AAN News
Survey: Ad Spending Optimism Returning to Pre-Recession Levelsnew
Media Daily News |
11-30-2009 11:06 am |
Industry News
How I Got That Story Live Chat: Sarah Fenske Talks About Her Award-Winning Columns
Phoenix New Times' Sarah Fenske, who won first place for column writing in this year's AltWeekly Awards, was interviewed by the Santa Fe Reporter's Zane Fischer (who won the column-writing award in 2008) in a live chat today.
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AAN |
11-27-2009 2:51 pm |
Association News
Oklahoma Gazette Parent Company Launches New Publicationnew
Tierra Media Group, the parent company to Oklahoma Gazette and OKCBiz magazine that Gazette publisher Bill Bleakley formed in 2007, will launch a new hyperlocal community weekly, EastWord, in eastern Oklahoma County on March 1 of next year.
OKCBiz |
11-24-2009 12:24 pm |
Industry News
Seattle Weekly Partners with Urbanspoon to Handle Online Dining Reservationsnew
Seattle Weekly |
11-24-2009 12:27 pm |
Industry News
Registration for Web Publishing and AAN West Conferences Now Open
After a one-year absence, both AAN West and the Web Publishing Conference are returning to the Bay Area this winter. The Web Publishing Conference will take place Jan. 27-29 at the Argonaut Hotel near San Francisco's famed Fisherman's Wharf, and AAN West will happen Jan. 29-30 across the bay in Berkeley.
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AAN |
11-23-2009 9:16 pm |
Association News
Another 'How I Got That Story' Live Chat Scheduled for Friday
At 3 pm EST, this Friday, Nov. 27, AAN will continue its live chat series with 2009 AltWeekly Award winners when Phoenix New Times' Sarah Fenske, who won first place for column writing, will be interviewed by the Santa Fe Reporter's Zane Fischer (who won the column-writing award in 2008).
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AAN |
11-23-2009 2:17 pm |
Association News
L.A. Weekly Responds to Neon Tommy Storynew
Last week, the USC Annenberg web publication Neon Tommy ran a lengthy piece on the future of the Weekly as new editor Drex Heikes settles in. After correcting a few factual errors, Weekly news blogger Dennis Romero turns his focus to the larger context of the piece -- the changes at the paper since it came under control of Village Voice Media in 2006. "What's seen as a reduction of the editorial department is also a changing of the guard," he writes. "While some liberals and the ex-Weekly writers who catered to them lament the loss of the paper's crusty, bell-bottom voice, we'd argue that the future here is bright -- and digital."
L.A. Weekly |
11-23-2009 8:47 am |
Industry News
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Movie Studios Spending Less on Advertising, Pushing for More Free Publicitynew
The New York Times |
11-23-2009 8:58 am |
Industry News
How I Got That Story Live Chat: Anne Schindler Talks About Her Award-Winning Columns
Folio Weekly editor Anne Schindler discussed her column writing with Santa Fe Reporter editor Julia Goldberg in a live chat. Schindler's columns won her a first-place AltWeekly Award in the 50,000 and under circulation division.
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AAN |
11-20-2009 2:50 pm |
Association News
Richard Karpel, Erik Wemple Talk About Alt-Media's 'Economic Woes'new
AAN's executive director and Washington City Paper's editor joined the Project for Excellence in Journalism's Mark Jurkowitz and former Washington Blade editor Kevin Naff on a D.C. public-radio show yesterday for a wide-ranging discussion about how the digital transformation, changing demographics and the recession are affecting alternative media.
WAMU-FM |
11-20-2009 12:12 pm |
Industry News
Boise Weekly Cover Auction Nets Record Proceedsnew
The Weekly's eighth annual Cover Art Auction, which took place this Wednesday, was its most successful yet, grossing more than $15,000. "Once we've paid the bill for framing every piece, we expect to put more than $12,000 into Boise Weekly's private art grant, for which any local artist or organization is eligible to apply," editor Rachael Daigle writes. "That's roughly $800 more than we've ever put back into the art community."
Boise Weekly |
11-20-2009 10:05 am |
Industry News
Research: Most Mobile Users Indifferent To Or Don't Want Adsnew
Online Media Daily |
11-20-2009 10:14 am |
Industry News
Palo Alto Weekly Launches 'Virtual Edition'new
Palo Alto Weekly |
11-20-2009 10:08 am |
Industry News
More on City Pages' Bachmann/Palin Mash-Up Covernew
Editor Kevin Hoffman and art director Nick Vlcek talk to the Society of Publication Designers about this week's cover design, which uses Sarah Palin's Going Rogue as source material for a cover story (titled "Going Crazy") on Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. As we noted yesterday, Hoffman had said it was the first time in 30 years the paper had gone out without a logo on the cover; a decision that he and Vlcek say was a pretty easy one to come by. "We realized very quickly that in order to make the cover look as much like the book as possible, that we would have to forgo our logo," Hoffman says. "But it was worth it for the impact it would have on our readers."
Society of Publication Designers |
11-19-2009 12:25 pm |
Industry News
How's New Times Broward-Palm Beach Doing?new
The South Florida alt-weekly ran a lengthy cover story this week on the problems facing South Florida's newspapers, and decided that it would only be fair to report on its own struggles as well. Reporter Lisa Rab says that the New Times newsroom staff has shrunk by four (to 13) and its circulation has dropped from around 80,000 to 54,500 over "the past couple of years." She also talks to Village Voice Media president and chief operating officer Scott Tobias, who says there are no plans afoot to make the paper online-only, to sell it or to merge its operations with its sister paper to the south, Miami New Times.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
11-19-2009 12:04 pm |
Industry News
