AAN News
Seven Days Purchases Children's Publicationnew
Burlington, Vt.-based Seven Days has announced the purchase of Kids VT, a monthly parenting publication.
Seven Days |
12-06-2010 5:04 pm |
Industry News
Seven Days' Resmer Among Vermont Rising Starsnew
Seven Days associate publisher / online editor Cathy Resmer has been named one of Vermont's "Rising Stars" by Vermont Business Magazine.
Vermont Business Magazine |
10-08-2010 3:31 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Seven Days Publisher Has "Intimate Encounter" With the Obamasnew
Paula Routly of Seven Days writes about her encounter with the Obama family while biking on Martha's Vineyard with last week.
Seven Days |
08-31-2010 4:42 pm |
Industry News
Alt-Weeklies Nab Dozens of New England Press Association Awardsnew
Three AAN members took home plenty of awards in this year's New England Newspaper and Press Association Better Newspaper Contest. Boston Phoenix staff writer Mike Miliard was named Weekly Journalist of the Year (judges said he was "obviously a very versatile and talented journalist") as part of the Phoenix's haul of 18 total awards, including 11 first-place wins. Worcester Mag took home nine awards, with five first-place finishes, while Burlington's Seven Days finished first in three categories and won seven total awards.
New England Newspaper and Press Association (PDF) |
02-09-2010 9:24 am |
Honors & Achievements
Alt-Weeklies Pick Up Some Wins at the 2009 'Sexies' Awardsnew
The Sex-Positive Journalism Awards have announced the winners of the 2009 Sexies, the annual awards that go to stories that "improve the quality of dialogue around sex and create a more well-informed reading public." Seven Days' Judith Levine took home a first-place win in the Opinion category, where she also tied for second place with a Village Voice piece by Tristan Taormino. Amanda Hess of Washington City Paper picked up a third-place win in the Columns category for "The Sexist," while in the News/Features (Alt-Weeklies, Monthlies) category the Alibi's Marisa Demarco placed third and Rich Kane (OC Weekly) and Michael J. Mooney (New Times Broward-Palm Beach) both were named runners-up.
The Sex-Positive Journalism Awards |
01-22-2010 9:23 am |
Honors & Achievements
Seven Days Snags Seven State Press Awards
The Burlington alt-weekly took home seven total awards in the Vermont Press Association's 2008 newspaper awards contest, including first prize in the non-daily newspapers General Excellence category. It marks the fourth time in five years the paper took home first in that category -- and the association didn't give awards one year. "At this point, it would be sort of embarrassing if we didn't win," associate publisher and online editor Cathy Resmer says. Seven Days also took home first place wins in the non-daily division for Best Local Story and Best Feature Story, and in combined competition for Arts Criticism.
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Seven Days Press Release |
12-10-2009 1:43 pm |
Press Releases
Seven Days Redesigns Print Product, Goes With 'Short Tab' Formatnew
"This new, magazine-style iteration is the result of planning that predates the current recession," the paper says in a quick intro to the new design. The new format will be smaller, not folded and has the ability to have color on any page. The paper says that as a result of the switch, they are also saving a little money, which has allowed them to hire a third full-time staff writer. Seven Days also put together the video below to help explain the changes.
Seven Days |
10-09-2009 1:31 pm |
Industry News
Sen. Sanders Explains Anti-Alt Remark and (Kind of) Apologizesnew
Seven Days founder and co-editor Pamela Polston reports that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders reached out to her last week regarding the senator's recent inaccurate statements about the alt-weekly industry. "Bernie let me know that his office sends out 'hundreds' of releases every day and that 'I don't always read them carefully,'" Polston writes, noting that Sanders was a little defensive and thought AAN was making too much of his offhand remarks, given Sanders' work on media reform issues. "It was clear Bernie wasn't going to provide a written apology to AAN, but he did offer this: 'If I have offended anyone in the alternative media, I'm sorry for that.'"
Seven Days |
08-24-2009 11:08 am |
Industry News
AAN Corrects Sen. Bernie Sanders on Comments About Alt-Weeklies
In his announcement yesterday about starting his own weekly internet TV show, the independent U.S. Senator from Vermont bemoaned media consolidation. Unfortunately, he also unfairly characterized alt-weeklies, claiming they "have been bought by a monopoly franchise and made a predictable shift to the right in their coverage of local news." In a letter responding to the Senator's claim, AAN president Mark Zusman and executive director Richard Karpel set the record straight, noting the absurdity of calling any alt-weekly a "monopoly franchise" and stating that "alternative newspapers across North America are still often among the few publications in their communities that consistently offer a progressive viewpoint on issues like poverty, racism, health-care reform and environmental sustainability."
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Mark Zusman |
08-11-2009 3:12 pm |
Industry News
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Seven Days Hires Lauren Ober as New Staff Writer
Seven Days Press Release |
05-21-2009 1:27 pm |
Press Releases
Seven Days Starts News-Sharing Partnership With Local TV Stationnew
The Burlington, Vt., alt-weekly has entered into a content-sharing agreement with WPTZ NewsChannel 5. As part of this agreement, Seven Days contributors will appear twice a week during the station's 11 pm newscast. Elements of Shay Totten's political column will appear on Tuesday nights, in advance of the Seven Days' Wednesday distribution, and on Thursdays, music editor Dan Bolles will recommend upcoming events from "Notes on the Weekend," the paper's email newsletter.
Vermont Business Magazine (scroll to bottom of article) |
05-15-2009 8:45 am |
Industry News
How Does Twitter Fit Into an Alt-Weekly Writer's Arsenal?new
Communications consultant Michael Stoner spoke with Seven Days political columnist Shay Totten after following Totten's work during the same-sex marriage debate in Vermont. "There are always aspects of a story that can't be easily told in 140-character bursts," Totten says. "Tweets are components of a narrative, not the complete narrative. While I try to provide context while I live-Twitter, it's more appropriate to provide such contexts in a long form."
mStonerblog.com |
04-24-2009 8:56 am |
Industry News
Seven Days Uses Twitter to Cover Historic Vote
As Vermont has debated gay marriage for the past few weeks, the alt-weekly has been reporting the details aggressively on the web. Seven Days political correspondent Shay Totten covered the floor debate using Twitter, and when the legislature held a public hearing and asked for testimony from Vermonters, staffers Cathy Resmer and Don Eggert moderated a live blog using a free service called CoverItLive. The paper has also been covering the debate on its staff blog.
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Seven Days Press Release |
04-03-2009 1:17 pm |
Press Releases
