AAN News

Weekly Announces Name Change but Competitor Gets the Trademarknew

The Fort Collins Weekly, headed by AAN veterans Joel Dyer and Greg Campbell, entered into a "partnership" earlier this month with Northern Colorado Communications, a regional publishing group owned by Nevada-based Swift Communications. Last week, NCC announced that it would be changing the paper's name to Fort Collins Now. However, in a press release issued the following day, the Rocky Mountain Chronicle proclaimed that it had registered the name "Fort Collins NOW" with Colorado's Secretary of State, according to the Coloradoan. The Chronicle, whose masthead also boasts several AAN vets, says it is willing to relinquish the name. "But we have some stipulations," says associate publisher Josh Johnson, tweaking his competitor. "We want fruit pies. And not just any fruit pies, but local, independent pies."
The Coloradoan  |  07-16-2007  11:21 am  |  Industry News

Smart Car to Target 'Creative Class'new

Advertising Age  |  07-16-2007  12:39 pm  |  Industry News

SNA Launches New National Ad Networknew

Editor & Publisher  |  07-16-2007  10:44 am  |  Industry News

Weekly Dig Art Director Talks 'Secret Asian Man'new

As we reported last month, Tak Toyoshima's comic strip, which originated out of the Dig and appears in many alt-weeklies, has been picked up by the United Feature Syndicate and will become a daily feature in papers nationwide beginning July 16. In an interview with the San Francisco-based Japanese-American newspaper Nichi Bei Times, Toyoshima talks about his goal for his new expanded audience: "I want readers to see a strip that isn't afraid to talk about things that most cartoon cats wouldn't touch but also feel like they are not being hit over the head by some overbearing agenda."
Nichi Bei Times  |  07-13-2007  9:02 am  |  Industry News

Jonathan Gold On Childhood, Snoop Dogg, and L.A. Cuisinenew

The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles  |  07-13-2007  12:58 pm  |  Industry News

Which American Newspaper Will Be the First to Kill Its Print Edition?new

BusinessWeek Online  |  07-13-2007  11:33 am  |  Industry News

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