AAN News
Still the Buzz: Washington Post Writer Kicked at AAN Conventionnew
Reporters who kick butt can get their butt kicked, too. It happened to Richard Leiby at the 1994 AAN convention in Boston. Leiby's recent appointment as the Post's gossip columnist spurred Press Action editor Mark Hand to try to get to the bottom of the juicy story. Who put out the hit on Leiby? Who delivered the kick? What was the motive? Has all been forgiven? Leiby graciously tells Hand he would love to attend another AAN gathering, but "I'll be sure to pack my ass armor…just in case." The outfit he wore in Iraq might do.
Press Action |
01-27-2004 6:58 pm |
Industry News
New Haven Register to Launch Weekly for Younger Setnew
The New Haven Advocate becomes the latest AAN member to face a challenge from a daily with its eye on alternative weeklies' young readers. Play, which begins publishing March 3, will be "fun, informative and a little bit edgy," says its editor, Jonathan Cooper. The new tabloid, aimed at 18- to 34-year-olds, will also give New Haven advertisers "further access to a highly attractive audience," says Robert M. Jelenic, head of the Journal Register Company, which owns the Register and 22 other newspapers.
New Haven Register |
01-27-2004 4:31 pm |
Industry News
AAN Membership Applications Available for 2004
AAN Staff |
01-21-2004 4:38 pm |
Association News
Alternative Newsweekly Readers Come from All Kinds of Neighborhoods, Research Firm Reportsnew
Newsweekly readers tend to be single, educated and hot to party. This much we know. Now we also know what sorts of neighborhoods they live in and how they like to spend their money. Some of the papers' most loyal readers are suburban couples raising kids, urban immigrants in multi-racial communities, active older people who like to travel, single city dwellers of all ethnicities and lower-income African-American single parents. Research firm Claritas profiled our diverse readership for Alternative Weekly Network.
AWN AdRap |
01-16-2004 1:48 pm |
Industry News
Good Company, Comfortable Digs, Hot Topics at AAN West and AAN East
AAN Staff |
01-08-2004 5:58 pm |
Association News
Creative Loafing Board Censures Two Members from Cox Newspapersnew
President Jay Smith and his chief financial officer, Charles "Buddy" Solomon, voted against censuring themselves for "violating business and journalism ethical standards" but were overruled by the other six members of Creative Loafing Inc.'s board of directors. The resolution's author, Sterling "Jim" Soderlind, accused the Cox executives of getting "a very good education in the alternative newspaper business while sitting on our board," and then using that knowledge to launch a competing free newspaper, Access Atlanta. John Sugg's Nov. 20 report on the meeting was followed by Smith's response the next week.
Creative Loafing Atlanta |
12-23-2003 4:02 pm |
Industry News
City Newspaper Analyzes What to Expect from New Gannett Weeklynew
Chad Oliveiri, managing editor of the Rochester, N.Y., AAN member publication, talks to editors of other alternative newsweeklies to anticipate how a new Gannett weekly, tentatively named The InsideR, could affect his market. Free weeklies the media giant has already launched in Boise and Cincinnati compete with AAN papers for advertising and promotional opportunities. The silver lining is that Gannett is selling large mainstream advertisers on the concept of appearing in free weeklies, Cincinnati CityBeat Editor John Fox says.
City Newspaper |
12-18-2003 3:45 pm |
Industry News
Youth-Oriented Tabs Too Shallow for Gen-Xers, Says Columnistnew
Offering no substance and playing it safe aren't the way to win over the most educated generation of readers in the country, writes Scripps Howard News Service columnist Joe Donatelli. He was disappointed when he saw one of his columns reprinted in the Chicago Sun-Times' Red Streak at half its length and with all the humor expunged.
Evansville Courier & Press |
12-15-2003 11:23 am |
Industry News
Gannett's New Publications Threaten Independent Voices in Indianapolis, Writer Saysnew
The Indianapolis Star debuts its new tabloid, INtake Weekly, today, 12 days after its parent company, Gannett, launched IN, a glossy magazine that competes with the locally owned Indianapolis Woman. Brian A. Howey, writing for the online magazine Indianapolis Eye News, discusses tactics Gannett has used in the past to put newspaper competitors out of business and then raise its advertising rates. "If you're NUVO Publisher Kevin McKinney and his staff, INtake might as well be a gun aimed at your heads," Howey writes. He urges advertisers to continue to place ads in independent publications so Gannett doesn't become their only option.
Indianapolis Eye News |
12-11-2003 1:55 pm |
Industry News
New Youth-Oriented Papers Lack Vision, AAN Says
Free newspapers aimed at young readers are, for the most part, "just dumbed-down versions of a daily newspaper," writes AAN'S Roxanne Cooper, in an editorial published in the International Newspaper Marketing Association's monthly magazine. Basing a newspaper's content on market research instead of a creative vision is getting it backwards. And if young people have such short attention spans, why are so many of them reading books during their commutes?
(FULL STORY)
Roxanne Cooper |
12-11-2003 11:08 am |
Industry News
Market Research Drives Creation of New “Youth” Papersnew
To attract young readers, media companies are publishing free newspapers that capsulize the news and emphasize jazzy graphics. New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg describes what research studies say young readers want and how new papers like Quick, published by Belo Corporation in Dallas, and the 5 Minute Herald, published by Knight-Ridder in Miami, seek to address their needs and capture advertising dollars.
New York Times |
12-03-2003 5:17 pm |
Industry News
Unconventional Pols to Keynote Regional Conferences
AAN Staff |
11-25-2003 5:21 pm |
Association News
Dallas Observer Not Worried About Free Tabsnew
"If you want your newspaper to appeal to young
people, you must be willing to print the word
'fuck,'" says Eric Celeste, and Dallas' new,
competing commuter tabs Quick and
A.M. Journal Express apparently fail the
test. Plus, they're not "smartly written," nor do they
"reflect the world young people live in," violating two
more Celeste rules for reaching the 18- to 34-
year-old reader. But all is not lost, says Celeste:
The papers do have some "utility."
Dallas Observer |
11-20-2003 12:24 am |
Industry News
USA Today on the "Bite-Sized Nuggets" News Trendnew
The Gannett paper that arguably started
the trend reports on the daily newspaper industry's
response to its ongoing readership decline.
Newspaper analyst John Morton claims the
industry's new quick-read publications "shout 'this is
not your father's newspaper.''' AAN's Richard
Karpel says they're "just dumbed-down news"
and complains, ''(a)t a time when 70% of the public
thinks Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11, the last
thing we need is dumber newspapers."
USA Today |
11-17-2003 1:17 pm |
Industry News
The Stranger Hosts Local Election "Smackdown"new
The City Council President posed for a photo with a
bong in his hand and another Council
candidate was the lucky recipient of a lap
dance during a candidate forum sponsored last
week by "Seattle's cheeky weekly." The Seattle Times
also reports that candidates who appeared at the
forum "faced serious questions" about local issues,
and that Jack Pageler, who stood in for his
wife, veteran Councilwoman Margaret, "suffered the
indignity of being called 'Margaret' repeatedly by
Dan Savage (pictured), editor of The
Stranger and master of smackdown ceremonies."
Seattle Times |
11-03-2003 6:24 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Marketing, The Stranger
