AAN News
Outgoing Editor-in-Chief's Farewell Email to Worcester Magazine Staff
AAN News |
08-28-2008 12:48 pm |
Industry News
New Forecast for '08 and '09 Lowers Overall Ad Outlook, Boosts Onlinenew
Online Media Daily |
08-28-2008 8:46 am |
Industry News
How the Jackson Free Press Built an Uncommon Alt-Weekly Audiencenew
The JFP has "resurrected the alt-weekly tradition of maverick investigations and cultural provocation," Casey Sanchez writes in Next American City magazine. In doing so, "it has cultivated an audience uncommon in the South and practically nonexistent among alt-weeklies -- young, white conservatives and black professionals, many of whom are lifelong Jacksonians." Editor Donna Ladd says the paper's dogged coverage of City Hall has helped build a loyal following. "Any cover with the mayor on it doesn't stay on the stands more than a day," she says.
Next American City |
08-26-2008 11:11 am |
Industry News
Palo Alto Will Tweak News Rack Ordinancenew
The city is drafting an amendment to add flexibility to the nine-year-old ordinance, a senior project manager for the public works department tells the Palo Alto Daily News. The amendment, which requires city council approval, would allow daily papers to use abandoned boxes that had been reserved for weekly publications.
Palo Alto Daily News |
08-25-2008 12:34 pm |
Industry News
Alt-Weeklies Get Short Shrift at the Newseumnew
The $450 million museum dedicated to the news "might be seven levels high, take up 250,000 square feet, and feature floors of multi-media displays on topics as wide-ranging as gangsters vs. the FBI (and the daily newspaper coverage of it) and the history of tabloid newspapers (with covers of the National Enquirer from the days it was talking about Elvis's ghost) -- but it has no space for alternative weeklies," blogger Gina Vivinetto notes. She says that our corner of the news industry is "summed up behind a glass display with exactly one cover of the Village Voice and a paragraph saying alt-weeklies were born in the turbulent 1960s to cover news outside of the mainstream press."
Gina Vivinetto's Greatest Hits |
08-25-2008 12:28 pm |
Industry News
California Bill to Fight Newspaper Theft Passes Senate
On Friday, the California State Senate passed AB 1778 by a margin of 21-16. The legislation places "modest requirements" on recyclers who engage in large cash transactions for newspapers or other materials. The legislation requires recyclers to pay by check and obtain ID from individuals who bring in more than $50 of newspapers. The law, which has been championed by the East Bay Express, San Francisco Bay Guardian, and other publications, passed the Assembly in June. If signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the law will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2009.
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Assemblywoman Fiona Ma Press Release |
08-25-2008 8:08 am |
Press Releases
Opinion: How to Popularize, Socialize and Monetize Mobile Contentnew
Online Media Daily |
08-25-2008 11:34 am |
Industry News
Scores of AANies Head to Denver for the DNC
At last count, 24 AAN member papers will be sending 40 reporters, bloggers and photographers to Denver to cover this year's historic Democratic National Convention, which begins Monday. There will be plenty of alt-weekly staffers attending, and a few papers have secured notable bloggers for their coverage. Popular political blogger Atrios, aka Dr. Duncan Black, who runs Eschaton, will blog for Philadelphia City Paper, while "Slowpoke" cartoonist Jen Sorensen will blog for C-Ville Weekly and Tom Tomorrow will blog for the New Mass. Media papers. Westword, meanwhile, has published a special "Unconventional Guide to Denver" for all the press, pundits, and pols invading their city. And of course, Westword will continue to cover the DNC on its Demver blog, as it has been for months, with a dozen or so people on the ground blogging and taking pictures. For a list of AAN members attending the DNC, email web (at) aan.org.
AAN News |
08-22-2008 1:01 pm |
Industry News
Four More AAN Papers Join SelectAlternatives
The three New Mass. Media papers -- Hartford Advocate, Fairfield County Weekly and New Haven Advocate -- and the one former member of the chain -- Valley Advocate -- have signed on to use SelectAlternatives' local personals/dating software, according to a press release. That brings the total number of AAN members using SelectAlternatives to 25.
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Sutcliffe Associates Press Release |
08-22-2008 9:00 am |
Press Releases
Study: Marketers' Budgets Likely To Plunge Furthernew
Marketing Daily |
08-22-2008 10:00 am |
Industry News
Facebook Tests Engagement Adsnew
Online Media Daily |
08-22-2008 9:02 am |
Industry News
How The Stranger Negotiated a Deadline-Day Power Outagenew
On Tuesday -- "the busiest day in The Stranger's production cycle" -- a blown transformer caused power in the paper's offices to go out. After being told that the power might not be restored until 6 am Wednesday, the staff of The Stranger had to take matters into their own hands. "We did something that has never happened before in The Stranger's history," writes Christopher Frizzelle in the appropriately-titled blog post, "How We Got This Week's Issue to the Printer." The staff ended up taking all of the equipment in the production department over to web development director Anthony Hecht's living room, where they wrapped the issue on time.
The Stranger |
08-21-2008 11:59 am |
Industry News
News & Review Reporter Lands on 'Power & Influence 100' Listnew
Sacramento Magazine's annual "assessment of those wielding power and influence in the region" includes one unlikely pick that caught our eye: an alt-weekly reporter. The mag picked Sacramento News & Review's Sena Christian -- known as the "Eco Warrior Princess" -- because she "goads and guilts us into environmental stewardship with lively prose about all things 'green,' from fashion to toilets." Christian covers the sustainability beat full-time for the N&R, and she's chronicling the paper's $1.4 million "green" renovation of an old grocery store, which will serve as the paper's offices when complete later this year.
Sacramento Magazine |
08-21-2008 9:04 am |
Honors & Achievements
Alt-Weeklies Honored in Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awardsnew
Two AAN members placed in the overall General Excellence categories: Louisiana's Independent Weekly finished second in the Class I division and OC Weekly finished third in the Class III division. In addition, both Riverfront Times (Special Sections and Arts and Entertainment) and Westword (Consumer Affairs and Food and Nutrition) were finalists in two story-topic categories. More than 1,100 entries were submitted to the annual contest administered by the Missouri School of Journalism, which calls it "the oldest and best-known feature writing and editing competition in American newspapering."
Missouri School of Journalism |
08-21-2008 8:12 am |
Honors & Achievements
Four More AAN papers Join SelectAlternatives
Total Page Views Grow to 6.8 Million; 16.4 Average Pages Per Visit.
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08-21-2008 2:39 pm |
Press Releases
