AAN News
#AANDigital: Alternative Newsmedia Uniquely Positioned to Leverage Community Trust Into Digital Revenue
At the AAN Digital Conference in San Francisco, one message was loud and clear: With a strong and distinct voice that daily newspapers can't replicate, and years' worth of hard-earned community trust that the fly-by-night "hyperlocal" networks can't buy, the local alt-weekly has major advantages over its competitors in the battle for digital dollars.
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AAN |
01-29-2013 5:00 pm |
Conference News
The Reader's Operations Manager Leaves to Head Local Business Org.new
Sarah Johnson, who has been with the Omaha alt-weekly since December 2008, is leaving to become manager of the Greater Omaha Young Professionals, a group formed by the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce in 2004 to draw younger people into the city's business life. The 27-year-old was reportedly selected from a field of more than 170 applicants.
Omaha World-Herald |
06-02-2010 3:56 pm |
Industry News
The Omaha Reader's Parent Company Launches 'Micro-Local' Publication
Neighborhood News is a new micro-local publication launched by Pioneer Publishing, the parent company of The Reader. The 11 different editions of the print product will be mailed directly to more than 250,000 homes each month, and the publication's website will be updated with weekly content online.
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Pioneer Publishing Press Release |
01-13-2010 8:05 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Management, The Reader
Diversity Grants Fund Innovative Projects at Two Alt-Weeklies
Boise Weekly and Omaha's The Reader each recently received $1,250 from
AAN to pursue ambitious diversity-related projects as part of AAN's
Diversity Grant program. Last fall, the Diversity Committee expanded the
scope of the program to include diversity-related projects; the grants
to Boise Weekly and The Reader mark the first to be awarded to
projects rather than interns.
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AAN News |
05-28-2009 12:17 pm |
Association News
Pro-Obama Ad from Republican Candidate Runs in Omaha's The Readernew
ABC News |
10-15-2008 10:52 am |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising, The Reader
Former Altie Writes Book for the "Young, Hip, Cynical and Degenerate"new
So says Washington Post critic Patrick Anderson, who describes ex-Omaha Weekly (now Omaha Reader) news editor Jonathan Segura's "Occupational Hazards" as "a savagely funny first novel" that tells a "dungeon-dark tale of low-rent journalism, political corruption and rampant degeneracy in a hellish Omaha." According to Anderson, Segura joins ex-Philadelphia City Paper editor Duane Swierczynski as mystery writers whose work is part of a new trend in the publishing business of releasing offbeat novels direct to paperback.
Washington Post |
07-15-2008 12:32 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Reader
Reader Critic Named Arts Fellow
Ken Mayer, a freelance critic for The Reader in Omaha, Neb., was one of 25 critics, editors and reporters chosen as fellows in the second annual National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Arts Journalism Institute in Classical Music and Opera. The institute, which offers intensive training to arts journalists working outside the country's major media markets, will take place at Columbia University in New York City from October 16-27.
09-29-2005 10:22 am |
Industry News
Board Wrestles with Membership Issues
AAN Staff |
06-06-2003 10:09 am |
Association News
Omaha Weekly Publisher Buys Omaha Readernew
John Heaston told the Omaha
World-Leader that he is buying
the AAN-member Omaha Reader from
the family of the late Alan Baer.
Heaston helped to found the Reader
before selling his stake in 1999 and later
starting up the competing Omaha Weekly.
The two papers will merge and,
"for now," will be called the Omaha
Weekly Reader, according to Heaston.
Omaha World-Herald |
12-23-2002 3:53 pm |
Industry News
Omaha Reader Publisher Alan Baer Rememberednew
Alan Baer's "love for the obscure and the
nontraditional led him to the
alternative
news weekly," Omaha Reader writes of
its eccentric owner, who died of cancer
Nov. 5. The paper remembers Baer as
"the philanthropist and the gentle
man
with a
quirky sense of humor, who
never lost
faith in those around him
and in the
city he loved."
Omaha Reader |
11-14-2002 1:53 pm |
Industry News
Tags: The Reader, Alan Baer
Omaha Reader ME Signs Book Deal
Timothy Schaffert’s first novel is to be published by BlueHen, a new literary division of publishing giant Penguin Putnam, in June 2002. The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters is about sisters damaged by abandonment. Schaffert, managing editor of the Omaha Reader says his day job is like a baby squalling in the next room, "a distraction from creativity, certainly, but an important distraction."
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AAN Staff |
08-31-2001 6:59 am |
Industry News
Omaha Reader Owner Takes Over as Publisher
Former publisher Beckmann leaves after founding paper six years ago.
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Christine Iwan |
05-22-2000 11:49 am |
Industry News
Omaha Reader Sold to Department Store Heir
Former Owner Beckman Remains as Publisher.
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AAN Staff |
03-22-2000 11:51 am |
Industry News
Annual Meeting Wraps Up
Six New Member Papers Admitted into AAN.
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Cory Zurowski |
07-22-1998 11:51 am |
Association News
