AAN News
2004 AAN Annual Convention Coverage Is Online
News from the 27th annual Association of Alternative Newsweeklies convention in San Antonio has been archived online, allowing members to review any of the goings-on they may have missed. Coverage of this year's convention far exceeded that of past years, with a team of writers and editors producing an AAN Convention Daily newsletter. Contributors included Academy for Alternative Journalism fellows, alt-weekly staff members and AAN's editor.
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AAN Staff |
08-25-2004 5:50 pm |
Industry News
Dailies Struggle to Rebuild Confidence With Advertisersnew
The summer of scandal in the newspaper circulation business has left advertisers and agencies worried about what could possibly be next. Most say they are placing increased scrutiny on audience statements and newspaper ad budgets, though they believe the power of the medium will protect it from any immediate advertiser backlash.
Media Daily News |
08-25-2004 9:31 am |
Industry News
The Onion to Launch Twin Cities Editionnew
The satirical weekly will start circulating a free print edition in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sept. 2. In addition to carrying stories published on its Web site, The Onion will print local reviews and calendar listings, the same type of content for which City Pages, an AAN member in the same market, is known. The Onion president Sean Mills claims that readers of the humor paper are significantly younger than readers of alternative weeklies. According to the Star Tribune, The Onion is looking next to start papers in San Francisco, Boston and Austin, Texas.
Star Tribune |
08-11-2004 1:05 pm |
Industry News
2004 AAN Convention Photo Gallerynew
AAN |
08-09-2004 5:32 pm |
Association News
First-Time Convention Goer Remembers the Alamonew
There comes a point in every party girl's life when she has to stop drinking and start getting serious. Fortunately for Maui Time Weekly's Samantha Campos, that point wasn't in San Antonio, at least not during AAN's annual convention. Mingling with editors, publishers and other journalistic riff-raff, she found that "they tend to let it all out after the free booze and appetizers kick in."
Maui Time Weekly |
08-04-2004 1:24 pm |
Industry News
New Milwaukee Youth-Oriented Rag Could Affect Ad Ratesnew
The new entertainment weekly the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel plans to launch this fall could attract advertisers who prefer to stay away from the edgy, controversial content found in The Shepherd Express (an AAN member) or the Onion. That's what Karen Stoneman, media director for a Milwaukee ad firm, told The Business Journal. But AAN Executive Director Richard Karpel predicts that the new breed of tabloids will drown in their own fluff because they lack the "idiosyncrasies and oddball charm" of true alternative weeklies.
The Business Journal |
07-28-2004 8:29 pm |
Industry News
New Daily-Owned Free Weekly to Launch in Milwaukeenew
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel announced Monday it will start an entertainment- and lifestyle-oriented publication and companion Web site in the fall. The target age group is 25- to 34-year-olds. The still unnamed tabloid "will not be a news publication," Rick Romell reports in the Journal Sentinel. Shepherd Express, an AAN member, is also published in Milwaukee, Wis.
Journal Sentinel |
07-20-2004 11:45 am |
Industry News
As a Motivator, Money Doesn't Talk Too Loudly
Jared Jacang Maher |
07-09-2004 5:39 pm |
Association News
Artvoice Publisher Invests in Aesthetics on Web
Wells Dunbar |
07-09-2004 5:20 pm |
Association News
Boulder to Get New Daily-Owned Youth-Oriented Papernew
Dirt is the name of the free weekday newspaper Boulder Publishing Co. will debut Aug. 20. The paper, which is geared toward the 18- to 24-year-old market, will be distributed in and around the University of Colorado campus, reports the Daily Camera, which is also owned by Boulder Publishing. The new paper will compete in the same market as AAN member Boulder Weekly.
The Daily Camera |
07-08-2004 11:23 am |
Industry News
Online Ads Can Be Tailored to Readers' Interests
Wells Dunbar |
07-08-2004 7:29 pm |
Association News
