AAN News
Help-Wanted Index Slips Againnew
Editor & Publisher |
08-30-2007 12:28 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Classified Advertising
Dailies Doing Worse Than Expected in '07new
Editor & Publisher |
08-30-2007 12:27 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management
San Diego CityBeat Music Editor Inks Book Deal
San Diego CityBeat Press Release |
08-30-2007 8:03 pm |
Press Releases
Redesign Begins at AltWeeklies.com
As part of a larger redesign and graphic overhaul of the site to be revealed later this year, we've made some initial changes to AltWeeklies.com:
In addition to cutting down on clutter in certain sections, these changes also mark the first step towards a modified folksonomy for organizing the information on the site.
- The "Movies" section is now "Movies+TV" and TV stories have been moved there from the "Culture" section.
- Food and Drink stories now have their own "Food+Drink" section.
- The "Politics" section has been resurrected.
- The "Opinion" section, on the other hand, has been eliminated, and its contents have all been shifted to other sections.
In addition to cutting down on clutter in certain sections, these changes also mark the first step towards a modified folksonomy for organizing the information on the site.
AAN Staff |
08-29-2007 4:31 pm |
Association News
Pasadena Weekly Editors on Deleting Online Contentnew
With web archives getting more robust by the day, more sources are asking editors to change or delete old quotes and comments, Online Journalism Review reports. Reporter Elizabeth Zwerling talks to a few papers about how they've handled such requests, including the Pasadena Weekly, which in 2006 decided to remove the name of an ex-con from an archived story, six months after it came out in print. The story, on Crips co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams, featured quotes from a man who said he'd been in prison with Williams. The man had been charged with raping and sodomizing his former girlfriend, and convicted of assault -- information that was included in the story, along with the man's claims of innocence. "Our first reaction was 'no don't change it'," deputy editor Joe Piasecki says. "I tend to say that unless (the reporter) screwed up, don't change it." Piasecki, who was also the reporter for the story, says the paper made an exception in this case because the man wasn't familiar with the internet and his quotes weren't that important in the context of the story. The paper ultimately took the man's name out but kept the quotes in. "The guy said every time he applied for a job they Googled his name and this was the only hit," Piasecki says. "We took his name out so he could move on with his life."
Online Journalism Review |
08-29-2007 8:50 am |
Industry News
Local Dailies Upsell Digital Listings for Yahoo!new
Media Daily News |
08-29-2007 12:37 pm |
Industry News
Advertisers Sponsor Videogame Partiesnew
Advertising Age |
08-29-2007 12:33 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Marketing, Retail Advertising
Networker Launches Green Vertical for Web Ad Buysnew
Online Media Daily |
08-29-2007 12:30 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising
Report: Content Producers Need Intermediaries to Succeed Onlinenew
JupiterResearch's new report "Networked Media: Thriving In An Intermediated World" points to the importance of blogs, portals, and aggregators as digital megaphones for newspapers and other content producers. The report notes that 57 percent of 18-to-24-year-old internet users get their news from portals and that online users now trust portals nearly as much as traditional news media. "To thrive on the web, news sites must become more network-focused and aggregate content from other sources while distributing their own content through intermediaries," says David Schatsky, JupiterResearch's president.
Online Media Daily |
08-28-2007 2:16 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Electronic Publishing, Management
Alt-Weeklies Win Three NABJ Awardsnew
Earlier this month, the National Association of Black Journalists announced the winners of the 2007 Salute to Excellence Awards, which "recognize exemplary coverage of people of color or issues in the African Diaspora." Riverfront Times took home two first-place awards: Kristen Hinman for her "Basketball by the Book" series, in the Enterprise division; and Ben Westhoff for "Ace of Spaides," in the Business division. Seattle Weekly's Nina Shapiro also placed first in the Feature division for "Schooling the District."
National Association of Black Journalists Press Release |
08-28-2007 7:58 am |
Press Releases
Mark Cuban: 'The Internet is Dead and Boring'new
Blog Maverick |
08-28-2007 10:27 am |
Industry News
Tags: Electronic Publishing, Management
New Internet Venture in Minnesota Taps Former City Pages Staffers
MinnPost.com, which is slated to launch later this year, will be a not-for-profit internet-based daily "paper" run by former Star Tribune editor and publisher Joel Kramer. Corey Anderson, formerly online managing editor at City Pages, will be web editor, and three former staffers will be contributors: David Brauer, Beth Hawkins, and Mike Mosedale.
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MinnPost.com Press Release |
08-27-2007 12:10 pm |
Press Releases
Alt-Weeklies Take Home A Handful of Food Journalism Awardsnew
When the Association of Food Journalists announced the winners of their 2007 Awards this weekend, AAN members came out on top in three categories. Willamette Week's Zach Dundas took first in Newspaper Food Feature (under 150,000 circulation) for "Bean Town;" Blair Campbell's "Wineau" column in East Bay Express was named Best Newspaper Food Column; and Gail Shepherd of New Times Broward-Palm Beach won first in Newspaper Restaurant Criticism. Creative Loafing (Atlanta)'s Besha Rodell took home two third-place awards, in Newspaper Food Feature and Newspaper Restaurant Criticism; and Malcolm Gay from the Riverfront Times took third in Newspaper Food Column.
Association of Food Journalists (pdf file) |
08-27-2007 9:22 am |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Editorial, Management
OC Weekly Writer Caricatured in Vietnamese-language Pressnew
On the heels of last week's story on a Vietnamese-language newspaper that has been become the target of an "anti-communist witch-hunt," staff writer Nick Schou's mug appeared "in a none-too-flattering cartoon" on Take2Tango.com, OC Weekly reports. "It's unclear just yet in what way Nick is supposed to be controlling Viet Weekly publisher Le Vu -- our translation of the accompanying Vietnamese text is still pending -- and I must say, that really doesn't look like Nick at all," writes editor Ted Kissell. "Except for the fountain pen for a hand. Totally accurate. I've been meaning to get one of those for myself."
OC Weekly |
08-27-2007 8:31 am |
Industry News
Gore Plans $100 Million Ad Campaign on Climate Changenew
Advertising Age |
08-27-2007 5:38 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising
