AAN News
Newspapers Would Benefit From Promoting Printnew
Newspapers & Technology |
10-06-2005 9:15 am |
Industry News
Farren: New Times-VVM Merger Might be Disastrousnew
LA CityBeat |
10-06-2005 9:03 am |
Industry News
"Submerged" Gets Props From NBC News Anchor
In an entry in his MSNBC blog on Monday, network newsman Brian Williams called Part 4 of Michael Tisserand's AAN-commissioned series on the evacuee experience, "a fine piece of journalism" and a "sobering and instructive piece of writing." Speaking of the displaced Gambit Weekly editor, in addition to producing fine journalism, he and some of his former neighbors recently started a new school for their children in New Iberia, La. In case you missed it yesterday on CBS' The Early Show, you can read about the Sugar Cane Academy here.
10-05-2005 5:17 pm |
Industry News
Santa Barbara Independent Rep Wins AAN CAN Sales Contest
Clare Nisbet sold over $16,000 of new business to run away with the AAN CAN "Back To School" sales contest that ended on Friday. As a result, both Clare and her classified manager, Penelope Huston Baer, will receive an Apple Prize Package consisting an Apple G4 iBook, a U2 Special Edition iPod, and 200 free downloads from iTunes.
10-05-2005 1:56 pm |
Industry News
AAN Makes Second Relief Payment as Gambit Fund Passes Six Figures
The association has collected over $106,000 in charitable contributions since the effort to raise money for Gambit Weekly employees was announced on Sept. 2. A second payment of $1,000 was wired yesterday to each of those employees, who were evacuated from their homes and left without jobs or income after Hurricane Katrina struck.
Most of the money raised has come from AAN-member papers and their employees, although contributions began to trickle in last week from readers as well.
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10-05-2005 6:57 pm |
Association News
SFBG on Hearing in its SF Weekly Predatory Pricing Suitnew
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
10-05-2005 8:10 am |
Industry News
FW Weekly Wins Environmental Journalism Award
The Society of Environmental Journalists awarded the first-place prize for Outstanding Small Market Reporting to freelancer Wendy Lyons Sunshine for "Mud Wrestling," a three-part series about "the environmental damage caused by the fast-growing region's ravenous appetite for construction stone."
10-04-2005 6:47 pm |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Returns Decline, According to AWN
Alternative Weekly Network executive director Mark Hanzlik reports that audited returns from a group of 96 Verified Audit Circulation clients, who are also members of AWN or Ruxton, have declined from 6.9 percent in 2001 to a current level of 5.7 percent. Hanzlik bases his findings on a spreadsheet analysis of recent VAC data, which he compares to a previous VAC report encompassing 76 alt-weeklies. "We sometimes use this return figure in conjunction with the circulation audit information and readership reports to reinforce the value of alternative newspapers on the street!" says Hanzlik. The spreadsheet can be downloaded by AAN members from this page in the AAN Resource Library.
10-04-2005 6:22 pm |
Industry News
Canadian Court Rules in Favor of Washington Post in Bangoura Case
The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled unanimously that a Canadian trial court erred when it exercised jurisdiction over the Post Co. in a defamation suit based solely on the availability of an article in the archives of Washingtonpost.com. The article in question was published in 1997, when the Post had only seven subscribers in Ontario, and had subsequently been downloaded from the Post's archives once -- by the plaintiff’s lawyer. Moreover, the plaintiff lived in Africa when the article was published and didn't become a Canadian citizen until four years later. AAN joined a coalition of over 40 media organizations and advocacy groups that intervened in the case following the trial court ruling. According to the Post's counsel, if the ruling had been allowed to stand and had been followed by other courts, it would have meant that "any publisher, broadcaster or online news organization can be subjected to suit anywhere in the world based solely on the availability of its content on the Internet." Read more about Bangoura v. The Washington Post Co., here and here.
10-04-2005 5:42 pm |
Industry News
Why RedEye Waited So Long to Go Freenew
Editor & Publisher |
10-04-2005 10:02 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Slowing is Seen in Housing Prices in Hot Marketsnew
New York Times |
10-04-2005 9:19 am |
Industry News
North American Newsprint Consumption on a Downward Spiralnew
Editor & Publisher |
10-04-2005 6:52 am |
Industry News
Dailies' Q3 Ad Revenue Results Expected to Be the Worst in Two Yearsnew
Editor & Publisher |
10-04-2005 6:50 am |
Industry News
AltWeeklies.com's September Traffic Surpasses 250,000
A 33 percent increase in the monthly traffic count enabled AAN's collaborative news site to pass the quarter-million mark in unique visitors. AltWeeklies.com traffic has increased exponentially since April, when the number of unique visitors was less than 10,000. Most of that growth has come from AAN members who run AltWeeklies.com teasers, which have also increased traffic on their own sites.
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Ruth Hammond |
10-03-2005 3:14 pm |
Association News
Mullin: "The farewell column I promised myself I wouldn't write"new
In his final column as editor of Miami New Times, Jim Mullin (pictured) touches on the
"dramatic, dizzying change" that has taken place in the city since the paper debuted over eighteen years ago. Mullin says a paper like his, "with a small staff, closely reflects the personalities who produce it" and gives a shout out to all those who played a role in helping him chronicle the flux in this city that is "long on illusion and short on memory" and where "change is the only constant."
Miami New Times |
10-03-2005 10:09 am |
Industry News
