AAN News
Convention Registration Materials Mailed
The marketing brochure for the 2005 AAN Convention was mailed to AAN members and other prospective attendees on Friday, April 8. Management-level employees were sent materials which include programming details and a schedule-at-a-glance, and publishers will also receive registration forms. The deadline for early-bird registration this year is Friday, April 22.
04-08-2005 2:55 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weeklies Dominate James Beard Nominations
AAN-member papers grabbed over 60 percent of the nominations in the newspaper categories of the 2005 James Beard Foundation Awards. Robb Walsh of Houston Press was nominated for two awards while his New Times colleagues were nominated for seven others. In an e-mail to Washington City Paper staff announcing food critic Todd Kliman's nomination, editor Erik Wemple called the Beard awards "the Oscars of food writing." For a complete list of the nominees, visit this page.
04-08-2005 2:43 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Plame Leak Probe Over, Prosecutor Saysnew
Washington Post |
04-08-2005 3:34 pm |
Legal News
Tags: Management
Paper Asks Court to Unseal Bribery Case Recordsnew
Editor & Publisher |
04-08-2005 3:00 pm |
Legal News
Tags: Management
Des Moines' Cityview Sold, to Merge with Pointblanknew
Big Green Umbrella, a company owned by Michael Gartner and Gary Gerlach, has purchased Cityview, a Des Moines, Iowa, alt-weekly and AAN member paper, reports The Des Moines Register. Gartner also owns an interest in Pointblank, another Des Moines alt and AAN member. The two papers will merge and publish as Cityview, with Pointblank founder and editor Jon Gaskell as editor. With the last edition of Pointblank already on news racks, 10 Cityview staffers were laid off Wednesday and will interview for positions with the publication -- though not all of them will be (re)hired.
The Des Moines Register |
04-07-2005 11:33 am |
Industry News
A Thinning Marketnew
Like many people who spent their careers putting mostly black ink on white paper so it could be thrown on people's porches at 5 a.m., I have been worrying about the future of newspapers. Most of the content newspapers provide is available free online and many of our best advertisers have found they can reach their best customers more efficiently using lower-cost, Web-based alternatives.
One of the essential facts newspaper ad people never talk about is the inherent inefficiency in newspaper advertising — and that this inefficiency is what drives profitability. In fact, the old Newspaper Advertising Bureau created a clever marketing name for the phenomenon — The Thin Market Concept — and used it to get customers to buy more ads.
One of the essential facts newspaper ad people never talk about is the inherent inefficiency in newspaper advertising — and that this inefficiency is what drives profitability. In fact, the old Newspaper Advertising Bureau created a clever marketing name for the phenomenon — The Thin Market Concept — and used it to get customers to buy more ads.
Editor and Publisher |
04-06-2005 10:30 am |
Industry News
NYTBR Lauds Alt-Weekly Editor's New Booknew
San Diego Reader senior editor Judith Moore's book, "Fat Girl," got the full-page treatment in last week's New York Times Book Review. Jane Stern writes that Moore's book "just might be the Stonewall for a slew of oversize people who do not fit the template of what every ostensible expert on beauty, health and nutrition tells us we should strive to be," and judges it "brilliant and angry and unsettling."
The New York Times |
04-05-2005 5:51 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, San Diego Reader
Voice Senior VP and Circulation Director Succumbs to Cancernew
Robert Kasner, senior vice president and circulation director for Village Voice Media, died of liver cancer last week at the age of 53. Since 1998, Kasner oversaw the process of getting a quarter-million copies of the The Village Voice off the press and delivered to 1,700 locations. He also led the paper's battle against city rules that imposed tight restrictions on the free-newspaper industry. In an obituary in this week's Voice, publisher Judy Miszner says that Kasner "had an amazing intellect and kindness about him."
The Village Voice |
04-05-2005 5:49 pm |
Industry News
Tags: The Village Voice, Bob Kasner
Honors Keep Coming for Willamette's Jaquissnew
Because sometimes winning a Pulitzer just isn't enough: Willamette Week's Nigel Jaquiss also won an award from Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. (IRE) for "The 30-Year Secret" -- the same work for which he won the Pulitzer yesterday. Qualifying as a finalist was New Times Broward-Palm Beach's Bob Norman for "Sick District," his investigation into the mismanagement of Broward County's tax-assisted public health care system.
Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. |
04-05-2005 5:47 pm |
Industry News
Online Local Ad Spend to Grow 46% in '05new
LOCAL AD SPENDING ONLINE BALLOONED 28 percent to $2.7 billion last year, according to a report released Monday by research company Borrell Associates. The report, "What Local Web Sites Earn: 2005 Survey," based on a survey of Web sites of 2,177 local media properties, predicts even higher expansion--46 percent, to $3.9 billion--this year. Local marketers of computer-related services spent the largest proportion of their ad budgets--7.3 percent--online, followed by bars and restaurants--3.3 percent--and business-to-business advertisers--3.2 percent. Borrell defined local advertising as "advertising placed by locally based businesses for locally focused online messages."
Online Media Daily |
04-05-2005 9:04 am |
Industry News
Academy for Alternative Journalism 2005 Fellows Selected
AAN Staff |
04-05-2005 3:03 pm |
Association News
Willamette Week Reporter Wins Pulitzernew
Nigel Jaquiss, a staff writer at the Portland, Ore., alt-weekly, received the prize in investigative reporting for "his investigation exposing a former governor's long concealed sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old girl," according to this afternoon's announcement on Pulitzer.org. He beat out finalists from The New York Times and The Des Moines Register.
Pulitzer.org |
04-04-2005 4:00 pm |
Industry News
Reader Writer Reaps Rave Reviewsnew
Chicago Reader staff writer Steve Bogira's book, "Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse," was published this month by Alfred A. Knopf. By detailing the happenings at Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse over the course of one calendar year, the book shows how the war on drugs is overloading the justice system and threatening the integrity of due process. A review in The Economist calls it "a brilliant piece of journalism and a genuine eye-opener" that "provides the context, both locally and nationally, for understanding what is going on."
The Economist |
04-04-2005 12:34 pm |
Industry News
Boston's Weekly Dig Names Dr. Eric Solomon As Managing Editor
04-04-2005 8:49 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, Boston's Weekly Dig
Memoir of Maine Times Cofounder Is Published Posthumouslynew
Peter W. Cox's book, "Journalism Matters," was brought out by Tilbury House in February. Cox, who acted as publisher of the small alternative paper he co-founded, did much of the work for which the editor, the late John Cole, gets credit, writes Sam Pfeifle in The Portland Phoenix. Pfeifle describes Cox as a proud man who "was fiercely independent, and would not bend his integrity, but he was open and honest, and always accountable to his readers."
The Portland Phoenix |
04-01-2005 12:54 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Maine Times
