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The Burlington alt-weekly took home eight awards in all in the Vermont Press Association's annual contest, including four first-place awards. Individual winners from the paper include Ken Picard, Margot Harrison, Casey Rea and co-owner Paula Routly.

Burlington Free Times | 11-17-2006 5:51 pm | Honors & Achievements

Tags: Editorial

Going Local Leads Remedies for What Ails Newspapersnew

Experts continue to deliberate what newspapers need to do to stay in the game. Columnist Mark Moore offers a shorthand list of quick fixes that includes going tabloid, free, brief and local. The latter is the key, one publisher writes, and newspapers need to embrace the reality that, for most readers, the global village is eclipsed by what's going on in their own backyards.

Editor & Publisher | 11-17-2006 12:13 pm | Industry News

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New Member Directories Shipped

Five copies of the latest version were mailed to AAN publishers this week. Although the directory is no longer designed as a marketing tool, the association produces a new one every two years as a convenience for AAN members. The small, spiral-bound book includes contact information for member companies and their senior staff.

AAN | 11-17-2006 11:54 am | Association News

Tags: Circulation, Classified Advertising, Design & Production, Editorial, Electronic Publishing, Financial, Management, Marketing, Retail Advertising

'Existential Crises' Grips Village Voice Film Sectionnew

Despite the upheaval in the alt-weekly's legendary film pages since its merger with New Times, there may yet be reason for hope among cinephiles, one film site is reporting. The Reeler, a Web site devoted to New York film, acknowledges the fear and loathing accompanying recent personnel changes under the new regime and decries an apparent de-emphasis of local, art and foreign film. The good news is that Jim Hoberman is staying put and now New Yorkers can read top-notch film criticism from Voice Media's 16 other papers.

The Reeler | 11-17-2006 11:51 am | Industry News

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