AAN News
AAN West and Web Publishing Conferences Return This Winter
After a one-year absence, both AAN West and the Web Publishing Conference are slated to return to the Bay Area this winter. The Web Publishing Conference will begin with a social event on the evening of Wednesday, Jan. 27, and will end on the afternoon of Friday, Jan. 29. AAN West will begin that afternoon in Berkeley, with programming continuing all day on Saturday, Jan. 30.
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AAN |
10-13-2009 10:07 am |
Association News
Sacramento News & Review is Holding Strong Despite the Downturnnew
Local TV station KCRA reports that the News & Review is "getting through the recession better than others" like Sacramento's daily, the Bee, which, like so many other daily newspapers, has laid off scores of staffers in the past few years. "We took a dip last year but it's really picking up, and as things for the dailies get worse it's going to get even better for us," News & Review president and CEO Jeff von Kaenel tells the station.
KCRA-TV via YouTube |
10-13-2009 9:08 am |
Industry News
Report: Local Online Ad Revenue Will Rise 12 Percent in '09new
A new outlook report from Borrell Associates finds that local online ad revenue will continue to rise for the next few years. However, the report warns of a pending slowdown. After a projected 12 percent rise this year, Borrell forecasts only a 5 percent increase in 2010, and predicts that revenue will peak in 2013, at $16.4 billion.
Editor & Publisher |
10-09-2009 9:08 am |
Industry News
Mobile Advertising Becoming Line Item In Brand Media Buysnew
Online Media Daily |
10-09-2009 1:38 pm |
Industry News
Online Ad Spending Down 5.3 Percent In First Half of 2009new
Online Media Daily |
10-06-2009 9:42 am |
Industry News
Eugene Weekly Looks for 'Next Big Thing'
Lots of bands think they're just on the verge of busting out of their local bar-band circuit, quitting their day jobs and becoming the next big thing. In Oregon, the Eugene Weekly is hoping to help one lucky band do just that with its own music contest.
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AAN News |
09-29-2009 2:07 pm |
Industry News
What I've Been Tweeting [members only]
Jon Whiten |
09-24-2009 2:23 pm |
AAN Staff Blog
Registration is Open for 2nd Annual AAN Publishers Conference
Following up last year's well-rated inaugural conference, AAN is putting on another Publishers Conference this fall. It will be held Nov. 13-14 at the Charleston Place Hotel in Charleston, S.C. The program, which will be finalized by mid-October, will feature two or three big-picture speakers and lots of time for formal and informal discussion among the publishers who attend.
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AAN |
09-17-2009 2:52 pm |
Association News
New Creative Loafing Board Members Meet the Atlanta Staffnew
After Atalaya gained control of the six-paper company in bankruptcy court last week, several of the new board members met with staff at Creative Loafing (Atlanta). "I want your ideas," Jim O'Shea told them. "I want to hear from you. And I'll do everything in my power to make sure we're sitting here two, five, 10 years from now with more resources, more people, better salaries and more of a future." O'Shea, a former Los Angeles Times editor, will advise Atalaya on editorial strategy while former Des Moines Register president Richard Gilbert will be interim CEO. The Atlanta staff "applauded the sentiments" expressed by O'Shea, Thomas Wheatley reports. "After the meeting, one staffer likened the mood in the room to the elation with which liberals greeted the inauguration of President Barack Obama after eight years of George W. Bush."
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
09-01-2009 9:52 am |
Industry News
Former, Current Owners of East Bay Express Resolve Differences
Eastbay Express Publishing LP, an entity controlled by former Express owner Village Voice Media, has reached a settlement with two of the paper's current owners to settle a suit VVM filed earlier this year. The suit alleged that Hal Brody and Express editor Stephen Buel still owed VVM $500,000 under the terms of the 2007 deal in which the paper was sold. Brody and VVM executive vice president Scott Spear say the parties have resolved that dispute and all other issues raised by the two parties in connection with the transaction. "We are pleased to have been able to reach an agreement satisfactory to both parties," Brody says in a statement. "It puts aside this distraction so we can all concentrate on running our daily business."
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Village Voice Media Press Release |
08-31-2009 4:47 pm |
Press Releases
Atalaya: CL Generating Positive Cash Flow, Will 'Fill Holes' Soonnew
Managing partner Michael Bogdan tells the Chicago Tribune that without the crushing debt, Creative Loafing is now generating positive cash flow, which will allow the individual papers to hire new employees "to fill holes where they need to grow." He acknowledges that despite all the promises, employees at the six-paper company will likely remain skeptical of Atalaya. "I don't expect people to trust me right now," he says. "The proof's in the pudding." MORE: Chicago Reader associate publisher Steve Timble discusses the sale and the new media landscape on WTTW's Chicago Tonight TV show.
Chicago Tribune |
08-31-2009 1:13 pm |
Industry News
Publisher Discusses Changes at Worcester Mag and the Alt Industrynew
In July, Worcester Mag underwent a redesign and launched a new format as part of the paper's evolution since changing owners last summer. Publisher Gareth Charter recently spoke to Worceseter's public radio station about some of the changes and the overall health of the alt-weekly industry. "Weekly newspapers ... are not facing nearly the declines that daily newspapers are," Charter tells WICN-FM. He says that one reason is because an alt-weekly is "more of a leisure read ... as opposed to that daily drumbeat [of news]."
WICN-FM |
08-31-2009 10:20 am |
Industry News
Former Chicago Reader Editor Reflects on Sale to Ben Easonnew
"Maybe we should have been smarter, or less starry-eyed about it, but we thought and hoped Eason would succeed," says Mike Lenehan, who owned a small part of the Reader before it was sold to Eason. "I don't think there would have been much sentiment to do [the deal] if we thought he'd turn out to be Ben Eason. Maybe we should have known better -- but that's what we thought." MORE: Reader media columnist Michael Miner discusses the paper's future with Chicago Public Radio, and Creative Loafing (Tampa) publisher Sharry Smith has sent out a memo calling Atalaya's acquisition of the company "a very positive development." (AAN News has been told the memo was drafted by all of the CL publishers together.)
Chiacgo Reader | WBEZ |
08-28-2009 9:49 am |
Industry News
NAA: Newspaper Revenues Down 29 Percent in Second Quarternew
Media Daily News |
08-28-2009 11:05 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly: What Are Our Photogs Doing Now That We Can't Hire Them?new
"Things are tough all over, and here at Baltimore's Most New Economic Weekly, we've made some less-than-thrilling adjustments, namely spending a lot less dough on all the stunning, award-winning original photography we used to -- and will again, dammit -- be known for," Baltimore City Paper art director Joe McLeod writes in the introduction to a piece featuring short updates and images from eight of the paper's freelance shutterbugs.
Baltimore City Paper |
08-27-2009 1:58 pm |
Industry News
