AAN News
Senior Advertising Executive Named CL Charlotte Associate Publisher
Wendy Goldstein, a senior advertising executive with McClatchy Newspapers, has been named Associate Publisher of Creative Loafing Charlotte. As Associate Publisher, Goldstein will be responsible for all sales, marketing, and business functions of CL Charlotte, the Carolinas’ largest city weekly and Charlotte’s leading source of information about the arts, entertainment, dining, and other aspects of city life.
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Creative Loafing Press Release |
07-06-2010 11:13 am |
Press Releases
Bartash Acquires New Tensor Web Press
Market Leader Increases capacity to meet growing demand
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Bartash Printing Press Release |
06-28-2010 11:43 am |
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Boulder Weekly Investigation Leads to New State Law
On May 27, Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter signed Senate Bill 193 into law, making Colorado the ninth state to ban the shackling of inmates during labor and childbirth. The bill was inspired by Boulder Weekly editor Pamela White's investigation into the treatment of pregnant inmates in state prisons and jails. White was also key in drafting the legislation and pushing the bill forward. "I've written lots of news articles and opinion columns. I've written nine published novels," she says. "But I'd never written a bill."
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Boulder Weekly Press Release |
06-04-2010 2:13 pm |
Press Releases
'Savage Love' iPhone App Released
Index Newspapers (parent company of The Stranger and Portland Mercury) and Night & Day Studios have released a Savage Love iPhone app, which provides "an interactive take on the love, sex, and relationship advice Dan Savage has been serving up for nearly 20 years," as the press release puts it. The app features a "Question of the Day" updated each afternoon, previous columns and podcasts, and exclusive text and video content. "We thought for sure that the app store would reject this but they approved in record time," Stranger publisher Tim Keck says. "I guess we've lost our touch." The app sells for $1.99, and is tagged in the iTune app store as having "Frequent/Intense Sexual Content or Nudity," "Frequent/Intense Profanity or Crude Humor," and "Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes." In other words, everything you love about Savage Love to begin with.
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Index Newspapers Press Release |
06-04-2010 10:50 am |
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Colorado Springs Independent Turning Readers into Headhunters
The Indy is hiring a new ad director, sales executive and news reporter, and "instead of turning to an expensive headhunter," the paper says it is offering cash rewards to readers who refer successful candidates.
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Colorado Springs Independent Press Release |
05-26-2010 9:03 am |
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Veteran Print Sales Executive Joins Bartash Team
Sidney Simon, owner and CEO of Bartash Inc., one of the nation’s leading
manufacturers of magazines, newspapers and niche publications, proudly
announces that industry veteran Bob Senske has joined Bartash as its newest
Sales Executive. Mr. Senske brings over 25 years of graphic arts experience
to Philadelphia’s largest coldset web printer. Most recently, he spent 10
years in sales with A.F.L. Web Printing of Voorhees, NJ.
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Bartash Printing Press Release |
05-19-2010 11:06 am |
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Tags: Management, Bartash Printing
Sarah Billingsley Named AWN Communications Director
Sponsored post by Associate Member Alternative Weekly Network
Sarah Billingsley, an advertising executive whose experience at several alternative weeklies brought her to AWN two years ago as Ad Coordinator, has been named Communications Director for the Alternative Weekly Network.
In addition to becoming an AWN Director where she now coordinates the 95-member advertising cooperative’s national sales efforts, Sarah assumes additional responsibilities associated with the long-time position held by John Morrison who left the company in March.
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Alternative Weekly Network Press Release |
05-19-2010 6:46 am |
Press Releases
Voice Local Network to Use Analog Analytics for Couponsnew
Village Voice Media Holdings' Voice Local Network has tapped Analog Analytics to provide a local coupon solution for its publications. The company's software offers interactive coupons for local online publishers and advertisers, as well as a scalable platform to integrate and optimize the performance of both traditional advertising like print with online interactive and mobile. "We are constantly seeking ways to enhance and extend local online advertising, going beyond our own sites," VVM president and COO Scott Tobias says in a release. "Interactive coupons in all media are very effective and Analog Analytics does an excellent job in providing this technology."
Analog Analytics Press Release (via Marketwire) |
05-12-2010 9:27 am |
Press Releases
The Village Voice Announces Initial Lineup for 10th Annual Siren Festivalnew
The Village Voice |
05-06-2010 1:35 pm |
Press Releases
ABC Interactive Working with Verve Wireless on Mobile Stats
The Audit Bureau of Circulations' interactive unit, ABCi, is teaming with Verve Wireless to audit newspapers' mobile content delivered via the Verve publishing platform. As a result, ABCi says it is now able to provide newspaper publishers and advertisers with independently verified mobile usage data generated from apps, e-readers, and mobile browsers. "It's clear that mobile represents the next generation of publishing," says Art Howe, CEO of Verve Wireless. "In order for advertisers to have confidence in the medium, there has to be accountability and verifiable usage statistics. ABC's interactive audit services are ideally suited to audit user data across all mobile technology platforms, all devices and all networks."
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Verve Wireless Press Release |
04-23-2010 8:51 am |
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Two News & Review Newspapers Partner with eVoter
Sacramento News & Review and the Chico News & Review today announced a partnership with eVoter, a website that connects Sacramento and Chico voters to polling place locations, election information, candidate profiles and endorsements prior to California's Primary Election on June 8. "Our readership is involved and interested in local and state politics," says Deborah Redmond of the News & Review. "eVoter will provide information about local candidates and their positions in an easy-to-use format."
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News & Review Press Release |
04-22-2010 8:28 am |
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Cleveland Scene Names New Editor
Erich Burnett has been named editor of the Cleveland Scene. Burnett is a
Cleveland native whose background includes 12 years as an editor of Scene
and corporate editor for Scene's previous parent companies, New Times and
Village Voice Media. Burnett most recently served as senior editor for
Village Voice Media. Burnett took over as editor on April 13. The Scene is
part of Times-Shamrock Communications.
Times-Shamrock Communications Press Release |
04-14-2010 5:03 pm |
Press Releases
Isthmus Ad Manager Named Chair of 'Buy Local' Board
The board members of Dane Buy Local, a coalition of local independent businesses, organizations and citizens in and around Dane County, Wisc., have selected Isthmus advertising manager Colin Murray as the organization's new Board Chair. The group, which includes more than 425 members, provides support and promotion for locally owned
businesses.
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Dane Buy Local Press Release |
04-14-2010 10:02 am |
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Foundation Adds Three New AAN Clients
Sponsored post by Associate Member DesertNet
Foundation says Raleigh/Durham's Independent Weekly, Indianapolis' Nuvo and the Nashville Scene have recently launched new sites on the Foundation platform. These three papers join 21 others on the content management system, which is specifically geared toward AAN papers.
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DesertNet |
04-07-2010 8:47 am |
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Pacific Northwest Inlander Launches Redesigned Sitenew
The Spokane, Wash., alt-weekly has re-launched its website, Inlander.com. The redesign features faster load times, online archives stretching back 10 years, a regularly updated, all-in-one blog (a la The Stranger's Slog) and, crucially, a searchable, sortable, shareable entertainment listing system. The redesign was made possible through months of work with Wisconsin-based WeHaa, a web-publishing company that is also currently working with the Santa Fe Reporter, Ohio's Athens News and Birmingham Weekly. "My major goal was to really give The Inlander the dream site ... [to] give them the best tools to grab the online market," says Cesar Montes, president of WeHaa. "We keep growing and growing and growing, because we are [always] open to hearing the needs of the publisher."
Pacific Northwest Inlander |
04-02-2010 10:39 am |
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