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.

Continue ReadingAdvertising Handouts and Presentations Available in AAN Library

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.

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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.

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