AAN News
Newman to Leave Pittsburgh City Papernew
Editor of the alt-weekly since 1998, Andy Newman will be leaving in November to try his hand as a freelance writer in New York City. "I've wanted to do this for a long time, and it seems like I should do it before they send the AARP card," he tells the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. City Paper will begin searching for his replacement immediately. Newman is currently working on a story for The Believer, and hopes to place a piece in The New Yorker within a year. He is vice president of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies' board of directors.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
08-25-2004 11:50 am |
Industry News
Dailies Struggle to Rebuild Confidence With Advertisersnew
The summer of scandal in the newspaper circulation business has left advertisers and agencies worried about what could possibly be next. Most say they are placing increased scrutiny on audience statements and newspaper ad budgets, though they believe the power of the medium will protect it from any immediate advertiser backlash.
Media Daily News |
08-25-2004 9:31 am |
Industry News
Dig's Associate Music Editor Plays Extra Roles Promoting Paper
Craig Kapilow is a busy man. By day, he's a senior account executive and associate music editor at Boston's Weekly Dig. By night, he spins at highly marketable DJ nights, thus building relationships with venues around town -- many of which are clients of the paper. One of the longest running events, taking place each Saturday night, was profiled in the Aug. 19 edition of the Boston Globe (see below). Here Kapilow answers a few questions about his multiple roles at the alt-weekly and his side-career behind the turntables.
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AAN Staff |
08-20-2004 5:11 pm |
Industry News
The Onion to Launch Twin Cities Editionnew
The satirical weekly will start circulating a free print edition in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sept. 2. In addition to carrying stories published on its Web site, The Onion will print local reviews and calendar listings, the same type of content for which City Pages, an AAN member in the same market, is known. The Onion president Sean Mills claims that readers of the humor paper are significantly younger than readers of alternative weeklies. According to the Star Tribune, The Onion is looking next to start papers in San Francisco, Boston and Austin, Texas.
Star Tribune |
08-11-2004 1:05 pm |
Industry News
2004 AAN Convention Photo Gallerynew
AAN |
08-09-2004 5:32 pm |
Association News
First-Time Convention Goer Remembers the Alamonew
There comes a point in every party girl's life when she has to stop drinking and start getting serious. Fortunately for Maui Time Weekly's Samantha Campos, that point wasn't in San Antonio, at least not during AAN's annual convention. Mingling with editors, publishers and other journalistic riff-raff, she found that "they tend to let it all out after the free booze and appetizers kick in."
Maui Time Weekly |
08-04-2004 1:24 pm |
Industry News
Syracuse New Times Reporter Wins Connye Miller Award
Ruth Hammond |
08-04-2004 8:54 pm |
Association News
2004 AAN Awards: The Interactive Results
AAN Staff |
07-29-2004 4:26 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
New Milwaukee Youth-Oriented Rag Could Affect Ad Ratesnew
The new entertainment weekly the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel plans to launch this fall could attract advertisers who prefer to stay away from the edgy, controversial content found in The Shepherd Express (an AAN member) or the Onion. That's what Karen Stoneman, media director for a Milwaukee ad firm, told The Business Journal. But AAN Executive Director Richard Karpel predicts that the new breed of tabloids will drown in their own fluff because they lack the "idiosyncrasies and oddball charm" of true alternative weeklies.
The Business Journal |
07-28-2004 8:29 pm |
Industry News
Boston's Weekly Dig Offers Convention Alternativesnew
The alt-weekly rolled out an alternative to the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night with a progressive multimedia art and political event called The Sideshow. The paper's convention coverage includes tongue-in-cheek interviews with stars of The Daily Show, which is taping all week in Boston. Dig editor Joe Keohane is quoted in TIME Magazine saying he doesn't think John Kerry ever mastered the political dialect of Boston, a city that likes talkers.
Boston's Weekly Dig Press Release |
07-28-2004 2:38 pm |
Industry News
In Response to Critic, Publisher Admits Quoting Cheneynew
After Colorado Springs Independent Publisher John Weiss received a Small Business Person of the Year award from the local Chamber of Commerce, an office-supply store owner named Ed Bircham took out newspaper ads questioning whether Weiss deserved it. Responding to allegations made in Bircham's ads, Weiss admits in his latest column that, yes, the Independent had indeed used profanity in the paper recently when it quoted what Vice President Dick Cheney said to Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy. Weiss also pleaded guilty to running same-sex personal ads in the paper. But the alt-weekly publisher didn't sound the least bit remorseful.
Colorado Springs Independent |
07-26-2004 4:10 pm |
Industry News
Long Island Press's Dogged Coverage Exposed Newsday Scandalnew
When an attorney for Newsday advertisers filed a federal racketeering suit against the daily paper last February, alleging circulation fraud, the AAN-member newsweekly, Long Island Press, jumped on the story. Reporter Christopher Twarowski found evidence of undelivered papers dumped in landfills, wooded lots and recycling bins, and interviewed former distributors and retailers who supported some of the lawsuit's claims. This week Newsday publisher Raymond Jansen announced his early retirement, and Twarowski reports that a grand jury has been impaneled in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn to hear testimony on the alleged fraud.
Long Island Press |
07-22-2004 4:13 pm |
Industry News
How Willamette Week Broke Big Story on Oregon Ex-Governornew
The story was percolating for some 20 years. Reporters pursued it but not far enough. And then, Jill Rosen reports in American Journalism Review, a feisty Oregon alt-weekly made a stunning revelation on its Web site May 6. Former governor Neil Goldschmidt, when he was mayor of Portland, had had sexual relations with a girl who was only 14. A lead from a state senator, followed by intensive records searches and interviews, helped Willamette Week's Nigel Jaquiss pull the story together.
American Journalism Review |
07-21-2004 5:05 pm |
Industry News
New Daily-Owned Free Weekly to Launch in Milwaukeenew
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel announced Monday it will start an entertainment- and lifestyle-oriented publication and companion Web site in the fall. The target age group is 25- to 34-year-olds. The still unnamed tabloid "will not be a news publication," Rick Romell reports in the Journal Sentinel. Shepherd Express, an AAN member, is also published in Milwaukee, Wis.
Journal Sentinel |
07-20-2004 11:45 am |
Industry News
