AAN News
Mobilizing Mobile Technology for Alt-Weeklies
They're everywhere -- bars, clubs, Laundromats, post offices, even churches: people busily typing away on the small keypads that are built into the various phones, Sidekicks, Blackberries, Treos and PDAs without which they couldn't survive. We take a look at what a few alt-weeklies are doing to get their content to this new mobile set.
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AAN News |
04-23-2007 3:00 pm |
Industry News
net-linx Introduces New Licensing and Payment Plans
net-linx Publishing Solutions Press Release |
04-18-2007 9:31 am |
Press Releases
Microsoft, Adobe on Collision Coursenew
Online Media Daily |
04-18-2007 9:12 am |
Industry News
Portland Through the Eyes of the New York Timesnew
Willamette Week is understandably biased
on the issue. So if you aren't sure yet whether you're attending this year's AAN convention (or you simply want to use the Time's new double-click dictionary to look up words like "chic," "funky," "spritely," and "unneurotic"), here's 36 Hours in Portland, Ore., with the Gray Lady.
New York Times |
04-13-2007 12:49 pm |
Industry News
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) Celebrates 20th Anniversarynew
"Hey, this is cool," Matt Brunson remembers thinking when he was offered the opportunity to write for the alt-weekly in 1988. "I'll be able to earn a couple of extra bucks before this paper folds within the year." Twenty years later, he's Creative Loafing's associate editor and A&E editor. "When this paper started, hardly any of us really knew what we were doing," writes former editor-in-chief John Grooms. "It was [Creative Loafing's] first expansion into another city, and the nuts and bolts of how to do it, more often than not, were up in the air." He says the paper has succeeded because it's "been a source of good writing and quality information, speaking to the reader directly and urging readers to talk back as loudly as they want."
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
04-12-2007 10:26 am |
Industry News
AAN Convention Website Open for Business
You'll find a preliminary convention schedule on the site, along with everything you need to know about registering for the annual confab -- including the fact that AAN member papers are once again eligible for up to two free registrations. The programming at this year's conference, which will be held June 14-16 in Portland, Ore., will focus heavily on web publishing and management training.
AAN Staff |
04-10-2007 5:04 pm |
Association News
Washington City Paper Unveils Redesign, Sends Out Hawkersnew
Despite MediaBistro's speculation that the hawkers were sent out in response to the recent D.C. launch of The Onion, City Paper staffers were just helping to promote the redesign yesterday as they braved chilly temperatures to hand out free papers. On the City Paper's blog, reporter Jonathan York notes his lack of preparation compared to the hawkers of free dailies the Washington Examiner and Express. "These guys were pros," he says. "As the wind brought snowflakes, my hands were bare, and Messrs. Examiner and Express wore gloves."
MediaBistro |
04-06-2007 1:02 pm |
Industry News
New York Press Association: Metroland Editor is 'Writer of the Year'new
Chet Hardin's topics "are provocative, contemporary and often important," judges for the Association's annual Better Newspaper Contest say. "It is hard to distinguish his hard news stories from features, and that's a great compliment," they write. AAN members were well-represented in the rest of the contest as well. Metroland won one additional first-place and one third-place award; the Ithaca Times received one first-place and one second-place as well as three third-place awards; and Syracuse New Times took home four first-place and two second-place awards.
New York Press Association (PDF file) |
04-05-2007 11:29 am |
Honors & Achievements
Southland Publishing to Launch New Monthly Magazine
Southland Publishing, Inc. Press Release |
04-05-2007 8:18 am |
Press Releases
Alt-Weekly Comic Strip Spawns Adult Swim TV Pilotnew
The pilot of The Drinky Crow Show, based on Tony Millionaire's Maakies, is set to premiere on The Cartoon Network's Adult Swim May 13. Maakies, which debuted in the New York Press in 1994, is now featured in the Village Voice and other AAN papers. With a theme song by They Might Be Giants and a plot involving a mermaid, a suicidal crow, a shark attack, "head-chopping violence" and "ferocious Napoleonic French alligators," the pilot should make for an interesting 11 minutes.
Publishers Weekly |
04-03-2007 7:49 am |
Industry News
New Study Finds Readers Finish More Stories Online Than in Printnew
That's the most surprising finding in Poynter's recently released Eyetrack study, according to Editor & Publisher. Readers in the study read 77 percent of the average online story, while the corresponding figures were 62 percent for broadsheets and 57 percent for tabloids. Read more about eyetrack studies at web.aan.org.
Editor & Publisher |
03-29-2007 11:13 am |
Industry News
Why Are the Best-Designed Newspapers Not American?new
"Most American papers look as if they've stopped caring and are just going through the motions," says the National Journal's William Powers. According to the Society for News Design (SND), he's right. The group recently named its best-designed newspapers in the world, and none are American. In an interview with CJR, SND's president Scott Goldman gives his take on the country's design lag. "You see a different attitude toward newspapering in other parts in the world," he says. "Most American papers are cutting at all costs and then sitting back and wondering why advertisers and the readers aren't coming."
National Journal | CJR |
03-23-2007 2:37 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Design & Production, Management
Flood Can’t Stop Metro Spirit Overhaul
Portico Publications Press Release |
03-23-2007 10:10 am |
Press Releases
Eyetracking Points the Way to Effective Article Designnew
Online Journalism Review |
03-16-2007 11:35 am |
Industry News
AAN to Name Annual Award After Molly Ivins
The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies will honor Ivins' contribution to journalism by bestowing an annual First Amendment award to a North American journalist whose work best embodies the spirit of Ivins' legacy. "She got her basic training at one of our
member newspapers, and when she left she continued to speak truth to power
with wit and style. Her work speaks for itself, and speaks volumes about how much difference one courageous journalist can make," says Kenneth Neill, AAN President and publisher of The Memphis
Flyer.
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Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Press Release |
03-13-2007 11:20 am |
Press Releases
