AAN News
How to Score Traffic, Ranking, Optimization Without Linksnew
SEOish |
09-14-2007 10:39 am |
Industry News
Creative Loafing Starts to Make Changes at the Chicago Readernew
CEO Ben Eason recently told the paper's distribution drivers that they would be terminated as salaried employees and made independent contractors following this week's issue, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. The change would result in both a drop in income and a loss of benefits, and the majority of the 20-plus drivers have thus far rejected the offer. "It's just not economically viable anymore, and I don't know of any other alternative paper that works that way now," says Eason, who indicated if the stalemate couldn't be resolved, he would bring on new drivers. There have also been staff changes, according to the Sun-Times. Advertising director Don Humbertson and art director Sheila Sachs, both longtime Reader employees, have left the paper. "I don't want people to think that because we were purchased that folks have come in and made decisions to act against our best interests," publisher Michael Crystal tells the Chicago Tribune. "It's very simple for people to point fingers at new ownership and all that kind of thing. We're just trying to wade through this in a way that makes sense."
Chicago Sun-Times (second item) | Chicago Tribune |
09-13-2007 8:33 am |
Industry News
How to Optimize Your Site for iPhone, Other Mobile Usersnew
A List Apart |
09-13-2007 12:32 pm |
Industry News
Senators Introduce Federal Shield Lawnew
The Free Flow of Information Act of 2007 "seeks to reconcile reporters' need to maintain confidentiality, in order to ensure that sources will speak openly and freely, with the public's right to effective law enforcement and fair trials," according to a press release. The bill was introduced Monday by Senators Arlen Specter (R-PA), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Richard Lugar (R-IN). "It is time to simplify the patchwork of court decisions and legislation that has grown over the last three decades," Specter says. "It is time for Congress to clear up the ambiguities journalists and the federal judicial system face in balancing the protections journalists need in providing confidential information to the public with the ability of the courts to conduct fair and accurate trials." The bill modifies earlier shield law legislation introduced in the House by Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), and in the Senate by Sen. Lugar and Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT).
U.S. Senator Arlen Specter Press Release |
09-12-2007 12:19 pm |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial, Management
What Device is an Acceptable Substitute for a Newspaper?new
Washington Post |
09-12-2007 8:23 pm |
Industry News
Study: 'User' Sites Choose Different News Than Mainstream Outletsnew
Editor & Publisher |
09-12-2007 8:10 pm |
Industry News
51 Percent of Web Consumers are Reading User-Generated Contentnew
Center for Media Research |
09-11-2007 10:24 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Electronic Publishing
Proposed 'Ask an Eskimo' Column Causes a Stir in Alaskanew
As a newcomer to the state, new Anchorage Press publisher Bingo Barnes thought that a column modeled after Gustavo Arellano's syndicated "Ask a Mexican!," written by an Alaska Native writer, could work at the paper. Apparently, the former Boise Weekly owner and publisher was wrong. He posted the ad on Craigslist and then went on a week's vacation. "I anticipated some resistance to the idea, but I mainly expected to hear from candidates interested in writing such a column," Barnes writes. "Upon my return to the digital world, I was shocked to see what chaos I had unleashed." The Press no longer has any plans to run an "Ask an Eskimo" column.
MORE: Check out the local TV news reaction:
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Anchorage Press |
09-10-2007 10:09 am |
Industry News
Palo Alto Weekly Launches Interactive Local Sports Sitenew
Palo Alto Sports Online went live on Friday as part of Palo Alto Online, the Weekly's community-based website. The interactive site will feature heavy use of video and databases to further extend the citizen journalism concepts being explored on Palo Alto Online. "Our local sports community is passionate and tech-savvy, and we are excited about providing a rich and interactive way to report on sports in the Palo Alto area," publisher Bill Johnson says.
Palo Alto Weekly |
09-10-2007 9:02 am |
Industry News
Former Village Voice Book Critic Eliot Fremont-Smith Diesnew
The New York Times |
09-10-2007 9:45 am |
Industry News
AAN Announces New AltWeeklies.com Application for iPhone Users
AAN has developed a special application for iPhone users (iphone.altweeklies.com), which displays AltWeeklies.com headlines and links to AAN member papers' content. While the application was specifically developed for the iPhone, it works on other mobile devices as well.
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AAN Staff |
09-07-2007 12:59 pm |
Association News
Alt-Weekly is Turning its New Building 'Green' -- and Writing About Itnew
Facing rising rents and the end of their Sacramento paper's lease, News & Review owners Jeff vonKaenel and Deborah Redmond bought a shuttered commercial building. At the prodding of their teenage daughter and Phil Angelides, former California State Treasurer and last year's unsuccessful Democratic nominee for Governor, the couple are undertaking a green renovation of their new property. The $1.4 million project is scheduled to be complete in the fall of 2008, according to the News & Review. Since the paper will be figuring out much of the green engineering itself, it has given Sena Christian the task of writing a weekly column about the renovation for the next year. "Sure, we want a nice building. But we want something else, too," she writes. "We want to spur the green-building movement in Sacramento. By reporting on local individuals, companies and institutions leading the way, we want to up the ante, ultimately speeding up innovation in the realms of clean technology, energy efficiency and renewable energy."
Sacramento News & Review |
09-07-2007 10:53 am |
Industry News
'Google Books' Enables Book Clip Embedding Into Websitesnew
TechCrunch |
09-07-2007 4:40 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Electronic Publishing
SEO Tips for Blogs and Feedsnew
Search Engine Guide |
09-07-2007 4:31 pm |
Industry News
AAN Issues White Paper on Online Event Listings
The paper was written by Todd Stauffer, publisher of AAN member Jackson Free Press, and includes “best practices” and other materials from his highly rated presentation on the same subject earlier this year at the AAN convention in Portland.
The paper also features additional material, including a survey of event-listings application vendors. A single copy of the report was mailed today to every AAN-member publisher.
AAN Staff |
09-06-2007 5:08 pm |
Association News
