AAN News
What I've Been Tweeting [members only]
Jon Whiten |
09-24-2009 2:23 pm |
AAN Staff Blog
Mikhaela Reid Elected VP of Editorial Cartoonists' Associationnew
Reid, whose "The Boiling Point" comic appears in Metro Times and other AAN member papers, has been elected Vice President of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) Board of Directors. Ted Rall, who was elected president last year, will move into the Immediate Past President role, while V.C. Rogers, the cartoonist at North Carolina's Independent Weekly, remains the group's Secretary-Treasurer.
American Association of Editorial Cartoonists |
09-23-2009 1:01 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Design & Production
C-Ville Weekly Celebrates 20th Anniversarynew
The Charlottesville, Va., alt-weekly is marking the occasion by taking a look back at some of the memorable moments since the paper launched in 1989. The staff has compiled some of the hits and misses, while co-founder Bill Chapman takes a walk down memory lane in this video tour of the eight buildings that have called C-Ville home over the last 20 years.
C-Ville Weekly |
09-23-2009 12:23 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Management, C-Ville Weekly
'Local Washing' Story Goes National [members only]
Richard Karpel |
09-23-2009 7:22 pm |
AAN Staff Blog
New York Times Explores New Twitter Search Productsnew
Saying there is "a lot of power in organizing and curating this world," The New York Times Company senior VP of digital operations Martin Nisenholtz told OMMA conference attendees yesterday that Times has built a search product that aggregates Twitter commentary from both editors and readers for its popular fashion-themed blog The Moment and it plans on building many more. "If you go out and search Twitter, it doesn't work very well," he said. "It's very literal."
Mediaweek |
09-22-2009 3:08 pm |
Industry News
Judge Dismisses Defamation Suit Against The Independent Weeklynew
A judge has dismissed former Stanford Group Company vice president Tiffany Angelle's defamation claim against the Lafayette, La., paper. Angelle had sued the Independent over a story that reported she had given a reluctant investor a Rolex watch and a lavish trip to keep his money in Stanford, which was shut down earlier this year by the Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly perpetrating an $8 billion investment scam. In making his ruling, the judge noted that Independent editorial director Leslie Turk, who was also named in the suit, "reasonably relied on a confidential informant whom she believed to be telling the truth and confirmed the accuracy of the source's statement by making a second call to [the confidential source]."
The Independent Weekly |
09-22-2009 10:14 am |
Legal News
Robert Newman Goes a Little Deeper into Village Voice Cover Archivenew
Last week, we told you about the collection of Village Voice covers posted in Facebook galleries by Robert Newman Design. Over the weekend, he added some even older covers from the 70s and 80s, featuring the work of design luminaries like Milton Glaser, George Delmerico and Michael Grossman. The New York Times' David Carr says "it's a walk down memory lane for people who otherwise might have some trouble remembering those good old days."
The New York Times |
09-22-2009 9:59 am |
Industry News
Despite Industry Turmoil, Many J-Schools Seeing Record Enrollmentsnew
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
09-22-2009 11:22 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Forecast: Internet Ad Spend Will Grow 11 Percent in '10new
Media Daily News |
09-22-2009 10:42 am |
Industry News
AAN Begins Live Chat Series With 2009 AltWeekly Award Winners
The series debuts here on AAN.org this Friday, Sept. 25, with investigative reporting winner John Dickerson discussing his Phoenix New Times series "Prescription for Disaster" with New Times managing editor Amy Silverman. The conversation, which will begin at 3 pm EST, will be moderated by Folio Weekly editor Anne Schindler.
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AAN |
09-21-2009 3:03 pm |
Association News
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Tom Tomorrow Pens His First Children's Book
Promo materials say The Very Silly Mayor uses "humor and social commentary to teach children to trust their own judgment, even if other people might disagree with their views or make fun of them." The book, which is currently available in stores and at web retailers, is the product of Tom Tomorrow's own experience as a parent. "As the parent of a small child, you end up reading a lot of fairly awful story books at bedtime, and as someone whose livelihood is derived from a certain facility at combining words and pictures, the lure of trying to do better was eventually too strong to resist," he explained on his blog earlier this year. You can read more about the book at the Very Silly Mayor website.
AAN News |
09-21-2009 11:35 am |
Industry News
Seattle Weekly Story Leads to Free Health Care for Couple in Neednew
After reading the Weekly's Sept. 1 profile of Eugene and Yukiko Gatlin, former patients of Group Health who went bankrupt paying its insurance premiums, the "boutique primary care provider" Qliance contacted the paper with an offer to help. The company, which doesn't work through insurance but charges patients a flat monthly fee for primary care at one of its clinics, will waive the fee for the Gatlins until they can afford it at some point down the line. "Miracles do happen," Eugene Gatlin says, though he tells the Weekly he's still concerned about the cost of the couple's medications.
Seattle Weekly |
09-21-2009 9:56 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Seattle Weekly
Two Florida Alts Nab 16 State Press Awardsnew
Miami New Times and New Times Broward-Palm Beach each won eight total awards in the Florida Press Club's 2009 Excellence in Journalism contest. Miami took home first-place honors in the General News, Light Feature Writing, Minority News and Religion Writing categories, while Broward placed first in the Blog Writing, Criticism, Health Writing and Sports Feature Writing categories. However, blog winner Bob Norman points out that the press club put all of the alt-weeklies' nonblog entries in Class D, the lowest category in the contest. "The last time they did this a few years ago, we refused to accept our awards (yeah, we're arrogant like that)," Norman writes. "Now they've gone off and done it again. We've been judged over the years in Category A, where we belong, all the way down to D. It's an issue that needs to be ironed out beforehand."
Florida Press Club |
09-21-2009 9:15 am |
Honors & Achievements
AAN's August Financials ... Only One Month Left in FY09 [members only]
Richard Karpel |
09-21-2009 7:04 pm |
AAN Staff Blog
A Couple of Alt-Weekly-Related Things That Don't Fit Anywhere Else [members only]
Richard Karpel |
09-21-2009 6:42 pm |
AAN Staff Blog
