AAN News
AltWeekly Awards Book Released
This year AAN put out no ordinary awards book. Among the honored first-place entries is a Pulitzer Prize-winning story by Willamette Week's Nigel Jaquiss. "Best AltWeekly Writing and Design 2005" offers a wide selection of riveting reading, produced by some seasoned writers and others just beginning to make their mark. The bookstore-quality volume is designed to reach a wider audience than ever.
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Ruth Hammond |
09-21-2005 6:20 pm |
Association News
Gambit Weekly Managing Editor Leaves AAN to Return to Louisiana
Newly named AAN assistant editor Shala Carlson (pictured), who was serving as Gambit Weekly's managing editor prior to Hurricane Katrina, has decided to return to Louisiana.
"I think I just acted too quickly," Carlson says. "I believed I was ready to make a move, but I didn't anticipate how much I need friends and family and familiarity right now." AAN posted a help-wanted ad today for the newly reopened position.
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09-20-2005 9:11 am |
Association News
AAN Commissions Weekly Series by Gambit Editor
Michael Tisserand (pictured at left, with family) this week launched a series of weekly columns available to all AAN-member papers that will focus on the evacuee experience in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. "Although the voice of these pieces will be personal," says Tisserand, "this is going to be a heavily reported column seeking to give specific voice to the general evacuee population." The 2,000-word columns will be available free of charge each Monday to member papers for use in their pages or on their Web sites.
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09-13-2005 1:03 pm |
Association News
First Relief Payments Wired to Gambit Staffers
Forty-nine employees of the besieged New Orleans paper will each receive an initial gift of $1,000 this week from AAN's Gambit Relief Fund. Although the Fund has already collected over $52,000 in contributions, AAN will continue to seek additional financial assistance for Gambit staffers, with the goal of raising enough money to help them through the next two or three months. New Times and Village Voice employees, whose parent companies have both aggressively promoted a matching-funds program, make up a large percentage of the individual contributions received in the first week since the fund was announced.
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09-12-2005 1:03 pm |
Association News
AAN Hires Gambit Weekly Managing Editor
Shala Carlson will take over as the association's assistant editor next week, replacing Ryan Learmouth, whose last day at AAN is this Friday. Carlson has worked for the New Orleans alt-weekly since 1998, and before that served stints as an editor at the Times of Acadiana in Lafayette, La., and an administrator for a Louisiana-based nonprofit organization. She has been living with her parents in Opelousas, La., since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast last weekend.
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AAN Staff |
09-07-2005 7:05 am |
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AAN Announces Relief Effort to Support Gambit Employees
AAN announced today that it had established a multi-pronged effort to provide immediate relief to employees of its New Orleans-based member paper
who have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The centerpiece of the effort is a special fund that the association has
established in its Alternative Newsweekly Foundation to accept charitable
contributions from members who want to provide immediate assistance to
Gambit Weekly employees. Several AAN-member companies have already announced significant contributions to the fund.
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09-02-2005 12:01 pm |
Association News
Forums Available: Tracking Gambit Staffers, Talking Strategy
09-02-2005 12:53 pm |
Association News
2005 AAN/Medill Writers Workshop Photo Gallerynew
At this year's conference, food for the writer's soul came in the form of seminars, personal writing critiques and mounds of barbecued meat. Whether at Merle's (pictured) or the less sauce-stained environs of Northwestern University, editorial types rolled up their sleeves and got down to business.
AAN News |
08-22-2005 2:58 pm |
Association News
Writers Help Writers at Medill Workshop
Creative Loafing's Alyssa Abkowitz gives a blow-by-blow account of last weekend's AAN/Medill Writers Workshop. Speakers included Chicago Reader staff writer Steve Bogira (pictured), who counseled his audience to "take the usual and find the unusual in it." Also on hand were Esquire's Mike Sager, The Stranger's Dan Savage and all manner of alt-weekly editorial riffraff.
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Alyssa Abkowitz |
08-18-2005 10:51 am |
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Tags: Editorial
Survey Says: 2005 AAN Convention a Success
Yeah, the hotel elevators were slow and some of the speakers rambled. But according to the results of an online survey, AAN members overwhelmingly considered this year's convention in San Diego an overall success -- thanks largely to informative seminars and lively parties like the one pictured above. Here's a rundown of members' responses.
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Lindsay Kishter |
08-08-2005 2:35 pm |
Association News
AltWeeklies.com Traffic Grows Exponentially
For the first time, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies' story-sharing site, AltWeeklies.com, has exceeded 100,000 unique visitors in a month. The rapid growth in traffic could have a positive impact on every paper that posts stories to AltWeeklies.
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Ruth Hammond |
08-02-2005 4:00 pm |
Association News
Judges' Comments on Award Winners Are Available
Judges' critiques of the 2005 AltWeekly Awards winners can now be downloaded for review. The same comments will appear in AAN Press's forthcoming book, Best AltWeekly Writing and Design 2005. Individual newspapers can also obtain summaries of remarks on all of their entries.
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Ruth Hammond |
07-26-2005 6:14 pm |
Association News
Workshop to Address Not Sucking and Other Topics
The Stranger's Dan Savage (pictured) will lead a workshop titled "On Not Sucking" at the AAN/Medill Writers Workshop, which will be held at Northwestern University on Aug. 12-13. Also presenting will be Chicago Reader's Steve Bogira, author of the critically acclaimed book "Courtroom 302"; Mike Sager, Esquire contributor and bestselling writer of "Scary Monsters and Super Freaks"; and award-winning reporter Julie Jargon.
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AAN Staff |
07-18-2005 12:53 pm |
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Tags: Editorial
2005 AAN Convention Photo Gallerynew
Yes, AAN members inhale. At least these members do, bellied up to an oxygen bar in this photo from San Diego. The gallery also features Dan Savage's homicidal T-shirt, countless cheesy smiles and at least one painted donkey.
AAN News |
07-12-2005 3:20 pm |
Association News
One of AltWeeklies.com's Top Sellers Offers Tips
Creative Loafing Atlanta, which began posting stories to AltWeeklies.com when it launched a year ago, recently sold its 50th article using the sites' self-syndication function. In light of the paper's sales success, Editor Ken Edelstein and Operations Editor Lea Holland (pictured) offer a few selling tips to other AAN members.
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Lea K. Holland |
07-08-2005 6:05 pm |
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