AAN News
AAN Papers Using SelectAlternatives Enjoy 12.5 Percent Revenue Growth
Study looks at 14 AAN papers' performance for March 2008 versus March 2007.
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SelectAlternatives Press Release |
04-01-2008 4:48 pm |
Press Releases
VVM Lauches Joystick Division, a National Video Game Sitenew
Joystick Division |
04-01-2008 12:00 pm |
Industry News
Amsterdam Weekly Offered For Sale ... To Its Readers
In order to keep the paper alive and free, the Weekly has decided to sell individual blocks of editorial content to readers for the next three weeks. Each page will be divided into 204 blocks and each block costs five euros (about $8). "The message to readers is that we are asking for their support during this
transition," says publisher Todd Savage. Editor Steve Korver explains how it will work: "Fans of our photography page can sponsor that page, or those
who love our film reviews can show their preferences by sponsoring blocks on
those pages," he says. "We hope to sell out the paper, but we are also
curious to see how the pages will look with missing blocks on the page. It
could be quite arty."
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Amsterdam Weekly Press Release |
03-28-2008 1:03 pm |
Press Releases
Los Angeles CityBeat Names New Editor & Arts Editor
The paper's founding editor Steve Appleford has been replaced with alt-weekly veteran Steve Lowery, who'll begin his new gig Monday. Lowery comes to CityBeat from the District Weekly, where he was senior editor. He's also been a senior and interim editor at OC Weekly, and a staffer at New Times L.A. He'll reunite at CityBeat with former OC Weekly staffer and "Commie Girl" columnist Rebecca Schoenkopf, who has been named the paper's new arts editor.
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Southland Publishing Press Release |
03-28-2008 9:17 am |
Press Releases
¡Ask a Mexican! Bids Adiosnew
"It's been a great run, cabrones, but all the hateful email, the attacks by PC pendejos and the fact that few of you have bothered to submit video questions to my YouTube channel wear on a guy," writes OC Weekly scribe Gustavo Arellano in this week's farewell column. The four-year-old award-winning column had also spawned a book, and caused many a stir in communities around the country when alt-weeklies began running it. Arellano, who is hosting the AltWeekly Awards luncheon at this year's AAN convention, says his work busting stereotypes and tweaking racial prejudices is largely done. "It's no longer necessary to explain Mexicans to Americans because Mexicans are Americans," he writes.
OC Weekly |
03-28-2008 8:33 am |
Industry News
SelectAlternatives Users Overwhelmingly Prefer Barack Over Hillary
Obama leads with 87 percent of the vote
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SelectAlternatives Press Release |
03-28-2008 11:55 am |
Press Releases
Convention Website Open for Business
This year's AAN Convention heads back to the East Coast --
Philadelphia, to be exact. The Declaration of IndependAANts, the
association's 31st annual convention, will be hosted by the
Philadelphia City Paper from June 5-7 at the Pennsylvania Convention
Center. As always, AAN has lined up a mix of special speakers,
brass-tacks programming, and plenty of food, drink and revelry. New
Yorker reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh (pictured) is the
featured speaker at Friday's First Amendment Lunch, while OC Weekly
staffer and "Ask a Mexican!" columnist Gustavo Arellano will host
Saturday's AltWeekly Awards Lunch. The convention website -- where
you'll find registration information, event schedules, and programming
details -- is now live and accepting registrations. Be sure to register
before May 2 to get discounted rates.
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AAN |
03-27-2008 5:51 pm |
Association News
Judge Strikes Down Michigan's Primary Records Lawnew
The judge agreed to overturn the law enabling only the Democratic and Republican parties to obtain lists of people who voted in the state's presidential primary, Metro Times reports. The law had been challenged by a lawsuit from the ACLU of Michigan, which the alt-weekly had joined. "The state is not required to provide the party preference information to any party," the judge wrote. "When it chooses to do so, however, it may not provide the information only to the major political parties." Michigan's elections director says they will comply with the ruling, but will not release the records to anyone, even via the Freedom of Information Act. Metro Times reports the ruling won't have any effect on the results of the primary, but could have some implications were Michigan to have a mail-based "do over" primary in order to seat its Democratic delegates at this summer's convention. "[If] voters would be eligible for re-voting in a Democratic primary only if they voted in the first primary," Metro Times asks, "how would the election directors know if the records weren't released?"
Metro Times |
03-27-2008 8:30 am |
Legal News
Tags: Metro Times
Dance Critic Amanda Smith Diesnew
Smith, who wrote about dance for the Boston Phoenix, the Village Voice, and many other publications, has died, the Voice reports. A memorial will be held at a date to be determined in May.
The Village Voice |
03-26-2008 11:35 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Projects Win IRE Awardsnew
Miami New Times' Isaiah Thompson was awarded a IRE certificate in the local circulation weeklies category for his stories on how residency restrictions forced sex offenders to live under a Miami bridge. In the same category, the AAN-commissioned "Who Killed Brad Will?" was a finalist, along with Peter Byrne's series on Sen. Dianne Feinstein in the North Bay Bohemian and Wayne Barrett's reporting on Rudy Giuliani in the Village Voice. The Texas Observer's reporting on sexual abuse at a state-run youth prison and the cover-up that followed it was also a finalist, in the Magazine/specialty publication category. The Chauncey Bailey Project, which the San Francisco Bay Guardian took part in, was awarded this year's Tom Renner Award, which honors "outstanding reporting covering organized crime or other criminal acts."
Investigative Reporters and Editors |
03-26-2008 8:57 am |
Honors & Achievements
Report: More Wealthy Consumers Using Online Social Networksnew
Center for Media Research |
03-26-2008 8:59 am |
Industry News
Boston Phoenix Names Ex-Weekly Dig Editor as Music Editornew
Michael Brodeur, who replaces Matt Ashare, will start his tenure at the Phoenix on March 31. "Since Michael started writing for the Phoenix this past year, I have come to know him as someone who is tirelessly searching out new musical experiences, and someone who sees music as a vital place where pop culture defines itself," says Phoenix editor Lance Gould. Brodeur left the Dig in a Sept. 2007 restructuring.
The Boston Phoenix |
03-25-2008 9:02 am |
Industry News
Three Alt-Weekly Writers Up for James Beard Awardsnew
AAN members are once again well-represented in the list of finalists for this year's James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards. Robb Walsh of the Houston Press and SF Weekly's Eliza Strickland are both nominated in the Newspaper Feature Writing About Restaurants and/or Chefs category, while Westword's Jason Sheehan is nominated in the Restaurant Reviews category. Winners will be announced June 8 at a reception in New York. The awards recognize and honor excellence and achievement in the culinary arts.
James Beard Foundation |
03-25-2008 8:34 am |
Honors & Achievements
Quarterly Ad Growth Falls To 0.1 Percent, Outlook Remains Mutednew
MediaDailyNews |
03-25-2008 8:41 am |
Industry News
Tags: Financial, Retail Advertising
Santa Barbara Independent Wins AAN CAN Contest
Doug Elder and Robby Robbins have been named the winners of the AAN CAN European Dream Trip contest, which ended on Friday. As the sales rep and sales manager who generated the most new business between Oct. 11, 2007 and March 21, they will each be awarded a 10-day trip for two that includes round-trip airfare and accommodations for three nights each in London, Paris and Rome. Elder and Robbins ended up with a final tally of $19,928, placing well ahead of the runner-up, John DeMartino of the Independent Weekly, who finished with $2,888.
AAN |
03-24-2008 11:16 am |
Association News
