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AP via San Jose Mercury News  |  05-04-2006  6:12 am  |  Industry News

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

PRWeek: Village Voice's Fate Could Impact All Alt-Weekliesnew

"Have alternative papers jumped the alternative shark?" asks Hamilton Nolan. He decides that they haven't, at least not yet, since alt-weeklies continue to offer investigative journalism not available in most blogs. L.A. Weekly's Nikki Finke tells Nolan, "We go where mainstream papers fear to tread, we unearth what mainstream newspapers try to hide, and, in my case especially, we insult who mainstream newspapers fear to offend. ... How can there ever be a diminishing role for that?" However, Nolan also believes that the Village Voice is "the keystone brand in the entire alt-weekly world," and argues that "its future, and that of [Village Voice Media] as a whole, will play a large part in determining whether another generation will read alternative papers or read about them in memoirs."
PRWeek  |  05-02-2006  8:07 am  |  Industry News

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