AAN News
Seattle Weekly Story Leads to Free Health Care for Couple in Neednew
After reading the Weekly's Sept. 1 profile of Eugene and Yukiko Gatlin, former patients of Group Health who went bankrupt paying its insurance premiums, the "boutique primary care provider" Qliance contacted the paper with an offer to help. The company, which doesn't work through insurance but charges patients a flat monthly fee for primary care at one of its clinics, will waive the fee for the Gatlins until they can afford it at some point down the line. "Miracles do happen," Eugene Gatlin says, though he tells the Weekly he's still concerned about the cost of the couple's medications.
Seattle Weekly |
09-21-2009 9:56 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Seattle Weekly
Two Florida Alts Nab 16 State Press Awardsnew
Miami New Times and New Times Broward-Palm Beach each won eight total awards in the Florida Press Club's 2009 Excellence in Journalism contest. Miami took home first-place honors in the General News, Light Feature Writing, Minority News and Religion Writing categories, while Broward placed first in the Blog Writing, Criticism, Health Writing and Sports Feature Writing categories. However, blog winner Bob Norman points out that the press club put all of the alt-weeklies' nonblog entries in Class D, the lowest category in the contest. "The last time they did this a few years ago, we refused to accept our awards (yeah, we're arrogant like that)," Norman writes. "Now they've gone off and done it again. We've been judged over the years in Category A, where we belong, all the way down to D. It's an issue that needs to be ironed out beforehand."
Florida Press Club |
09-21-2009 9:15 am |
Honors & Achievements
Call for Applications: Templeton-Cambridge Fellowships in Science & Religionnew
The John Templeton Foundation |
09-21-2009 1:19 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
New Owners Bring Changes to Nashville Scenenew
Nashville-based SouthComm purchased the Scene from Village Voice Media last month, and has swiftly been making changes. Former managing editor and longtime staffer Jim Ridley has taken over as editor, and the paper rolled out a glossy look this week. In addition, SouthComm has brought all editorial staffers of its Nashville properties (it owns The City Paper, NashvillePost.com and a handful of smaller print publications) under one roof, and done the same -- in a different building -- for business-side staff. Scene writer Bruce Barry says Nashville is "the alpha test" of SouthComm's publishing theory, which involves owning a unique blend of niche publications in a single market. Barry also points out that many SouthComm higher-ups are "very conservative" and wonders how that might affect the alt-weekly going forward.
Nashville Scene |
09-18-2009 1:09 pm |
Industry News
Blago Says the Reader Started Media Onslaught That Led to His Fallnew
In his new book, The Governor, Rod Blagojevich points fingers at many local politicians for his fall from grace. But he also blames the press, including the Chicago Reader, for his problems. In the middle of a chapter on how 33rd Ward alderman Richard Mell (who is also Blago's father-in-law) used the media to spread damaging rumors, he writes: "The first story I recall seeing was in the Reader newspaper. I think the title was 'Mell Gets the Shaft.'" He continues: "I felt violated. I felt betrayed. Who goes to the press about his own family?" Ben Joravsky, the author of said article, points out that the story was actually titled "Rod Gives 'Em the Shaft," and then goes on to tell his side of how that story came about.
Chicago Reader |
09-18-2009 8:57 am |
Industry News
Study: Half Of Ad Impressions, 95 Percent Of Clicks Fraudulentnew
Online Media Daily |
09-18-2009 9:02 am |
Industry News
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
Robert Newman Design Showcases Years of Village Voice Covers
In a three-part Facebook photo album series, Robert Newman Design has posted a whole bunch of Voice covers and inside design pieces dating back to when Newman himself was at the paper in the early 90s. In addition to Newman, the photosets also feature design work from Florian Bachleda, Jennifer Gilman, Ted Keller and IvyLise Simones, as well as illustration work from a number of artists. Check them out here, here and here.
AAN News |
09-17-2009 11:47 am |
Industry News
OPA Study: Web Users Spending More Time on Content Sitesnew
A new Online Publishers Association study finds that people in 2009 on average spent 42 percent of their web time on content sites compared to 34 percent in 2003. The actual amount of time spent on content sites has nearly doubled in that time period, from an average of three hours, 42 minutes to six hours, 58 minutes.
Online Media Daily |
09-17-2009 9:49 am |
Industry News
Palo Alto Weekly Will Move into New 'Green' Building With Sister Papersnew
The Weekly will join The Mountain View Voice and The Almanac in a new three-story building built and owned by parent company Embarcadero Media later this month. "The new building boasts energy-efficient and other environmental features that will make it among the 'greenest' buildings in the area," the Voice reports. READ MORE about the building in a 2008 story in the Weekly.
Mountain View Voice |
09-17-2009 9:18 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Palo Alto Weekly
Knight News Challenge Accepting Applications Until Oct. 15new
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation |
09-17-2009 1:55 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Electronic Publishing, Management
How Indies Beat MSM on Mortgage-Crisis Storynew
"Independents were repeatedly ahead of the curve on covering the mortgage and real estate bubble and in connecting the dots between vital elements of the bigger story," former City Limits editor Alyssa Katz writes on CJR.org. So how did indie magazines and alt-weeklies do it? Katz offers three main reasons: The reporting focused on "the real-world impacts of business practices" and was based "out in the real world," while reporters were "free (and predisposed) to question authority, not to mention the basic business practices of large financial institutions."
Columbia Journalism Review |
09-16-2009 9:51 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
What I've Been Tweeting [members only]
Jon Whiten |
09-16-2009 3:17 pm |
AAN Staff Blog
NAA: Newspapers' Online Traffic Doubles Between 2004 and 2009new
Media Daily News |
09-16-2009 9:55 am |
Industry News
Director Michael Bay Adapting Miami New Times Seriesnew
Bay, who is best known for big-budget action flicks like Transformers and Armageddon, is working on Pain & Gain, a feature he is adapting from a series of Miami New Times stories on steroid-abusing bodybuilders who become criminals. According to an update on Bay's official website over the weekend, the film "is looking very possible."
MichaelBay.com |
09-15-2009 9:07 am |
Industry News
