AAN News
Oklahoma Gazette Publisher Forms a New Parent Company
Bill Bleakley has published the Gazette since he founded it in 1979, and four years ago, he purchased OKCBusiness, a biweekly business newspaper. Now he has moved both of those publications, along with High Plains Events LLC, which organizes events for the papers and other groups, under the umbrella of Tierra Media Group. Bleakley will take the title of president of the new company. In a statement, he says the company does not plan to expand out of its current geographic area. "We don't consider ourselves a chain because everything we do relates to niches right here in Central Oklahoma," he says. "Oklahoma City is a very hot economy and we're positioned right in the middle of it with no intention of acquiring properties outside of this market." Bleakley serves on AAN's Board of Directors as the Organization/Bylaws Chair. In other Gazette news, the paper and High Plains Events have announced Oklahoma City's inaugural Halloween parade, Gazette's Ghouls Gone Wild, featuring a performance by the Flaming Lips (singer Wayne Coyne will be the parade's Grand Marshal). Filter magazine reports that the band is currently looking for 1,000 fans to take part in the March of a Thousand Flaming Skeletons at the parade. CORRECTION: We originally noted that the Halloween parade would include a performance by the Flaming Lips. That is incorrect -- the band will only be appearing and leading the skeleton march, not performing music.
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Oklahoma Gazette Press Release |
10-10-2007 4:26 pm |
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Style Weekly Publishes Issue in 99 Percent English!
The gesture by the Richmond, Va., alt-weekly celebrates an idea recently offered by Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors Chairman Kelly E. Miller, who suggests that the county make English its official language. "Unfortunately, we were unable to make the issue 100 percent in English," Style Weekly editor Jason Roop says. "But if Mr. Miller can bear with us, we are evolving. We are trying our best." The paper hit a snag on its path to full English immersion in its always-difficult food section. "It was unavoidable to write about Nate's Taco Truck ... without using the word 'taco,'" Roop says.
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Style Weekly Press Release |
10-10-2007 5:53 pm |
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Boston's Weekly Dig Contracts, Expands
Editor Michael Brodeur is no longer with the company "as part of an editorial restructuring," and will not be immediately replaced, according to a press release. "This wasn't an easy decision," says Jeff Lawrence, Dig founder and president. "I wouldn't be surprised if his byline shows up in the Dig in the future though. He's a great writer and it's already been discussed." As Brodeur moves on, Alfred Wilson joins the company as VP of Business and Marketing. He will oversee all sales operations at the Dig and will also act as Group Publisher for Dig Publishing's custom publishing initiative, which includes Beer Advocate magazine, as well as several as-yet-unnamed in-market publications to be launched in 2008. Wilson previously worked at the Phoenix Media Communications Group in Boston for five years before spending two years in management consulting.
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Boston's Weekly Dig Press Release |
09-27-2007 7:57 pm |
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Willamette Week Cover Story Turns into Book Project
What began as a May 2004 story on Starbucks for Taylor Clark has turned into his first book, Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture, soon to be released by Little, Brown. The former staff writer "chronicles the rise of Starbucks from a modest Northwest operation to a global powerhouse, examines the ways the company impacts society, and what it says about our culture that the company can place stores literally within sight of one another and turn a healthy profit in both," according to a press release." Publisher's Weekly says that Clark's "dubious perspective on one of the modern world's most ubiquitous icons is just frothy enough to prove entertaining."
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Hachette Book Group Press Release |
09-26-2007 11:59 am |
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Deadline Approaching for Journalism Fellowships in Science & Religion
John Templeton Foundation Press Release |
09-26-2007 9:57 am |
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Shepherd Express Icon Announces Candidacy for 'Pretty Much Everything'new
Shepherd Express Press Release |
09-20-2007 4:00 pm |
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Alt-Weekly Partners With Local Media to Launch Classified Web Portal
The Colorado Springs Independent has joined local TV and radio stations to launch a free classified portal covering Southern Colorado called SoCoAds.com. In addition to the Indy's free classifieds, SoCoAds will draw ads from national portals like Monster.com, CareerBuilder, HotJobs, AutoMart and eBay. "Southern Colorado now has easy, one-stop online shopping for jobs, apartments, cars, pets, roommates ...
virtually anything," says Ethan Beute, creative services director media partner KOAA-TV, in a press release.
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SoCoAds.com Press Release |
09-18-2007 8:24 am |
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Journal Sentinel Inc. Signs Contract to Print the Chicago Readernew
Journal Communications, Inc. Press Release (via BusinessWire) |
09-18-2007 8:39 am |
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Hartford/Valley Advocate Group Publisher to Step Down
Janet Reynolds, a 20-year veteran of publishing group New Mass. Media, will leave the papers on Sept. 28 as part of a company-wide restructuring. "Publishing a
newspaper has always been a challenging business particularly in the last
few years," says Reynolds, who began as a listings
editor at the Hartford Advocate in 1986 and has since served as a reporter, managing editor, editor and publisher within the New England-based chain, which was acquired by the Tribune Company's Hartford Courant in 1999. "I feel that I met many of those challenges and am able to leave them in good shape and in good capable hands that will take them to the next level." Josh Mamis, currently group publisher of New Mass. Media's two other alt-weeklies, the New Haven Advocate and Fairfield County Weekly, was named group publisher for all four papers, their websites and other products. Sean Hitchcock and Do-Han Allen will assume associate publisher roles at Fairfield County Weekly and the Valley Advocate, respectively.
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New Mass. Media Press Release |
09-11-2007 11:00 am |
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Boston Phoenix Hits Historic Readership Level for Second Year in a Row
Boston Phoenix Press Release |
09-06-2007 8:54 am |
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GameZnFlix Announces Syndicated Video Game News Service [members only]
GameZnFlix, Inc. Press Release |
09-05-2007 9:21 am |
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San Diego CityBeat Music Editor Inks Book Deal
San Diego CityBeat Press Release |
08-30-2007 8:03 pm |
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Alt-Weeklies Win Three NABJ Awardsnew
Earlier this month, the National Association of Black Journalists announced the winners of the 2007 Salute to Excellence Awards, which "recognize exemplary coverage of people of color or issues in the African Diaspora." Riverfront Times took home two first-place awards: Kristen Hinman for her "Basketball by the Book" series, in the Enterprise division; and Ben Westhoff for "Ace of Spaides," in the Business division. Seattle Weekly's Nina Shapiro also placed first in the Feature division for "Schooling the District."
National Association of Black Journalists Press Release |
08-28-2007 7:58 am |
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New Internet Venture in Minnesota Taps Former City Pages Staffers
MinnPost.com, which is slated to launch later this year, will be a not-for-profit internet-based daily "paper" run by former Star Tribune editor and publisher Joel Kramer. Corey Anderson, formerly online managing editor at City Pages, will be web editor, and three former staffers will be contributors: David Brauer, Beth Hawkins, and Mike Mosedale.
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MinnPost.com Press Release |
08-27-2007 12:10 pm |
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Pasadena Weekly Wins Child Health and Welfare Journalism Award
Joe Piasecki's "Throwaway Kids" investigative series examining flaws in the foster care system was awarded the 2007 Price Child Health and Welfare Journalism Award by The Children's Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law. "This outstanding series focuses much-needed attention on the dangers and pitfalls that await thousands of youth aging out of the foster care system each year," reads a notification letter from the institute.
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Pasadena Weekly Press Release |
08-24-2007 3:07 pm |
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