AAN News
Denial, Denial, Denial and Then a Pulitzer
Wells Dunbar |
07-07-2005 4:43 pm |
Association News
Tags: Willamette Week
How to Get Picked Up on the Streets
Vernal Coleman |
07-07-2005 4:42 pm |
Association News
Tags: Design & Production
One Thing Craig's NOT Good At
R.L. Nave |
07-07-2005 4:41 pm |
Association News
Tags: Classified Advertising
AAJ Grads Grab 2005 AltWeekly Awards
Both Ayana Taylor and Michael Marsh (pictured) attended the Academy for Alternative Journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Funded by AAN and its Alternative Newsweekly Foundation, the six-week summer program teaches students how to pick and structure stories, and it apparently teaches skills necessary for award-winning writing.
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Lindsay Kishter |
07-01-2005 2:54 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
Taking Care of Business: AAN's Annual Meeting
Wells Dunbar |
07-01-2005 1:21 pm |
Association News
Tags: Wells Dunbar
2006 AAN Convention to Be Held in Little Rock
With this year's convention in San Diego just over, the Arkansas Times is itching to bring the convention to Little Rock next summer. Why? "Rampant boosterism," says Alan Leveritt, the paper's publisher. "We love Little Rock, and we wanted to introduce our friends at AAN to her."
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Lindsay Kishter |
06-27-2005 4:33 pm |
Association News
Tags: Arkansas Times
Wrap-up: Annual Convention and AltWeekly Awards Coverage
06-27-2005 11:58 am |
Association News
"Welcome to the City of Crooks."new
That's how author Mike Davis (pictured) greeted his First Amendment Lunch audience this weekend in San Diego, beginning a speech that exposed the corruption and "civic mayhem" lurking beneath the tranquil and sun-bleached veneer of "Enron by the Sea." Members can now download a copy of Davis' speech -- which included a paean to the city's alternative press -- from the AAN Library.
AAN Library |
06-23-2005 12:28 am |
Association News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Three More Weeklies Admitted to AAN
Las Vegas Weekly (cover pictured above), Bellingham Weekly of Bellingham, Wash., and Style Weekly of Richmond, Va., were voted in as members of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies at the organization's annual meeting on June 18. The Las Vegas and Richmond papers were the first two daily-owned alt-weeklies ever admitted to AAN.
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AAN Staff |
06-21-2005 10:03 am |
Association News
Judges for the 2005 AltWeekly Awards Announced
Ruth Hammond |
06-21-2005 2:15 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
Two New Members Elected to AAN Board
06-19-2005 3:22 am |
Association News
2005 AltWeekly Awards Winners Announced
At a luncheon Friday during the AAN convention in San Diego, Dan Savage handed out four first place awards to L.A. Weekly. Four papers -- Chicago Reader, Folio Weekly, Jackson Free Press and Orlando Weekly -- took first place honors in two categories each. Read the full list of winners.
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06-17-2005 6:14 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
Warning to Alt-Weeklies: Innovate Online or Perish
With his Macintosh PowerBook and a projection screen, AlwaysOn network founder Tony Perkins (pictured) stood before AAN convention goers in San Diego to explain his solution to the biggest threat facing alternative weeklies today: the blog revolution. His assessment? Join 'em or fail. Beating them isn't an option.
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Vernal Coleman |
06-17-2005 10:54 am |
Association News
What the Faux's Up With Faux Alts?
Wells Dunbar |
06-17-2005 11:01 am |
Association News
This Week in San Diego, AAN Members to Focus on What's Next
With growing competition from large media conglomerates, and with the Internet rapidly reshaping markets and media-consumption habits, alternative newspapers know they must change to remain competitive. But how? What's next in alt-weekly publishing? When AAN's annual convention gets underway on Thursday, June 16, programming will address such questions.
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AAN Staff |
06-15-2005 10:08 am |
Association News
