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Dan Savage Sets Awards Lunch on Fire

In one of the most memorable events ever at an AAN convention, Dan Savage electrified the seventh annual Alternative Newsweekly Awards affair with a high-voltage performance that included nearly naked waiters and publishers shedding trousers. One attendee called it "the best hour of comedy I've ever seen." Savage's fatwah: every first-place winner had to drink a shot and shed an article of clothing. Two-thirds of the way in, he admitted, "I can't believe you are all playing along. The power of one pushy fag in AAN -- it's amazing." (FULL STORY)

06-04-2002 4:18 pm | Industry News

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AAN Accepts MetroBeat

Members approve budget, foundation, new board members and member-services committee (FULL STORY)

AAN Staff | 06-03-2002 11:04 am | Association News

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Vanessa Leggett Describes Her Crash Course in Journalism

Speaking at AAN's First Amendment Luncheon, Vanessa Leggett said she learned journalism "the same way an adolescent boy learns about sex -- groping and fumbling my way through, getting rejected and slapped occasionally." Slapping in her case included jail time for refusing to turn over materials from confidential sources to a Texas grand jury. "We must always work to ensure the free flow of information to the public," she said. "When the government gets involved, that can't occur." (FULL STORY)

Matt Olson | 05-30-2002 2:58 pm | Industry News

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Publisher’s Roundtables To Swap Ideas

New format for business-stream sessions (FULL STORY)

Ryan Fox | 05-24-2002 11:02 am | Association News

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Vanessa Leggett, Dan Savage to Speak at Convention

To replace Bergman and Feldman (FULL STORY)

AAN Staff | 05-13-2002 5:29 pm | Association News

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Frisco Approves Clear Channel Distribution Dealnew

"San Francisco supervisors bowed to the City Attorney's Office once again and approved another really bad contract," Tim Redmond writes in this week's San Francisco Bay Guardian, introducing a story by Tali Woodward. The 20-year contract is with media giant Clear Channel Communications, which owns 1,200 radio stations across the country and assorted other media and advertising properties. It allows the company to erect modular news racks, called pedmounts, and sell advertising on the backs and sides. The deal gives the company "control over the distribution of newspapers in the city for the next 20 years," Woodward writes. "Even some of the supervisors who voted for the deal expressed reservations and said they were acting under legal pressure."

San Francisco Bay Guardian | 05-10-2002 4:15 pm | Industry News

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Clear Channel Empire To Control SF News Racksnew

Under a settlement with the city, Bay Area newspapers have agreed to let the city erect pedmounts in high-traffic areas. Problem is, a subsidiary of media conglomerate Clear Channel Communications will control those pedmounts, who gets to use them and what's advertised on the back. "The idea of giving Clear Channel exclusive control over newspaper distribution -- and ad space on the back of the news racks -- in the city is extremely troubling," the San Francisco Bay Guardian writes.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | 04-25-2002 9:54 am | Industry News

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AAN Going to SHRM

First booth at recruitment expo (FULL STORY)

AAN Staff | 04-15-2002 4:28 pm | Industry News

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Free Paper Boxes Yanked on Opening Daynew

Another front has opened in the Boston news box war. Still embroiled in a lawsuit over whether free-circulation newspaper boxes can be banned in Boston's Back Bay, plaintiffs say the city took their boxes away from sites near Red Sox stadium on opening day, while the paid daily boxes weren't touched, Seth Gitell of the Boston Phoenix reports.

Boston Phoenix | 04-11-2002 3:02 pm | Industry News

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Newsrack Agreement in San Francisconew

The city and Bay Area newspapers have reached an agreement that allows the city to install uniform modular newsracks. Newspapers, including SF Weekly, had sued in 1999, arguing that the original scheme violated their First Amendment rights. "The settlement, which the publishers reached with the city attorney last week, will give the newspaper companies a say in where the new city-controlled racks are installed and which newspapers get to use them," the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

San Francisco Chronicle | 03-20-2002 11:15 am | Industry News

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