AAN News
The Stranger Runs Photo That Got Photographer Arrestednew
Last Friday Seattle police arrested a 29-year-old man and banned him from a REI store after he used his phone to photograph two security guards who were servicing an ATM inside the store. The Stranger put the photo on the cover of this week's issue, and has a story on the controversy.
Photo District News |
05-15-2009 1:58 pm |
Industry News
Will the New York Times' Next Food Critic Come from an Alt-Weekly?new
When the Times announced this week that it was moving food critic Frank Bruni to a new assignment writing for the Times Magazine, foodies immediately began speculating as to whom the paper would replace him with. The Associated Press says LA Weekly's Pulitzer-winning critic Jonathan Gold is one of the "obvious contenders," while Eater has him as a "dark horse," with 250-1 odds. Eater also pegs Village Voice critic Robert Sietsema an "underdog," giving him 1000-1 odds. Meanwhile, the Times staffer who will lead the search says she hasn't started thinking about who will be named for what the AP calls "what's widely considered the most important restaurant critic job in the country."
The Associated Press | Eater |
05-15-2009 9:41 am |
Industry News
Seven Days Starts News-Sharing Partnership With Local TV Stationnew
The Burlington, Vt., alt-weekly has entered into a content-sharing agreement with WPTZ NewsChannel 5. As part of this agreement, Seven Days contributors will appear twice a week during the station's 11 pm newscast. Elements of Shay Totten's political column will appear on Tuesday nights, in advance of the Seven Days' Wednesday distribution, and on Thursdays, music editor Dan Bolles will recommend upcoming events from "Notes on the Weekend," the paper's email newsletter.
Vermont Business Magazine (scroll to bottom of article) |
05-15-2009 8:45 am |
Industry News
Publishers Invest in AAN Convention Despite Downturn
AAN News asked several publishers why they are sending multiple employees to the convention this year even though they have less money to spend. Their answers may surprise you.
(FULL STORY)
AAN News |
05-14-2009 7:22 pm |
Association News
Tags: Management
Judge Unseals Some but Not All Records Requested by Alt-Weeklynew
Pittsburgh City Paper will be able to see the court order sealing details of the divorce between local publisher Richard Mellon Scaife and his wife, but it won't get access to the official schedule of proceedings. The alt-weekly hoped to see the docket "in order to keep abreast of future developments" in the case. MORE: City Paper editor Chris Potter weighs in on a "surreal few days."
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
05-14-2009 11:35 am |
Legal News
Isthmus Announces Lineup for 2009 Jazz Festnew
Isthmus Press Release |
05-14-2009 3:05 pm |
Press Releases
Theater Chain Says Moviegoers Use Web for Infonew
Reuters |
05-14-2009 2:52 pm |
Industry News
Newspaper Industry Lost About $18.7B from 2006-2008new
Media Daily News |
05-14-2009 11:42 am |
Industry News
Tags: Financial, Management
Analyst Says $1B Political Ad Spend Possible in '09new
TV Newsday |
05-14-2009 11:40 am |
Industry News
Craigslist Will Drop 'Erotic Services' Ads, Create New Adult Sectionnew
Under increasing pressure from attorneys general across the U.S., Craigslist says it is eliminating the Erotic Services ad section and replacing it with an Adult Services section where each post will be manually reviewed and where no "nude or graphic photos" will be allowed. MORE: Read the company's statement here.
ABC News |
05-13-2009 1:47 pm |
Industry News
North Bay Bohemian Editor Tapped for NEA Program
Gretchen Giles is one of 12 U.S. journalists to win a place in the first International Arts Journalism Institute in the Visual Arts. The program, which provides mid-career art critics and writers the opportunity to participate in a two-week intensive training, is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. State Department.
(FULL STORY)
North Bay Bohemian Press Release |
05-12-2009 8:39 am |
Press Releases
Al Giordano Previews His AAN Convention Talknew
Giordano, a former alt-weekly reporter whose Friday afternoon session at the AAN Convention is on "how independent journalism is thriving on the internet and in other parts of the hemisphere," decides to "do some thinking out loud on those themes" in a blog post titled "Black and White and Dead All Over." Giordano says that daily newspapers are dying because they are crippled by institutional biases. "Memo to my remaining daily print colleagues and their nostalgia club: Get over it and get over yourselves," he writes. "In your arrogance, you established calcified 'rules' of 'journalism' and false 'objectivity' that neutered and spayed all of your reporters, domesticated so they would never again afflict the comfortable or comfort the afflicted."
Narco News |
05-11-2009 2:37 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Village Voice Editor: Industry Woes are a 'Business Model Crisis'
At a panel discussion earlier this month at the 92nd Street Y in New York, Tony Ortega talked about web publishing and the print media industry, along with Voice publisher Michael Cohen, Gothamist publisher Jake Dobkin and Alana Taylor of Mashable.com. While noting that, like most papers, the Voice is struggling to do more with less right now, Ortega says the product isn't the problem. "Newspapers have never been more popular in their history," he says. "It's just that our advertisers have no money to spend."
AAN |
05-11-2009 11:02 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Parts Ways with Writer After His Credentials Are Questionednew
Last year, John Sakowicz began writing "smartly prescient" pieces on the impending financial collapse for the North Bay Bohemian, editor Gretchen Giles writes, so she kept publishing him and even dubbed him contributing editor on the paper's masthead. However, as Sakowicz's work at the Bohemian landed him a local radio show and "expert" status at the Institute for Public Accuracy, some people started digging into his background. Ultimately, Giles found that she couldn't confirm some details of Sakowicz's biography, and the paper has cut ties with him. "It appears that Sakowicz, while talented at understanding and predicting the economic moonscape, does not have the exact background he claims to have, one that we underscored by repeatedly printing it at the end of his articles," Giles writes in a mea culpa. "A credible publication cannot publish the works of writers whose credentials cannot withstand scrutiny."
North Bay Bohemian |
05-11-2009 10:18 am |
Industry News
Tickets On Sale for Village Voice's 'Creative Block' Arts Party
The Village Voice Press Release |
05-11-2009 12:37 pm |
Press Releases
