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Advertising Handouts and Presentations Available in AAN Library

A number of the handouts and presentations from both the classified and retail tracks from last week’s AAN Convention have been added to the AAN Library. Additional handouts, as well as the individual entries from “Marketing, Branding & Promotion: AAN Best Practices” and “Show Me the Money” will be added to the Library later this week. The Library also features resources from prior conferences and conventions, white papers on various sales and sales management topics, links to articles, customizable “Influentials” one sheets and other resources. If you’d like to share other tools from your paper (sales training manuals, collateral pieces, etc.), please contact Roxanne Cooper at rcooper@aan.org.
06-21-2005  1:54 pm  |  Industry News

Three More Weeklies Admitted to AAN

Las Vegas Weekly (cover pictured above), Bellingham Weekly of Bellingham, Wash., and Style Weekly of Richmond, Va., were voted in as members of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies at the organization's annual meeting on June 18. The Las Vegas and Richmond papers were the first two daily-owned alt-weeklies ever admitted to AAN. (FULL STORY)
AAN Staff  |  06-21-2005  10:03 am  |  Association News

Study: Generations Disagree on Value of P2Psnew

Solutions Research Group  |  06-21-2005  5:07 pm  |  Industry News

Vocal and Visual Classified Upsellsnew

Editor & Publisher  |  06-21-2005  5:02 pm  |  Industry News

Judges for the 2005 AltWeekly Awards Announced

Ruth Hammond  |  06-21-2005  2:15 pm  |  Association News

Medill Writers' Workshop Set for Aug. 12-13

The annual editorial conference at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism "is designed to offer hands-on, boot-camp like training for newer staff writers, but it works equally well as a refresher course for more experienced writers and editors," says Editorial Chair Patricia Calhoun. The Evanston, Ill. workshop will be held several weeks earlier than usual, and will coincide for the first time with the final weekend of the Summer class of the Academy for Alternative Journalism. So this year, editors have another reason for going: To meet the ten graduates of the 2005 AAN/Medill diversity program. The registration cost is $25 for AAN members, and $200 for non-members. Details and registration materials will follow shortly.
06-20-2005  9:03 pm  |  Industry News

Julia Goldberg Blogs San Diego

Santa Fe Reporter's editor files the first post-convention blogpost after returning from San Diego. Well, we think it's the first. If anyone else has written about the convention in their paper or on their blog let us know and we'll find a way to post it.
06-20-2005  8:34 pm  |  Industry News

Marketers Want More Metrics from Printnew

Adrants  |  06-20-2005  11:39 pm  |  Industry News

2005 AltWeekly Awards Winners Announced

At a luncheon Friday during the AAN convention in San Diego, Dan Savage handed out four first place awards to L.A. Weekly. Four papers -- Chicago Reader, Folio Weekly, Jackson Free Press and Orlando Weekly -- took first place honors in two categories each. Read the full list of winners. (FULL STORY)
06-17-2005  6:14 pm  |  Association News

Warning to Alt-Weeklies: Innovate Online or Perish

With his Macintosh PowerBook and a projection screen, AlwaysOn network founder Tony Perkins (pictured) stood before AAN convention goers in San Diego to explain his solution to the biggest threat facing alternative weeklies today: the blog revolution. His assessment? Join 'em or fail. Beating them isn't an option. (FULL STORY)
Vernal Coleman  |  06-17-2005  10:54 am  |  Association News

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