AAN News
Isthmus News Editor Wins National Award for Animal Issues Reporting
Isthmus news editor Bill Lueders has received a Genesis Award from the Humane Society of the United States for his reporting on animal issues. Lueders was honored for his reporting on animal research at the UW-Madison, including his story about a 5-year-old primate named ro4040 and his articles on decompression experiments involving sheep. "It was a great honor for me and for Isthmus," says Lueders, whose article on primate research was excerpted in the award booklet for the star-studded ceremony in Beverly Hills.
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Isthmus Publishing Press Release |
03-23-2010 8:44 am |
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Mail List/Fulfillment Leader Joins Bartash Team
Philadelphia Firm Boosts Subscription Services and Circulation Development
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Bartash Printing Press Release |
03-23-2010 12:32 pm |
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Tags: Management, Bartash Printing
Portico President and AAN Board Member Says Farewell
Steve Delgado has left his post with Portico Publications to relocate to Los Angeles this summer. Delgado has been with the company, which owns AAN members C-VILLE Weekly, Free Times and Metro Spirit, since 2002, serving as publisher, vice president and, most recently, president. At last year's AAN Convention, he was also elected to the Board of Directors as chair of the Design & Production Committee. "The last eight years with Portico have been an exciting time in my life and it
was a very difficult decision to leave the company," Delgado says in a statement. "The people
who make go are immensely
talented and I will miss working with them every day. I'm looking forward to
finding a group on the left coast with an equal amount moxie that can bring out
my best."
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Portico Publications Press Release |
03-19-2010 4:44 pm |
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Chef Rick Bayless Will Keynote Isthmus Green Day
Isthmus Publishing Press Release |
03-15-2010 10:53 am |
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Only Three Weeks Left to Register for Columbia's Journalism Career Expo
Registration is open for our annual Career Expo, to be held Sat. March 27, 2010 from 9 - 5 at Columbia University in New York City.
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Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Press Release |
03-09-2010 9:00 am |
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Tags: Editorial, Management
VVMH Plans to Roll Out Glossy Covers for All its Publications
SF Weekly's debut of a new four-color glossy cover this week makes it the sixth Village Voice Media Holdings (VVMH) print publication to adopt the sleek, magazine-style format, and the company plans on rolling out glossy covers at all of its publications within the next eighteen to 24 months, according to a release. "The glossy is the next step in our evolution," president and chief operating officer Scott Tobias says in a statement.
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Village Voice Media Holdings Press Release |
03-05-2010 2:30 pm |
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AWN Joins Sacramento News & Review in New Green Building
Sponsored post by Associate Member Alternative Weekly Network
After nearly 14 years apart, the Alternative Weekly Network (AWN) and the Sacramento News & Review are once again sharing office space, as AWN has moved into the News & Review's new green building. "We are returning to where it all began," AWN executive director Mark Hanzlik says. Hanzlik adds that in addition to the physical move, the company is currently retooling the AWN website, and upgrading some of the operational processes of the cooperative.
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Alternative Weekly Network Press Release |
03-05-2010 9:22 am |
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Times Shamrock Taps Chris Keating as Scene Publisher
Chris Keating, who was most recently publisher at the San Antonio Current, has been named the new publisher at Times Shamrock sister paper the Cleveland Scene. Replacing Keating in San Antonio will be Michael Wagner, a former publisher of the Riverfront Times. He will take the title of general manager.
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Times Shamrock Alternative Newsweekly Group Press Release |
03-04-2010 9:25 am |
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SF Weekly Goes Glossy
Starting with this week's issue, SF Weekly is becoming the latest alt-weekly to go with a high-quality glossy cover. "We feel that this attractive new format will increase the visibility of our cover stories and award-winning journalism," publisher Josh Fromson and editor Tom Walsh say in a release. "The upgrade also shows that SF Weekly continues to invest in its print product."
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SF Weekly Press Release |
03-04-2010 9:15 am |
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Oklahoma Gazette Earns an Array of Awards and Accolades
Oklahoma Gazette |
03-03-2010 6:18 pm |
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VVMH Partners with GoTime to Launch Happy Hours Mobile App
Village Voice Media Holdings, LLC announced today that it has partnered with happy-hour guide GoTime to launch a mobile app detailing more than 15,000 happy hour deals in 30 cities across the country. Users can search happy hours by name, location, time and even type of cuisine, all within one location-aware mobile application."We want to be everywhere our readers are, and that's out on the town, anywhere in the country," VVMH president and COO Scott Tobias says in a release. "We own the night -- and this app really delivers on that." MORE: Seattle Weekly's Mike Seely has more on the origins of the partnership with GoTime.
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Village Voice Media Holdings, LLC Press Release |
03-02-2010 12:45 pm |
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NUVO Managing Editor Co-Authors Environmental Humor Book
NUVO's Jim Poyser has a side project with longtime friend Michael Jensen, a website -- ApocaDocs.com -- that aims to bring humor to "the horror of environmental collapse." Now the duo have released a free book, Converging Emergencies: 2010-2020. "Global warming and industrial toxins are combining to create a fragile environment, yet in some parts of the world, the status quo still seems OK," a release announcing the book reads, "thus need to educate -- via entertainment -- about our planet-wide predicament." MORE: Poyser tells AAN News that the ApocaDocs are offering their weekly PANIQuiz feature, free of charge, to any AAN member papers who may be interested.
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ApocaDocs Press Release |
02-22-2010 9:50 am |
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Bartash Wins Six Printing Awards in National Competition
Bartash Printing Press Release |
02-22-2010 9:57 am |
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Save the Date for the Isthmus Green Day Wedding: Saturday, April 17
Isthmus Publishing Press Release |
02-17-2010 3:36 pm |
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Longtime VVM Illustrator Takes Top Prize
Brian Stauffer has received the Society of Illustrators' highest honor for a cover he conceived for Phoenix New Times. The winning illustration will be printed in a hard-bound book later this year. "I can't really describe how surreal this experience is for me, given that I started out in this business 18 years ago assigning illustrations to the industry legends I now consider close friends," Stauffer writes on his blog.
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Village Voice Media Holdings Press Release |
02-11-2010 8:49 am |
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