Husband-and-wife team Bingo and Sally Barnes are the new owner/operators of Boise Weekly. The sale by City of Roses Newspaper Company was official on August 1 and formally inked on August 2. Present and former owners all agree the paper needs the kind of local stewardship the Barnes say they’ll provide.
• Read the Idaho Statesman's story on the sale.
AAN has hired Tucson-based DesertNet to redesign the association's website, making it more powerful and user-friendly than the current site, AAN Executive Director Richard Karpel announced today.
AAN decided not to name its annual editorial contest after Seldes because a significant number of AAN members, given a choice between Seldes and fellow late journalist Andrew Kopkind, voted in favor of not naming the contest at all.
Less than 18 months after acquiring Boise Weekly and shepherding the paper through a significant redesign, City of Roses Newspaper Co. announced early this week that the nine-year-old publication is once again on the trading block.
