AAN has added several new services and partnerships available exclusively to its members. These free pilot programs will give publications an opportunity to monetize member mobile traffic, find untapped classified revenue, and use audience insights to expose relevant content to readers.
Dudzik will stay with the paper through the summer to ensure a smooth transition.
Mike Seely, a seasoned journalist and Spurs enthusiast, will chronicle the San Antonio Spurs in their quest for the 2013 NBA Championship.
"Anyone who still thinks of the Reader as an alternative to the dailies will have to strain hard to think it when some of the Reader shows up each week in one of them."
Reporter Tim Bousquet earned the 2012 Don McGillivray Award from the Canadian Association of Journalists for his investigation of former Halifax mayor Peter Kelly.
Mike Sula, Alice Laussade, and Tejal Rao earned top honors from the James Beard Foundation.
Palo Alto Weekly picked up the coveted general excellence award from the California Newspaper Publishers Association.
Bob Newman — design consultant, frequent AAN convention speaker, and a staunch supporter of alt-weekly design work — has been hospitalized after suffering severe head trauma and spending two weeks in a coma.
A twelve-pack of media industry news items on ESPN The Magazine's foray into sponsored content, the Knight Foundation's effort to measure the social impact of news, and how the digital media industry indirectly benefits from porn.
