AAN News
Nine Companies Join Class-Action Lawsuit Against Yelpnew
Miami New Times |
03-17-2010 6:17 pm |
Industry News
Discounted NewsU Webinar on Location-Based Services Set for April 1
The emerging world of location-based services are helping news organizations serve their customers better and helping cutting-edge reporters succeed. An upcoming webinar from NewsU will explore how a these new platforms can be valuable reporting tools. Through AAN's partnership with NewsU, the first 25 AAN members to register will receive a reduced rate of $12.95 for the webinar (the regular rate is $27.95). Click here to get the AAN password. Click here to register.
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AAN |
03-16-2010 12:28 pm |
Association News
Bill Jensen Talks iPad at SXSW Panelnew
"We're hoping you can lean back with this thing, curl up on the couch and take it into the bathroom and read it," the digital director for Village Voice Media Holdings said at Saturday's "iPad: New Opportunities for Content Creators" session at SXSW. Jensen thinks the iPad will help publishers who value quality design and journalism, by giving them a more visual platform to work with than the general web. "It's going to bring back nice-looking design, and good-looking ads, too," he said.
Poynter Online |
03-16-2010 11:40 am |
Industry News
Digital Ad Heavyweights Get Behind Real-Time Biddingnew
The New York Times |
03-12-2010 8:32 am |
Industry News
How The Stranger Uses 'Social Q&A' to Build Communitynew
The Stranger's "Questionland" is like other web Q&A features like Yahoo Answers, but as publisher Tim Keck points out, the local focus of the Stranger's readership makes it even more valuable. "It's different from throwing a question out into the whole wide world," he tells VentureBeat. "You run into these people on the street, and they know each other."
VentureBeat |
03-09-2010 12:45 pm |
Industry News
Report: Advertisers Will Spend More on Digital Than Print in '10new
Forbes |
03-09-2010 8:44 am |
Industry News
Three Alt-Weeklies Among Bert Greene Award Finalistsnew
The International Association of Culinary Professionals has announced the finalists for this year's Bert Greene Awards, which honor "one of the most sophisticated and dynamic genres in contemporary journalism" -- food writing. This year, both the Houston Press and SF Weekly are finalists in the brand-new Blog category, and the Village Voice's Sarah Digregorio is a finalist in the Culinary Writing without Recipes category for her February 2009 piece on foie gras. The winners will be announced at a ceremony in Portland on April 22.
International Association of Culinary Professionals |
03-04-2010 9:00 am |
Honors & Achievements
Oklahoma Gazette Earns an Array of Awards and Accolades
Oklahoma Gazette |
03-03-2010 6:18 pm |
Press Releases
VVMH Partners with GoTime to Launch Happy Hours Mobile App
Village Voice Media Holdings, LLC announced today that it has partnered with happy-hour guide GoTime to launch a mobile app detailing more than 15,000 happy hour deals in 30 cities across the country. Users can search happy hours by name, location, time and even type of cuisine, all within one location-aware mobile application."We want to be everywhere our readers are, and that's out on the town, anywhere in the country," VVMH president and COO Scott Tobias says in a release. "We own the night -- and this app really delivers on that." MORE: Seattle Weekly's Mike Seely has more on the origins of the partnership with GoTime.
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Village Voice Media Holdings, LLC Press Release |
03-02-2010 12:45 pm |
Press Releases
Pew Study: News is 'Becoming Portable, Personalized and Participatory'new
A new study by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and the Project for Excellence in Journalism finds that a large majority of Americans -- 92 percent -- use multiple platforms to get their daily news, with the internet now the third most-popular news platform (behind local and national TV news). Other key findings in the study:
- 33 percent of cell phone owners now access news on their phones.
- 28 percent of internet users have customized home pages that include news from particular sources and about particular topics.
- 37 percent of internet users have contributed to the creation of news, commented about it, or disseminated it via postings on social media sites.
Pew Research Center |
03-02-2010 12:20 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Electronic Publishing, Management
Survey: Newspaper Sites Most Trusted Local News Sourcenew
A comScore survey done for the Newspaper Association of America finds that newspaper websites are the most-visited and most-trusted sources for local news and information, outpacing local radio and TV websites, portals, and speciality and social networking websites. Approximately 57 percent of the 3,050 respondents said newspaper sites were the top online source for local information; that percentage grew for upper income households (63 percent) and for the college educated (60 percent).
Newspaper Association of America |
02-25-2010 11:50 am |
Industry News
Long Island Press Turns Cover Story into Standalone Multimedia Site
The Press recently developed a multimedia site to accompany a cover story on Long Island's Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center and its holocaust survivors as part of its attempt to find new ways to present its journalism. Publisher Jed Morey tells AAN News it is all tied into the company's recent expansion of video journalism, which includes hiring a full-time video journalist. "It has really energized the staff and brought a whole new perspective to our reporting, because his pitches are so unique," Morey says. "Part of our growth this year is online and we're making original video a huge part of that initiative."
AAN News |
02-25-2010 11:22 am |
Industry News
Class-Action Suit Alleges Yelp is Running an 'Extortion Scheme'new
Two law firms have filed a class action lawsuit in Los Angeles federal court alleging unfair business practices by the popular user-generated review site. The suit's plaintiff, a veterinary hospital, allegedly requested Yelp remove a negative review from the website. The suit says the company refused to do so, a move that was followed by repeated calls from Yelp sales reps demanding payments of roughly $300 per month in exchange for hiding or deleting the review. The East Bay Express explored similar charges in-depth last year. Yelp denied everything in the Express' coverage, and went as far as to attack the reporter for being inaccurate. Regarding the class-action suit, a Yelp representative calls the allegations "demonstrably false" and says the company will "dispute [the suit] aggressively."
TechCrunch |
02-25-2010 8:48 am |
Industry News
Phoenix New Times Staffer Fights 'Aesthetic Atrophy' with Music Blognew
New Times editorial operations manager Jay Bennett, a 40-year-old music fan and musician, is authoring the "Nothing Not New" blog, where each weekday, he listens to one new record and writes about it. Music editor Martin Cizmar says the project springs from Bennett's "aesthetic atrophy," an "unavoidable consequence of aging" defined as the "wasting away of the ability to appreciate new, different, or avant-garde music." Checking in a little more than two months into the year-long experiment, Bennett says it has been "fun, but difficult," adding: "It's like traveling abroad for two weeks but really missing American junk food after day 10, or dining out so much that you've forgotten the simple joy of preparing and eating a home-cooked meal."
Phoenix New Times |
02-25-2010 8:32 am |
Industry News
Discounted NewsU Webinar on Mobile News Production Next Wednesday
AAN members have the opportunity to participate in a live webinar from Poynter's NewsU that focuses on mobile media and producing news in the digital age. "Mobile Media 101: Producing News with Your Smartphone" is scheduled for Wednesday, March 3, at 2 pm Eastern time. The first 25 AAN registrants using the AAN discount code will get a special rate of $9.95.
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AAN |
02-24-2010 11:47 am |
Association News
