AAN News
Backpage.com Announces Enhanced Services
Unique user-features set online classifies website apart from competition
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Backpage.com Press Release |
06-03-2009 8:53 am |
Press Releases
VVM to Craigslist CEO: There is Nothing Wrong With a Little Competition
In a blog post last Friday, Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster complained that politicians are attacking Craigslist for adult ads while ignoring Village Voice Media and other media outlets that run the same ads, because they have a "need for positive stories and campaign endorsements from those very same newspapers." VVM says it empathizes with Craigslist but finds much to be desired in the company's response. "They have a number of moralistic state Attorneys General threatening them over their adult ads, and a raft of bad press following the terrible tragedy in Boston that the company is admittedly in no way responsible for," VVM says in a press release. "But, the manner in which Buckmaster is responding to this pressure -- by disingenuously lashing out at competitors and caving to political pressure -- is inexcusable, and displays a remarkable lack of sound judgment."
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Village Voice Media Press Release |
05-29-2009 12:12 pm |
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Connecticut Alt-Weeklies Outsource This Week's Issue
When a news website in Pasadena made headlines last year for its decision to outsource City Hall coverage to reporters in India, the group managing editor of the Hartford Advocate, New Haven Advocate and Fairfield County Weekly wondered if his three alt-weeklies could do the same thing. While John Adamian's idea started as a joke, it quickly led to an actual exercise in outsourcing journalism -- and the results are this week's papers, which have been mostly generated by Indian freelancers. The papers say the experiment proves that outsourcing a local newspaper is possible, but not recommended. "Call us old-school, but we think good, old-fashioned shoe-leather journalism is worth the price," the staff writes in an editors' note. "Outsourcing could certainly fill pages, probably very cheaply, but what's lost is the very essence of local newspapers: presence."
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New Mass. Media Press Release |
05-27-2009 9:16 am |
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Georgia Straight Honored with National Journalism Award
A story in the Vancouver alt-weekly that exposed pharmaceutical companies' marketing tactics to persuade physicians to prescribe drugs has been named the top magazine article of the year by the Canadian Association of Journalists. Alex Roslin's story, "Pill Pushers," is also a finalist in the National Magazine Awards, along with several other pieces from the Straight. The alt-weekly has also been nominated for five Western Magazine Awards.
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Georgia Straight Press Release |
05-26-2009 8:24 am |
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Boise Weekly Launches New Website
Boise Weekly Press Release |
05-26-2009 8:34 am |
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Seven Days Hires Lauren Ober as New Staff Writer
Seven Days Press Release |
05-21-2009 1:27 pm |
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The Village Voice Announces Additional Artists for Siren Music Festivalnew
The Village Voice Press Release |
05-20-2009 8:48 am |
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The Village Voice Announces 2009 OBIE Award Winnersnew
The Village Voice |
05-19-2009 9:23 am |
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Isthmus Announces Lineup for 2009 Jazz Festnew
Isthmus Press Release |
05-14-2009 3:05 pm |
Press Releases
North Bay Bohemian Editor Tapped for NEA Program
Gretchen Giles is one of 12 U.S. journalists to win a place in the first International Arts Journalism Institute in the Visual Arts. The program, which provides mid-career art critics and writers the opportunity to participate in a two-week intensive training, is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. State Department.
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North Bay Bohemian Press Release |
05-12-2009 8:39 am |
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Tickets On Sale for Village Voice's 'Creative Block' Arts Party
The Village Voice Press Release |
05-11-2009 12:37 pm |
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East Bay Express Offers Web Solution for Local Businesses
The Express is now offering the LocalBizBlogs service, a do-it-yourself web publishing platform, to small businesses and networks. "Over half of the small businesses in the United States currently do not have a website, and many of those who do find it complicated, time consuming, or cost prohibitive to regularly update," Express publisher Jody Colley says. "LocalBizBlogs can either act as their primary website or a compliment to their legacy site."
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East Bay Express Press Release |
05-05-2009 11:50 am |
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Las Vegas CityLife Gets a Books Imprint
Stephens Press, the book publishing division of CityLife's parent company Stephens Media, is launching the CityLife Books imprint, which will publish up to four titles each year. The imprint will be edited by CityLife publisher Geoff Schumacher, who says he will be looking for proposals and manuscripts that speak to regular readers of the alt-weekly. "We want to publish books that question the conventional wisdom and offer new ways of looking at this region and its people," he says in a release. "Great writing will be paramount."
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Stephens Press Press Release |
05-04-2009 8:20 am |
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Seven More AAN Papers Join SelectAlternatives
Sutcliffe Associates Press Release |
05-04-2009 9:58 am |
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Eight Columbia J-Schoolers Nominated for The Livingston Award
Sponsored post by Associate Member Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Eight J-Schoolers, including two current students, have been included among the 47 finalists for the 2008 Livingston Awards for young journalists.
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Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Press Release |
05-04-2009 8:41 am |
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