AAN News
Why Some Print Ads Work and Why Many Completely Failnew
Advertising Age |
09-10-2007 11:02 am |
Industry News
Former Village Voice Book Critic Eliot Fremont-Smith Diesnew
The New York Times |
09-10-2007 9:45 am |
Industry News
AAN Announces New AltWeeklies.com Application for iPhone Users
AAN has developed a special application for iPhone users (iphone.altweeklies.com), which displays AltWeeklies.com headlines and links to AAN member papers' content. While the application was specifically developed for the iPhone, it works on other mobile devices as well.
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AAN Staff |
09-07-2007 12:59 pm |
Association News
Alt-Weekly is Turning its New Building 'Green' -- and Writing About Itnew
Facing rising rents and the end of their Sacramento paper's lease, News & Review owners Jeff vonKaenel and Deborah Redmond bought a shuttered commercial building. At the prodding of their teenage daughter and Phil Angelides, former California State Treasurer and last year's unsuccessful Democratic nominee for Governor, the couple are undertaking a green renovation of their new property. The $1.4 million project is scheduled to be complete in the fall of 2008, according to the News & Review. Since the paper will be figuring out much of the green engineering itself, it has given Sena Christian the task of writing a weekly column about the renovation for the next year. "Sure, we want a nice building. But we want something else, too," she writes. "We want to spur the green-building movement in Sacramento. By reporting on local individuals, companies and institutions leading the way, we want to up the ante, ultimately speeding up innovation in the realms of clean technology, energy efficiency and renewable energy."
Sacramento News & Review |
09-07-2007 10:53 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Columnist Taken Off Radio Show for Anti-Bush Commentsnew
Kamikaze was suspended indefinitely from the local talk radio program the Kim Wade Show this week for comments he made in a recent Jackson Free Press column, the paper reports. "Freedom of speech no longer exists in this country," Kamikaze says. "I don't know if I'm being singled out but its unfortunate that the station caved to some random callers who disagreed with my viewpoints." As a rebuttal, Kamikaze, who is also a hip-hop artist, has recorded a new song, "Take Me Away," which he calls an "open letter" to George W. Bush. It was posted on his MySpace page today.
Jackson Free Press |
09-07-2007 8:17 am |
Industry News
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Study: Online Shopping Growth to Slownew
MSNBC |
09-07-2007 4:52 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising
'Google Books' Enables Book Clip Embedding Into Websitesnew
TechCrunch |
09-07-2007 4:40 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Electronic Publishing
SEO Tips for Blogs and Feedsnew
Search Engine Guide |
09-07-2007 4:31 pm |
Industry News
AAN Issues White Paper on Online Event Listings
The paper was written by Todd Stauffer, publisher of AAN member Jackson Free Press, and includes “best practices” and other materials from his highly rated presentation on the same subject earlier this year at the AAN convention in Portland.
The paper also features additional material, including a survey of event-listings application vendors. A single copy of the report was mailed today to every AAN-member publisher.
AAN Staff |
09-06-2007 5:08 pm |
Association News
Sacramento News & Review Writer Passes Awaynew
Ralph Brave, 54, died on Saturday of lung cancer. "We remember him for his brilliance and intensity, his commitment to working for a better world and his depth of heart," say his colleagues at the News & Review.
Sacramento News & Review |
09-06-2007 4:33 pm |
Industry News
Weekly Dig's Founder on What He Learned from Metrocorpnew
The city mag publisher "didn't do everything perfectly, but there was a ton of stuff it did that was genius," Jeff Lawrence tells Business Week. Metrocorp, which also owns Boston magazine, bought a majority interest in the Dig in 2004, and Lawrence bought the paper back earlier this year. After watching how the bigger company spun out new revenue streams from its numerous brands, Lawrence is now thinking about how to introduce new ventures like phone-based Web content, a quarterly arts publication, Boston travel and entertainment guides for the Gen Y set, and alternative newspapers in other New England towns, all under the Weekly Dig brand. "I had access to their executive meetings and knowledge and history," Lawrence says. "Entrepreneurs don't often get that kind of opportunity."
Business Week |
09-06-2007 8:41 am |
Industry News
Jupiter: Offline Influence on Online Search Yields 39 Percent Conversionnew
Center for Media Research |
09-06-2007 11:07 am |
Industry News
USA Today Launches Ad-Supported Widgetsnew
AP via Editor & Publisher |
09-06-2007 9:54 am |
Industry News
Boston Phoenix Hits Historic Readership Level for Second Year in a Row
Boston Phoenix Press Release |
09-06-2007 8:54 am |
Press Releases
AAN Announces Conference Schedule for 2008
The annual convention will be held in Philadelphia on June 5-7, with the Philadelphia City Paper hosting the event. In an unusual arrangement, the association will host back-to-back conferences this winter in San Francisco, with a Web Publishing Conference on Jan. 30-Feb. 1, and AAN West on Feb. 1-2. And in addition to the Alternative Journalism Writing and Design Workshop to be held in Evanston, Ill. on Aug. 15-16, AAN will organize a Publishers Conference for the first time in 2008, date and location still TBD.
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AAN Staff |
09-05-2007 3:53 pm |
Association News
