AAN News
Alt-Weekly Writers Win Education Reporting Awardsnew
In this year's installment of the Education Writers Association's journalism contest, Rob Jordan of the Miami New Times and April Jimenez of the Long Island Press both received first-place awards in the Feature, News Feature, or Issue Package category in different circulation divisions (Jordan in under 100,000; Jimenez in over 100,000). In addition, Westword's Luke Turf took home a special citation award in the same category for papers with a circulation under 100,000.
The Education Writers Association |
02-26-2008 2:34 pm |
Honors & Achievements
AAN West Post-Conference Survey Results Available
This year's AAN West conference went very well, according to the results of a post-conference survey. A total of 273 people attended the meeting, which was held last month in San Francisco, and 98 percent of the survey respondents agreed that the conference was an overall success. A summary of the survey results has been posted in the Resource Library.
AAN |
02-26-2008 12:51 pm |
Association News
Eugene Weekly Feature Leads to Art Exhibitionnew
Paul Neevel has shot more than 600 portraits over the past 12 years for the Weekly's "Happening People" feature, and now some of the best are on display at the Jacobs Gallery in Eugene. The 68-year-old Neevel "has been taking pictures for the Weekly since 1989, in the days when the alternative newspaper was called What's Happening," the Register-Guard reports. "This has got to be the best job in the world," Neevel says of doing the "Happening People" feature. "I get to visit these interesting people, and they are willing to sit with me and tell me their whole life stories.”
The Register-Guard (Eugene, Ore.) |
02-26-2008 12:31 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Eugene Weekly
Las Vegas Weekly Editor Joins Las Vegas CityLife
Scott Dickensheets, who had been at the Weekly since 2002, has joined the staff of Las Vegas CityLife as special projects editor. He will oversee features, cover presentation and special projects. The Weekly is an AAN member, and CityLife is applying for membership this year.
(FULL STORY)
Las Vegas CityLife Press Release |
02-26-2008 9:51 am |
Press Releases
Monthly Mag from City Pages Founders Ceases Print Publicationnew
The Rake, which was founded in 2002 by Tom Bartel and Kris Henning, announced this week that the March issue will be its last, citing declining print advertising revenue, the Star Tribune reports. The magazine will continue as a web operation, and 15 of its 16 full-time employees will be laid off. "Things have changed radically in the last six years, and I think it's going to get worse long before it gets better," Bartel says. "It's too expensive to produce journalism and then have Google come along and take all your advertising."
The Star Tribune |
02-26-2008 8:54 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Journalists Eligible for Scholarships for College Religion Courses
Religion Newswriters Press Release |
02-26-2008 1:22 pm |
Press Releases
Sunshine Week Partners with Helium to Encourage Citizen Journalists To Write about Open Government and Freedom of Information Issues
Sunshine Week Press Release |
02-26-2008 12:57 pm |
Press Releases
Bay Guardian/VVM Trial Will Likely Go to the Jury This Week
The predatory pricing trial is winding down and it is now expected that the case will go to the jury either Tuesday or Wednesday (the trial takes a day off today). On Friday, the SF Weekly's expert CPA, Everett P. Harry, continued his testimony and Jeff Mars, Village Voice Media's vice president for financial operations, also took the stand. The Guardian says the Weekly's witnesses "make the Guardian's case," while the Weekly says the Guardian's lawyers were focusing on "imaginary evidence." Meanwhile, Editor & Publisher columnist Mark Fitzgerald checks in on the trial, and on the daily blog dispatches from each side, and finds that "the Guardian and SF Weekly are covering the trial with reports that are gleefully unconcerned about appearing objective, and recall the great newspaper feuds of yesteryear."
San Francisco Bay Guardian | SF Weekly | Editor & Publisher |
02-25-2008 9:33 am |
Industry News
Seattle Weekly Partners With Local TV Networknew
Seattle's ABC affiliate KOMO-4 will now regularly take print stories from the Weekly and turn them into TV news stories on its 11 pm newscast. The partnership began last week.
Seattle Weekly |
02-25-2008 8:38 am |
Industry News
Internet Ad Revenue Exceeds $21 Billion in 2007new
Associated Press via Editor & Publisher |
02-25-2008 2:43 pm |
Industry News
Dueling CPAs Take the Stand at the Bay Guardian/VVM Trial
Bay Guardian expert CPA Clifford Kupperberg continued his testimony yesterday in the paper's predatory pricing trial against SF Weekly and Village Voice Media. The next witness was the Weekly's expert CPA, Everett P. Harry, who argued that Kupperberg's testimony was flawed. For more on the trial, check out these blog posts from the Weekly and the Bay Guardian and this week's editor's note from the Guardian. The trial resumes today.
SF Weekly | San Francisco Bay Guardian |
02-22-2008 2:27 pm |
Industry News
L.A. Weekly Dominates Entertainment Journalism Awardsnew
The paper finished first in four of the six categories for which it was eligible in the LA Press Club's inaugural National Entertainment Journalism Awards. Nikki Finke swept the online categories, winning first for Best News Story, Best Feature Story, and Best Critic. Ella Taylor took first for Best Critic in print, and Finke also finished second for Best News Story in print.
LA Press Club |
02-22-2008 12:54 pm |
Honors & Achievements
AAN CAN Contest Extended
The contest deadline has been extended until Friday, March 21, so AAN CAN sales reps and their managers still have an opportunity to win two 10-day trips for two that include round-trip airfare and accommodations for three nights each in London, Paris and Rome. Read here for more details about the contest, including the current list of leaders.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
02-22-2008 12:30 pm |
Association News
Tags: Circulation, Management
Washington City Paper Arts Editor Talks Blogs & Arts Journalismnew
In a Q&A with the Tales from the Reading Room blog, Mark Athitakis discusses the future of arts journalism, the changes afoot in the alt-weekly industry, and argues that print folks must embrace the web to survive. "I think journalists need to rethink what 'publishing' is and experiment more with video, audio, blogging, and social networking tools," he says. "You have to rethink it in part because the next generation of readers embrace all of those things, and it's folly to dig in your heels, stick with print, and say you're not interested in reaching those people, or say that everybody has to process your ideas on your terms."
Tales from the Reading Room |
02-22-2008 12:29 pm |
Industry News
Michael Lacey Discusses Impending Lawsuitnew
As we reported yesterday, Lacey's Phoenix New Times is charging Maricopa County officials with violating his and Jim Larkin's constitutional rights, and with malicious prosecution, racketeering and conspiracy in conjunction with their October arrest for publishing the contents of a grand jury subpoena. "The critical question is: How do they get to the point where they believe that they have the right to arrest journalists in the middle of the night and subpoena the identity of the people that read our newspaper? They didn't get there overnight," the New Times founder and Village Voice Media executive editor tells the Arizona Republic. "They began by abusing prisoners, and there was a staircase escalation where they were never stopped."
The Arizona Republic |
02-22-2008 10:05 am |
Industry News
