AAN News
Two Alt-Weekly Writers Honored by Columnists' Groupnew
Winners of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists' 2008 Column Writing Contest were announced Saturday night in New Orleans. The Village Voice's Lynn Yaeger took first in the Humor (circulation 100,000+) category; judges said she had a "very entertaining style that bounces right along." Edmund Newton, who writes the Tailpipe column for New Times Broward-Palm Beach, placed first in the Notes/Items (all circulations) category; judges said he takes readers on "a tasty ride through life's odder moments."
National Society of Newspaper Columnists |
06-24-2008 8:25 am |
Honors & Achievements
HotJobs Debuts 'Smart Ads' and Monster Partners with Newspapersnew
Online Media Daily |
06-24-2008 12:39 pm |
Industry News
Study: Baby Boomers Embracing Social Medianew
MediaPost |
06-24-2008 9:04 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weeklies Well-Represented in LA Press Club Awardsnew
When the Los Angeles Press Club announced the 50th annual Southern California Journalism Awards on Saturday night, five AAN papers and an Associate Member were honored. LA Weekly took home 16 awards, including first place in Editorial Cartoon, Entertainment Feature, Online Entertainment, News/Feature/Commentary and Signed Commentary. OC Weekly won a total of five awards, including first place for Entertainment Reviews/Criticism/Column, Group Blog, and Sports. Ventura County Reporter received a first-place prize for News Feature, while Los Angeles CityBeat won three awards and Pasadena Weekly won two. Associate Member Amy Alkon, aka the Advice Goddess, won four awards, including first place for Column.
Los Angeles Press Club |
06-23-2008 12:36 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Salt Lake City Weekly Wins Six Local SPJ Awardsnew
The Utah Headliners Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists honored the alt-weekly with six awards in general competition, including three first-place awards, for Minority Issues Reporting, Personality Profile and Review/Criticism.
Society of Professional Journalists, Utah Headliners Chapter |
06-23-2008 8:35 am |
Honors & Achievements
Huffington Post Will Expand into Local Newsnew
Arianna Huffington said last night at a conference that the Huffington Post is planning to expand into local news, according to ReadWriteWeb. Initially, the site will launch an edited news aggregation site (similar to the main Huffington Post site) localized for the metro area around Chicago, which will be managed by a single editor. "We are aspiring to be a newspaper in that we want to covering all news [sic], not just the political blogging the way we began," Huffington said.
ReadWriteWeb |
06-20-2008 10:36 am |
Industry News
Times-Shamrock Buys Cleveland Free Times, Cleveland Scene
The other shoe has dropped. Times-Shamrock just announced that it is buying Cleveland Free Times as well as the Cleveland Scene, and will merge the two publications into a single paper on July 23. The new paper will be called the Scene, and current Free Times publisher Matt Fabyan will run it. "This is a great addition to our existing group of alternative
newsweeklies," says Don Farley, group publisher of Times-Shamrock's stable of alt-weeklies, which now numbers five. "We look forward to serving the greater
Cleveland community for many, many years." UPDATE: Fabyan tells the Plain-Dealer that the deal had "been in the works for a while," and Crain's Cleveland Business reports that staffers at each paper are being asked to reapply to the new paper.
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Times Shamrock Alternative Newsweekly Group Press Release |
06-20-2008 10:27 am |
Press Releases
VVM to Sell Cleveland Scene to Times-Shamrock
Village Voice Media announced today it is selling the Cleveland Scene to Times-Shamrock Communications. Terms of the purchase agreement are not being disclosed; the deal is expected to close on June 25. "We more than achieved our journalistic goals in Cleveland," VVM CEO Jim Larkin says of the paper the company bought in 1998. "This is a staff of remarkably talented and hard-working people. Unfortunately, after ten years, we weren't able to achieve our financial objectives." Times-Shamrock also owns AAN members Baltimore City Paper, Metro Times, the Orlando Weekly, and the San Antonio Current.
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Village Voice Media Press Release |
06-20-2008 9:24 am |
Press Releases
Chicago Drinks is Online and in Print
Chicago Reader Press Release |
06-20-2008 1:40 pm |
Press Releases
Boise Weekly Wins 'Small Business of the Year' Award from Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce
Surprise for Idaho's only alternative paper
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Boise Weekly Press Release |
06-20-2008 9:53 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Management, Boise Weekly
Wrapping Up the 31st Annual AAN Convention
A total of 400 people descended on the Pennsylvania Convention Center and the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown two weeks ago for the 2008 AAN Convention. The three-day event featured the usual mix of presentations and panels, food and booze, and business talk and gossip between alt-weekly staffers and industry types from across North America. AAN committees and staff mostly took care of the first item, while host paper Philadelphia City Paper had the second one covered, and attendees proved themselves more than capable of handling the third on their own.
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AAN |
06-19-2008 1:01 pm |
Association News
Ventura County Reporter Editor Steps Down
Bill Lascher says in an email that June 25 will be his last day as editor of the Reporter, as he leaves to attend a new master's program in specialized journalism at the University of Southern California. He will be replaced by Michael Sullivan, who was previously a writer at the Fresno Business Journal and a freelancer with the Reporter and the Ventura County Star.
AAN News |
06-19-2008 10:17 am |
Industry News
Asheville City Paper Calls it Quits
The paper, which was launched in Nov. 2007 by the independent weekly Columbia City Paper, has ceased publication, news editor and business partner Cecil Bothwell says in an email. "I gave it my best shot, but the publisher of the Asheville City Paper was underfunded," says Bothwell, a former Mountain XPress Staffer. "It is no more."
AAN News |
06-19-2008 8:47 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management
Hip-Hoppers and Indie Rockers Help Sell Chuck Taylorsnew
Converse pulled together N.E.R.D.'s Pharrell Williams, Julian Casablancas of the Strokes and indie electronic up-and-comer Santogold to produce a song called "My Drive Thru," Brandweek reports. The shoe company has made the song available for free download at Converse.com, and will push the song in the "Three Artists, One Song" ad campaign that will appear in a number of AAN papers.
Brandweek |
06-19-2008 8:43 am |
Industry News
Monthly Alternative Paper Launching in Hawaiinew
HunterBishop.com |
06-19-2008 8:50 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management
