Coast Publishing Limited has purchased Duly Noted Wedding Guide, and will be expanding it immediately, printing 50% more copies and making them available at more distribution points. The first issue under Coast Publishing ownership will appear November 4, 2010.
AAN members voted on several key matters during the association's annual meeting on Saturday, July 17. Eleven seats on the Board of Directors were filled, three publications were admitted into the association, and a bylaws amendment allowing online-only publications to apply for membership was passed by an overwhelming majority.
Lukas Ketner -- whose Barack Obama illustration graced the cover of Willamette Week's 2008 endorsement issue -- says in the New York Times that he received "a lot of mileage" out of the cover, eventually leading to the launch of a comic book, 'Witch Doctor,' which will be released during this week's Comic-Con.
Elections for several positions on the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Board of Directors will be held today (Saturday, July 17), during the association's annual meeting in Toronto.
At the 15th Annual AltWeekly Awards Luncheon in Toronto, Gustavo Arellano of '¡Ask A Mexican!' announced the winners of AAN's editorial contest and taught the audience a wide range of Spanish vulgarities and insults.
As AAN's Annual Convention gets underway in Toronto, attendees and non-attendees alike can follow events as they happen with the hashtag #aan2010.
The Long Island Press brought home seventeen awards at the Long Island chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists' 2010 Media Awards dinner. The Press earned honors in virtually every category of the competition.
The Alternative Weekly Network (AWN) has re-launched its website awn.org and re-branded itself more closely reflecting its grass-roots-driven alt weekly-based origins.
DesertNet and Index Publishing are pleased to announce four additional alternative news websites using the Foundation platform, two of which are AAN member publications:
* Arkansas Times - www.arktimes.com
* Creative Loafing - Atlanta - www.clatl.com
"Already it's proven to be a robust system that's both saving us time and enabling us to expand our community of readers," said Lindsey Millar of Arkansas Times.
Two additional recent launches include:
* Real Detroit Weekly - www.realdetroitweekly.com
* Urbanite Baltimore - www.urbanitebaltimore.com
