AAN News
Local Ad Revenue Plunges in All Platformsnew
Media Daily News |
06-17-2009 12:25 pm |
Industry News
Update: AAN Convention Hits Tucson Next Week
With the 32nd Annual AAN Convention slated to get underway next week, we've got the tentative weather forecast (hint: hot), sponsor and trade show information and a transportation tip. Going forward, be sure to check the convention website for the most up-to-date information.
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AAN |
06-16-2009 4:24 pm |
Association News
Tags: Management
Bay Guardian Says it Won't Run City's Public Notice Ads on Websitenew
SF Weekly reports the city of San Francisco is reaching out to a handful of websites to potentially run public notice ads, including the website of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. But Guardian publisher Bruce Brugmann says the paper has no intention of participating. "We don't bid, or go in for these city contracts, and we don't intend to do it now," he tells the Weekly.
SF Weekly |
06-16-2009 12:39 pm |
Industry News
L.A. Weekly Wins Big in Southern California Journalism Awardsnew
The Weekly, competing with other large-circulation newspapers, won a total of 13 awards in the annual competition sponsored by the LA Press Club. Staff writer Christine Pelisek had a big night, winning first-place honors for Feature, Hard News and Investigative/Series (where she also received an Honorable Mention). Pelisek also finished second for Journalist of the Year. The Weekly placed first in three additional categories: Columnist, Entertainment News or Feature and Political Coverage. Syndicated "Advice Goddess" columnist Amy Alkon also took home a first-place win for Headline Writing in the large-circ category. Amongst the smaller papers, three AAN members were recognized for their work. OC Weekly won three first-place awards, for Design, Entertainment News or Feature and Entertainment Reviews/Criticism/Column. Pasadena Weekly won three awards, and the late LA CityBeat won one.
LA Press Club (Word Document) |
06-16-2009 8:48 am |
Honors & Achievements
The Texas Observer Names MOLLY Prize Winnernew
Houston Chronicle columnist Rick Casey has been awarded the 2009 MOLLY National Journalism Prize for a series about immigration. The awards, presented annually by the Texas Observer, recognize great American journalism and honor the memory of former Observer editor Molly Ivins. "Molly would have been thrilled at the scores of worthy entries and taken a little amused pride that this year's winner is a columnist for the Houston Chronicle, the newspaper where she began reporting as a summer intern," Observer CEO and publisher Carlton Carl says.
The Texas Observer |
06-16-2009 8:27 am |
Press Releases
AAN Convention 2009: The Good News and the Bad News [members only]
Richard Karpel |
06-16-2009 7:10 pm |
AAN Staff Blog
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Study: Ad-Supported Internet Contributes $300B to U.S. Economynew
Interactive Advertising Bureau |
06-16-2009 12:25 pm |
Industry News
2009 Academy for Alternative Journalism Fellows Named
Eight fellows have been chosen from about 350 applicants to attend the Academy for Alternative Journalism summer residency program at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. The Academy, which begins next Monday and runs through August, trains young journalists in long-form feature writing with the aim of recruiting them into the alternative press.
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AAN News |
06-15-2009 2:54 pm |
Association News
VVM Launches Local Online Ad Network
The Voice Local Network will allow select publishers to monetize their content using Village Voice Media's locally based sales forces. VVM says the network is designed for web publishers that match both the content and the core demographics of its newspapers. "We've been working the streets, merchant to merchant, for years developing personal relationships in all of our cities," VVM president and chief operating officer Scott Tobias says. "Through these connections, we've developed a very high local CPM web business, and it's a natural evolution to help other publishers tap into our network of advertisers."
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Village Voice Media Press Release |
06-15-2009 1:01 pm |
Press Releases
South Carolina Biweekly Loses Libel Casenew
A 12-member jury ruled earlier this month that the Columbia City Paper libeled a local attorney in a 2007 article, and awarded her $40,000 in damages. The suit named as defendants City Paper's two co-owners, publisher Paul Blake and editor-in-chief Todd Morehead, as well as the publication itself. Blake tells Columbia Free Times they will "definitely" appeal the jury decision. "We're pretty confident the First Amendment will prevail," he says.
Columbia Free Times |
06-15-2009 12:34 pm |
Legal News
Federal Grand Jury Subpoenas Commenters' Info from Newspapernew
The grand jury is asking for the names, phone numbers, IP addresses and other identifying information about every person who commented on a May 26 Las Vegas Review-Journal story on the tax evasion trial of a local resident. The paper's editor, calling the subpoena "tantamount to killing a gnat with an A-bomb," says Review-Journal lawyers are negotiating with the feds to limit the scope of information sought. MORE: Online Media Daily talks to legal experts about the subpoenas.
Las Vegas Review-Journal |
06-15-2009 12:22 pm |
Legal News
How Twitter Users Are Dealing With Correctionsnew
"New tools or technologies that enable people to report or publish inevitably give birth to new forms of correction," Craig Silverman writes for CJR in a piece looking at how several individuals and news organization handle making corrections on Twitter. "The end result, I think, is that for all of its failings -- and lord knows no one talks about them more than me -- the correction has proven adept at moving from one medium to the next." MORE ON TWITTER: Editor & Publisher's Joe Strupp says many editors are still unsure of how to police staffers' Twitter and Facebook use.
Columbia Journalism Review |
06-15-2009 11:54 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Cartoonist Publishes Latest Collection
Brian McFadden has self-published Fun Stuff for Dum-Dums, the latest collection of his weekly comic strip, "Big Fat Whale." The comics collected in Fun Stuff "ridicule the politics and pop culture of the last four years; from the end of the Bush years to the first months of the Obama Administration," according to a press release.
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Big Fat Whale Press Release |
06-15-2009 9:18 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Design & Production, Management
The Pitch Wins 12 Local Press Club Awardsnew
The Kansas City alt-weekly's haul in the 2009 Heart of America awards included first-place finishes for Blog and Entertainment writing (The Pitch swept the latter category). In addition, editor C.J. Janovy was named "Member of the Year" for her "several years" of service as chair of the awards committee. The awards were given out by the Kansas City Press Club, a local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Kansas City Press Club |
06-15-2009 8:12 am |
Honors & Achievements
Sunshine Week is Likely to Lay Off its Only Staffernew
Columbia Journalism Review |
06-15-2009 10:33 am |
Industry News
