AAN News
AdMob Brings Interactive Video Ads to iPhonenew
CNET |
11-18-2009 10:23 am |
Industry News
Court Rules CIA Didn't Violate Valerie Plame Wilson's Free Speech Rightsnew
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a 2007 lower court decision in its ruling in Wilson v. Central Intelligence Agency, which barred the former CIA officer from revealing the length of her tenure with the agency in her 2007 memoir. The three-judge panel said that the CIA made a good argument to keep the information secret and that it would not "second-guess" the agency's decision. AAN was part of a group that filed an amicus brief supporting Wilson in the case.
First Amendment Center |
11-17-2009 10:06 am |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Jury Rules in Lawsuit That Stemmed from Riverfront Times Storynew
A federal jury has awarded $100,000 to "Jane Doe," a cosmetic surgery patient who claimed that doctors provided before-and-after photographs of her torso without her permission to illustrate a 2006 Riverfront Times story. The woman's lawyers were seeking millions of dollars for compensatory damages alone, but one juror says the jury awarded only enough to pay something to her lawyers and to allow for her hotel and travel expenses. The St. Louis alt-weekly was not named in the woman's suit. However, one of the doctors being sued testified that Times reporter Kristen Hinman promised not to use the photos and to let him review the article before publication, charges that Hinman and her editor deny.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
11-17-2009 9:28 am |
Industry News
News Orgs Can Request & Obtain Amateur Video via New YouTube Toolnew
The Hollywood Reporter |
11-17-2009 9:38 am |
Industry News
Tags: Electronic Publishing
Next 'How I Got That Story' Slated for This Friday
At 3 pm EST, this Friday, Nov. 20, AAN will continue its live chat series with winners from the AAN 2009 journalism contest with Anne Schindler, editor of Folio Weekly, who won first place in the column writing category in the 50,000 and under circulation category. She will be interviewed by Santa Fe Reporter editor Julia Goldberg in a chat that will happen right here on the AAN.org home page.
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AAN |
11-16-2009 4:03 pm |
Association News
Alt-Weekly Writer Helps Put Together Book Drive for Liberian Journos
NewLiberian.com, a nonprofit human-rights news site co-founded by San Diego CityBeat's Dave Maass, is partnering with the NGO The Niapele Project in an effort to get American newsrooms to donate spare books and magazines for a "Journalists' Book Drive" to benefit reporters in Liberia. "Books are very expensive in Liberia and some reporters can't even afford a day's meal, let alone buy journalism books," NewLiberian.com editor Sematics King Jr. says. "Therefore, books will really be an added advantage to many Liberian journalists who did not get the opportunity to study journalism at all in college."
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NewLiberian.com Press Release |
11-16-2009 11:12 am |
Press Releases
Marty Petty Named New CEO of Creative Loafing, Inc.
Petty, the former publisher of the St. Petersburg Times and the Hartford Courant, has been named the new chief executive officer of the six-paper Creative Loafing chain. She will succeed Richard W. Gilbert, who has been interim CEO since the company emerged from bankruptcy. "I'm invigorated by the possibilities to deepen relationships with our readers and advertisers and expand our influence in our communities," she says in a release. "The coverage areas which have differentiated and distinguished the alternative press historically may be more important than ever." MORE from Creative Loafing (Tampa).
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Creative Loafing, Inc. Press Release |
11-16-2009 10:22 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, CL, Inc.
Study: About Half in U.S. Would Pay for Online Newsnew
The New York Times |
11-16-2009 11:41 am |
Industry News
Craigslist Set to Roll Out $5 Mobile App Exclusively for Blackberry Usersnew
Wired |
11-16-2009 10:28 am |
Industry News
Is Facebook Becoming Uncool for 18-24s?new
Adweek |
11-16-2009 10:24 am |
Industry News
Tags: Electronic Publishing
Dallas Observer Refuses to Hand Over Interview Tape to Judgenew
After a guilty verdict was handed down in Dallas' high-profile political corruption trial last month, one juror told an Observer reporter that the jurors may have discussed -- or overhead outside discussion about -- some pieces of evidence during the trial, both of which are against the rules of the court. That revelation led one of the defense attorneys to request a new trial, which led the judge to request the interview tape from the Observer. The paper said no, drawing a snippy rebuke from the judge, who wrote that the alt-weekly was citing "some vague constitutional protection unknown to this Court" in its refusal to give her the tape. "But 'round here we call that 'vague constitutional protection' the First Amendment," notes Observer managing editor Patrick Williams, adding: "We're not in the business of becoming an adjunct to the government."
Dallas Observer |
11-13-2009 10:35 am |
Industry News
Dayton City Paper Moving Officesnew
The paper will relocate its offices over the Thanksgiving holiday to the Metropolitan Arts building in downtown Dayton, "putting the City Paper in the middle of the scene it covers," Dayton Business Journal reports.
Dayton Business Journal |
11-13-2009 9:41 am |
Industry News
Tags: Dayton City Paper
Another Discounted NewsU Webinar Scheduled for Next Week
AAN is pleased to offer its members another opportunity for online professional development through a recently-created partnership with News University. "Newswriting for the Web," a one-hour webinar, is available to the first 20 AAN members who register at the special rate of $15.00 (the webinar regularly costs $29.95). To access the AAN-member only code, click here
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AAN |
11-12-2009 12:56 pm |
Association News
Chicago Reader Associate Publisher Leaves the Papernew
"The appointment of Jim Warren as publisher of the Reader has made the position of associate publisher redundant, in the view of the Reader's owners, and Steve Timble, who held that position and has been acting as publisher, has left the paper," Michael Miner reported in late October. (Ed: We missed this news when it broke; our apologies.) Timble, who was also the founding publisher of Time Out Chicago, had held the associate publisher position since September 2008.
Chicago Reader |
11-12-2009 12:44 pm |
Industry News
L.A. Weekly Film Critic and Editor Leaves for Film Societynew
Scott Foundas has been named the new associate program director of The Film Society of Lincoln Center, where he will work on series and event programs, including the New York Film Festival. "Scott's writing is an exhilarating dialogue with artists and audiences alike," society executive director Mara Manus tells Variety. "It is this vibrancy, along with Scott's deep film knowledge, that will contribute greatly to our growing organization, ensuring we continue to offer a vital place of serious film culture." IndieWire's Anne Thompson says Foundas' move is another nail in the coffin for the "dying art" of film criticism. "As one of the best critics working today, Foundas should be anticipating a long and happy career," she writes. "He's giving it up to program movies. This should not happen."
Variey | IndieWire |
11-12-2009 8:33 am |
Industry News
