AAN News
Brady: Most Newspapers Not Using Web to Full Potentialnew
Editor & Publisher |
10-27-2006 3:18 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
News-Press Publisher Sues Santa Barbara Independentnew
Editor & Publisher |
10-27-2006 11:25 am |
Industry News
Boston's Weekly Dig Celebrates Being in Boston, Not Worcester
Weekly Dig Press Release |
10-27-2006 11:00 am |
Press Releases
LAT Spotlights LA Weekly Revelations on Labor Leader's Deathnew
Los Angeles Times |
10-27-2006 10:25 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, L.A. Weekly
LA Weekly Columnist Pulls the Plug on 'Powerlines'new
LA Weekly |
10-27-2006 10:17 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, L.A. Weekly
Hard-Hitting Alternative Weekly Stories Make Powerful 'Google Bombs'
More and more Republican candidates are falling prey to "Google bombing' by liberal bloggers, according to the New York Times. The bloggers rack up slews of links to negative stories on candidates, which then pop to the top of Google searches. The Times offers as example an April 13 Phoenix New Times story about Senator John Kyl, charging that the Arizona republican neglected his constituents to serve the radical right. The Times' anecdotal lede underscores a harsh reality: the hard-hitting investigations of the alternative press can seem like powerful ammo when deployed against one's adversaries.
10-26-2006 11:22 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Phoenix New Times
Boston Phoenix Editor to Lead VVM Web Operationsnew
Bill Jensen is leaving Beantown to take command of Web operations for
Village Voice Media. The math is simple: Jensen's departure is a loss for
the Phoenix and a gain for VVM. "It's always a disappointment to lose solid
talent,"says Peter Kadzis, executive editor of Phoenix Media/Communications
Group. VVM Executive Editor Mike Lacey seems to have had his sights set on
Jensen; according to the Phoenix, Jensen was offered, and declined, the job
of editing the Village Voice earlier this year. “Like Vito Corleone, Mike
Lacey must have made Bill an offer he couldn’t refuse,” Kadzis says. In a press release, Lacey and CEO Jim Larkin announce that Jensen's "arrival
coincides with a major expansion of staffing as we move to hire a new group
of dedicated Web editors and designers."
Boston Phoenix |
10-26-2006 9:40 am |
Industry News
Village Voice Media President, David Schneiderman, Steps Downnew
Editor & Publisher |
10-26-2006 12:19 pm |
Industry News
Bill Jensen Takes the Digital Reins at VVM
Village Voice Media Press Release |
10-26-2006 12:00 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial
Ohio Weeklies Team up on State Candidates
Three AAN members in the Buckeye State recently collaborated on election coverage so each could benefit from the others' insight into their "hometown" candidates. In profiles that were published in successive months in all three papers, Cincinnati CityBeat wrote about Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell (pictured); Cleveland Free Times examined Democratic Senate candidate Sherrod Brown; and The Athens NEWS took a close look at Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ted Strickland.
CityBeat editor John Fox talks about how and why he and his fellow editors pooled their resources.
(FULL STORY)
10-25-2006 1:31 pm |
Industry News
Weekly Dig Moves to New Offices, Publishes Largest Issue Ever
Weekly Dig Press Release |
10-25-2006 12:44 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, Boston's Weekly Dig
New Times BPB Columnist, Others Weigh in on Media Evolutionnew
Hartford Courant |
10-25-2006 8:51 am |
Industry News
Four Magazines Point the Way to Gens X and Ynew
Advertising Age |
10-25-2006 7:29 am |
Industry News
Athens NEWS Helps Steer OU Athletics Back on Track
The athletics department of Ohio University is trying to turn over a new public leaf after articles in The Athens NEWS and Columbus Dispatch have exposed the legal problems of several student athletes as well as some of the department's staffers, the NEWS reports. The department is revising discipline policies and redoubling efforts to focus on academics for athletes. NEWS articles over the past year and a half have covered a bar fight, alleged drunk driving and horse-punching by staffers and students.
10-24-2006 4:24 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Athens NEWS
Interns Render Mission-Critical Assistance
Shabiroon Jumaralli (pictured) and Jarrett Keohokalole, recipients of 2006 AAN Diversity Internship grants, contributed far more to their papers than their names and the cachet of diversity. For two months, Jumaralli served as sole staff photographer while Atlanta's Creative Loafing was filling the position. And Keohokalole proved a journalist of all trades at the Honolulu Weekly, where he distinguished himself in articles capturing the distinct flavor of island politics. Both interns applied their educations not just on the job but on the run, learning things, as Keohokalole put it, that you can't learn in a classroom.
(FULL STORY)
10-24-2006 7:29 am |
Association News
