Following up last year's well-rated inaugural conference, AAN is putting on another Publishers Conference this fall. It will be held Nov. 13-14 at the Charleston Place Hotel in Charleston, S.C. The program, which will be finalized by mid-October, will feature two or three big-picture speakers and lots of time for formal and informal discussion among the publishers who attend.
In a three-part Facebook photo album series, Robert Newman Design has posted a whole bunch of Voice covers and inside design pieces dating back to when Newman himself was at the paper in the early 90s. In addition to Newman, the photosets also feature design work from Florian Bachleda, Jennifer Gilman, Ted Keller and IvyLise Simones, as well as illustration work from a number of artists. Check them out here, here and here.
A new Online Publishers Association study finds that people in 2009 on average spent 42 percent of their web time on content sites compared to 34 percent in 2003. The actual amount of time spent on content sites has nearly doubled in that time period, from an average of three hours, 42 minutes to six hours, 58 minutes.
The Weekly will join The Mountain View Voice and The Almanac in a new three-story building built and owned by parent company Embarcadero Media later this month. "The new building boasts energy-efficient and other environmental features that will make it among the 'greenest' buildings in the area," the Voice reports. READ MORE about the building in a 2008 story in the Weekly.
"Independents were repeatedly ahead of the curve on covering the mortgage and real estate bubble and in connecting the dots between vital elements of the bigger story," former City Limits editor Alyssa Katz writes on CJR.org. So how did indie magazines and alt-weeklies do it? Katz offers three main reasons: The reporting focused on "the real-world impacts of business practices" and was based "out in the real world," while reporters were "free (and predisposed) to question authority, not to mention the basic business practices of large financial institutions."
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