AAN News
Four AAN Members Clean Up at the Lone Star Awardsnew
The Houston Press and Fort Worth Weekly were the big winners in this year's awards competition sponsored by the Houston Press Club. The Press won a total of 16 awards. In the big papers division, it finished first for Business Story and General Commentary/Criticism, while staff writer Craig Malisow was named Print Journalist of the Year (his colleague Chris Vogel was runner-up.) In the art and web divisions open to all papers, the Press took home first-place awards for Feature Story, Hard News Reporting, Photo Package and Sports Photo. The Weekly, competing in the small papers division, won a total of 11 awards, including first-place finishes in Feature Story, Investigative Reporting, Politics/Government, Sports Story and Business Story (which it swept). Also in the large division, the Dallas Observer won four awards, including firsts for Feature Story, Sports Story; in the small division, San Antonio Current took home three awards.
Houston Press Club (pdf) |
07-02-2009 8:51 am |
Honors & Achievements
Arkansas Times Launches Web Coupon Programnew
Arkansas Times |
07-02-2009 9:28 am |
Press Releases
Independent Weekly's Blogs Get a Redesign from DesignHammernew
DesignHammer Media Group Press Release |
07-02-2009 9:24 am |
Press Releases
AAN Elects New President, Fills Ten Board Seats
At the annual meeting of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies on Saturday, June 27, Willamette Week's Mark Zusman was elected the association's new president. He succeeds Metroland's Stephen Leon, who will take the advisory role of Immediate Past President. The membership voted on nine other board seats on Saturday, including two that were created just minutes earlier when AAN's bylaws were amended.
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AAN News |
07-01-2009 2:42 pm |
Association News
Tags: Circulation, Classified Advertising, Design & Production, Editorial, Electronic Publishing, Financial, Management, Marketing, Retail Advertising, Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, Mark Zusman, Stephen Leon, Fran Zankowski, Ellen Meany, Steve Delgado, Bill Jensen, Margaret Downing, Sally Freeman, Tim Redmond, Julia Goldberg, Michael Hollett
Full List of 2009 AltWeekly Awards Winners Released
L.A. Weekly led the large-circulation division for the second year in a row with four first-place wins, while Santa Fe Reporter led the small-circulation division, also with four first-place wins.
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AAN News |
07-01-2009 10:12 am |
Association News
Craigslist Sued For Trademark Infringement Based On Listingnew
First Call Properties, a Texas real estate company, has sued Craigslist for trademark infringement based on ads posted by users in what Online Media Daily says "appears to be a first." The company alleges that shortly after it began placing ads on Craigslist, rival AAA Apartment Locating began posting Craigslist ads using the phrases "first call," "call first," and "call us first" in a deliberate attempt to confuse consumers. First Call claims that Craigslist knew that AAA was using the First Call trademark and failed to stop the ads from appearing.
Online Media Daily |
07-01-2009 9:48 am |
Legal News
San Francisco Bay Guardian's Van is Stolennew
"Somebody broke into the Bay Guardian parking lot last night, rammed through the chain-link fence and drove away with our van," Guardian executive editor Tim Redmond writes. "Kinda crazy -- it's ten years old, it's all beat up -- and it has the Guardian logo all over it and a Best of the Bay mural on the side. Hard to hide."
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
07-01-2009 9:31 am |
Industry News
Long Island Press Wins Casey Medalnew
The alt-weekly won this year's Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism in the non-daily category for its story on the growing heroin epidemic among Long Island's youth -- a story the judges called "the epitome of public service journalism." The story -- "Long Highland" -- also won the AltWeekly Award for Public Service last week in Tucson. The Dallas Observer and New Times Broward-Palm Beach received honorable mentions in the Casey Medal competition, which recognizes "exemplary reporting on children and families in the U.S."
The Journalism Center on Children & Families |
07-01-2009 9:01 am |
Honors & Achievements
Two Newspapers Voted into AAN
At the annual meeting of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies this weekend in Tucson, AAN members approved the membership applications of Inland Empire Weekly of Corona, Calif., and Edmonton's See Magazine. In addition, the membership status of six current member papers that had changed hands in the last two years was affirmed.
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AAN News |
06-30-2009 3:19 pm |
Association News
Lucy Dalglish Lays Out Her Biggest Post-Bush Worries at Convention
At Saturday's First Amendment Lunch in Tucson, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press executive director Lucy Dalglish expressed relief that the Bush administration was no longer in Washington, but said that challenges remain for open-government advocates.
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AAN News |
06-30-2009 1:28 pm |
Association News
Fast Forward Weekly Accepts Ad That Calgary's Dailies Won't Runnew
The Vancouver Humane Society is trying to take its campaign against calf roping to Canada's biggest rodeo, the Calgary Stampede, but the group has had a hard time placing their anti-roping ad. It was rejected by the Calgary Herald and the Calgary Sun, but the ad -- which is not particularly shocking -- will run in Fast Forward Weekly. The Sun's publisher tells the CBC the ad is in "bad taste" and that the Vancouver Humane Society is "out of its jurisdiction." Fast Forward publisher Ian Chiclo disagrees. "As long as there are no legal issues, we're not in the business of muzzling advertisers," he tells AAN News. "The Calgary Stampede is a great event for the city, but groups should be allowed to express their opinion about the event."
The Globe and Mail | The CBC |
06-30-2009 1:00 pm |
Industry News
Chicago Reader Publisher Steps Downnew
Kirk MacDonald, who was also COO of Creative Loafing Inc., is leaving the company to rejoin the Denver Newspaper Agency, which controls the business operations of the Denver Post, as executive vice president for sales, marketing, and digital sales. MacDonald, who joined the Reader in September 2008, says CL CEO Ben Eason will take over the COO duties temporarily, and that a new publisher will be named for the Reader.
Chicago Reader |
06-30-2009 11:22 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Alums Come Together at Seattle News Websitenew
Publicola was started in January by Josh Feit, a former news editor of The Stranger, to cover state and local politics in a time where fewer reporters are ensconced in state houses across the country. Feit has attracted some "significant" money, and recently hired another Stranger alum, Erica Barnett, as a full-time staff reporter.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
06-30-2009 10:16 am |
Industry News
Longtime Los Angeles Journo Coming Home to Edit L.A. Weeklynew
Drex Heikes, who served the Los Angeles Times for 18 years as the Sunday magazine's editor and foreign affairs editor in the paper's Washington bureau, has been named L.A. Weekly's next editor. He will start in August. The position will allow a homecoming of sorts for Heikes: He left L.A. in 2005 to work at the Las Vegas Sun, which recently won a Public Service Pulitzer for an investigation he assigned and edited. "Village Voice Media publishes vital newspapers because it has upheld the vision of its founding editor, Mike Lacey," Heikes says. "Mike is a reporter at heart. His mission has never wavered. First you report, and you report hard. Then you write -- and you do it as a storyteller."
L.A. Weekly |
06-30-2009 9:24 am |
Industry News
Five VVM Columnists Honored in National Column-Writing Awardsnew
SF Weekly's Katy St. Clair took home a first-place Humor column award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists in its annual contest. Roy Edroso of The Village Voice, Stephen Lemons of Phoenix New Times, and Chuck Strouse and Elyse Wanshel, both of Miami New Times, were also recognized by the group.
National Society of Newspaper Columnists |
06-30-2009 8:31 am |
Honors & Achievements
