AAN News
Katrina Clouds Holiday Shopping Outlooknew
SF Gate |
09-15-2005 7:45 am |
Industry News
VW of America Switches Ad Firmsnew
International Herald Tribune |
09-15-2005 7:43 am |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising
Alt-Weeklies Dominate Food Journalism Awards
Alt-weeklies walked away with half of the 18 winning entries in the under-150,000 circulation category of the Association of Food Journalists awards announced last week. New Times foodies at Dallas Observer, SF Weekly and Riverfront Times each picked up a first-place prize, while Houston Press' Robb Walsh took home both a first- and second-place. Independent Weekly, Creative Loafing-Atlanta and Willamette Week were the other AAN winners in the AFJ's small-paper category. LA Weekly's Jonathan Gold, who won first-place in this year's AltWeekly Awards Food Writing category (Walsh placed second), also won first-place for Restaurant Criticism in the AFJ contest, in the 150,001-300,000 circulation category.
09-14-2005 12:50 pm |
Industry News
OC Weekly on Its 10th: Thank You Comrades!
When OC Weekly was launched in 1995, most people figured it wouldn't last: Orange County was (they said) too decentralized, conservative and suburban for an alt-weekly. Even editor/publisher Will Swaim admits he experienced a little anxiety in those early days. Yet here the paper is 10 years later, stronger than ever, making a difference in people's lives, and providing work for its staff that is exciting, fun and rewarding. And Swaim has a few people to thank for that.
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Will Swaim |
09-14-2005 4:41 pm |
Industry News
OC Weekly: Stories That Made a Differencenew
OC Weekly |
09-14-2005 2:38 pm |
Industry News
AAN Creates House Ads for Gambit Relief Fund
Twenty-five of the 43 AAN publishers who responded to a survey on Friday afternoon said they were interested in running house ads promoting the Gambit Relief Fund. So AAN asked Katherine Topaz of Topaz Design to create a quarter-page vertical ad (the size preferred by 78 percent of the respondents) that could be easily adapted by AAN members for use in their own papers. Kat ended up designing three of them, and they are now available for download from this page in the AAN Resource Library. An even larger majority of respondents said they were interested in running ads directing reader contributions to general Katrina-relief organizations sanctioned by AAN, so another set of quarter-page ads will be created once the association identifies general relief funds that make sense for its members.
09-13-2005 5:01 pm |
Industry News
Gambit Staffer Thanks AAN Members for Relief Fund
Every Gambit Weekly staff member we've communicated with since the Gambit Relief Fund was announced has offered their heartfelt appreciation, but we were especially touched by this message we received last week from special sections editor Kandace Power Graves, who has relocated to Northwest Arkansas with her two children.
09-13-2005 4:08 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Gambit, Kandace Power Graves
Dan Savage's New Book "About Creating and Appreciating Family"
So says Brangien Davis in this lengthy feature previewing "The Commitment," due to be released later this month by Dutton. Among other topics, Davis talks to the sex columnist and editor of The Stranger about his family -- both old and new -- and gay marriage. Explaining why he doesn't feel that the family focus of "The Commitment" is philosophically at odds with his weekly sex column, Savage says, "If people are reading my column closely, I think they can see I'm conservatively pro-family. Most people have sex with their spouses, and being pro-sexual-pleasure is the way to keep that love alive."
09-13-2005 3:35 pm |
Industry News
AAN Commissions Weekly Series by Gambit Editor
Michael Tisserand (pictured at left, with family) this week launched a series of weekly columns available to all AAN-member papers that will focus on the evacuee experience in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. "Although the voice of these pieces will be personal," says Tisserand, "this is going to be a heavily reported column seeking to give specific voice to the general evacuee population." The 2,000-word columns will be available free of charge each Monday to member papers for use in their pages or on their Web sites.
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09-13-2005 1:03 pm |
Association News
Following Months of Gain, Magazine Ad Pages Tumbled in Augustnew
Media Daily News (reg. req.) |
09-13-2005 9:17 am |
Industry News
Tags: Retail Advertising
Advertisers Follow the Audience to Videogamesnew
ClickZ News |
09-13-2005 9:14 am |
Industry News
AutoTrader.com Announces New Partnership with NADAguides.comnew
Auto Channel |
09-13-2005 9:07 am |
Industry News
Some Dailies See Profit Dip on Katrinanew
Forbes |
09-13-2005 9:04 am |
Industry News
ABC to Unveil New Publisher's Statement This Fallnew
Editor & Publisher |
09-13-2005 9:00 am |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation, Marketing
First Relief Payments Wired to Gambit Staffers
Forty-nine employees of the besieged New Orleans paper will each receive an initial gift of $1,000 this week from AAN's Gambit Relief Fund. Although the Fund has already collected over $52,000 in contributions, AAN will continue to seek additional financial assistance for Gambit staffers, with the goal of raising enough money to help them through the next two or three months. New Times and Village Voice employees, whose parent companies have both aggressively promoted a matching-funds program, make up a large percentage of the individual contributions received in the first week since the fund was announced.
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09-12-2005 1:03 pm |
Association News
