AAN News
Attention Golfersnew
It's not too late to sign up for the 2007 Golf Outing on June 14. Registration is a snap: Simply send Willamette Week sales rep Andrew Shenker an e-mail and arrange payment in advance or for the day of the tournament. Join Andrew and Musicfest NW Director Trevor Solomon in the Hilton Portland (main building) lobby at 7 a.m. for your 8 a.m. tee time at either Eastmoreland or Heron Lakes Golf Course. The $75-per-person fee includes golf, lunch, refreshments and transportation.
PortlAANd 2007 |
05-21-2007 12:08 pm |
Association News
Alt-Weekly Cartoonist Releases New Book
Earlier this month, syndicated cartoonist Lloyd Dangle released his latest collection of "Troubletown" comic strips, Troubletown Told You So: Comics That Could've Saved Us From This Mess. With an introduction by the Stranger's Dan Savage, the book "captures the current situation in America, a moment in time that will go down in history as our country's most boneheaded," Dangle says in a statement. "Crude comics full of insults and nasty takedowns are the only fitting way to explain it." First published in the San Francisco Bay Guardian in 1988, "Troubletown" now appears in over a dozen AAN member papers.
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Troubletown Books Press Release |
05-21-2007 10:42 am |
Press Releases
Alt-Weeklies Win 14 Awards from Florida Press Groupnew
AAN members were well-represented when the South Florida Chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists announced the winners of the 2007 Sunshine State Awards Saturday night. New Times Broward-Palm Beach took home three first-place awards, and Miami New Times had one first-place finish. Those two papers and Creative Loafing also accounted for 10 second- and third-place awards in the yearly contest.
South Florida Society for Professional Journalists (PDF file) |
05-21-2007 8:33 am |
Honors & Achievements
Study: Banner Ads Work, Even If You Don't Notice Them At Allnew
ScienceDaily |
05-21-2007 10:08 am |
Industry News
Macy's Promises More Print Advertisingnew
AP via Editor & Publisher |
05-21-2007 10:01 am |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising
Better Tech, More Users Initiate Mobile Ad Sales Growthnew
Mediaweek |
05-21-2007 9:57 am |
Industry News
Monster and CNHI Partner to Create 80 Co-Branded Career Sitesnew
Editor & Publisher |
05-21-2007 9:32 am |
Industry News
Tags: Classified Advertising
Will Newspapers Share in the 2008 Election Ad Bonanza?new
Editor & Publisher |
05-21-2007 9:29 am |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising
Columbia J-School Makes Push to Connect With Alt-Weeklies
Sponsored post by Associate Member Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Career services coordinator Gina Boubion will attend this year's convention to talk to prospective students about mid-career programs at Columbia, and to connect with editors who are looking to hire both entry-level and more experienced journalists. "Every year more and more of our students come to Columbia to advance their investigative and narrative skills, and they've definitely gotten the message from us and their professors that the alt-weeklies are fertile ground for doing the kind of journalism they crave to do," Boubion says.
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Columbia University Press Release |
05-18-2007 3:04 pm |
Press Releases
New East Bay Express Owner On the Changes to Comenew
Stephen Buel, co-owner and editor of the newly independent Express, tells the San Francisco Chronicle that he will aim for a "better mix" of story lengths and more community and government meeting coverage, and will bring back calendar listings and staff-generated movie reviews. The paper will also be redesigned, in print and online. "Readers won't see the changes next week," Buel said. "But in six or so months, they can decide whether they like them or not."
San Francisco Chronicle |
05-18-2007 1:27 pm |
Industry News
Ted Rall's Site Among Those Monitored by Cops Prior to 2004 RNCnew
On Wednesday, the New York Police Department released documents relating to what the New York Times calls the department's "extensive and secretive surveillance" leading up to 2004's Republican National Convention. Among the documents was a Nov. 13, 2003 dossier (PDF file) that said "activists are talking, some with barely hidden glee, about the possibility of violence" on the syndicated cartoonist's site. Saying it is a "compliment I don't deserve," Rall takes issue with the NYPD's short bio that calls him "a nationally known activist figure." He writes: "I'm no activist ... many of my friends are activists, and I admire them for it. Next to them, I'm a mere lump on a log who opines on current events from behind my computer and drafting table."
The New York Times |
05-18-2007 12:49 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management
Las Vegas Weekly Art Director Talks Shopnew
On Trade Secrets, a resource blog for illustrators, Benjamen Purvis talks about his production process, what he looks for in illustrators and how he finds and chooses them. "I know they can be expensive to produce and distribute, but really, the illustrator's work is more likely going to jump out at me when I look at their post card on my wall than it would in an all-text email with a hyperlink," he says.
Trade Secrets |
05-18-2007 8:44 am |
Industry News
City Pages Wins Four First-Place Awards in State Contestnew
In the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists' Page One Contest, the alt-weekly came out on top in News and Feature - Investigative; Sports - Feature; Graphics and Illustrations - Spot News; and Photojournalism - Portrait. The paper also had four second- and third-place finishes.
The Star Tribune |
05-18-2007 8:34 am |
Honors & Achievements
Atlanta's Creative Loafing Celebrates 35th Anniversarynew
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
05-18-2007 4:27 pm |
Industry News
Media Groups Urge Senators to Vote on the OPEN Government Act
Sunshine in Government Initiative Press Release |
05-18-2007 1:33 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, Management
