AAN News
Willamette Week Webmaster Invited to Prestigious TED Conferencenew
WW's new, MIT-grad webmaster Seth Raphael leads a double life as a technologically savvy magician, MagicSeth, who performs "tricks involving telepathic Google searches and psychic digital cameras." It is in that capacity that he's been selected as one of 25 fellows for 2009 TED Global, which will be held this summer in Oxford. Raphael will give a three-minute presentation to the invitation-only crowd, which is slated to include speakers like Naomi Klein and black-hole specialist Andrea Ghez. "I've never been nervous before," he says. "I get on stage in front of hundreds of people. I applied to MIT. I wing everything. But this made me nervous."
Willamette Week |
05-26-2009 3:04 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Editorial: AAN Convention a 'Positive Sign' for Tucson's Economynew
Inside Tucson Business, a sister paper of convention host Tucson Weekly, includes this year's alt-weekly gathering as one of several "positive signs pointing to Tucson's recovery." The paper notes that the convention, scheduled for June 25-27, "will bring at least 250 people who weren't here last year."
Inside Tucson Business |
05-26-2009 10:42 am |
Association News
Tags: Management
Two Tech Firms Build Tools to Protect Content from Digital Thievesnew
Two new tools "could potentially reshape how content is distributed and monetized on the web," Forbes reports. Scribd Store, from the company Scribd, uses a secure widget to help publishers control who is redistributing their content and keep bloggers and others from posting the raw text of an article. Meanwhile, the start-up Attributor asks publishers to upload all their content into the company's servers, which then search the web for the same strings of words.
Forbes |
05-26-2009 9:59 am |
Industry News
Georgia Straight Honored with National Journalism Award
A story in the Vancouver alt-weekly that exposed pharmaceutical companies' marketing tactics to persuade physicians to prescribe drugs has been named the top magazine article of the year by the Canadian Association of Journalists. Alex Roslin's story, "Pill Pushers," is also a finalist in the National Magazine Awards, along with several other pieces from the Straight. The alt-weekly has also been nominated for five Western Magazine Awards.
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Georgia Straight Press Release |
05-26-2009 8:24 am |
Press Releases
Boise Weekly Launches New Website
Boise Weekly Press Release |
05-26-2009 8:34 am |
Press Releases
Police Chief Calls L.A. Weekly Story 'Voodoo Reporting'new
Appearing on a local radio show this week, Los Angeles Police Department chief Bill Bratton went after a recent Weekly cover story that questioned his department's use of crime statistics -- especially Bratton's assurances that crime levels are on par with L.A.'s in 1956. As the chief and radio host segued out of a discussion on drug laws, Bratton cracked, "I think they were smoking a little weed when they wrote that article." He claimed the article was part of a vendetta the Weekly has against Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and added that he stood by the department's numbers. "It's kind of voodoo reporting," he said of the story.
L.A. Weekly |
05-22-2009 11:09 am |
Industry News
Metro Pulse Picks Up East Tennessee SPJ Chapter Awardsnew
The Knoxville alt-weekly was given 10 Golden Press Card Awards from the East Tennessee Society for Professional Journalists last week. Of those, six were first-place awards, for Feature Writing, Investigative Reporting, Personal Columns, Reviews/Criticism, Series/Package/Project Writing and Sports Reporting.
Metro Pulse |
05-22-2009 10:35 am |
Honors & Achievements
Westword Gets Minor Faceliftnew
The Denver alt-weekly debuted a new look this week, with a glossy cover and staples. Westword editor Patricia Calhoun tells Face the State that the new format pushes the paper's deadline back a day because it takes more production time, and that it costs a little more. But that added cost gets offset by the higher rates the paper can charge to run ads on the glossy stock. "It all evens out pretty quickly," Calhoun says.
Face the State |
05-22-2009 8:11 am |
Industry News
Arizona Alt-Weeklies Win Big in State Press Contestnew
Between them, Phoenix New Times and the Tucson Weekly won 26 excellence in journalism awards in the Arizona Press Club's annual contest. New Times took home 19 awards, including first-place wins for Arts Writing or Criticism; Blogging; Children, Families and Seniors Issues Reporting; Features Column Writing; Growth and Development Reporting; Public Safety Reporting; and Sports Enterprise Reporting. The Weekly won seven awards, including a first-place finish in the Film, Video and Television Writing or Criticism category.
The Arizona Press Club |
05-22-2009 8:05 am |
Honors & Achievements
To Proxy or not to Proxy? [members only]
Richard Karpel |
05-22-2009 4:58 pm |
AAN Staff Blog
Tags: Management
Fast Forward Weekly Wins National Journalism Awardnew
On May 21, the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Better Newspapers Competition honored a team from Fast Forward with a best series award for "The Future of the Oilsands." This is the second consecutive year the paper has received the award.
Fast Forward Weekly |
05-21-2009 2:33 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Convention Early Registration Deadline is Friday
Be sure to register for the 32nd annual AAN Convention by the end of the day on Friday, May 22 to obtain the early registration rate. The discounted rate for members is $325 per person, and for non-members it's $425. On May 23, rates will increase by $50 per person. Click here.
AAN |
05-21-2009 9:56 am |
Association News
40 Percent of VVM's Web Traffic Comes from its Blogsnew
Village Voice Media new media director Bill Jensen says 40 percent of the company's pageviews are coming from the blogs on the newspapers' sites, up from 20 percent a year ago. He also tells TechCrunch VVM is on track to bring in $20 million in online revenues this year, nearly double from 2008. This figure, however, still represents barely more than 10 percent of VVM's revenues.
TechCrunch |
05-21-2009 8:28 am |
Industry News
Seven Days Hires Lauren Ober as New Staff Writer
Seven Days Press Release |
05-21-2009 1:27 pm |
Press Releases
Those Who Work to Exonerate Prisoners Lament Newsroom Cutsnew
The New York Times |
05-21-2009 8:33 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
