AAN News

Judges' Comments on Award Winners Are Available

Judges' critiques of the 2005 AltWeekly Awards winners can now be downloaded for review. The same comments will appear in AAN Press's forthcoming book, Best AltWeekly Writing and Design 2005. Individual newspapers can also obtain summaries of remarks on all of their entries. (FULL STORY)
Ruth Hammond  |  07-26-2005  6:14 pm  |  Association News

An Informal Survey of Alt-Weekly Sponsored Events

Willamette Week's "Candidates Gone Wild!" (pictured) offers an interesting twist on the traditional newspaper-sponsored political debate. It also helps to promote the paper as a "source for uncensored, pull-no-punches coverage of politics and elective office," says editor Mark Zusman. His paper is just one of many in AAN that regularly host local events that raise their profile, define their brand and, perhaps, increase ad revenue and readership. (FULL STORY)
Marty Levine  |  07-20-2005  6:07 pm  |  Industry News

The Trendspotting Trendnew

Fast Company  |  07-15-2005  12:26 pm  |  Industry News

Arbitron Ready to Launch Portable People Meternew

Billboard Radio Monitor  |  07-13-2005  10:45 am  |  Industry News

Research Firm Urges Newspapers to Combine Print/Online Numbersnew

Editor & Publisher  |  06-24-2005  10:02 am  |  Industry News

Advertising Handouts and Presentations Available in AAN Library

A number of the handouts and presentations from both the classified and retail tracks from last week’s AAN Convention have been added to the AAN Library. Additional handouts, as well as the individual entries from “Marketing, Branding & Promotion: AAN Best Practices” and “Show Me the Money” will be added to the Library later this week. The Library also features resources from prior conferences and conventions, white papers on various sales and sales management topics, links to articles, customizable “Influentials” one sheets and other resources. If you’d like to share other tools from your paper (sales training manuals, collateral pieces, etc.), please contact Roxanne Cooper at rcooper@aan.org.
06-21-2005  1:54 pm  |  Industry News

Three More Weeklies Admitted to AAN

Las Vegas Weekly (cover pictured above), Bellingham Weekly of Bellingham, Wash., and Style Weekly of Richmond, Va., were voted in as members of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies at the organization's annual meeting on June 18. The Las Vegas and Richmond papers were the first two daily-owned alt-weeklies ever admitted to AAN. (FULL STORY)
AAN Staff  |  06-21-2005  10:03 am  |  Association News

Study: Generations Disagree on Value of P2Psnew

Solutions Research Group  |  06-21-2005  5:07 pm  |  Industry News

Julia Goldberg Blogs San Diego

Santa Fe Reporter's editor files the first post-convention blogpost after returning from San Diego. Well, we think it's the first. If anyone else has written about the convention in their paper or on their blog let us know and we'll find a way to post it.
06-20-2005  8:34 pm  |  Industry News

Marketers Want More Metrics from Printnew

Adrants  |  06-20-2005  11:39 pm  |  Industry News

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