AAN News
Media Audit: Local TV Websites Gaining on Local Daily Newspaper Sitesnew
Center for Media Research |
05-24-2007 10:45 am |
Industry News
Blogging for Journalists UNconference, Anyone?
It's a nerdy, populist idea: folks in the audience of a lecture often know just as much as the speaker, so why not have everyone contribute? It's called an unconference [wiki], and the idea is to democratize the convention experience. AAN will experiment with an UNconference by hosting a special, free-wheeling session on "Blogging for Journalists," hosted by web director Laura Fries. She'll guide the session with an outline of topics, soliciting best practices contributions from UNconference attendees, and, of course, blogging the results on the community convention blog at Portland2007.AAN.org. To get involved, pop over to the convention blog.
PortlAANd 2007 |
05-23-2007 7:04 pm |
Association News
AltWeeklies.com: The Week in Review
In this week's installment: Dubious sub-prime lenders, Philly's mayoral madness, going car-free, domestic partnership's inherent inequality, carbon farming, witnessing an execution, and more.
(FULL STORY)
AAN News |
05-23-2007 3:49 pm |
Association News
Newspapers Continue to Struggle With How to Make Money Onlinenew
As advertising revenues for many print products stagnate or worse, most publishers are seeing enormous growth in online ad revenue. That's the good news. But as Editor & Publisher notes, many papers are grappling with how to grow online revenue quickly enough to replace lost print sales. The three big issues yet to be resolved in the digital transition, as seen by E&P, are that there is no "universally accepted norm" for audience measurement; behavioral targeting is still a fledgling practice; and "experiments in paid content are so few, and far from resounding successes."
Editor & Publisher |
05-23-2007 11:11 am |
Industry News
More Details Reported About East Bay Express Deal
As the dust settles from Village Voice Media's sale of the Express to a consortium of independent owners, a clearer picture of the new paper is emerging. The Berkeley Daily Planet reports that former Pitch Weekly publisher Hal Brody is the paper's majority owner, with 51 percent of the stock. Brody tells the Bay Guardian that, in addition to himself, editor Stephen Buel and Monterey County Weekly's Bradley Zeve, there are three out-of-town investors in the paper. He also says that the Express' joint ad sales agreement with VVM's SF Weekly will continue "indefinitely," and that the paper will continue to be represented in national ad sales by Ruxton. Meanwhile, Buel tells the Daily Planet that VVM "doesn't do well in places with competition." He adds: "If you look at the paper in the past year or so, you will see that it has gotten a lot thinner ... they didn't do well here." Buel also says that while the Express remains a defendant in the Bay Guardian's predatory pricing lawsuit, VVM agreed to assume all responsibility for the litigation. Finally, Buel writes on the Express' blog that more changes are afoot: a 5,000 bump in circulation and a tightening of the distribution area. He says the new owners also plan to address "changes to the format and design of the newspaper [that] made it a far less hospitable home for small advertisers, and placed limits on our community news coverage."
Berkeley Daily Planet | San Francisco Bay Guardian |
05-23-2007 8:57 am |
Industry News
Americans Spend Half Their Spare Time Onlinenew
Center for Media Research |
05-23-2007 12:25 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Electronic Publishing, Marketing
How Long Tail Economics Will Improve Web Analyticsnew
iMedia Connections |
05-23-2007 11:41 am |
Industry News
Young Adults Still Read Hard-Copy Magazinesnew
eMarketer |
05-23-2007 11:37 am |
Industry News
How Good is Your Paper, Anyway?new
Learn what your peers think by signing up for an editorial critique at the AAN convention in Portland. You'll have an opportunity to sit down with an editor or two from similarly-sized papers and hear how your paper reads. In turn, you will read three issues from their papers and offer the same feedback. If you are interested in participating, contact Richard Karpel at rkarpel (at) aan.org by Friday, June 1.
PortlAANd 2007 |
05-22-2007 8:51 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
Alt-Weeklies Well-Represented in Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awardsnew
OC Weekly placed second in the General Excellence category in the annual awards sponsored by The Missouri School of Journalism. "The Weekly contains all the usual alternative elements -- the reviews, the listings, the personals ads," the judges said. "What makes it stand out and makes it a winner, though, are the deeply reported and powerfully written centerpiece stories. These have both substance and panache." In addition, LA Weekly had two finalists; and the Boston Phoenix, East Bay Express and Seattle Weekly each had one. The winners were announced today.
Missouri School of Journalism |
05-22-2007 12:54 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Nashville Scene Editor Talks Fred Thompson, Alt-Weeklies in Chatnew
In a live chat yesterday, Liz Garrigan discussed her recent Washington Post piece on Fred Thompson's presidential chances and briefly highlighted two elements of alt-weekly journalism. After she said Al Gore won't enter the 2008 race because "he's got swimming pools to heat," a reader complained about Garrigan's off-hand remark. "Snarky asides help to pay my bills," she replied. Later, when a reader asked if she "might want to at least appear objective," Garrigan took the question head-on. "Part of what distinguishes alt-weeklies from mainstream media is that we don't peddle objectivity (or even think it's possible)," she said. "We do value fairness and balance but in the context of point of view. But that's another chat."
The Washington Post |
05-22-2007 8:37 am |
Industry News
Chrysler's Ad Future: Online and 'Very Prudent'new
New York Post |
05-22-2007 3:31 pm |
Industry News
2007 Village Voice Obie Award Winners Announcednew
Broadway World |
05-22-2007 10:43 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, The Village Voice
Mobile Ads to Fund Clear Channel's Free Text Messagingnew
Online Media Daily |
05-22-2007 10:03 am |
Industry News
San Francisco Bay Guardian's Ad Director Heads Across the Baynew
In the wake of Village Voice Media's sale of the East Bay Express, the Bay Guardian reports that Jody Colley is leaving to join the newly independent paper as its publisher. Colley previously worked in ad sales at Pitch Weekly when that Kansas City paper was owned by Hal Brody, one of the principal investors in the new Express.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
05-21-2007 12:52 pm |
Industry News
