AAN News
Survey: Fewer Renters are Becoming Homeownersnew
Inman Real Estate News |
08-03-2007 5:29 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Classified Advertising
There are Twelve Kinds of Ads (video)new
Slate |
08-03-2007 5:25 pm |
Industry News
House Committee Approves Shield Law Billnew
The House Judiciary Committee yesterday passed H.R. 2102, a bill that would provide federal protection for journalists' confidential sources. A press release issued by a coalition of more than 40 media companies and organizations that support the measure, including AAN, applauded the committee's action. “The Free Flow of Information Act establishes important ground rules that balance the public interest in both the free flow of information and the fair administration of justice," says Paul Boyle, senior vice president of public policy at the Newspaper Association of America. "By enacting a federal shield law, the Congress can ensure that all parties -- journalists, sources, prosecutors, civil litigants and courts alike -- can rely on consistent and well-articulated standards of procedure.”
Media Coalition press release |
08-02-2007 6:55 pm |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial, Management
AAN Distributes White Paper on Public Affairs Advertising
Alternative newsweeklies have always struggled to attract their fair share of political, public affairs and nonprofit advertising. Earlier this year, AAN commissioned a study by Fenton Communications -- the Washington, D.C.-based communications firm that represents MoveOn.org, Save Darfur, Rock the Vote, People for the American Way, and a host of other progressive organizations -- to find out why. The results of their research were mailed today to AAN publishers. While Fenton doesn't sugarcoat the problems alt-weeklies face in the political advertising space, they do offer several ideas about how we can improve our position. In the coming months, AAN will work on a number of action items contained in the report.
AAN |
08-02-2007 6:11 pm |
Association News
CL's John Sugg: Our New Chain is More than a Balance Sheetnew
The columnist and Creative Loafing shareholder says his company's acquisition of the Chicago Reader and Washington City Paper is neither an "idealistic foray" nor a "hostile takeover of independent papers." The way Sugg sees it, the two papers were caught up in a "broader crisis in the publishing business" that their former owners weren't nimble enough to navigate. He also defends CEO Ben Eason, who hasn't exactly been welcomed with open arms in Chicago and Washington. "He believes alt-weeklies can help readers strengthen their communities," says Suggs. "Eason loves to see controversy in his newspapers. He admits mistakes, takes risks and has an ambitious vision for new media. His lieutenants often disagree with him; he listens ... sometimes."
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
08-02-2007 3:41 pm |
Industry News
Baltimore City Paper Celebrates 30th Anniversarynew
In 1977, Johns Hopkins University graduates Russ Smith (who later founded New York Press) and Alan Hirsch launched the first issue of City Squeeze. "Despite the dreadful name (soon changed to its current handle) and shoestring origins, it quickly established itself as the house organ of Baltimore's demimonde as well as a feisty elbow-thrower in the local media scrum," says current editor Lee Gardner in this week’s cover intro. The issue features several stories from the archives, including a 1979 examination of Charm City's political bosses by Black Hawk Down author Mark Bowden, a 1984 interview with child molester Arthur Goode by Hairspray filmmaker John Waters, and a selection of photography by long-time contributor Jennifer Bishop. Online readers can also check out the first year of City Squeeze issues in a PDF gallery. "As for the future of City Paper, well, there’s another issue to get out next week, and another the week after that, and I believe that the paper offers something distinctive enough that the demand for it will endure for weeks and weeks and weeks to come," writes Gardner.
Baltimore City Paper |
08-02-2007 1:53 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Baltimore City Paper
Media Groups Encouraged by House Committee's Passage of Shield Law Bill
Media Coalition press release |
08-02-2007 6:46 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, Management
College Students Growing More Receptive to Mobile Adsnew
MarketingVox |
08-02-2007 2:45 pm |
Industry News
New York Press Sold to Local Ownersnew
The Denver-based Avalon Equity Fund sold the 20-year-old alt-weekly to Manhattan Media, owner of five neighborhood weeklies and other Manhattan-focused publications. The company plans to merge the Press with Our Town Downtown, a weekly paper started last year that circulates in Lower Manhattan, according to the New York Times. In the company's press release, Tom Allon, president and CEO of Manhattan Media, says: "At its best, The New York Press has been one of the most distinctive community publications in this city. ... It was a leader in blogging before the word was even used -- distinctive perspectives, opinions, reporting and reviews. While New York City has changed dramatically in the nearly twenty years since Russ Smith founded the Press, the need for independent voices and real community news and views hasn't."
The New York Times |
08-01-2007 2:06 pm |
Industry News
E&P Focuses on Alt-Weeklies in August Issue
In its main feature (subscription-only), the newspaper industry trade publication focuses on the intense competition alternative newspapers now face from new products launched by daily newspapers. "All kinds of competition have been muscling in a market niche that the alternatives have had to themselves for a long time," Washington City Paper editor Erik Wemple tells E&P. On top of burgeoning web competition, he adds, "now everybody is doing free distribution, and listings-driven publications." A shorter piece (also subscription-only) looks at consolidation in the alt-weekly biz, with a special focus on its affect on national advertising.
Editor & Publisher (sub. req.) |
08-01-2007 12:59 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
AAN Releases 2007 Convention Survey Results [members only]
AAN Staff |
08-01-2007 12:44 pm |
Association News
Toyota to Introduce Lower-Priced Priusnew
LA Times |
08-01-2007 1:22 pm |
Industry News
Reporters Committee Issues Alert on ABA Resolutionnew
The American Bar Association is considering resolutions that would "drastically limit public access to criminal justice system records," according to a press release issued by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. One of the ABA recommendations would urge federal, state and local governments to limit access to closed criminal-case files that didn't result in a conviction; another seeks to seal conviction records "after passage of a specified period of law-abiding conduct." The ABA's House of Delegates will vote on the resolution Aug. 13-14. The Reporters Committee urges news outlets to report and comment on the matter in advance to make ABA delegates aware of media and public concerns.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press |
07-31-2007 11:29 am |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Former LA Weekly Publisher Options Film Rights to Harper's Exposenew
Ken Silverstein's undercover story focused on Washington lobbyists who represent oppressive foreign governments. Michael Sigman hopes to bring it to the silver screen, according to Variety Magazine's Wilshire and Washington. Silverstein posed as an executive for an energy firm interested in exploiting natural gas reserves in Turkmenistan, which is led by a dictatorial regime. Several K Street firms pitched their services and described how they would spin U.S. officials and journalists to promote favorable policies and news coverage for the Turkmen regime. "It's bad enough to be a lobbyist for the tobacco industry, but some of these guys are mass murderers," Sigman tells Variety.
Wilshire and Washington |
07-31-2007 11:03 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management
FedEx First to Run Long-Form Video Ads at NYTimes.comnew
ClickZ News |
07-31-2007 6:03 pm |
Industry News
