AAN News
Cleveland Scene Editor Defends New Times Against Criticsnew
AAN.org Letters to the Editor |
10-07-2005 5:05 pm |
Industry News
AAN Makes Second Relief Payment as Gambit Fund Passes Six Figures
The association has collected over $106,000 in charitable contributions since the effort to raise money for Gambit Weekly employees was announced on Sept. 2. A second payment of $1,000 was wired yesterday to each of those employees, who were evacuated from their homes and left without jobs or income after Hurricane Katrina struck.
Most of the money raised has come from AAN-member papers and their employees, although contributions began to trickle in last week from readers as well.
(FULL STORY)
10-05-2005 6:57 pm |
Association News
Backpage Now Licensed in 30 Markets
09-29-2005 1:37 pm |
Press Releases
East Bay Express First U.S. Paper to Cover Army-Photo Scandalnew
Last Wednesday, Chris Thompson reported that American soldiers have been trading gruesome photographs of dead and mutilated Iraqis in return for free access to an amateur porn site. Thompson wrote, "(I)n the weeks since the European press uncovered the story and in the week since the site was first noticed by Eric Muller, law professor and author of the blog IsThatLegal.com, not a single US daily newspaper had covered it." That silence ended yesterday when the Army announced that it has launched an investigation of the matter.
East Bay Express |
09-28-2005 9:54 am |
Industry News
First Relief Payments Wired to Gambit Staffers
Forty-nine employees of the besieged New Orleans paper will each receive an initial gift of $1,000 this week from AAN's Gambit Relief Fund. Although the Fund has already collected over $52,000 in contributions, AAN will continue to seek additional financial assistance for Gambit staffers, with the goal of raising enough money to help them through the next two or three months. New Times and Village Voice employees, whose parent companies have both aggressively promoted a matching-funds program, make up a large percentage of the individual contributions received in the first week since the fund was announced.
(FULL STORY)
09-12-2005 1:03 pm |
Association News
Redmond to Lacey: Thanks For Confirming My Storynew
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
09-09-2005 8:42 pm |
Industry News
Lacey Responds to Bay Guardian Merger Reportnew
In this week's SF Weekly, New Times Media executive editor Michael Lacey (pictured) responds to a recent report in the San Francisco Bay Guardian about merger talks between his company and Village Voice Media. Lacey takes aim at Guardian publisher Bruce Brugmann, calling the report "his latest salvo against New Times" and calling Brugmann himself much worse.
SF Weekly |
09-08-2005 2:30 pm |
Industry News
Russ Smith Speculates About "Unlikely" New Times-VVM Mergernew
New York Press |
09-07-2005 4:03 pm |
Industry News
Gambit Fund Nets Almost $38,000 in First Day
AAN's non-profit foundation on Tuesday deposited $37,865 in tax-deductible contributions it received from members who had pledged donations on Friday and were so anxious to assist displaced Gambit Weekly employees they Fed Ex'ed checks and called in with credit cards. Included in the deposit were ten individual contributions, ranging from $25 to $500, from Village Voice Media and New Times employees participating in their companies' matching-funds program.
09-06-2005 7:24 pm |
Industry News
AAN Announces Relief Effort to Support Gambit Employees
AAN announced today that it had established a multi-pronged effort to provide immediate relief to employees of its New Orleans-based member paper
who have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The centerpiece of the effort is a special fund that the association has
established in its Alternative Newsweekly Foundation to accept charitable
contributions from members who want to provide immediate assistance to
Gambit Weekly employees. Several AAN-member companies have already announced significant contributions to the fund.
(FULL STORY)
09-02-2005 12:01 pm |
Association News
Bay Guardian Report: Documents Detail New Times-VVM Merger Plansnew
Executive editor Tim Redmond says his paper has obtained documents that
"include a May 27, 2005, draft of a merger agreement between Village Voice
Media and New Times." According to Redmond, "the draft calls for the
creation of a new company controlled by a nine-member board," with New Times
owning 62 percent of the new venture and controlling five board seats, and
VVM retaining the rest. New Times owns 11 AAN papers and VVM owns six.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
08-29-2005 4:12 pm |
Industry News
New Times Moves Its 10K from Phoenix to Tempe
Construction of a light rail in downtown Phoenix, where the event has taken place for the past 29 years, forced the move. This year's race -- expected to attract about 10,000 participants -- will be run through Tempe, where the alt-weekly chain has held its annual Music Showcase for the past decade.
08-22-2005 11:13 am |
Industry News
More Rumors of New Times-VVM Mergernew
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
05-26-2005 4:34 pm |
Industry News
