AAN News
AAN.org Adds 'Web Publishing News' Section
The new section, which is under "Press Releases" in the right column on the home page, will contain links to articles on information architecture, editorial content on the Web, and new methods of electronic distribution. Articles on online marketing and advertising will continue to be posted under "Ad & Business News." If you have suggestions for other ways we can make AAN.org more usefulness, please send them to news@aan.org.
05-04-2006 12:28 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Electronic Publishing
Weekly Alibi Asks a Mexican, Hears From Readers
After picking up OC Weekly's syndicated "Ask a Mexican" column, Editor Steven Robert Allen writes, the newspaper received "plenty of positive responses" but also "lots of angry calls and e-mails from people -- both Latinos and Anglos -- saying [the column is] promoting hate speech and negative racial stereotypes." Allen interviews the author, Gustavo Arellano, about the column's genesis and subsequent fallout. "Especially during these times, which are so contentious and fraught with animosity, when you have a column that's addressing these issues, not in a namby-pamby way but as blisteringly as possible, people want to read that," Arellano says.
05-04-2006 11:22 am |
Industry News
Suicide Girls' Boston Moderator Fired for Quotes in the Phoenix
"I'm sure that 90 percent of what's out there that's negative is true," Dan Wherren told the Boston Phoenix about his employer, SuicideGirls.com, in last week's cover story. He was immediately removed from his position as moderator of SGBoston, a regional SuicideGirls group, and a model for the "punk rock" porn site who disagreed with that decision was removed as well. In the Phoenix's update posted yesterday, Wherren said he stands behind the statement, adding that Suicide Girls "is the Microsoft of the Alt-Erotica industry."
05-04-2006 9:40 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Boston Phoenix
New Orleans Media Experiences 'An Extraordinary Transformation'
Brooke Gladstone interviewed several New Orleans media notables for the April 28 edition of "On the Media" (transcript here; MP3 here) and concludes that since the disaster, residents have been consuming "barrels of information supplied by a reinvented media like a tonic." Gambit Weekly Managing Editor David Lee Simmons tells Gladstone that he has been asked, "How does it feel to compete with the daily newspaper when the daily newspaper is acting like an alternative newsweekly?" He interprets this as a "reenergizing" of the local daily, the Times-Picayune, but adds that "the challenge for them is to maintain that level of energy, and it's going to be interesting to see how they do that."
05-04-2006 8:54 am |
Industry News
Pitch Story Prompts Investigation
In its May 4 issue, The Pitch profiles John Flowers, founder and chief executive of technology company Kozoru. According to The Pitch, Kozoru received funds from a state economic-development agency, The Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation, even though its application contained inaccurate information about Flowers' background that KTEC could easily have checked. The Kansas City Star reports today that KTEC has already announced that it will hire an independent law firm to review its application process.
05-04-2006 8:36 am |
Industry News
AAN Asks Governor to Restore Arkansas Times to Press List
It has been a week since Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee purged the alt-weekly from his official press notification list, but the governor (pictured) still has not provided a valid explanation for his decision. AAN sent a letter this morning on behalf of its member papers urging the governor to reverse his decision and put the Times back on the publicly financed list. The letter, signed by AAN President Kenneth Neill, reminds Huckabee that "as a public official," he is "legally forbidden from blackballing the paper based on its political content."
(FULL STORY)
05-04-2006 7:57 am |
Association News
Tags: Editorial, Arkansas Times
At We Media Conference, Experts Call on Newspapers To Step Upnew
Reuters |
05-04-2006 12:54 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Electronic Publishing
Connecticut Passes Limited Shield Law for Reportersnew
Connecticut Post |
05-04-2006 12:48 pm |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial
Publisher Leaves Santa Barbara Independent for UCSB Postnew
The Santa Barbara Independent |
05-04-2006 12:01 pm |
Industry News
Ark. Times: Governor's Actions Intrude on First Amendment Rightsnew
Arkansas Times |
05-04-2006 11:39 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Arkansas Times
Pasadena Weekly Editor Reaches 500-Issue Marknew
Pasadena Weekly |
05-04-2006 11:00 am |
Industry News
Phoenix's Jurkowitz Headed to Project for Excellence in Journalismnew
The Boston Phoenix |
05-04-2006 10:49 am |
Industry News
Publishers Brace for Possible 11.4% Postal Rate Hikenew
Mediaweek |
05-04-2006 9:51 am |
Industry News
Daily Circ Expected to Fall Steeply Again in Upcoming FAS-FAXnew
Editor & Publisher |
05-04-2006 9:47 am |
Industry News
Boise Weekly Launches Local Music Festivalnew
Boise Weekly |
05-04-2006 9:07 am |
Industry News
