AAN News
Forecast: Online Will Take More Ad Dollars Than Newspapers By 2015new
paidContent |
12-08-2009 2:37 pm |
Industry News
Ad Forecasters Call For A Better Year Ahead, to Differing Degreesnew
Media Daily News |
12-08-2009 9:25 am |
Industry News
Coming Friday: 'How I Got That Story' Live Chat on Media Reporting
David Koon and Gerard Matthews of Arkansas Times, who took home a first place award for media reporting, will be interviewed by Las Vegas Weekly editor Scott Dickensheets on AAN.org this Friday (Dec. 11) at 3 pm EST.
(FULL STORY)
AAN |
12-07-2009 1:08 pm |
Association News
Website Calls for Medical Marijuana Ad Boycott Against L.A. Weeklynew
Just last week we noted that medical marijuana-related advertising was filling up the pages of Denver's Westword; now a medical marijuana website is calling on shops that advertise in L.A. Weekly to pull their ads. The boycott, proposed by the site WeedTRACKER, comes after the paper ran a cover story that looked at Los Angeles' inability to regulate the city's medical marijuana shops. "The person who calls for the boycott obviously wasn't pleased with what we found," Patrick Range McDonald writes, "even though the Weekly takes local politicians to task for allowing non-permitted, opportunistic pot shops to give a compassionate cause -- the legal use of medical marijuana by truly sick people -- a very public black eye."
L.A. Weekly |
12-07-2009 12:43 pm |
Industry News
Talking Points Memo Launches D.C. Bureau (in the AAN Office Suite)new
"With the opening of its Washington bureau, Talking Points Memo is becoming an ever more powerful player in the online news arena," American Journalism Review reports, rightly noting that the bureau is housed in AAN's office suite in downtown D.C. We've been happily sharing space with TPM since Oct. 1.
American Journalism Review |
12-07-2009 11:52 am |
Association News
New York Press Parent Co. 'Has Defied Industry Trends'new
"Manhattan Media has thrived as the media landscape has fragmented," Crain's New York reports. The privately-held company, which owns a stable of community weeklies and local specialty magazines, says revenue has grown fivefold since 2002 and advertising revenue for its newspapers is up this year over last. Crain's doesn't make much specific mention of the Press, which Manhattan Media purchased in 2007, except to note that "the company is still tinkering" with the alt-weekly.
Crain's New York |
12-07-2009 10:37 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, New York Press
Study: 40 Percent of Americans Open to Behavioral Targetingnew
A new study from market research firm Synovate finds that 32 percent of Americans would be open to having their web browsing habits monitored if it meant they received ads more relevant to their interests, as long as they couldn't be identified as an actual person by the data collected. Another 8 percent said they would be open to behavioral targeting with "few, if any, concerns," but 35 percent said they weren't interested because of privacy concerns.
Marketing Daily |
12-07-2009 8:03 am |
Industry News
Obama on Open Government Issues: So Far, an 'Uneven Record'new
The Associated Press |
12-07-2009 11:40 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Citysearch Rolls Out Twitter Integration On Business Listing Pagesnew
Online Media Daily |
12-07-2009 8:03 am |
Industry News
How I Got That Story Live Chat: Jeffry Cudlin Talks Art Criticism
Washington City Paper's Jeffry Cudlin, who won the 2008 AltWeekly Award for Arts Criticism, discussed his work in a live chat with Tuscon Weekly's Jimmy Boegle.
(FULL STORY)
AAN |
12-04-2009 2:53 pm |
Association News
AAN Releases Guidelines for 2010 AltWeekly Awards
The contest website will open Tue., Dec. 15, 2009 and will close on the contest deadline, Mon., Feb. 8, 2010 at 11 pm (EST).
There are now three separate blog categories: Group/Staff Blog, Individual Blog, and Music Blog. There is also a new award for the best use of Multimedia. The Wild Card category is Health Care.
Download the complete contest rules here. (FULL STORY)
There are now three separate blog categories: Group/Staff Blog, Individual Blog, and Music Blog. There is also a new award for the best use of Multimedia. The Wild Card category is Health Care.
Download the complete contest rules here. (FULL STORY)
AAN |
12-04-2009 1:17 pm |
Association News
Update on the Executive Director Search
On Nov. 20, AAN officially stopped accepting applications for the executive director position. Since then, the Executive
Committee has narrowed a list of more than 75 candidates to a group of
eight individuals. At the same time, the committee created a Hiring Committee to oversee the rest of the process; this newly formed
committee's first task will be further winnowing the group of eight
down to a smaller group of finalists,
who will then be invited to AAN headquarters in Washington, D.C. for
interviews.
(FULL STORY)
AAN |
12-04-2009 11:46 am |
Association News
Westword Cashing In on Medical Marijuana Boomnew
In a report on how Colorado's booming medical marijuana industry is creating a "so called gold rush" for media companies that are accepting advertising from the dispensaries, KUNC's Bente Birkeland says "no newspaper has embraced the industry more than Westword." The Denver alt-weekly "is covered with pages and pages of medical marijuana ads for green docs, natural remedies and alternative healing," KUNC notes. But Poynter's Al Tompkins says that accepting the ads could pose potential problems for newspapers. "The fact is it is still against the law on the federal level," he says. "Even though there is no desire to prosecute it, it is still illegal, and generally it's against the law to be advertising an illegal act."
KUNC |
12-03-2009 10:19 am |
Industry News
Call for Entries: 2009 Innocence Network Journalism Awardsnew
The Innocence Network |
12-03-2009 2:53 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Sacramento News & Review Gets Ready to Movenew
After a few years and a few million dollars, the paper is finally moving into its new office -- a former supermarket that it purchased and renovated using green-building standards. As News & Review publisher Jeff vonKaenel points out, the move wouldn't have been possible without about $2 million in grants, loan guarantees and other incentives from the city -- but he says that doesn't mean the paper will all of a sudden go soft in its coverage of the city and its redevelopment agency. "During my 36 years as a newspaper publisher, there have been many instances where regular advertisers have called me to complain about a story and to cancel their advertising," he writes. "Our business relationship with the city is no different."
Sacramento News & Review |
12-02-2009 10:54 am |
Industry News
