AAN News
Google Unveils Fast Flip; New Service Designed for Quick News Browsingnew
The New York Times |
09-15-2009 9:12 am |
Industry News
L.A. Weekly Launches New Annual Music Event, 'LA 101'new
L.A. Weekly |
09-15-2009 9:09 am |
Industry News
Will Alts Benefit if Dailies Go Behind Pay Walls Online?new
As daily newspaper publishers and even magazines continue to mull charging for content online, little has been written about how such a move would help or harm alt-weeklies. Village Voice Media new media director Bill Jensen, for one, says he's licking his chops. "We're praying for the day that [daily newspapers] go behind a pay wall," he tells Mediaweek. "That's good for us. We've always been free and we know free. We're not complaining about it."
Mediaweek |
09-14-2009 9:49 am |
Industry News
Village Voice Brings the F-Bomb to Google News' Front Pagenew
The Voice's recent feature from A History of Violence screenwriter Josh Olson titled "I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script" was apparently popular enough to land on the Google News front page late yesterday -- a development that a few folks decided was worth complaining about.
Search Engine Roundtable |
09-14-2009 11:43 am |
Industry News
Study: Mobile Users Only Half as Likely to Click on Ads as Web Usersnew
MediaBuyerPlanner |
09-14-2009 3:22 pm |
Industry News
Survey: Impulse Offers Work Best for Mobile Adsnew
A new survey from Compete finds that nearly half of all smartphone owners are receptive to location-based offers at restaurants and offers to save and pursue at their leisure, and 45 percent would use mobile grocery coupons. "[It looks like] impulse purchases are a better hook for marketers than a considered purchase," Compete's Elaine Sanfilippo tells Marketing Daily. "Those offers that have that instant impact really resonate with people."
Reuters | Marketing Daily |
09-11-2009 9:44 am |
Industry News
Politician Resigns After Alt-Weekly & TV Station Reveal Alleged Affairnew
Republican Michael D. Duvall has resigned from the California state Assembly amid the scandal uncovered on Tuesday by OC Weekly and KCBS/KCAL. The staunch conservative was caught on video talking graphically about two affairs, one of which was with a lobbyist whose clients had business before a committee on which Duvall sat. Weekly reporter R. Scott Moxley and TV reporter Dave Lopez were both chasing the story at the same time on Tuesday -- literally -- as they followed Duvall around the capitol, trying to get him to respond. In a statement, Duvall says his resignation "is in no way an admission that I had an affair or affairs," adding that his only "offense was engaging in inappropriate story-telling."
OC Weekly |
09-10-2009 11:21 am |
Industry News
Competing Colorado Springs Papers Band Together for Endorsements
The alt-weekly Colorado Springs Independent has joined with the daily Colorado Springs Gazette to publish tandem endorsements regarding two upcoming ballot questions. "We have set aside our differences to graphically illustrate how important it is for citizens to vote this fall to ensure the short- and long-term health of the city we call home," Independent publisher John Weiss says. "Join with us to help save our city from a terrible -- yet still avoidable -- fate."
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Colorado Springs Independent Press Release |
09-10-2009 9:36 am |
Press Releases
Indie Film Distributors Say They're Hurt by Media Cutbacksnew
Independent film is more reliant on film critics than mainstream big-budget film, with critics often having the ability to "help drive positive word of mouth and nudge arthouse moviegoers into seats without a big marketing spend," Variety reports. And the distributors of indie film say they're feeling the pain from "the loss of regional movie reviewers and diminishing newspaper space." Strand Releasing's Marcus Hu says his company has been particularly hurt by Village Voice Media's practice of assigning reviews to a few critics that run in every VVM market. "Before, at least, you had a new shot in each market," he says.
Variety |
09-10-2009 8:40 am |
Industry News
Heralded iPhone Developer Working on App for AAN Members
Small Society, the company whose work on iPhone applications for the Obama campaign, Whole Foods and Zipcar has earned wide recognition and praise in the growing app development field, is partnering with Pre1 Software and the parent company of Willamette Week and Santa Fe Reporter to develop an iPhone publishing platform which they hope to make available to AAN publishers by late 2009. "We think this may be the killer app for alt weeklies," Willamette Week editor Mark Zusman says.
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AAN News |
09-09-2009 1:46 pm |
Industry News
Tom Tomorrow Designs Pearl Jam Album Covernew
The band's latest album, Backspacer, will be released on Sept. 20 with a nine-panel cover concept created and executed by Tom Tomorrow (aka Dan Perkins). The New York Times reports that the band's partnership with the alt-cartoonist came about "partly as a result of the transformations of their fields by new media, since the internet has wreaked the same havoc on newspapers as it has on the music industry," a point Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder expands on. "It used to be real simple," Vedder says. "Dan writes a strip, it gets in the paper, people read it, Dan gets paid. That's how we felt too: make records, people buy them at a record store, we tour, there you go. It's not that simple anymore." MORE: On his blog, Perkins has one small correction to the piece.
The New York Times |
09-09-2009 10:21 am |
Industry News
Tags: Design & Production, Management
Some Small and Mid-Sized Advertisers See Uptick in '09 Spendingnew
A new survey of 5,300 small and mid-sized advertisers from Round2 Communications agency finds that 33 percent expect to increase their ad spending compared to 2008. The survey also contains a touch of bad news for print, with 46.6 percent of respondents saying they expect print expenditures to decrease in 2009.
Media Daily News |
09-09-2009 9:39 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Retail Advertising
AAN to Offer $500 for Shareable Stories
In the past, AAN's editorial committee has initiated and overseen a number of editorial projects for use in multiple markets. This year, however, the committee is approaching shared projects in a slightly different way and offering four $500 payments for stories from AAN papers that can be used in other markets.
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AAN |
09-08-2009 2:56 pm |
Association News
News & Review Publisher: What Will Remain After the Dailies Go Away?new
in 1996, Jeff vonKaenel wrote a widely discussed piece predicting that most daily newspapers would be out of business in ten years. Although his timing was off, there's no question he nailed the trajectory. Now he's back to ask, What comes next? His "guess" and "hope" is that weekly newspapers will survive as "a viable economic model," and journalism that is "more cutting-edge, more controversial ... (and) less locally based" will flourish online through the joint support of nonprofits, corporations and individual citizens.
Sacramento News & Review |
09-03-2009 11:24 am |
Industry News
Handful of Alt-Weekly Pieces End Up in 'Best Food Writing 2009'
AAN News has just received a copy of Da Capo's Best Food Writing 2009, and it is chock full of alt-weekly talent. Included in the collection are stories from City Pages' Rachel Hutton ("Spam: It's Not Just for Inboxes Anymore"), New Times Broward-Palm Beach's John Linn ("Highway to Hog Heaven"), SF Weekly's Peter Jamison ("Out of the Wild"), The Stranger's Bethany Jean Clement ("The Beauty of the Beast"), Washington City Paper's Tim Carman ("How Not to Hire a Chef"), and Westword's Jason Sheehan ("The Last of the Great $10 Steaks"). The book also includes a selection from Houston Press food writer Robb Walsh's book on oysters, and is slated to be released this fall.
AAN News |
09-02-2009 4:54 pm |
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