AAN News
Changes -- Big and Small -- Afoot at AltWeeklies.com
It's been almost three years since AAN launched AltWeeklies.com as a web portal for alt-weekly content and a story-sharing site for AAN member papers. As web journalism and the news industry evolve, AltWeeklies.com is taking steps to move forward as well.
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AAN News |
03-09-2007 9:20 am |
Association News
How Do Your Financials Compare to Other AAN Papers?
The best way to find out is to participate in our annual Financial Standards survey, a confidential benchmarking study that many AAN publishers consider the most important benefit the association offers to its members. AAN financial consultant Seija Goldstein will once again compile the survey and present the results -- to participants only -- at the annual convention, which will be held in Portland June 14-16. The deadline for participation is Monday, April 2. For more information on the survey, please contact the AAN office.
AAN |
03-02-2007 12:40 pm |
Association News
Tags: Financial, Management
Laura Fries Joins AAN Staff as Web Director and Editor
Creative Loafing Inc.'s former web editor will be responsible for overseeing the development of AAN's websites -- AAN.org and AltWeeklies.com. She will also share editing duties on both sites with Jon Whiten, the organization's senior editor. Fries got her start in journalism at the San Antonio Current, writing news and editing the food section. She also was the food editor of Tampa's Weekly Planet (now called Creative Loafing) for a short time before she was tapped for the web position in Atlanta.
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AAN Staff |
02-22-2007 4:37 pm |
Association News
Memphis Congressman to Speak at AAN East
Newly elected Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN), the first non-African American representative since 1974 from Tennessee's majority-black Ninth District, will keynote this weekend's staff-training conference, AAN announced today. Cohen served Memphis in the Tennessee State Senate for 24 years before replacing Harold Ford, Jr. as the city's congressman. For the first time since it premiered in 2004, attendance at AAN East is likely to exceed
the total at AAN West, which was held in San Francisco in late January. MORE AAN EAST NEWS: Helen Sutton, who spoke in Little Rock at the 2006 convention and racked up one of the highest scores in the history of AAN's post-convention survey, has been confirmed as the sales-track speaker on Friday afternoon.
AAN News |
02-12-2007 2:09 pm |
Association News
Tags: Management
AAN Adds News Listserv for IT and Systems Discussions
Those eligible to join the list include AAN-member publishers and senior managers, financial managers, design & production managers and staff, and electronic publishing and IT personnel. To sign up, login to this Web site and click on "Listserv Registrations" in the My AAN section of the navigation bar on the right side of each page. As with all of AAN's listservs, messages sent to the list are archived on the site and available for search by members of the list.
AAN Staff |
02-07-2007 1:53 pm |
Association 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
What Five Things Come to Mind When you Think of Oklahoma?
That was the question Oklahoma Gazette Editor Rob Collins recently asked editors on an AAN listserv in preparation for last week's cover story kicking off the paper's coverage of the state's centennial. Oklahoma! the musical came in first and the Dust Bowl placed third. See editors' complete responses by downloading this PDF document.
Oklahoma Gazette |
01-08-2007 5:26 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial, Oklahoma Gazette
AAN Hires New AltWeekly Awards Administrator
Former Creative Loafing (Atlanta) staffer Heather Kuldell, who started work at AAN last week, will be responsible for coordinating the association's annual editorial contest. The Washington, D.C.-area native started at Creative Loafing as an intern and worked her way through several positions, including listings editor, assistant A&E editor and music editor.
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AAN Staff |
01-08-2007 1:08 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
AAN West Registration Deadline Extended
AAN members and others planning to attend the Jan. 26-27 regional staff-training conference in San Francisco now have until Jan. 9 to take advantage of early registration rates. The deadline for registering at the Miyako Hotel, the Japantown property that is hosting the conference for the first time, has also been extended.
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01-04-2007 6:59 pm |
Association News
Call for Entries: The 2007 AltWeekly Awards Contest
The contest Web site opened for business on Friday, signaling the beginning of the competition in the twelfth annual awards contest. Four new categories have been added this year, three of which pertain to the Web. Other changes: The circulation cut-off between small and big papers has risen to 60,000, and entry fees have increased by $10, bringing them back to the level they were at earlier this decade. The deadline for entries is Friday, Feb. 2, 2007.
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AAN Staff |
12-26-2006 3:38 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
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
Member Applications Now Being Accepted
Alternative newspapers interested in applying for membership in the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies have until Friday, Jan. 5 to submit an application. To learn more about what they may be getting themselves into, we encourage prospective applicants to first read our Membership Committee Guidelines (Word doc). If that doesn't scare you away, please contact the AAN office for an application.
AAN Staff |
12-04-2006 11:42 am |
Association News
AAN West, AAN East Web Sites Up and Running
Attendees bound for either of AAN's annual regional staff-training conferences can save on early registration, get hotel information and preview program schedules and speaker bios. Those headed for AAN West, to be held Jan. 26-27 at the Miyako Hotel in San Francisco, can go here. Participants in AAN East, to be held Feb. 16-17 at the Hotel Washington in D.C., click here.
AAN |
11-27-2006 1:46 pm |
Association News
New Member Directories Shipped
Five copies of the latest version were mailed to AAN publishers this week. Although the directory is no longer designed as a marketing tool, the association produces a new one every two years as a convenience for AAN members. The small, spiral-bound book includes contact information for member companies and their senior staff.
AAN |
11-17-2006 11:54 am |
Association News
Gambit Weekly Columnist and Family on Family Feud
Ronnie Virgets and his loved ones stomped the competition and will return for tomorrow's episode of the TV game show, according to Michael Tisserand, Virget's ex-editor at Gambit. "The whole family wore crawfish beads and the host (John O'Hurley) announced that they were from New Orleans, 'America's most resilient city,'" reports Tisserand, who also touts Virgets latest book, "Lost Bread," which includes his account of being rescued from the top of his house after Katrina. "I think that account is the best descriptive writing about Katrina that's been published anywhere," says Tisserand.
AAN |
11-15-2006 3:22 pm |
Association News
