AAN News
Early Registration & Hotel Deadlines for Web Conference Approaching
The deadline for early registration at this year's Web Publishing Conference is Monday, Jan. 11. To take advantage of savings of $50 per person, be sure to register (via this link) before Jan. 12 rolls around. Monday is also the deadline for the special AAN rate ($120 per room) at San Francisco's Argonaut Hotel, where the conference will be held. To find out more about the Web Publishing Conference, which is slated for Jan. 27-29, click here.
AAN |
01-06-2010 5:05 pm |
Association News
North Coast Journal Adds Three Co-Ownersnew
"About five years ago, Carolyn [Fernandez, the paper's production manager] and I began to craft a succession plan for the newspaper," publisher Judy Hodgson writes. "What would the ownership look like when we are no longer actively working? Who will be at the helm for the next 20 years?" To answer that question, the two co-founders did not have to go far. On Jan. 1, editor Hank Sims, sales manager Mike Herring and A&E editor Bob Doran became co-owners of the Journal; they are now minority stockholders while Fernandez and Hodgson retain majority control.
North Coast Journal |
01-06-2010 1:41 pm |
Industry News
2010 Membership Applications Now Available
The application deadline for newspapers to apply for AAN membership is Feb. 5, 2010. You can download an application here, or contact AAN to have one mailed to you. After a rigorous vetting process, the Membership Committee will issue its recommendations prior to July's convention in Toronto, where all members will have the chance to vote on the applicants. You can find links to the Membership Committee's admission guidelines and the AAN bylaws on the Membership page of our site. If you have any additional questions about membership, please call 202-289-8484 or email Debra Silvestrin at debra (at) aan.org.
AAN |
01-06-2010 12:48 pm |
Association News
Creative Loafing, Inc. Hires Henry Scott as Chief Marketing Officernew
The six-paper company has tapped Scott, a former president of Out Publishing and VP at the New York Times Co., to lead its marketing efforts as it emerges from bankruptcy. Scott comes to Creative Loafing from Gansevoort Media, a planning and product development firm he founded in 1995.
Tampa Bay Business Journal |
01-06-2010 9:42 am |
Industry News
The Independent Weekly Launching Three-Day Music Festival This Fallnew
"Just about every print publication in America is in hunker-down mode nowadays, trying to hang on and ride out the recession," News & Observer music critic David Menconi writes. "It takes real courage to launch anything bold and expensive in an environment like this, and The Independent Weekly is launching something that's plenty ambitious this fall: a music festival featuring around 120 bands playing in 10 venues around downtown Raleigh." The festival, dubbed Hopscotch, is scheduled for Sept. 9-11. Look for an official launch of the festival's website, some preliminary band announcements and the beginning of ticket sales in mid-February.
The News & Observer |
01-06-2010 9:16 am |
Industry News
Coalition Receives $2 Million for New FOIA Fundnew
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press |
01-06-2010 9:27 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Former Boise Weekly Editor Lands on Gubernatorial Campaign Staffnew
Boise Weekly |
01-06-2010 9:24 am |
Industry News
Bay Guardian Hopes to Expand Collection Efforts to Other VVM Papersnew
As we've noted recently, the San Francisco Bay Guardian has been going after the assets of SF Weekly as it tries to collect the millions of dollars it was awarded in 2008's predatory-pricing trial against the Weekly and parent company Village Voice Media. This week, the Guardian upped the ante, asking a court for permission to seize all property belonging not just to the Weekly but to all of VVM. An attorney for the Guardian tells the San Francisco Chronicle that it has been tough collecting anything since SF Weekly doesn't actually have much property, which is why they are now going after the rest of the company. But VVM continues to maintain it doesn't owe the Guardian anything until it has fully exhausted its appeals. The ruling on this could come down as early as today. READ MORE from The Stranger.
The San Francisco Chronicle |
01-05-2010 2:02 pm |
Industry News
NOW Magazine Writer Running for Canadian Parliamentnew
Andrew Cash is the New Democratic Party's candidate for the Davenport electoral district, located in Toronto's west end. Cash, who is also a well-known singer-songwriter, was named the candidate of the social democratic party back in October but is gearing up his campaign with an initial fundraiser set for later this month. If elected, he would become a caucus colleague of his former bandmate Charlie Angus, who has served in Parliament since 2004. Due to the intricacies of Canadian electoral law, the date of the election is not yet set, but Cash tells AAN News that it will most likely happen in either the spring or fall of 2010.
AndrewCash.net |
01-05-2010 11:54 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, NOW Magazine
SPD Highlights Riverfront Times' 'Smart, Cool' Cover Design Worknew
In his latest Society of Publication Designers blog post showing alt-weekly art directors some love, Robert Newman singles out Tom Carlson of Riverfront Times, calling him "one of a number of alt-weekly art directors who are doing amazing, creative work with their designs, crafting cover after cover from scratch, on super-low budgets, with limited deadlines, using primarily stock imagery and self-created artwork." Carlson, who has won several AltWeekly Awards in recent years (including a first-place win in 2007), says he employs an "object-oriented" method. "I like to go for visual solutions with clarity and directness that render text all but unnecessary," he says. "I tend to avoid decorative type choices and use type that just is, and let the words (when we have them) do their job."
Society of Publication Designers |
01-05-2010 9:36 am |
Industry News
Bartash Announces Insert Media Program Designed to Increase Publishers' Income
Philadelphia Firm Defines New Revenue Stream to Benefit Customers
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Bartash Printing Press Release |
01-05-2010 12:34 pm |
Press Releases
Study: Smartphone Users Making Purchases Over The Phonenew
Online Media Daily |
01-05-2010 10:13 am |
Industry News
Whoops! NOW Magazine Mistakenly IDs Toronto Pol as Gaynew
In a story previewing 2010, NOW sized up city councillor Adam Giambrone's chances of becoming mayor. "He's young. He's bright. He's gay," the story read. "And he looks better than any of his challengers so far." But there was one problem, Giambrone says. "I'm not, in fact, gay," he wrote on Facebook. "Sarah, my partner, has taken the news in stride and with good humour and I'm sure I'll never hear the end of it from the LGBTQ people in my life." NOW has acknowledged the mistake and changed the phrasing to "gay-positive."
Toronto Sun |
01-04-2010 10:56 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, NOW Magazine
Baltimore City Paper Cover Lands on Best Christmas Covers Listnew
The 1999 City Paper cover by the then-relatively-unknown Shepard Fairey had made Mediate's list of the "Top 20 Christmas Magazine Covers of All Time."
Mediaite |
12-31-2009 1:20 pm |
Honors & Achievements
San Antonio Current Series Makes 'Best Environmental Journalism' Listnew
Greg Harman's three-part Nukes of Hazard series has made On Earth magazine's "Best Environmental Journalism of 2009" list, along with several books, a series from the New York Times and pieces from prominent national magazines like The New Yorker, Mother Jones and Vanity Fair. "Harman shows readers what's at stake in the current industry campaign to create a 'nuclear renaissance' in Texas," Osha Gray Davidson writes. "Nukes of Hazard is exactly what alternative weeklies are supposed to provide but frequently don't: a powerfully written, in-depth piece about an issue that is most important to readers -- now that they've found out about it." On Earth is published by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
On Earth |
12-30-2009 12:01 pm |
Honors & Achievements
