AAN News
Willamette Week Tightens Belt, but Santa Fe Reporter is 'Doing Well'new
In his yearly report to readers, Willamette Week publisher Richard Meeker says the Portland, Ore., newsweekly's financial situation has been "lousy." Advertising is down since July and the paper is more than ten percent below budget for the year. But the news isn't all bad. Meeker says WW's "total audience has remained steady" and its sister paper, the Santa Fe Reporter, is having a good year. Nevertheless, WW has laid off several staffers and transferred one staff writer to Santa Fe. Editor Mark Zusman tells AAN News that the paper laid off three classified sales representatives, one designer, and staff writer (and "Queer Window" columnist) Byron Beck, while Corey Pein moves to the Reporter. Although the paper will "be lucky to eke out a small profit this year," Meeker says he and Zusman are "eager to tackle the challenges we all now face, and more committed than ever to continuing -- and improving -- the quality of reporting and thinking we do." More on Beck's departure from the Portland Mercury and Just Out magazine.
Willamette Week |
11-12-2008 8:33 am |
Industry News
Tech Startup Scans Web Video for Blank Spaces to Insert Adsnew
Online Media Daily |
11-10-2008 11:09 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weeklies Seek to Help the Economy by Promoting Local Shopping
The readers of more than 70 alternative newspapers are being urged to spend at least $100 of their holiday money this fall at locally owned stores in their communities -- a move that could pump more than $2.9 billion into urban economies during this recession-plagued season. The Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, the American Independent Business Alliance, and East Bay Express publisher Jody Colley helped develop the unprecedented project, and AAN helped line up 73 North American papers to participate. "If every one of the 17.5 million readers of these weeklies were to spend just $100 with local, independently owned merchants, the impact would be enormous," Colley says.
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AAN |
11-07-2008 10:58 am |
Association News
Borrell Study: Interactive Ad Spending Will Top Out in 2009new
Online Media Daily |
11-07-2008 9:34 am |
Industry News
Fairfield County Weekly Combines Offices with New Haven Advocatenew
To save costs in an ever-tightening economy, two of the three New Mass. Media papers will now share office space in New Haven. Staff members have been given laptops and cellphones and will seemingly be traveling in the Fairfield County area -- about 20 miles from New Haven -- quite a bit.
Fairfield County Weekly |
11-05-2008 11:56 am |
Industry News
J.P. Morgan Reduces Online Ad Forecast for 2nd Time in Two Monthsnew
Online Media Daily |
11-03-2008 8:58 am |
Industry News
Will Swaim Named Publisher of LA CityBeat
Will Swaim has been named publisher of LA CityBeat and New Angeles Magazine, effective Nov. 10. Swaim was most recently the founding editor and publisher of The District Weekly, a non-AAN weekly in Long Beach. Prior to that, he was OC Weekly's founding editor in 1995, and went on to become publisher of that paper as well, before stepping down in January 2007. At CityBeat, he'll be reunited with former Weekly colleague Rebecca Schoenkopf, who is now CityBeat's editor. "LA CityBeat and New Angeles are terrific publications," Swaim says in a release. "I'm thrilled to have this chance to use what I've learned in Orange County and Long Beach to help them reach their enormous potential."
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Southland Publishing Press Release |
10-31-2008 3:16 pm |
Press Releases
IAB Aims To Streamline Online Media Buying, Ad Servingnew
Online Media Daily |
10-31-2008 9:08 am |
Industry News
Mobile Marketing Association Releases Updated Ad Guidelinesnew
Online Media Daily |
10-30-2008 9:02 am |
Industry News
2009 AAN Convention Comes to a Desert Destination Resort in Tucson
Next June, AAN members will descend on the JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort & Spa in Tucson for the association's 32nd Annual Convention, hosted by Tucson Weekly. "This is one of the nicest places AAN has ever used for a convention," says San Francisco Bay Guardian executive editor Tim Redmond, who visited the property along with other AAN board members for a meeting last month. Read here for more about the convention and the lush Starr Pass resort.
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AAN News |
10-29-2008 1:29 pm |
Association News
Study: Consumers Embrace Social Media Adsnew
Online Media Daily |
10-29-2008 9:29 am |
Industry News
Analyst: Online Display Ads Likely To Tumblenew
Online Media Daily |
10-28-2008 9:13 am |
Industry News
NAA: Newspapers Draw 41 Percent of U.S. Internet Usersnew
Media Daily News |
10-24-2008 9:15 am |
Industry News
AAN Hires New Advertising and Awards Coordinator
The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies has hired Jason Zaragoza to the newly created position of advertising and awards coordinator. His first day with AAN was Oct. 14. Zaragoza takes over for Stephanie Roswell in handling the logisitics of the AAN CAN classified network, and for Heather Kuldell in coordinating the AltWeekly Awards. "Jason is smart and organized, and he has an incredibly professional attitude for someone so young," says AAN executive director Richard Karpel. "We're counting on him to keep AAN CAN and the awards contest running smoothly."
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AAN News |
10-23-2008 1:49 pm |
Association News
Study: Young Adults More Responsive to Ads in Email than on Social Netsnew
Among 18- to-34-year-olds, consumers are more likely to be influenced to make purchases based on email marketing messages and direct mail than from ads or marketing on social networks, according to a new white paper from Ball State University and ExactTarget. "It is too easy to assume that the media consumers who (sic) choose for their own news, information and entertainment are by default the best media to use for marketing messages," says Mike Bloxham, director of Insight and Research at Ball State University's Center for Media Design.
Online Media Daily |
10-23-2008 11:47 am |
Industry News
