AAN 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

Google Acquires DoubleClicknew

New York Times  |  04-13-2007  11:32 pm  |  Industry News

McClatchy Abandons Newspaper Group for Yahoo Networknew

Wall Street Journal (sub. req.)  |  04-13-2007  3:52 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

Nashville Scene Ad Director Leaves for Free Dailynew

The Scene's display advertising director Ginny Staggs has accepted the position of advertising director at The City Paper, a free Nashville daily. Staggs will be reunited with former Scene publisher and co-owner Albie Del Favero, who is publisher of The City Paper. "I had the good fortune of being able to hire her when I was running the Nashville Scene, so I guess now I could say good fortune strikes again," Del Favero says.
The City Paper (Nashville)  |  04-09-2007  2:51 pm  |  Industry News

Alt-Weekly Sells Advertorial Space to Conservative Papernew

The politically conservative Sacramento Union has purchased two pages of ad space for 13 weeks in the Sacramento News & Review, according to the Sacramento Business Journal. The two pages will be original editorial content, meant to expose the alt-weekly's audience to the Union's ideas. In a press release, the Union's publisher thanks the News & Review for "thinking outside the box and having the courage of their convictions to print another opinion." In the same release, News & Review president Jeff von Kaenel anticipates potential criticism and takes it head on: "The Sacramento Union's pages will contain plenty of content that we will strongly disagree with," he says. "But does that paper have a right to buy space and get those opinions heard? The answer is yes."
Sacramento Business Journal  |  04-06-2007  8:27 am  |  Industry News

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