prepared Remarks
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06-30-2009 1:44 pm |
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At Awards Lunch, Dan Savage Does 'Savage Love Live'
At the 14th annual AltWeekly Awards luncheon today in Tucson, there were no half-naked men and no bottles of Jim Beam. But that didn't stop The Stranger editorial director and syndicated columnist Dan Savage from once again making the ceremony his own as he reprised his role as emcee.
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AAN News |
06-26-2009 5:50 pm |
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AAN Convention Gets Rolling
This morning's sessions have begun, and with them, the first full day of AAN's 32nd Annual Convention in Tucson is on its way. We'll have updates here at AAN.org over the next two days; for pictures of the confab, visit our Flickr page. To get short but sweet updates from various Twitterers here in Tucson, search for the hashtag #aan.
AAN News |
06-26-2009 12:56 pm |
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Ten Candidates Running for Election to AAN Board of Directors
There will be up to ten board positions up for election at the annual meeting this Saturday in Tucson. So far, ten AAN members have thrown their hats into the ring for nine of the board spots; they tell us why they want to be on the board and what they think the most important issues facing the association are.
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AAN News |
06-22-2009 2:48 pm |
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