AAN News
Filmmaker John Sayles Brings Anti-Bush Message to AAN Convention
Michael L. Jones |
07-07-2004 7:40 pm |
Association News
AAN Members Undergo Early-Morning Design Critiques
Nora Ankrum |
07-07-2004 11:09 am |
Association News
"Insider or Outsider?" Is the Big Redesign Question
Nora Ankrum |
07-06-2004 7:31 pm |
Association News
Editorial Committee Reports on AltWeeklies.com
Joy Howard |
07-06-2004 4:35 pm |
Association News
Editors Do More with Less in San Antonio
Jared Jacang Maher |
07-06-2004 2:55 pm |
Association News
Cox Enterprises Sells Minority Stake in Creative Loafingnew
The owner of the Atlanta Journal- Constitution no longer has a 25 percent stake in the chain of alternative weeklies. Tensions between Creative Loafing, Inc., and Cox executives erupted last year when the Journal-Constitution launched its own entertainment weekly, AccessAtlanta in the same market as Creative Loafing Atlanta, Caroline Wilbert reports in the the Journal-Constitution. Cox executive Charles "Buddy" Solomon told the Atlanta daily he agreed to the sale "to put all of this behind us."
ajc.com |
07-01-2004 1:28 pm |
Industry News
Four New Papers Admitted to AAN
AAN Staff |
06-29-2004 3:23 pm |
Association News
AAN Admissions Committee Recommends Three Papers for Membership
Kenneth Neill |
06-29-2004 2:56 pm |
Association News
Creative Loafing Seeks to Be Free of Cox Enterprisesnew
Ben Eason, CEO of Creative Loafing Inc., confirmed last week that his company's board has agreed to buy out Cox's minority stake in the alt-weekly chain, Steve Fennessy reports in Creative Loafing Atlanta. In addition to the Atlanta paper, the alt-weekly chain publishes newspapers in Charlotte, Tampa and Sarasota. Cox bought a 25 percent stake in Creative Loafing in 2000, but friction resulted when the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a Cox-owned daily, launched its own free entertainment weekly last year. Eason says that if all goes well, the deal could be completed by mid-July.
Creative Loafing Atlanta |
06-15-2004 8:24 pm |
Industry News
Latino Coverage Is Crucial for Many Alt-Weeklies
According to the latest U.S. census, Latinos are now the country's largest
minority group. With this in mind, the question of how alt-weeklies serve
this important segment of the population becomes one of increased urgency. Marty Levine reports for AAN News on how papers from Miami, Fla., to Columbus, Ohio, to Orange County, Calif., are addressing the issue of Latino coverage in their area. It may surprise no one that, for each paper, the questions
-- as well as the answers -- are unique to the community they serve.
(FULL STORY)
Marty Levine |
06-15-2004 6:06 pm |
Industry News
Dailies Lose Weekday Circulationnew
The FAS-FAX report from the Audit Bureau of Circulations, released this afternoon, brought good news for the majority of the dozen biggest newspapers, but many other top 50 papers lost readers on weekdays for the six-month period ending March 31, compared with the same period last year.
Editor & Publisher |
05-04-2004 6:11 am |
Industry News
Free Daily Tabloid in Dallas Stops Publishingnew
A free daily newspaper launched last fall, A.M. Journal Express, lost financial support from investors, the Associated Press reports. The Journal Express, published by American Consolidated Media, competed with Quick, a free daily still being published by The Dallas Morning News.
Associated Press |
05-03-2004 12:31 pm |
Industry News
Street Teams Imitate Medieval Marketing Tactics
Sometimes word of mouth is a more effective way of promoting a paper than a print ad. That's why some alternative newsweeklies send street teams out to bars, movie theaters and cultural events to hand out freebies and stir up interest in their papers. When they dispatch their street teams to public places, alt-weeklies like NUVO and Boston's Weekly Dig are relying on a centuries-old marketing technique the music industry revived.
(FULL STORY)
Ann Hinch |
04-30-2004 1:45 pm |
Industry News
Alcohol Fuels Alt-Weeklies' Ad Revenues
Readers who are young (but not too young) and active attract peddlers of drink to alt-weeklies, and it shows in all the ads promoting liquor, beer and clubs. To compete with radio for those coveted ad dollars, some AAN papers cosponsor pub crawls, beer fests and jazz festivals—any event that involves good times and a bit to imbibe. Regional and national purveyors of alcohol are taking notice.
(FULL STORY)
John Ferri |
03-25-2004 8:14 pm |
Industry News
Ten Papers Seek AAN Membership
AAN Staff |
03-25-2004 1:02 pm |
Association News
