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Free Trips to Paris Generate AAN Excitement

AAN Staff  |  08-12-2003  2:15 pm  |  Industry News

How "Do Not Call" Affects AAN Papers

Alice Neff Lucan  |  08-08-2003  4:16 pm  |  Legal News

Spring Street: Online Personals for Hipstersnew

"Self-revelation is often wrapped in sarcasm and the straightforward snapshot is a rarity," is how The Washington Post’s Libby Copeland describes the ads placed on Spring Street Networks, the online personals service used by Village Voice Media, New Times and many other publications that attract an urban demographic. The dating service for the age of irony, Copeland calls Spring Street, which claims about 950,000 users (compared with 8 million for Match.com).
The Washington Post  |  06-13-2003  10:45 am  |  Industry News

A View of Pittsburgh from the Other Side of Pennsylvanianew

Howard Altman, editor of Philadelphia City Paper, takes off on Pittsburgh's new baseball park and that City Paper's luxury suite, the tensions between "New Timesers and Voiceniks" and the new owners of Cleveland Free Times, and what the association should look like in the future. "Working at an alternative, I know that the thrust of [Neal Pollack's awards luncheon] punch lines -- that we are verging on the old and irrelevant -- is something we should be keenly aware of."
Philadelphia City Paper  |  06-12-2003  11:15 am  |  Industry News

Pittsburgh Convention At a Glance

Here's a look at the 2004 annual convention by the numbers -- from attendance to admissions, parties to pierogies, board members to brouhahas. The consensus seems to be that Pittsburgh surprised and delighted AAN. (FULL STORY)
AAN Staff  |  06-11-2003  12:26 pm  |  Industry News

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