AAN News
Videos, Presentations from Web Publishing Conference Now Available
Scores of alt-weekly staffers descended on San Francisco's Argonaut Hotel last week for AAN's 2010 Web Publishing Conference. Publishers, editors, ad sales managers and others came together for one-and-a-half days of virtually non-stop panels and presentations on how best to manage digital publishing now and in the future. If you weren't able to make it to the conference, or want to share what you learned at a particular session, you can check out videos from nine of the 12 sessions and PDF presentations of several sessions in the Resource Library.
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AAN |
02-04-2010 5:47 pm |
Association News
Sales Webinar on Google Ad Manager Slated for Feb. 25
The latest installment in AAN's 2010 Sales Webinar Series will focus on "tips & tricks" for Google Ad Manager (GAM). The session, which costs $24 for AAN members, will be led by Mark Wolly, Senior Ad Serving Consultant with Google Publisher Solutions. He will point little-known (yet high-impact) features of GAM, introduce some brand new features and spend plenty of time answering questions on how you can optimize GAM.
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AAN |
02-04-2010 3:57 pm |
Association News
Tags: Management, Retail Advertising
Alt-Weeklies Reported on Prius Problems -- Last Yearnew
As Toyota acknowledges design problems with the brakes in its hybrid Prius, it's worth taking a look back at Paul Knight's April 2009 story that ran in the Houston Press and several other alt-weeklies, which details the car's "unintended acceleration" problems. "Toyota spokespeople quoted in the story blamed misinstalled floor mats and simple driver error for the wild rides," reports the OC Weekly, which also ran the story. "But now that the U.S. and Japanese governments are applying heat, the world's largest carmaker seems to be taking Prius horror stories more seriously."
OC Weekly |
02-04-2010 3:20 pm |
Industry News
Dan Savage: If You Want a Media Job, Be Prepared to Work for Freenew
"I hear all the time from people who are just starting out who want media careers, who want to be writers, who want to broadcast," The Stranger editor and "Savage Love" columnist says in an appearance on the Too Beautiful To Live podcast. "Then the next thing out of their mouth, when they're applying for jobs, is that they need $60,000-$70,000 a year. I laugh and look at them and say 'The first three years that I did the column I got nothing." Savage adds: "There's no job in media for anyone anymore who isn't willing to do it for free at the outset." You can listen to the entire show, where Savage discusses everything from Dr. Drew to monetizing his "Savage Love" podcast, here (Savage comes on in the second half).
MyNorthwest.com |
02-04-2010 9:14 am |
Industry News
Verve Wireless: Mobile News Access Growing; Local News Most Popular
Mobile publishing company Verve Wireless today announced its end of year milestones, noting that 100 million mobile news pages were served in December 2009 -- a 160 percent increase year over year. The company says local news continues to be the most accessed mobile content, but that breaking world or national stories -- like the death of Michael Jackson, for example -- are driving the largest traffic spikes. Verve also notes that mobile video is a growing field, with viewership growing by 106 percent in the past three months.
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Verve Wireless Press Release |
02-04-2010 8:13 am |
Press Releases
New York Observer Launching Free Weekly in Las Vegasnew
The New York Times |
02-04-2010 1:10 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management
New Creative Loafing (Atlanta) Editor Talks About What's Aheadnew
Mara Shalhoup, who was named the paper's new editor-in-chief last month, says she hopes to eventually bring back the investigative pieces and longer stories that have mostly disappeared from the alt-weekly. "The in-depth, investigative pieces, they take time, and they take resources, and right now those are two things that can be of short supply," she tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "We were under the gun to build page views and have a bigger presence online. We couldn't do both at the same time." Shalhoup also notes that she will likely be hiring more staff soon, a move that CL's new ownership team says it fully supports.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
02-03-2010 2:48 pm |
Industry News
President Obama Quotes Village Voice Headlinenew
"Scott Brown Wins Mass. Race, Giving GOP 41-59 Majority in the Senate." This Voice headline on the day after Brown won the Senate seat vacated by the late Ted Kennedy caught the eyes of many observers at the time, and now the president himself has referenced it. "There was apparently a headline after the Massachusetts election," Obama said in remarks to Senate Democrats, according to Talking Points Memo. "The Village Voice announced that Republicans win a 41-59 majority. It's worth thinking about. We still have to lead."
The Village Voice |
02-03-2010 11:31 am |
Industry News
Rolling Stone Wins Anti-SLAPP Decision in Misappropriation Suitnew
A California appellate court has ruled that a lawsuit by indie rock musicians against Rolling Stone over an article that was surrounded by a fold-out ad for Camel cigarettes should be dismissed under the state anti-SLAPP statute. AAN, along with several other media organizations, filed an amicus brief last summer in support of Rolling Stone in the case.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press |
02-02-2010 11:28 am |
Legal News
Tags: Management
Printer Sues San Diego Reader for Breach of Contractnew
San Dieguito Printers has filed a lawsuit in San Diego Superior Court alleging that the Reader breached a contract between the two parties when it switched to a new printer at the beginning of this year. The printing company says it signed a 10-year contract to be the Reader's exclusive printer in 2005. The suit names Reader publisher Jim Holman -- both as a person and as a business -- as the defendant, rather than the Reader, as the printing company argues that the paper is being operated as a sole proprietorship.
San Diego CityBeat |
02-02-2010 10:28 am |
Industry News
Newspaper Classified Ad Revenue Down 70 Percent in Last 10 Yearsnew
Poynter Online's Biz Blog |
02-02-2010 10:38 am |
Industry News
The Gotham Group Signs Village Voice Media
Leading Entertainment Management and Production Firm Will Represent Country's Largest Group of Alternative Newsweeklies
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The Gotham Group Press Release |
02-02-2010 10:31 am |
Press Releases
Monterey County Weekly Raises More than $500,000 for Nonprofits
The Weekly says its five-week Community Fund campaign has raised a total of $529,337 for local nonprofits. A total of 1,609 readers donated to the campaign, in amounts ranging from 27 cents to over $50,000.
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Monterey County Weekly Press Release |
01-28-2010 1:09 pm |
Press Releases
Baltimore City Paper Comics Contest Judges Want Winning Comic Backnew
Tom Scocca, Tony Millionaire, Dina Kelberman, Benn Ray and Emily Flake have written a letter to City Paper asking the paper to bring back Larnell Custis Butler's "Just Ask Larnell" strip, the most recent winner of the alt-weekly's comics contest. The writers, all of them judges in the contest, allege that the paper "broke the terms of the contest" by dropping the strip before its promised year run was up. But editor Lee Gardner begs to differ. "Contest winner or not, Ms. Butler's comic became part of City Paper's weekly editorial content, and each aspect of that content runs or not at my discretion," he responds. "She will receive full payment for a year's run. I have a good deal of regard and respect for Ms. Butler, but I stand by my decision."
Baltimore City Paper |
01-28-2010 10:13 am |
Industry News
Metro Pulse Makes a Few Staffing Changes
Staff writer Chris Barrett moves on (again), and former editor Jesse Fox Mayshark returns after six years at The New York Times
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Metro Pulse Press Release |
01-28-2010 10:34 am |
Press Releases
