AAN News
Orlando Weekly Drops Adult Ads This Week; Cops Release Transcriptnew
"Adult services will not be running this week because Orlando Weekly cannot ensure that doing so will not result in additional arrests of its employees by local police," reads the page in the alt-weekly where such ads would ordinarily appear. Instead, the paper printed the text of the First Amendment. Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation has released a transcript from the investigation that led to last week's arrests, but the Weekly's attorney cautions against reading too much into it. "We should not rush to judgment based on the release of a transcript from a single conversation from a two-year investigation," Bill Schaefer tells Local 6 TV. "We should examine the propriety of the release of potential evidence prior to judicial proceedings. It may deny the defendants a fair and impartial trial."
News 13 Central Florida | WFTV | Local 6 TV |
10-25-2007 11:43 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weeklies Protest Arizona Officials' Outrageous Abuse of Power
To show solidarity with Phoenix New Times, members of AAN are providing links on their websites that direct their readers to the many
places on the internet where the home address of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is listed. Last week, New Times disclosed that its executives, writers, and even its readers were the target of a sweeping grand jury probe relating to the paper's publishing the sheriff's home address online; this disclosure led to the paper's co-founders being arrested. One day later, all charges against New Times were dropped. "Our association and its members won't tolerate this
sort of attack on the right of a member paper to publish information that is
and ought to be public record," says Tim Redmond, AAN First Amendment Chair Tim Redmond and executive editor of the San
Francisco Bay Guardian.
(FULL STORY)
Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Press Release |
10-23-2007 11:10 am |
Press Releases
AAN Introduces HTML Newsletters
If you thought your daily AAN.org newsletter looked a little different this morning, you were right. AAN has transitioned the daily and weekly AAN.org emails from staid plain-text to rich HTML. Newsletters for AltWeeklies.com will soon make the same switch, once the site redesign is complete. To sign up for daily or weekly AAN newsletters or to update your preferences, click here (if you are an AAN member) or click here (if you aren't an AAN member).
AAN Staff |
10-18-2007 10:12 am |
Association News
A Move to Let Logos Carry More of the Messagenew
New York Times |
10-18-2007 5:01 pm |
Industry News
Washington City Paper's Production Department 'Celebrates' Last Daynew
Washington City Paper |
10-18-2007 9:08 am |
Industry News
Registration for AAN West Conference Now Opennew
This year's AAN West conference was organized a bit differently than years past: A committee of AAN members in Northern California did most of the heavy lifting, and they've put together a wonderful staff training program that includes business, design & production, editorial, and sales tracks. "The committee's focus was on staff training and providing an opportunity to network with others in the alt-weekly world," says the News & Review's Deborah Redmond, who chaired the committee that organized the event. The conference will be held Feb. 1-2 at the the First Unitarian Church in San Francisco. The early-bird registration rate is only $75 for AAN members and $150 for non-members (the rates increase by $25 after Dec. 7). Hotel options include the Cathedral Hill Hotel and the Kabuki Hotel (formerly the Miyako), which is also the site of the Web Publishing Conference that will immediately precede AAN West. (AAN members can also register now for the Web Publishing Conference, although the complete program won't be announced until next month.)
AAN Staff |
10-17-2007 9:27 am |
Association News
AdReady Offers DIY Web Ad Design App for Smaller Advertisersnew
Online Media Daily |
10-17-2007 9:51 am |
Industry News
As the Buzz Builds, Two Folio Weekly Staffers Leave to Pursue Band
They say the buzz cycle on Next Big Things gets shorter and shorter each year, with music blogs and MySpace breaking down the geographic constraints that may have prevented a label-less and record-less band from Jacksonville, Fla., from becoming one of the most-talked-about bands in the indieverse in a matter of weeks. The case of Black Kids seems to affirm this notion. Last month, the band, which counts as its members Folio Weekly staff writer Owen Holmes and graphic designer Kevin Snow, popped up on a blog from British tastemaker NME, and it wasn't long before Black Kids were everywhere, from The Guardian to Vice to Pitchfork. The band is set to make a big splash at the CMJ Music Marathon this weekend, with three shows scheduled in New York. But before they head up I-95, both Holmes and Snow are leaving the paper to pursue the band full time. Holmes took a few minutes to talk to AAN News via email about the band's rapid rise, the difficult decision to leave Folio, and Barack Obama.
(FULL STORY)
AAN News |
10-15-2007 8:24 am |
Industry News
Time, Inc. Explores Ways to Put Moving Pictures on Printed Pagesnew
Mediaweek |
10-09-2007 10:53 am |
Industry News
The Chicago Reader Debuts its New One-Section Tabloid Format
"The Reader is officially a one-section tabloid -- but that's not the only change," Chicagoist reports. "It's also coming out a day earlier ... and the layout is a lot more open and colorful, with more call-out text and larger graphic elements." Chicagoist's final verdict: "It's a change, but we're liking it." The Reader also has an open comments page on its site, where scores of Chicagoans have been weighing in on the redesign.
Chicagoist | The Chicago Reader |
10-05-2007 8:28 am |
Industry News
Willamette Week Unveils Redesign & New Logonew
"We changed our logo (for the sixth time in our almost 33 years of existence), emphasizing WW rather than Willamette Week," says editor Mark Zusman. The alt-weekly also reduced the paper's height by an inch, changed the typeface, and created a new section "on all matters of living in Portland."
Willamette Week |
10-01-2007 8:12 am |
Industry News
Lawsuits Seek to Define the Question of Licensing Rights on the Webnew
The New York Times |
10-01-2007 11:01 am |
Industry News
Does Poynter's Eyetrack Study Only Show Half the Picture?new
eMedia Tibits/Poynter |
09-27-2007 12:09 pm |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Cartoonist Inks Distro Deal with United Medianew
Matt Bors, whose "Idiot Box" comic appears in AAN member papers including Seven Days, The Village Voice, and the Cleveland Free Times, will now have his work syndicated three times a week by United Feature Syndicate. Bors "infuses the traditional format of editorial cartooning with comic-strip structures and biting humor," says fellow alt-weekly staple Ted Rall, who is also United's acquisition and development editor.
Editor & Publisher |
09-25-2007 2:03 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Design & Production
Ted Rall, V.C. Rogers Elected to Board of Editorial Cartoonists Groupnew
Editor & Publisher |
09-24-2007 10:02 am |
Industry News
Tags: Design & Production
