AAN News
Post Praises Free Times for Naming Condit Man of Yearnew
The Cleveland Free Times' pick of Rep. Gary Condit, R-Calif., as Man of the Year wins praise from Al Kamen of The Washington Post. Kamen says Free Times "got it right" because the selection "should be given to someone who kept the country enthralled for much of the year." Even after Sept. 11 should have wiped Condit off the radar, Condit "was determined not to cede the front page to Osama." Lisa Chamberlain, editor of the Free Times, says in an editorial about the choice, "Gary Condit is the quintessence of a gluttonous society operating without fear or consequence, content to distract itself with
inanities."
The Washington Post |
01-03-2002 4:44 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Cleveland Free Times, Eric Broder
Alt-Weeklies Tap Auto Market
Auto advertising has been a tough nut for alternative newsweeklies to crack. AAN News asks ad directors how they won over these conservative, set-in-their-ways auto dealerships. Some say they're getting this lucrative business with a combination of special sections and savvy sales reps. Auto dealers are opening up to the alternative weekly market, but they want familiar relationships and a lot of bang for their buck, they say.
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Seth Wharton |
01-03-2002 10:39 am |
Industry News
Confession of a Recovering Bingernew
Kathleen Wilson writes a New Year's confessional in The Stranger, rich with the hellish details of her years of binge drinking and blacking out and the equally hellish struggle to stay sober while still writing about music and hanging out in bars. "The
next binge would be my last, of that I was sure. But I was worried
about appearances. I was afraid of what people would say if I just
up and disappeared for a few weeks and then came back all shiny
and sober. Asshole," she writes..
AAN Offers Freelance Contract Advice
Alice Neff Lucan prepares template clauses
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AAN Staff |
01-03-2002 11:38 am |
Association News
Tags: Alice Neff Lucan
Mercury, Willamette Week in Spat over Advertisingnew
In a complaint filed with the Oregon Attorney General, Portland Mercury Publisher Rob Crocker claims a Willamette Week ad rep offered one of his advertisers a special rate contingent on stopping advertising in the Mercury, the Portland Tribune reports. WW Publisher Richard Meeker tells Tribune that his
newspaper does not have such policies and that the situation was merely "an isolated incident" and a mistake.
Portland Tribune |
01-02-2002 10:20 am |
Industry News
Kennedy Looks Forward to Writing Booknew
In an interview with townonline.com, Boston Phoenix media critic Dan Kennedy says he's a "bit ambivalent" about leaving the Phoenix to write a book for Rodale on raising children with dwarfism. " I think everyone in the business wants to write a book at one time or another," Kennedy tells the community webzine. "But what do we do? Writers write. " Kennedy has a 9-year-old daughter with the genetic condition achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism.
townonline.com |
01-02-2002 9:46 am |
Industry News
