AAN News
Marketing Campaign for LEO Weekly Wins Local Ad Award
The LEO campaign, by local agency Red7e, won the Best of Show award, plus individual and campaign golds, at this year's annual Louisville Addy Awards. To see the campaign that won Best of Show, click here. To see other work Red7e did for LEO, click here.
AAN News |
03-05-2010 9:08 am |
Industry News
Book from Seattle Weekly's 'Uptight Seattleite' Out This Weeknew
A Sensitive Liberal's Guide to Life: How To Banter With Your Barista, Hug Mindfully, And Relate To Friends Who Choose Kids Over Dogs is being published this week by Gotham Books. The book is a collection of the Weekly's "Ask an Uptight Seattleite" columns, where the aforementioned Uptight Seattleite, as Gotham's press materials put it, "delights his loyal readers each week with snide insight on everything from fashion ('Can I pull off a Rasta beret?') to ear-bud etiquette."
Seattle Weekly |
03-03-2010 10:30 am |
Industry News
Metro Times' 13th Annual Blowout Music Festival Kicks Off Tonightnew
Metro Times |
03-03-2010 10:34 am |
Industry News
Pew Study: News is 'Becoming Portable, Personalized and Participatory'new
A new study by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and the Project for Excellence in Journalism finds that a large majority of Americans -- 92 percent -- use multiple platforms to get their daily news, with the internet now the third most-popular news platform (behind local and national TV news). Other key findings in the study:
- 33 percent of cell phone owners now access news on their phones.
- 28 percent of internet users have customized home pages that include news from particular sources and about particular topics.
- 37 percent of internet users have contributed to the creation of news, commented about it, or disseminated it via postings on social media sites.
Pew Research Center |
03-02-2010 12:20 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Electronic Publishing, Management
Birmingham Weekly Editor Leaving After 10 Years at the Papernew
Glenny Brock tells Media of Birmingham that the decision to leave the Weekly was "mutually agreed upon" after conversations with publisher Chuck Leishman. Her last day at the paper will be March 11, and she says that special projects editor Jesse Chambers has been tapped to take over as editor. "I will always consider the Weekly my proving ground and the first great love of my professional life. I've done a lot of good work there and perhaps some great work," Brock says. "Now, after overseeing the completion of more than 460 issues of the paper and dozens of supplemental publications, it's time to do something else."
Media of Birmingham |
03-02-2010 11:10 am |
Industry News
Palo Alto Weekly is Part of That City's 'Wealth of News Coverage'new
"At a time when many cities struggle to support one newspaper, Palo Alto has three," the New York Times reports. In addition to the Weekly (which also publishes a daily electronic edition each weekday), there are two dailies, The Daily Post and The Daily News.
The New York Times |
03-01-2010 3:24 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Palo Alto Weekly
News & Review's Waterless Urinal Gets the Local TV Treatmentnew
When a Sacramento TV channel did a story last week on the state EPA pulling its 50-plus waterless urinals out of its LEED-certified building, it also headed over to the News & Review's new green building to follow owner Jeff von Kaenel into the men's room. "Ours is working great," he says, showing off the waterless urinal.
Sacramento News & Review |
03-01-2010 12:44 pm |
Industry News
Monterey County Weekly Publisher Talks Shopnew
"I come to the newspaper business honestly and organically: I was inspired as I read the Washington Post every morning as a 5th grader in 1973," Erik Cushman tells the California Newspaper Publishers Association. "I have a predisposition for foul language and strong whiskey -- and I don't object to hard work." He goes on to discuss how he ended up at the Weekly, the paper's redesigned website and its solar-power initiative.
California Newspaper Publishers Association |
03-01-2010 12:28 pm |
Industry News
Cuba's Communist Party Paper Picks Up Miami New Times Storynew
Miami New Times |
03-01-2010 12:35 pm |
Industry News
What's it Like to Be Westword's Pot Critic?new
"If you'd told me six months ago that I'd have a job with Westword that basically required me to smoke pot and then give readers my take on toking, I would have asked you for a hit of whatever it was you were puffing on," pot critic William Breathes writes, before explaining what the job has been like so far. "Medical marijuana is something I take seriously, but that doesn't mean I can't have fun with it. I don't think I'll ever get past the kid-in-a-candy-store feeling when I see twenty different strains in front of me," he concludes. "And I know I'll never get used to collecting a paycheck for taking bong hits."
Westword |
02-26-2010 1:50 pm |
Industry News
Austin Chronicle Editor Louis Black Reflects on SXSW's Growthnew
"It was basically four guys sitting around a room talking a lot. We would work on the Chronicle, take a break and talk more. We focused a lot on the big picture, but also the details," Black says about the time he and three friends founded the South by Southwest festival in the late 1980s. "We would sit there night after night and ask things like, 'OK, you land at the airport -- what happens next?'" Black has seen SXSW -- which happens next month in Austin -- grow from a music festival into a huge international event that also incorporates interactive and film festivals, and employs about 40 staffers. But despite the growth, Black says the festival remains true to its roots. "After all these years, SXSW is really still about creative people coming together face-to-face and collaborating," he says.
Southwest Austin |
02-26-2010 11:24 am |
Industry News
Creative Loafing Editor's Award-Winning Reporting Spawns Booknew
Mara Shalhoup's BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family, which is being published by St. Martin's Press, is due to hit stores next week. The book springs from Shalhoup's 2006 award-winning three-part series in Creative Loafing (Atlanta), "BMF: Hip-hop's shadowy empire," which examined the rise of the Black Mafia
Family, a cocaine-trafficking network with ties to a music label and various violent crimes in Atlanta. BMF leaders Big Meech and his brother Southwest T are each currently serving 30-year sentences.
BMFBook.com |
02-26-2010 10:56 am |
Industry News
Salt Lake City Weekly Logo is One of Many in 'Logorama'new
Of the 2,500 or so recognizable brand logos that make up the Oscar-nominated French short film Logorama, only one belongs to an AAN member. That honor goes to Salt Lake City Weekly, which appears briefly (around the 11-minute mark) in the 16-minute animated short.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
02-25-2010 2:21 pm |
Industry News
Survey: Newspaper Sites Most Trusted Local News Sourcenew
A comScore survey done for the Newspaper Association of America finds that newspaper websites are the most-visited and most-trusted sources for local news and information, outpacing local radio and TV websites, portals, and speciality and social networking websites. Approximately 57 percent of the 3,050 respondents said newspaper sites were the top online source for local information; that percentage grew for upper income households (63 percent) and for the college educated (60 percent).
Newspaper Association of America |
02-25-2010 11:50 am |
Industry News
Long Island Press Turns Cover Story into Standalone Multimedia Site
The Press recently developed a multimedia site to accompany a cover story on Long Island's Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center and its holocaust survivors as part of its attempt to find new ways to present its journalism. Publisher Jed Morey tells AAN News it is all tied into the company's recent expansion of video journalism, which includes hiring a full-time video journalist. "It has really energized the staff and brought a whole new perspective to our reporting, because his pitches are so unique," Morey says. "Part of our growth this year is online and we're making original video a huge part of that initiative."
AAN News |
02-25-2010 11:22 am |
Industry News
