AAN News
Isthmus Sales Manager Joins Alternative Weekly Network Board
Isthmus Publishing Co. Press Release |
01-24-2008 8:48 am |
Press Releases
Conference Attendance Exceeds Expectations
Registration totals for AAN West and the Web Publishing Conference, which will be held next week in San Francisco, have far surpassed AAN projections. At 275 registrants, attendance at AAN West is already 50 percent higher than last year and the most it's been since 2003. And the Web Publishing Conference current total of 170 registrants is more than 40 percent above the final numbers from October 2006, the date of the first AAN web conference in San Francisco. There's still room for more if you would like to register. Although our room block at the Hotel Kabuki is already filled, they have a limited number of rooms available at prices that exceed the AAN group rate. Another option: The Kabuki has a sister property about two blocks away, Hotel Tomo, with lower online rates.
AAN |
01-23-2008 11:44 am |
Association News
Illustrated 'Lustlab' Ads Collected in New Booknew
Ellen Forney has for several years been illustrating and interpreting the most interesting ad in The Stranger's "Lustlab" classified personals each week. Now they are collected in a new book, Lust: Kinky Online Personal Ads from Seattle's The Stranger, released this month by Fantagraphics. In addition to the illustrations, the book has interviews with some of the advertisers conducted by Forney, plus an introduction by syndicated sex columnist and Stranger editor Dan Savage.
Fantagraphics Books | EllenForney.com |
01-23-2008 10:14 am |
Industry News
Molly Ivins One Year Memorial Scheduled for Jan. 31 in San Francisco
Texas Observer publisher Charlotte McCann will emcee this special ceremony honoring the late columnist and former Observer co-editor on the one-year anniversary of her death from breast cancer. The event will feature an interfaith ceremony, a number of speakers, and musical entertainment. In addition, the winner of "The Ballad of Molly Ivins" songwriting contest will be announced at the Jan. 31 event. Tickets are $10, and more information can be found at www.raisehellformollyivins.org.
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Raise Hell for Molly Ivins Press Release |
01-23-2008 8:46 am |
Press Releases
Tags: The Texas Observer, Molly Ivins
VVM Websites See 40 Percent Increase in Stickiness Over Last Yearnew
Editor & Publisher |
01-23-2008 12:52 pm |
Industry News
Call for Applications for All-Expenses-Paid Seminars in Health Journalism
USC Annenberg School for Communication Press Release |
01-23-2008 9:32 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial
Shepherd Express Launches ExpressMilwaukee.com as Daily Online Paper
Shepherd Express Press Release |
01-23-2008 8:53 am |
Press Releases
Amidst Ethics Questions, The Village Voice Parts Ways With Criticnew
Late last week, the art blog Modern Art Notes raised questions about Christian Viveros-Faune's editorial independence, noting that he was involved in organizing two major commercial art fairs at the same time he was the Voice's art critic. The blog argued that he should either resign from the fairs, or the Voice should stop publishing him, and the flap lit up the blogosphere on Friday. On Saturday, Voice editor Tony Ortega explained to readers that, in light of "an appearance of conflict," Viveros-Faune would no longer be writing for the paper.
The Village Voice | Modern Art Notes |
01-22-2008 8:54 am |
Industry News
SF Weekly Writer Up for 2008 GLAAD Media Awardnew
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation announced the nominees for their annual awards on Sunday, and the Weekly's Lauren Smiley was among those nominated. Her story, "Girl/Boy Interrupted," is in the running in the "newspaper article" category, alongside two pieces from the New York Times, one from the L.A. Times and another from the St. Petersburg Times. The Weekly notes that the story was the first long-form story Smiley wrote as a Village Voice Media fellow. Winners will be announced in March.
GLAAD | SF Weekly |
01-22-2008 8:26 am |
Honors & Achievements
Report: Teenagers Find Online News Stressfulnew
Editor & Publisher |
01-22-2008 9:44 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Electronic Publishing
Malott Prize for Recording Community Activism Now Accepting Submissionsnew
The Langum Charitable Trust (PDF file) |
01-22-2008 9:04 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial
Bay Guardian/VVM Trial Begins
In court this week, a Guardian witness disavowed a key piece of evidence -- AAN's financial standards report -- that the paper was using to prove its predatory pricing charge against SF Weekly, the East Bay Express and Village Voice Media. The witness backed away from the AAN report after the Weekly's attorney's produced an affidavit from the woman who had compiled it asserting that it was unaudited and self-reported, "rendering it meaningless as a measure of financial performance," the Weekly reports. After considering this and motions from both parties on Wednesday and Thursday, the Weekly says the judge "ultimately concluded that the Weekly deserved additional time to respond, a decision which could delay the long-awaited trial." Naturally, the Guardian sees this week's developments a little differently. "If this is how the SF Weekly and the VVM guys from Phoenix are going to cover the trial, we're going to have to spend a lot of time correcting the record," Guardian executive editor Tim Redmond writes. He says that the Weekly's attorneys had "tried desperately" to keep the Guardian's witness from taking the stand at all, and sees the disavowal of the AAN financial data as inconsequential. The witness had developed two scenarios to show how much money the Guardian had lost, and not being allowed to use the AAN data, he will just rely on the other standards instead, according to Redmond.
SF Weekly | San Francisco Bay Guardian |
01-18-2008 6:00 pm |
Legal News
Film Up for Sundance Grand Jury Award Has Alt-Weekly Ties
Lance Hammer's Ballast, which will compete with 15 other films in the Dramatic Competition at this year's festival, has a certain familiar alt-weekly publisher in its credits. The Jackson Free Press' Todd Stauffer was production manager for the film, which is described by Sundance as "a riveting, lyrical portrait of an emotionally frayed family whose lives are torn asunder by a tragic act in a small Mississippi Delta town."
AAN News |
01-18-2008 11:52 am |
Industry News
Tags: Jackson Free Press, Todd Stauffer
Portland Official to Reporter: 'I Think You're Despicable'new
Portland's city auditor Gary Blackmer (pictured), angry about his treatment in a story in the Portland Mercury, approached reporter Matt Davis in City Hall, called him "despicable," and threw in a "fuck you" for good measure, according to the Mercury. Blackmer's beef comes down to the question of whether or not he provided comment for Davis' story on racial profiling by the city's cops. The story noted that Blackmer "declined to comment," yet he and a colleague both seem to think they provided enough comment by quoting from an earlier report. "To say [they] declined comment is fair, and I would challenge them to state publicly, here, why they did not," Davis writes. The Willamette Week's Ian Gillingham thinks that Blackmer's explosion was inspired by the newly released film The Bucket List, "in which two geezers start doing all the things they want to do before they die."
The Portland Mercury |
01-18-2008 9:06 am |
Industry News
Philly Tourism Campaign Adds Five More Alt-Weeklies to Media Mixnew
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation Press Release |
01-18-2008 12:14 pm |
Press Releases
