AAN News
Stranger Offers Lovelab Members a 'Friends With Benefits' Discount Card
Not only will the Stranger help hook you up with the right date, they will now help you save a few bucks while on those dates.
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Sutcliffe Associates, LLC Press Release |
06-04-2007 6:21 pm |
Press Releases
Alt-Weeklies Win Six Food Journalism Awardsnew
AAN members dominated three categories of the 2007 Association of Food Journalists Award Competition. In Best Newspaper Restaurant Criticism, Besha Rodell of Creative Loafing (Atlanta) and Gail Shepherd of New Times Broward-Palm Beach were both winners. In Best Newspaper Food Column, Blair Campbell of the East Bay Express and Malcolm Gay of Riverfront Times both won. And Besha Rodell won again in Best Newspaper Food Feature (circulation less than 150,000), along with Zack Dundas of Willamette Week. The placement of the winners will be announced August 25.
Association of Food Journalists (PDF file) |
06-01-2007 3:35 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Sen. Kyl Fesses Up: He's 'Senator Secrecy'new
The Republican from Arizona was unmasked following an ultimately successful campaign by the Society of Professional Journalists to publicly identify the senator who placed a secret hold on the OPEN Government Act. The OGA would improve the government's response to public requests for information under the federal
Freedom of Information Act, and is supported by AAN and dozens of other groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the conservative Heritage Foundation. The bill has already passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 308-117 and was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Kyl tells the Associated Press that he'll continue to block a vote of the full Senate until the Justice Department's "uncharacteristically strong" objections to the bill are assuaged. His Republican colleague on the Judiciary Committee, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), disagrees: "This is an important, bipartisan issue that deserves the consideration of the full Senate," Cornyn says. AAN encourages its members to call their senators to let them know that you support the OPEN Government Act and oppose Sen. Kyl's obstructionist tactics.
AP via Yahoo! News |
06-01-2007 3:26 pm |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial, Management
A Cornucopia of Alternative Newspapers Awaits Your Arrival
As veteran attendees know, the trade show exhibit hall at the AAN Convention is the best place in the world to grab an armful of alt-weeklies. If you want your papers included in this magnificent spread of profane tabloids, you'll need to ship them to arrive by Wednesday, June 13, to the following address: AAN Convention Newspaper Display, Pacific Exposition Decorating Company, 2737 NW Nela Street, Portland, OR 97210. (If your shipper needs a phone number, it's 503-417-8000.) You can send as many papers as you like, but 25 to 50 are generally sufficient. And, yes, remaining papers will be recycled.
PortlAANd 2007 |
06-01-2007 11:49 am |
Association News
Tags: Editorial, Management
LA Weekly's Newest Reporter: Lucy Liunew
In the new vampire film Rise: Blood Hunter, Liu is Sadie Blake, a LA Weekly reporter "whose research into a goth cult gets a little too in-depth," according to the Toronto Star's review. The storyline should sound familiar to most alt-weekly reporters, who have undoubtedly found themselves in this situation at least once: "She awakes in a morgue to discover herself a newly minted member of the vampiric undead, expected to survive by drinking human blood." Of course, she wants none of it, and "armed with a baroque crossbow that kills vampires deader than undead, she sets out to settle a few scores." The film opens today in some cities.
Toronto Star |
06-01-2007 11:28 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, L.A. Weekly
Phone Card Company Swipes ¡Ask a Mexican! Logonew
Total Call International's La Mejor Mexico long-distance phone card features a character whose face is clearly taken from the syndicated column's logo, created by artist Mark Dancey. "No one had asked me or Village Voice Media (the cabrones who own the copyright to the ¡Ask a Mexican! column and logo, as well as my second-born son) for permission to use the image," writes ¡Ask a Mexican! author Gustavo Arellano. A Total Call representative tells Arellano that a designer found the logo while looking for stock art through a Google search, and that the company will recall the 10,000 phone cards that haven't yet been sold.
OC Weekly |
06-01-2007 8:08 am |
Industry News
Village Voice Media Hires National Web Music Editor
Village Voice Media Press Release |
06-01-2007 4:47 pm |
Press Releases
Book Publishers Find New Readers With Online Advertisingnew
Adotas |
06-01-2007 3:57 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising
35 to 54's Index Above Average as Podcast Audiencenew
Center for Media Research |
06-01-2007 9:44 am |
Industry News
Tags: Marketing, Retail Advertising
iqzone: Cell Phone Submitted Classified Adsnew
TechCrunch |
06-01-2007 9:08 am |
Industry News
Branding 101new
The Marketing Minute Blog |
06-01-2007 8:46 am |
Industry News
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden to Speak at AAN Convention
Oregon's senior senator, known for his interest in health care, technology and natural-resources issues, will address convention delegates the morning of Saturday, June 16. Before his election to the Senate in 1996, Wyden served 15 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. In a vote earlier this month, Wyden cosponsored the Feingold-Reid amendment calling for the mandated redeployment of U.S. troops from Iraq. In 2002, the Democrat was one of only 23 senators who voted against the authorization of military force in Iraq.
PortlAANd 2007 |
05-31-2007 1:31 pm |
Association News
Jonathan Gold's Pulitzer Win Called 'Groundbreaking'new
"Pulitzer recipients almost always are employees of established daily publications," notes the San Diego Union-Tribune. The paper also points out that Gold's Pulitzer was the first awarded to a food critic. "I always thought you had to have a grown-up job doing something like reviewing operas at The New York Times to get a Pulitzer, not writing about taco stands for the (LA) Weekly," Gold says.
San Diego Union-Tribune |
05-31-2007 1:12 pm |
Honors & Achievements
U.S. Singles: The New Nuclear Familynew
Data released in late 2006 from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that the majority of U.S. households are now headed by unmarried adults. In a report examining their attitudes, behaviors and lifestyles, the market research publisher Packaged Facts finds that singles are both more diverse and younger than the general population. The report also details the spending preferences of various unmarried demographic groups. For example, younger unmarried adults skew towards technology purchases; single boomers opt for luxury items; and single parents "enjoy shopping and sharing their children's entertainment."
MarketingVOX |
05-31-2007 11:30 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Cartoonist's New Book Out Next Weeknew
Mikhaela Reid, whose cartoons appear in Metro Times and the Boston Phoenix, will release Attack of the 50 Ft. Mikhaela on June 4. Her fiancee Masheka Wood's book of cartoons, Deep Doodle, is set to hit the streets on the same day. The two plan to marry this September, Editor & Publisher reports.
Editor & Publisher |
05-31-2007 8:58 am |
Industry News
Tags: Design & Production, Management
