AAN News
An Agency's Worst Nightmare: Ads Created by Usersnew
New York Times (reg. req.) |
05-11-2006 8:32 am |
Industry News
A Peak Behind the Ad Agency Curtainnew
Brandweek |
05-11-2006 8:20 am |
Industry News
AAN Awards Book Is Semi-Finalist for Independent Publisher Award
"Best AltWeekly Writing and Design 2005" is one of nine semi-finalists in the "Current Events" category of the 2006 IPPY Awards, it was announced today. Winners will be posted online May 10. The Independent Publisher Book Awards were launched in 1996 "to bring increased recognition to the deserving but often unsung titles published by independent authors and publishers."
05-03-2006 2:21 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Design & Production, Editorial
Early Registration Deadline for the 2006 Annual Convention Is This Friday
To receive a $50 early bird discount, members, associate members, and individual non-members should register online or by fax between now and end of day Friday, May 5. The cost will subsequently increase to $345 for members and $475 for non-members.
05-03-2006 12:58 pm |
Industry News
Save the Date: Portland in 2007
The 2006 convention is still more than a month away, but plans are already being made for next year. Keep June 14-16, 2007 clear on your calendar -- host paper Willamette Week is promising sunshine, pinot noir, and "a vigorous
discussion about the future of independent journalism."
(FULL STORY)
Amy Gill |
05-02-2006 11:49 am |
Association News
CityBeat: Why Hasn't Lacey Touched L.A. Weekly Yet?new
Los Angeles CityBeat |
04-27-2006 1:54 pm |
Industry News
'The City' Wins RFK Journalism Award
The cartoonist Derf has taken home an RFK award for his comic "The City," which appears in several AAN newspapers. According to a press release (PDF here), the contest judges commented that "Derf aggressively attacks the institutions, ideologies and attitudes that create an environment for the continuing oppression and exploitation of the powerless. His outrage is directed not just at the cynicism and hypocrisy of the powerful but at the complicity of all of us who remain docile and passive subjects." Derf previously won the first place 2005 AltWeekly Award for cartoons that appear in more than five papers.
04-25-2006 11:13 am |
Industry News
Georgia Straight Reaches 2,000 Issues and Countingnew
"Week after week, a remarkably diverse group of individuals -- including straights in suits, freaks, tattooed, shaved, and pierced punk rockers, misfits, overachievers, iconoclasts, near hermits, jocks, geeks, and quite a few more surprisingly normal folks than you’d expect (and that just describes some of the receptionists) -- have cooperated to create what has been, by turns, a scurrilous left-wing rag, an alternative newspaper, a comprehensive entertainment guide, and an award-winning news, arts, and culture magazine," writes Dave Watson in this week's issue of Vancouver's alt-weekly. From its debut in 1967, through charges of vagrancy and obscenity and a brief spell as a music publication, to its "respectable" present incarnation, the Straight's story reveals a dynamic relationship with "the social, political, and cultural history" of the Terminal City.
Georgia Straight |
04-20-2006 2:00 pm |
Industry News
Isthmus: Covering Madison for 30 Yearsnew
"Thirty years -- that's a lot of water under the bridge. And you know, the river seems to flow faster and faster," Isthmus founder and Publisher Vincent O'Hern writes on the occasion of the paper's third decennial. The Wisconsin capital's weekly has come a long way from its self-described "Laurel and Hardy go to press" beginnings, and O'Hern promises the staff will be "celebrating, reflecting and commemorating throughout the year."
Isthmus |
04-20-2006 10:32 am |
Industry News
One Alt-Weekly's Eco-Footprintnew
Missoula Independent |
04-20-2006 11:23 am |
Industry News
L.A. Weekly Publishes First-Ever 'People' Issue
04-20-2006 9:23 am |
Press Releases
74-Year-Old New York Press Illustrator Was Trapped in Tram
While covering the Roosevelt Island Tramway breakdown that left passengers trapped in the air for 12 hours, New York Daily News interviewed several rescuees, including "Alex Gamburg, 74, an illustrator for New York Press." AAN News called the Press and was able to confirm Gamburg's connection. No other details about his ordeal were available, but he told the Daily News, "I was extremely impressed with how the police were extremely careful with all of us."
04-19-2006 8:26 am |
Industry News
Fort Worth Weekly: Ten Years and Going Strongnew
Having reached "the tweener stage," the Weekly is proud of its warts-and-all history, which is recounted in this week's cover story. From its early days as "a raucous conglomerate of gays, old hippies, cynical journalists, fresh-faced young writers, revolving-door sales reps, and tart-tongued receptionists" facing fierce opposition from the local daily, through its sale to New Times in 2000 and resale to Lee Newquist the following year, the Weekly has focused on "critiquing the emperor’s new clothes" and has stuck by a statement made in the first issue: "We're having fun. ... And we plan to be around for a long, long time."
Fort Worth Weekly |
04-13-2006 8:11 am |
Industry News
Program Announced for 2006 Annual Convention [members only]
AAN Staff |
04-12-2006 9:58 am |
Association News
