AAN News
Tisserand's Latest Essay Available for Free to AAN Members
Michael Tisserand, who wrote the "Submerged" series about the evacuee experience in post-Katrina New Orleans, argues for a National Mardi Gras in the Jan. 24 issue of Gambit Weekly. "It's time to honor the dead and celebrate the living," Tisserand writes. The article is available to AAN member newspapers for reprint at no charge.
01-24-2006 12:30 pm |
Industry News
AltWeekly Awards Set Entry Record -- Again!
The 2006 AltWeekly Awards received 1554 entries from 99 member newspapers. Improvements made to the contest rules and Web site were successful in making the process less problematic. If the AAN staff is not buried alive by the onslaught of paper and FedEx boxes, we will next begin sorting entries and distributing them to the preliminary round judges.
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Amy Gill |
01-24-2006 10:54 am |
Association News
Tags: Design & Production, Editorial
OC Weekly Writer Signs Book Deal
According to Publisher/Editor Will Swaim, News and Investigations Editor Nick Schou will pen a biography of Gary Webb, the late investigative journalist, for Nation Books. Webb is best known for his San Jose Mercury News "Dark Alliance" series, which explored links between the CIA, Nicaraguan contras, and crack cocaine. Webb worked briefly at the Sacramento News and Review before his suicide in 2004. Schou has reported on the controversy over the "Dark Alliance" series in several articles for OC Weekly.
01-24-2006 8:45 am |
Industry News
LiveDeal Launches Canadian Site, Local Ad Programnew
Auctionbytes |
01-24-2006 7:56 am |
Industry News
S.F. Chronicle Takes Classifieds to Televisionnew
Editor & Publisher |
01-24-2006 7:53 am |
Industry News
Tags: Classified Advertising
Jack Shafer Tips Hat to Media Critics at AAN Member Papers
In an interview with PR Week, Slate media critic Jack Shafer, who is also the former editor of both Washington City Paper and SF Weekly, names the Boston Phoenix's Mark Jurkowitz and Washington City Paper's Erik Wemple as two of the best media critics in the country. (He also cites former alt-weekly reporters Dan Kennedy and Tom Scocca.) Shafer says that when he edited the City Paper, he considered each issue of the paper an implicit "volume of media criticism," because of CP's emphasis on stories that its mainstream competition ignored.
01-23-2006 1:38 pm |
Industry News
Cartoonist Ted Rall Now a Crossword Clue
Rall, whose award-winning cartoons appear in many AAN papers, including the Village Voice and Washington City Paper, has reached another milestone: becoming a clue in the New York Times crossword puzzle. As noted by Editor & Publisher, the Jan. 20 puzzle featured the clue "editorial cartoonist Rall." On his blog, Rall said, "That really is kind of amazing to this boy from the Ohio burbs. On the other hand, it is a pretty damned hard puzzle."
01-23-2006 1:29 pm |
Industry News
Bellingham Weekly Update and Timelinenew
The Bellingham Business Journal |
01-23-2006 4:26 pm |
Industry News
Sporting News Enters $7.2 Million Settlement in Gambling Ad Lawsuitnew
New York Times |
01-23-2006 9:48 am |
Legal News
Sporting News Enters $7.2 Million Settlement in Gambling Ad Lawsuitnew
New York Times |
01-23-2006 9:46 am |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising
Despite Car Show Hype, Hybrids, Diesels Will Remain Marginalnew
The Detroit News |
01-23-2006 8:48 am |
Industry News
Starbucks, Yahoo! Cross-Market Personalsnew
Online Media Daily (reg. req.) |
01-23-2006 8:44 am |
Industry News
A Generation Serves Notice: It's a Moving Targetnew
New York Times |
01-23-2006 8:40 am |
Industry News
Tags: Marketing
Mara Shalhoup: Depicting the Life of a Teenage Killer
Mara Shalhoup's award-winning feature story is a long-form narrative that often assumes the perspective of a teenage prostitute-turned-killer. It wasn't a hard article to write, Shalhoup says, and the strong response proves that readers want more stories with a human focus. This is the 34th in a "How I Got That Story" series highlighting the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners.
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Erika Beras |
01-20-2006 8:21 pm |
Association News
Study: Online Movie Ads' Impact Ebbs as Release Date Nearsnew
Online Media Daily |
01-20-2006 7:43 am |
Industry News
Tags: Marketing, Retail Advertising
