AAN News
Southern Alts Convene Their Own Conference
AAN Staff |
02-27-2003 1:56 pm |
Association News
Third Annual Cartoon Contest Announced
AAN Staff |
02-21-2003 4:47 pm |
Association News
AAN West Attendance Triples
AAN Staff |
02-12-2003 4:40 pm |
Association News
Some Alts Breaking with Sex Advertisersnew
Some alternative weekly publishers tell
AJR they have cut back on ads
from adult advertisers because
raunchy ads scare away traditional
advertisers. Others, like the Memphis
Flyer, insist on tops for their advertisers'
topless dancers. Alison Draper,
publisher of the Dallas Observer, says
she just wants to "clean up the book"
to attract higher-end advertisers.
Others are taking the same steps,
breaking with a traditionally significant
sector of alt-weekly advertising.
AJR |
01-02-2003 5:27 pm |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Start-Up Strategies at AAN West
AAN Staff |
12-13-2002 4:58 pm |
Association News
Annual Convention Schedule Condensed
AAN Staff |
10-30-2002 4:51 pm |
Association News
2002 Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism
Nieman Foundation at Harvard University |
09-20-2002 4:46 pm |
Press Releases
Medill Conferees to Rock Out in Chi-Town
Saturday night at the Beat Kitchen
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
09-18-2002 3:29 pm |
Association News
How a City Paper Ad Nearly Triggered an International Incidentnew
Howard Altman, executive editor of Philadelphia City Paper, describes for AJR how a Saint Jack's Bar ad featuring the Thai King in hip-hop regalia nearly severed relations between the United States and Thailand. "It certainly was not the first advertising complaint City Paper had ever received, considering that we once printed an ad for a bar depicting the Virgin Mary with udders," Altman writes. "But this complaint was different. It was from an unhappy representative of a foreign government."
AJR |
09-03-2002 11:19 am |
Industry News
Straight Man McLeod Shakes up Sales
From a rebellious underground paper in the '60s, The Georgia Straight has grown to a 120,000 weekly circulation institution in Vancouver, B.C. It hasn't gotten that way by resting on its hippie laurels. Publisher Dan McLeod demonstrates that by once again shaking up his sales department, firing a vice president and parting ways with the consultant who helped double the paper's sales. "There's going to be some loud howling, but it's a way to grow the business," McLeod tells AAN News.
(FULL STORY)
Ann Hinch |
08-29-2002 4:21 pm |
Industry News
Does the AAN Convention Need to Change?
That question to be focus of Fall board
meeting
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
08-23-2002 11:53 am |
Association News
Medill Writing Workshop Schedule Announced
A revival meeting for weary writers
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
08-19-2002 4:24 pm |
Association News
Stranger Smooches Advertisers' Behindsnew
The Stranger this week publishes its First Annual "Best of [our advertisers in] Seattle 2002" issue, taking a few pot shots at Seattle Weekly's recent "Best of Seattle" issue in the process. "We know when we're licked," the newspaper says in its introduction to the feature. "Dump the irony, screw the humor,
and cut out the fucking middleman. Kissing the asses of advertisers
is a game that two can play."
The Stranger |
07-25-2002 1:04 pm |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Columnist Asks: What's Wrong With Sex Ads?new
Dallas Observer's Eric Celeste understands why the local daily rejects them, but he's not sure why his own paper is cutting back. Publisher Alison Draper says it's because sex ads are "a managerial nightmare." And Editor Julie Lyons, who thinks the ads are "disgusting," calls Draper's decision to scale them back "the most courageous thing I've ever seen a publisher do."
Dallas Observer |
07-25-2002 10:55 am |
Industry News
