AAN News
AAN West Program Set
Guerrilla marketing, sales gurus featured
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
12-14-2001 11:58 am |
Association News
Alternative Newsweekly Awards: Seventh Annual Call for Entries
Contest rewards the best in alternative journalism
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
12-06-2001 4:18 pm |
Association News
AAN West Scaled Back
Focus on sales and marketing
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
12-03-2001 1:08 pm |
Industry News
News Racks Corralled in Phillynew
News racks in downtown Philadelphia have been corralled by a non-profit charged with developing the center city. Philadelphia City Paper Publisher Paul Curci was supposed to be part of the committee planning the installation, but he says he got no chance to comment and was told only the day before the corrals were installed. Nevertheless, Curci says he has no complaints about them.
Philadelphia City Paper |
11-29-2001 11:34 am |
Industry News
Classified Conference Smaller
But focused on generating new revenue
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
11-08-2001 1:43 pm |
Industry News
Thinking Outside the Newsbox
Newspaper companies in the District of Columbia, including Washington City Paper, reached a voluntary agreement with downtown business officials on newsracks. Under the agreement, publishers will use demonstration sites to test three different rack systems to see which one works best.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
10-26-2001 12:18 pm |
Industry News
AAN Board Votes on Surplus
Marketing, research, convention supported
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
10-18-2001 12:51 pm |
Association News
Starbucks Backs Away From Exclusive Distribution Proposalnew
Last week, several news outlets reported that the coffee chain was pursuing marketing deals that would provide local dailies with exclusive distribution in return for free advertising and the papers' agreement to stop selling at competing coffee shops. Now Starbucks officials say the proposal was the result of internal miscommunication.
Associated Press |
10-12-2001 12:00 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation
Judge Urges Boston to Rethink News Box Bannew
A Boston judge urges the city to reconsider its ordinance that bans news boxes in the Back Bay. The Boston Phoenix, a plaintiff in a suit against the law, reports that the city has agreed not to enforce the ban for three months.
Boston Phoenix |
10-11-2001 8:17 am |
Industry News
Classified Conference Deadline Extended
Special hotel room rate still available
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
10-10-2001 7:01 am |
Industry News
Synergy’s the Word in DFW
Lee Newquist, the owner of AAN's newest independent newsweekly, says there’s plenty of room to grow Fort Worth Weekly. The special relationship between the paper he bought this week and the Dallas Observer may allow cooperative ad sales efforts, and neither paper’s going to park its boxes on the other paper’s turf, Newquist says.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
10-04-2001 1:55 pm |
Industry News
Starbucks Wants Free Ads in Return For Exclusive Distributionnew
Several daily-newspaper execs tell E&P that the coffee chain has threatened to boot their paper from local stores. In addition to free ads, the dailies say Starbucks wants them to pull out of competing single-copy-sales outlets. E&P also reports that Starbucks managers can choose which local papers to stock, but the company eventually wants each store in a given market to offer the same three papers.
Editor & Publisher |
10-03-2001 9:11 am |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation
Medill Workshop Attendance Battered by Economy, Terrorism
Seminars more interactive than ever
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
09-26-2001 7:46 am |
Association News
News Boxes Not Yet Banned in Bostonnew
A Boston judge has temporarily blocked a ban on news boxes in the Back Bay. The local ordinance, which went into effect August 9, was challenged by the non-AAN alt pub Weekly Dig and the paid circulation weekly, Editorial Humor. The judge issued a restraining order, and now other publications, including the Boston Phoenix, are joining the lawsuit. (Click here to download a copy of the Weekly Dig's Aug. 29 story on the newsrack ban.)
Boston Phoenix |
09-06-2001 6:32 am |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation, Boston Phoenix
A Good Show, by Any Measure
The AAN Convention in New Orleans featured 521 attendees, 44 exhibits, seven new AAN members and one great party. Not to mention Hazel Reinhardt, Leslye Geller, Rick Bragg, Andrei Codrescu and Oliver Stone. Plus a jazz funeral and some amazing beds. Who could ask for anything more?
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
07-18-2001 11:50 am |
Industry News
