AAN News
C-Ville Weekly Sending Jen Sorensen to Blog the DNC
C-Ville Weekly Press Release |
08-21-2008 11:33 am |
Press Releases
Alt-Weekly Editor is Main Character in Katrina Novelnew
Tom Piazza's new novel City of Refuge, released yesterday by Harper books, features an editor of a fictional New Orleans alt-weekly named Gumbo who evacuates to Chicago after Hurricane Katrina. As the Times-Picayune points out, that character "certainly bears a resemblance to Michael Tisserand, former Gambit editor." But Piazza explains that all the characters are fictional. "Even if a writer is writing a novel about his or her best friend, in the course of that writing, the friend turns into something else -- a character," he says. When asked about the resemblance, Tisserand tells Gambit that "the scaffolding [for the character] is in part me, but the building is all Tom's."
The Times-Picayune |
08-20-2008 10:07 am |
Industry News
Worcester Magazine Sold to Local Weekly Publishersnew
The Holden Landmark Corp. yesterday purchased the alt-weekly from Worcester Publishing Ltd. for an undisclosed sum, according to reports. Landmark owns four community weeklies in Central Massachusetts and a monthly parenting magazine. Owner and publisher Allen Fletcher tells the Worcester Business Journal that he sold the magazine because he had arrived "at a time in my life when I was looking to make a change. It's a personal path I've been on for a few years." He told the Telegram & Gazette that the paper was in good health, with this year seeing a 30 percent increase in revenues over last year. Landmark publisher Gareth Charter says they have "no interest whatsoever in suburbanizing Worcester Magazine," but he hopes it can expand the company's advertising reach, by allowing businesses to target the city as well as individual suburbs where Landmark already has weeklies. The deal is expected to close Aug. 29.
Worcester Telegram & Gazette | Worcester Business Journal |
08-20-2008 8:01 am |
Industry News
Isthmus Releases Annual Manual and Madison's Favorites
Isthmus Press Release |
08-20-2008 2:23 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Management, Isthmus
Study: Consumers More Likely to Act on Ads Seen on Local Media Sitesnew
Adweek |
08-20-2008 10:42 am |
Industry News
Study: Many Small-and Medium-Sized Businesses Plan Ad Spend Increasenew
Online Media Daily |
08-20-2008 8:03 am |
Industry News
Police Department 'Reviewing' Phoenix New Times Photosnew
Local law enforcement authorities want to determine whether to open an child pornography investigation as a result of photos published in the paper's current issue and on its website, according to the East Valley Tribune. The nude photos of artist Betsy Schneider's children accompany a story about her art, which is featured in a photography show that opened last week in downtown Phoenix. A spokesman in the Maricopa County Attorney's Office and an assistant city attorney in Phoenix's civil division confirm that the police have referred the case. The city attorney says the photos are unlikely to be found illegal, but adds that if they are, "Everybody who picked up one those issues (of the New Times) could be prosecuted for possessing child pornography."
East Valley Tribune |
08-19-2008 12:16 pm |
Industry News
Palo Alto Weekly to Combine Print Editions, Launch 'E-Daily'new
Late next month the Weekly will begin publishing a single weekly print edition every Friday and a new electronic edition, "Express," Monday through Friday, publisher Bill Johnson announced last week. (The Weekly is unique among AAN members in that it currently produces two print products each week, one on Wednesday and one on Friday.) "Our vision is to increasingly rely on our website and our daily electronic edition to provide local news and sports coverage, and to use our newspaper to present in-depth and feature coverage, plus summaries of the week's news," he says. The move reflects changing reading preferences and the increased prominence of the internet, while offering the added benefit of reducing the paper's carbon footprint, Johnson says.
Palo Alto Weekly |
08-18-2008 12:20 pm |
Industry News
Robert Newman: Many of The Stranger's Covers are 'Ready for Framing'new
That's the veteran designer's take after browsing the Seattle alt-weekly's online cover archive. "The Stranger covers are like the cool punk version of The New Yorker, with illustrations, photographs and graphic design that are stand-alone visual statements, with lots of attitude and passion," Newman writes on the Society for Publication Design's blog. "Like The New Yorker, The Stranger covers are the visual voice of the publication, a dialogue each week between the paper and its readers."
The Society for Publication Design |
08-18-2008 11:18 am |
Industry News
Santa Barbara Independent Launches Emergency Alert Servicenew
IndyAlert will provide email, text message, and radio announcements (via partner station KCSB-FM) "during emergencies and public safety challenges." The service is free, but users must subscribe. "In the past two years we've been on the literal front lines of many of Santa Barbara's disasters and emergencies, with our website providing timely coverage we couldn't achieve with the weekly newspaper. But we sometimes found the immediacy of our website was inconvenient or unavailable," publisher Randy Campbell says. "By adding text messaging and email alerts, we can use the wide availability of cell phones to keep our subscribers informed. Add radio to the mix and we've got particularly valuable tools for communication during a power outage or on the go."
Santa Barbara Independent |
08-18-2008 8:52 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Reporter Gets $35,000 Grant for Book Projectnew
Peter Byrne is on leave from the North Bay Bohemian to write The Devil's Pitchfork: Multiple Universes, Mutually Assured Destruction, and the Meltdown of a Nuclear Family, a book he tells AAN News is about "quantum mechanics and multiple universes." Byrne recently learned that the project received a $35,000 grant from The Foundational Questions Institute, a group with a mission to "catalyze, support, and disseminate research on questions at the foundations of physics and cosmology."
The Foundational Questions Institute |
08-18-2008 8:27 am |
Honors & Achievements
Video Ad Study Shows High Engagement Ratesnew
Online Media Daily |
08-18-2008 8:32 am |
Industry News
Study: Younger Hispanics Respond Better To Bilingual Online Marketingnew
Marketing Daily |
08-18-2008 8:30 am |
Industry News
Boulder Weekly Turns 15, Prints Biggest Issue Evernew
"It's been quite a ride at the helm of this wacky ship," writes publisher Stewart Sallo in this week's 15th-anniversary issue. "We've sailed through uncharted waters as the only weekly ever to succeed in Boulder, Colo., despite many serious obstacles throughout the years." Sallo notes that despite the "well-publicized woes of the newspaper industry," the Weekly is "riding an unprecedented wave of growth," which he largely chalks up to the purchase of the Colorado Daily by E.W. Scripps Co., which also owns another Boulder paper, the Camera. "Much like any other corporate-consolidation effort, this event created a more formidable, unified competitor for us, which caused the problem-solving minds at the Weekly to dig deeper in search of a strategy that would keep our ship sailing smoothly."
Boulder Weekly |
08-15-2008 12:57 pm |
Industry News
Long Island Press Partners with Another Weekly for Ad Salesnew
The Press is partnering with The Independent "to offer advertisers a two-paper deal that officials at the free weeklies tout as an 'all Island' option," Newsday reports. The deal was hatched a few months ago during a meeting of the papers' publishers and key officials to discuss a "strategic alliance," according to Michael Castonguay, chief financial officer of the Long Island Press. "It's an advertising-marketing partnership that we hope will expand as we continue to grow on Long Island," he says. According to Newsday, the Press has a circulation of more than 97,000, and the Independent has a circulation of about 20,000.
Newsday |
08-15-2008 8:54 am |
Industry News
