AAN News
AAN Members Across the Country Unveil Major Changes
- The Mountain Xpress is ending its 14-year run as a print publication today, "suspending its regular online news reports and converting its entire news operation to Twitter dispatches from staff and trusted community journalists."
- The San Francisco Bay Guardian has settled its lawsuit with Village Voice Media, agreeing to drop its legal action and "shut the fuck up" about PG&E, sunshine, media concentration, rent control, and over-development.
- Publisher Sally Freeman has sold the Boise Weekly to N-Corp-Al, which quickly shut the alt-weekly down and relaunched it as the Treasure Valley Weekly Post.
- The Washington City Paper has relaunched as the Huffington City Paper.
- Salt Lake City Weekly announced it has purchased SLUG magazine and will bring new features like "Cute Baby of the Month" and "Those Wacky Pets" to the long-running local underground-music magazine.
- Athens, Ga., alt-weekly Flagpole has relaunched as "a celebrity 'zine about fun and style, now to be known as Starpole."
- The East Bay Express is changing editorial course, introducing new procedures like "user-generated copyediting" and "reader-assigned stories."
AAN News |
04-01-2009 12:22 pm |
Industry News
Arkansas Times Institutes Temporary Pay Cuts for Some Staffnew
Publisher Alan Leveritt said yesterday that about a third of the 41 people who work at the Times and the company's other publications will see temporary pay reductions of 4-7 percent starting next month. Lower paid employees were exempt from the cuts. The paper says it also recently laid off a receptionist and converted a full-time job on El Latino, its Spanish language weekly, to part-time.
Arkansas Times |
04-01-2009 8:25 am |
Industry News
Google Now Showing Local Results On Non-Local Queriesnew
Search Engine Land |
04-01-2009 3:17 pm |
Industry News
MySpace Partners with Citysearch for Local Servicenew
Online Media Daily |
04-01-2009 11:49 am |
Industry News
Tags: Electronic Publishing, Management
The Onion Launches 'Decider' Site in San Francisco and D.C.new
The Onion |
04-01-2009 8:33 am |
Industry News
Google to Host Webinar, Participate in AAN Convention
Google has agreed to sponsor the opening night cocktail reception at this year's convention, and will also be making presentations focusing on both its ad-server software Ad Manager, and its ad network AdSense. The Ad Manager presentation will be a follow-up to an exclusive webinar for AAN members led by senior ad serving consultant Mark Wolly. All AAN member publishers and senior managers will receive email invitations to the webinar, which is scheduled for April 23, and there is no limit to the number of people at each company who can participate. The 32nd Annual AAN Convention is scheduled for June 25-27 in Tucson.
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AAN |
03-31-2009 9:39 am |
Association News
Online Ad Growth Slowed To 11 Percent In 2008new
Online Media Daily |
03-31-2009 12:06 pm |
Industry News
More on the Los Angeles CityBeat Closurenew
"I had a great morning today," CityBeat publisher Will Swaim told L.A. Weekly on Friday. "I came to work and hurled in the 'executive bathroom,' brushed my teeth and made the announcement." Swaim and senior editor Matt Fleischer both say there hadn't been any chatter about the paper closing in the last few weeks, and there wasn't any discussion of making CityBeat biweekly or online-only. MORE: The Los Angeles Times says the paper's closure "will -- at least temporarily -- silence more critical voices on arts and entertainment in Los Angeles."
L.A. Weekly | Los Angeles Times |
03-30-2009 8:43 am |
Industry News
LA Times Turns Metromix into 'Brand X'new
Brand X is a "new multimedia editorial product" being rolled out by the Los Angeles Times "aimed at younger, social-networking readers who are interested in culture, technology, entertainment, food, events, volunteering, style and the outdoors." It will take the place of Metromix in L.A. and will be headed up by former alt-weekly editors Deborah Vankin and Dean Kuipers.
Los Angeles Times |
03-26-2009 11:29 am |
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Boston Biz Owners Echo 'Pay-to-Play' Claims Against Yelpnew
Boston's Weekly Dig |
03-26-2009 3:32 pm |
Industry News
Anonymous Commenting Under Scrutiny By Illinois Courtnew
Online Media Daily |
03-26-2009 8:52 am |
Legal News
Variety Parent Company Offered to Buy Nikki Finke's Blognew
Finke reports that her "Deadline Hollywood Daily" blog, which is hosted by L.A. Weekly and celebrates its 3rd anniversary this month, was eyed by the CEO of Variety parent company Reed Business Information, but the deal didn't go anywhere.
Deadline Hollywood Daily |
03-24-2009 12:50 pm |
Industry News
Three Alt-Weekly Writers Nominated for James Beard Awardsnew
AAN members are once again well-represented in the list of nominees for this year's James Beard Foundation Awards for Journalism. The finalists: L.A. Weekly's Pulitzer-prize winning critic Jonathan Gold in the Restaurant Reviews; Kristen Hinman of Riverfront Times in Newspaper Feature Writing Without Recipes; and the Chicago Reader's Mike Sula in Multimedia Food Journalism. Winners will be announced at a May 4 gala in New York.
The James Beard Foundation |
03-24-2009 8:40 am |
Honors & Achievements
Report: One-Third of Mobile Ad Traffic is From Smartphonesnew
Online Media Daily |
03-24-2009 11:58 am |
Industry News
Boise Weekly Partners with GlobalPostnew
The Idaho alt-weekly is one of "a growing number of news outlets" signing up to partner with the online world news site GlobalPost, the New York Times reports. The Weekly subscribed to the service last week and is running a widget that feeds global news on the sidebar of its citydesk blog.
The New York Times |
03-23-2009 2:54 pm |
Industry News
