AAN News
Open Government Advocates Slam DOJ Report on FOIA Reformnew
Government Executive |
06-26-2007 11:25 am |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Boston Phoenix Mobile Launches With Summer Preview Guide
The Phoenix brings a summers worth of events right to your cell phone.
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Boston Phoenix Press Release |
06-26-2007 9:24 am |
Press Releases
E.W. Scripps Company Buys Knoxville Alt-Weeklynew
The Knoxville News Sentinel Media Group, a division of Scripps, has purchased AAN member Metro Pulse, the News Sentinel reports. "Metro Pulse will keep their editorial and advertising independence. At some point in the future, we will be printing our new weekly product," News Sentinel publisher Bruce Hartmann says in a memo. "Brian Conley will remain as the publisher of Metro Pulse but will only be involved in the editorial direction of the paper."
Knoxville News Sentinel |
06-25-2007 12:46 pm |
Industry News
Worcester Magazine Publisher is Cha-Cha Kingnew
At the Worcester's Stars dance benefit for Centro Las Americas held Saturday night, Allen Fletcher won the cha-cha category, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette reports. Fletcher beat out Police Sgt. Miguel Lopez and Worcester County Food Bank executive director Jean McMurray. The benefit, which took its format from the TV show Dancing With The Stars, paired local celebs with dance instructors, and gave the team a few weeks to get ready for the competition.
Worcester Telegram & Gazette |
06-25-2007 9:10 am |
Industry News
Houston Press Writer Wins Award from National Columnists Org.new
Richard Connelly was honored in the Humor (under 100,000 circulation) category by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Winners were announced Saturday night.
Editor & Publisher |
06-25-2007 8:33 am |
Honors & Achievements
Maui Time Weekly Celebrates 10th Anniversary
Maui Time Weekly Press Release |
06-25-2007 4:21 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Management, Maui Time Weekly
Report: Online Ad Networks Used to Infect Computersnew
ClickZ News |
06-25-2007 9:25 am |
Industry News
Hyundai Woos Younger Demo with Mobile Campaignnew
ClickZ News |
06-25-2007 9:22 am |
Industry News
Yahoo Merging Web Search and Display Advertising Operationsnew
BBC News |
06-25-2007 9:14 am |
Industry News
Cigarette Advertising is Dwindlingnew
Advertising Age |
06-25-2007 9:07 am |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising
Free Commuter Daily Integrates Blogger Tools & Payment Servicenew
The worldwide free daily publisher Metro launched this week a new service that automatically puts qualified bloggers on the company's payroll, integrating blog-creation tools with a complete solution for commission payments for the first time, Editor & Publisher reports. So far the arrangement is only up and running in Sweden. When bloggers achieve the requisite numbers of page views per month, a bank account is automatically created and a MasterCard sent to the author. The best blog posts can then be selected for publishing in the nationwide Metro Sweden paper and its corresponding website.
Editor & Publisher |
06-22-2007 4:38 pm |
Industry News
Time Calls Alt-Weekly Cartoon on Gonzales 'Sick'new
This week's "Big Fat Whale" strip by Brian McFadden shows Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Nancy Pelosi using a meat tenderizer to get rid of "the tenacious stain on the Justice Department," US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, killing him in the process. Writing on Time's Real Clear Politics blog, Tom Bevan gives his short opinion of McFadden's work: "This cartoon ... is not only unfunny, it's sick."
Time |
06-22-2007 12:10 pm |
Industry News
Farewell PortlAANd 2007, We Hardly Knew Yenew
Representing 90 AAN member papers and many non-members as well, 588 alties converged on Portland last weekend for a rousing 30th annual AAN Convention. There were senators, strip club tours, former US attorneys, marching bands, scores of informative sessions, and, of course, parties galore. If you missed it, or if you just want to relive your treasured memories, you can always head over to the first-ever official convention blog, which now features blog posts by convention attendees and AAN staff, as well as links to the many folks who wrote about the confab for their own papers or websites. If you've seen coverage we're missing, you can e-mail editor (at) aan.org.
PortlAANd 2007 |
06-22-2007 11:51 am |
Association News
Salt Lake City Weekly Wins Six Utah Journalism Awardsnew
In the annual Society of Professional Journalists Utah Headliners Awards, reporter Ted McDonough took first in two categories: Best Newspaper Reporter and Government Reporting. Other first place finishes for the Weekly: Katherine Biele in Consumer Reporting; Bill Frost in Headline Writing; Ben Fulton in Personality Profile; and Shane Johnson in Criminal Justice Reporting. Winners were announced last Friday night.
Salt Lake City Weekly (third item) |
06-22-2007 10:54 am |
Honors & Achievements
Liquor Companies Dedicating More Ad Dollars to Webnew
New York Times |
06-22-2007 3:22 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising
