AAN News
On the Hilton's Bartenders
08-18-2003 2:36 pm |
Letters to the Editor
Pittsburgh Post-Mortem Released
AAN Staff |
08-11-2003 5:18 pm |
Association News
Medill Writing Workshop Focuses on Ethics, Features Walt Harrington
AAN Staff |
08-06-2003 11:06 am |
Association News
City Paper Parodies Post Co.'s Free Dailynew
When the free weekday tabloid Express
debuted Monday morning, the City Paper and its
band of merry pranksters were prepared,
hawking 10,000 copies of its own Expresso
at subway stops across the nation's capital.
The
City Paper parodists, led by Webmeister Dave
Nuttycombe, "anticipated the journalistic
emptiness of Express," according to Slate's Jack
Shafer, who says the Post's new lite version "ladles
the news out
with an eyedropper into tiny text boxes and then
flattens it with a steamroller." Also revealed: The
editor of Express is none other than Dan
Caccavaro, former editor of AAN-member
Valley Advocate.
Slate |
08-05-2003 10:09 am |
Industry News
Gannett Daily to Introduce Free Weekly in Louisvillenew
The Courier-Journal’s new tabloid will
target 25- to 34-year-olds and will focus on lifestyle
and entertainment news, according to an internal
memo intercepted by LEO's Tom Peterson.
The as-yet-unnamed paper will launch as early as
November with shared C-J personnel but ultimately
will have its own staff, according to the memo. Boise
Weekly Publisher Bingo Barnes tells
Peterson that the free weekly published by
Gannett's Idaho Statesmen doesn't compete fairly:
“They’ve
given some advertisers free ads for a year. And we’ve
lost some ads as a result. Their goal is total
market dominance."
Louisville Eccentric Observer |
07-30-2003 3:20 pm |
Industry News
Eugene Weekly Launches Ducks Illustrated
07-29-2003 5:08 pm |
Press Releases
Shafer Says Free Commuter Dailies About Business, Not Journalismnew
"Before the Express can work as
an advertising vehicle, it must first
achieve marginal editorial success,"
Slate's Jack
Shafer says about Washington Post
Co.'s
"latest strategy to reclaim young AWOL
readers."
New Times CEO Jim
Larkin tells Shafer the Post and other
dailies are
trying to stem the erosion of their near
monopoly that began in the
early 60's; San Diego Reader's
Howie Rosen suggests the
papers have priced themselves out of
local markets with their steep advertising
rates. Village Voice Media CEO
David Schneiderman says the
dailies "patronize" young readers, and
"then wonder why they don't read their
newspapers."
Slate |
07-17-2003 12:11 pm |
Industry News
Medill Workshop Set for Mid-September
AAN Staff |
07-14-2003 5:19 pm |
Association News
Washington Post Co. Launching Free Weekday Tabloidnew
In another daily paper attempt to capture young readers, The Washington Post's Express will be given away to commuters and is designed to be read in 15 minutes. "So The Post is going after the hipster demographic -- what a surprise," Washington City Paper Editor Erik Wemple tells the Post. Express will debut in August.
The Washington Post |
07-11-2003 10:04 am |
Industry News
Admissions Committee Reply to Santa Maria Sun
Kenneth Neill |
07-01-2003 6:03 pm |
Letters to the Editor
Santa Maria Sun Editor Comments
Steve Moss |
06-26-2003 3:01 pm |
Letters to the Editor
AAN Convention Photo Gallerynew
AAN |
06-19-2003 9:59 am |
Association News
Daily Editor Attempts to Silence San Diego CityBeatnew
Bob Kittle, editorial page editor of
the San Diego Union-Tribune, claims he
had never seen the 10-month-old AAN
paper when he learned CityBeat Editor
David Rolland would be appearing on a
local NPR "Editor's Roundtable"
alongside him. Directed to
CityBeat’s Web site, Kittle was shocked to
find profanity -- so shocked, in
fact, that he tried unsuccessfully to get
Rolland kicked off the radio program, on
which Kittle is a regular pundit.
"CityBeat is not journalism. It’s
trash," Kittle wrote in a letter to radio
station KPBS. In this week’s CityBeat,
Rolland responds that Kittle’s real intent
was to "limit the range of debate" in San
Diego,
which he says, "has been too narrow ...
for too long."
San Diego CityBeat |
06-18-2003 2:39 pm |
Industry News
Comment from the High Plains Reader
06-18-2003 11:41 am |
Letters to the Editor
A View of Pittsburgh from the Other Side of Pennsylvanianew
Howard Altman, editor of
Philadelphia City Paper, takes off on
Pittsburgh's new baseball park and that
City Paper's luxury suite, the tensions
between "New Timesers and Voiceniks"
and the new owners of Cleveland Free
Times, and what the association should
look like in the future. "Working at an
alternative, I know that the thrust of [Neal
Pollack's awards luncheon] punch lines --
that we are verging on the old and
irrelevant -- is something we should
be keenly aware of."
Philadelphia City Paper |
06-12-2003 11:15 am |
Industry News
