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Yahoo Expands Web Ad Partnership With Newspapersnew

AP via Editor & Publisher  |  04-16-2007  11:25 am  |  Industry News

Portland Through the Eyes of the New York Timesnew

Willamette Week is understandably biased on the issue. So if you aren't sure yet whether you're attending this year's AAN convention (or you simply want to use the Time's new double-click dictionary to look up words like "chic," "funky," "spritely," and "unneurotic"), here's 36 Hours in Portland, Ore., with the Gray Lady.
New York Times  |  04-13-2007  12:49 pm  |  Industry News

Creative Loafing (Charlotte) Celebrates 20th Anniversarynew

"Hey, this is cool," Matt Brunson remembers thinking when he was offered the opportunity to write for the alt-weekly in 1988. "I'll be able to earn a couple of extra bucks before this paper folds within the year." Twenty years later, he's Creative Loafing's associate editor and A&E editor. "When this paper started, hardly any of us really knew what we were doing," writes former editor-in-chief John Grooms. "It was [Creative Loafing's] first expansion into another city, and the nuts and bolts of how to do it, more often than not, were up in the air." He says the paper has succeeded because it's "been a source of good writing and quality information, speaking to the reader directly and urging readers to talk back as loudly as they want."
Creative Loafing (Charlotte)  |  04-12-2007  10:26 am  |  Industry News

Comcast Acquires Fandangonew

Adweek  |  04-12-2007  11:44 am  |  Industry News

Borrell: Newspapers Nab Largest Share of Local Web Video Adsnew

Last year, 50 percent of total online video ad revenue went to local newspaper sites, while 20 percent went to TV-station sites and the remainder was spread among other local sites, according to a new Borrell Associates report. While video accounted for only five percent of local online advertising this year, Borrell expects that figure to increase to 35 percent by 2012, for a total of more than $7.7 billion.
Mediaweek  |  04-11-2007  12:36 pm  |  Industry News

AAN Convention Website Open for Business

You'll find a preliminary convention schedule on the site, along with everything you need to know about registering for the annual confab -- including the fact that AAN member papers are once again eligible for up to two free registrations. The programming at this year's conference, which will be held June 14-16 in Portland, Ore., will focus heavily on web publishing and management training.
AAN Staff  |  04-10-2007  5:04 pm  |  Association News

New York Press Association: Metroland Editor is 'Writer of the Year'new

Chet Hardin's topics "are provocative, contemporary and often important," judges for the Association's annual Better Newspaper Contest say. "It is hard to distinguish his hard news stories from features, and that's a great compliment," they write. AAN members were well-represented in the rest of the contest as well. Metroland won one additional first-place and one third-place award; the Ithaca Times received one first-place and one second-place as well as three third-place awards; and Syracuse New Times took home four first-place and two second-place awards.
New York Press Association (PDF file)  |  04-05-2007  11:29 am  |  Honors & Achievements

Mobile and New Media to Lead Ad Spendnew

ClickZ News  |  04-05-2007  9:36 am  |  Industry News

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