AAN News
Jupiter: Offline Influence on Online Search Yields 39 Percent Conversionnew
Center for Media Research |
09-06-2007 11:07 am |
Industry News
USA Today Launches Ad-Supported Widgetsnew
AP via Editor & Publisher |
09-06-2007 9:54 am |
Industry News
Willamette Week's Musicfest NW Kicks Off Tomorrownew
"MusicfestNW is that special time of year when Portland adopts the best of music everywhere and gives it a home," music editor Amy McCullough writes in an introduction to the paper's guide to the annual festival. The four days of MusicfestNW will feature over 170 sets in 16 venues, ranging "from melodic indie rock icons Spoon and Rilo Kiley to alternative hip-hop heroes Aesop Rock and the Clipse to psychedelic music legend Roky Erickson & the Explosives," Corey duBrowa writes in the Oregonian.
Willamette Week |
09-05-2007 12:27 pm |
Industry News
Former Editor Expands AAN-Commissioned Piece Into a Booknew
After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, Michael Tisserand began writing what would become the "Submerged" series, 11 stories about the aftermath written for AAN and run in many member papers. One of the pieces was about the school that the Tisserands and other refugee parents started in New Iberia, La., which the former editor of Gambit Weekly expanded into the recently published book Sugarcane Academy. He tells Tucson Weekly he felt that experience best illustrated what it meant to be a Katrina evacuee. "It was a story with a beginning, a middle and an end, and I think the title of the school -- that the kids and teacher came up with together -- encapsulated how we felt," Tisserand, who has since relocated to Evanston, Ill., says. "(The school) was a place we could feel not just safe, but a place where we again felt the power to make decisions, to move forward."
Tucson Weekly |
09-05-2007 9:08 am |
Industry News
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Boston Phoenix Film Critic Directs Film About Film Criticismnew
Gerald Peary's For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism was screened this weekend at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado, the Boston Globe reports. The documentary is produced by Geary's wife, Amy Geller, and features interviews with a variety of American film critics, including the Village Voice's J. Hoberman. "The movie's not done yet, but they liked it so much they invited us to show it as a work in progress," Peary tells the Globe.
The Boston Globe (third item) |
09-04-2007 2:09 pm |
Industry News
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The Village Voice Playfully Responds to Criticism on Adult Adsnew
When the New York Press was sold to Manhattan Media in early August, the new CEO announced the paper would stop running "explicit" ads. The National Organization for Women and some op-ed writers took that opportunity to put more pressure on the Voice and New York magazine to also stop running the ads. The Voice "fired back by defiantly running eight naked ladies on the cover" a few weeks ago, the New York Observer reports. Editor Tony Ortega tells the Observer that the cheeky cover was his idea. "The subject of our adult ads has been brought up lately in the local press," Ortega says. "I thought the best response from the newsroom was to poke some fun at ourselves." Manhattan Media CEO Tom Allon tells the Observer that, while he thinks "the punchline was only clear to a small sliver of their readership," he's glad to have stirred up the attention. "Clearly it was a nod to us and to our decision," he says. "I was flattered that they thought that a decision we made warranted a Voice cover."
The New York Observer |
09-04-2007 10:01 am |
Industry News
Missoula Independent Editor to Leave Paper
"I'm writing to announce my impending departure from the Missoula
Independent after five lovely years," Brad Tyer writes in a farewell email to colleagues. Tyer joined the Independent in 2002 after spending time elsewhere in the alt-weekly universe, including the Texas Observer, Houston Press, and Willamette Week. "As much as I've
enjoyed working in newsrooms, especially this one, I'm also looking
forward to seeing what the world looks like through a non-alt-weekly
lens for the first time since -- my God -- 1991," he says. Tyer, who expects to leave no later than Oct. 4, says he will stay in Missoula and continue writing.
AAN News |
09-04-2007 8:31 am |
Industry News
MediaNews Adds 51 Sites to Real Citiesnew
Editor & Publisher |
09-04-2007 5:47 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Electronic Publishing, Management
Online Ad Spending to Surpass Traditional Radionew
Center for Media Research |
09-04-2007 9:50 am |
Industry News
NAA: Daily Newspaper Ads Fell 8.6 Percent in 2Qnew
AP via Yahoo |
09-04-2007 9:42 am |
Industry News
'To Stay Relevant,' LA Times Offers Scratch-and-Sniff Movie Adsnew
Editor & Publisher |
09-04-2007 9:38 am |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising
Birmingham Weekly Celebrates 10th Anniversarynew
"We've made it this far because we embraced the editorial freedoms others refused themselves," writes columnist Kyle Whitmire. "While our orthodox brethren have feared innovation, we lived by it." Editor Glenny Brock, columnist Courtney Haden, and former staff writer and editor Thomas Spencer also reflect on why the paper has survived and what it means for the city.
Birmingham Weekly |
08-30-2007 11:48 am |
Industry News
What Will the Metro Newspaper Look Like in 2020?new
Dave Morgan's Online Spin |
08-30-2007 3:04 pm |
Industry News
Beyond the Algorithm: Effective SEO Copywritingnew
Shimon Sandler |
08-30-2007 12:35 pm |
Industry News
Study Shows Video Playing Big Role for Newspaper Sitesnew
Newspapers & Technology |
08-30-2007 12:31 pm |
Industry News
