AAN News
Chicago Real Estate Ad Market Boomingnew
Ads for apartments have skyrocketed in the past year, Chicago Reader Classifieds Manager Brett Murphy tells Crain's Chicago Business. The jump has fueled 25 percent growth in ad volume at a time when help-wanted ads are down, and landlords who once took out a single ad to find a tenant now run one for many weeks, he tells the business newspaper.
Crain's Chicago Business (registration required) |
10-01-2002 10:26 am |
Industry News
Catholics Protest Reader's Cartoonnew
About 120 religious activists turned out
last week to protest a "blasphemous"
cartoon published in the Chicago
Reader, reports The Illinois Leader,
which bills itself "Illinois' Conservative
News Source." The cartoon in question
implied
immoral behavior by the Virgin Mary,
the pope and Jesus, the newspaper
says.
Illinois Leader |
09-30-2002 11:41 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Writers Appear in Da Capo Collection
“This book, I hope, is a book of encounters, none of them predictable,” novelist and music writer Jonathan Lethem writes in his introduction to “Da Capo Best Music Writing 2002.” Seven of the 28 articles in the collection were originally published in alternative newsweeklies, including The Village Voice, Chicago Reader and City Pages (Twin Cities).
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
08-30-2002 1:54 pm |
Industry News
Reader Critic's Use of Term "Nerve Gas" Causes Uproarnew
Chicago Reader |
08-23-2002 2:34 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Chicago Reader
Chicago Reader Invests in The Stranger
Tim Keck, publisher of The Stranger in Seattle, has a cash infusion from the Chicago Reader to turn up the heat on his competition. The Reader is now a minority shareholder in Index Newspapers LLC, a company formed early yesterday that now owns and operates The Stranger and The Portland Mercury in Portland, Ore. Keck’s first goal: increase circulation in both markets. “We’ve been bootstrapping it for 10 years,” Keck tells AAN News. “Now we are going to be aggressively growing the business.”
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
05-02-2002 2:07 pm |
Industry News
Punk Rocker Becomes Reader MEnew
Kiki Yablon, who plays guitar in a punk rock band, has been promoted to managing editor of the Chicago Reader. She has been on the Reader's staff since 1996, directing the alt-weekly's music coverage, the Chicago Sun Times reports. Editor Alison True says Yablon is "perfect" for the job and won the position over a host of outside applicants. True has also promoted three Reader associate editors to senior editor: Holly Greenhagen, Kitry Krause and Laura Molzahn.
Chicago Sun Times |
04-30-2002 10:21 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Chicago Reader
Chicago Free Papers Hold Up in Downturnnew
While publicly traded media companies are laying off employees and warning Wall Street of sharply diminished returns, Chicago's free circulation papers are holding their own, Kathy Bergen of the Chicago Tribune reports. "There isn't the voracious need to satisfy shareholders and start making layoffs," Richard Karpel, executive director of AAN, tells the Trib. Chicago Reader Publisher Jane Levine tells Bergen: "Our total revenue in 2001 will be about even with 2000, and I feel blessed for that."
Chicago Tribune |
12-11-2001 9:31 am |
Industry News
Successful Alt-Weekly Web Sites Offer Value-Added Servicesnew
Online Journalism Review looks at the success of some alt-weeklies’ online sites and asks why they are succeeding when others are folding. Dan Richardson, an OJR contributing writer, says the alt-weekly sites “are selling value-added classified services like e-mail notices. Their editorial content – the long, investigative articles and snappy reviews – are almost beside the point.” That may be bad news to writers and editors, but it is good news for the bottom line.
Online Journalism Review |
11-05-2001 12:09 pm |
Industry News
AAN Writers Featured in “Best Music Writing 2001”
The work of a half dozen alternative newsweekly music writers appears in “Da Capo Best Music Writing 2001”, published this month. Guest editor, Nick Hornby, calls the collection “a dip full of good stuff.”
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
10-15-2001 11:14 am |
Industry News
Academy Recruits Minority Journalists
Training ground for the alternative press
(FULL STORY)
Keith Pandolfi |
09-20-2001 6:35 am |
Association News
Chicago Reader Wins Release of Files in Police Rape Casenew
Stay tuned this fall for a good read in the Chicago Reader. A federal judge ordered the city to release "five banker's boxes" of confidential police documents to the alternative newsweekly by August 30. The materials were sealed after the city settled a lawsuit filed by a woman who accused a police officer of rape. In an e-mail to AAN News, Reader Editor Alison True reports that in his written opinion (Download PDF Here), U.S. District Court Judge Ruben Castillo "commended" the Reader and reporter Tori Marlan "for their thorough investigative reporting and ongoing pursuit of truth in these types of misconduct cases."
Chicago Tribune |
08-10-2001 11:50 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Chicago Reader
