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	Ethnic/Alternative: Alternative
		To be clear, the alternative press as defined here has little to do with what many might describe as "alternative." The term is mostly a catchall phrase used by the mainstream media, but these publications are not what some call the "dissident" press in America (see sidebar).
		In fact, scanning the realm of what a usually called alternative weeklies across the country, it sometimes seems there are few things that hold them together as a genre beyond their tabloid format (an almost universal trait) and their advertising-driven revenue model (they are usually given away free).
		Alternative weeklies were not spared from the large-scale consolidation that hit the media in general in the 1990s.
	www.stateofthenewsmedia.org /narrative_ethnicalternative_alternative.asp?media=9 (1656 words)

	Academy for Alternative Journalism
		Alternative newspapers like Chicago Reader, the SF Weekly, Boston Phoenix, the Village Voice and more than 100 others in cities across the United States and Canada have become writing outlets for journalists looking to report stories that few publications are willing or able to accommodate.
		The Academy for Alternative Journalism was established in 2000 in an effort to recruit talented writers, especially young men and women of color, looking to contribute to the diversity of the industry.
		Funded by the Association for Alternative Newsweeklies, the Academy is a paid summer fellowship program that immerses students in gripping writing and reporting that has become the hallmark of the alternative press.
	www.altjournalism.org (622 words)

	Welcome to the Best of New Orleans!
		Alternatives today carry the standard of such magnificent muckrakers as Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, George Seldes and I.F. Stone – writers who had a particular passion for tackling the stories and the issues everyone else had overlooked or simply wouldn’t touch.
		A paper of record reports on individual arrests for dogfighting or publishes interviews with concerned animal rights groups; an alternative weekly devotes the time and space to a painstakingly crafted 6,000-word, behind-the-scenes look at the dogfighters themselves, the culture that sustains them and the ramifications their activities have for the wider community.
		Dailies and alternatives have coexisted for so long that a few alternatives have been swallowed up by competitor corporations along the way, while others have banded together to form their own alternative newspaper chains.
	www.bestofneworleans.com /archives/2001/0710/views-com.html (725 words)

	Journalism.org- The State of the News Media 2006
		With no final ad figures in for 2005, Richard Karpel of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies said the smaller-market publications were not yet facing the same kind of competition as their big-market brethren.
		The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies announced in December that 20 of its papers were starting to use a classified advertising software called Avenews Remote to create free classified listings for their sites.
		Alternative weeklies are still taking economic hits from a variety of sources —commuter tabs, free weeklies launched by mainstream papers and, of course, Craigslist.
	www.stateofthenewsmedia.org /2006/narrative_ethnicalternative_alternative.asp?cat=6&media=10 (2046 words)

	RAB Media Facts - Alternative Weeklies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Alternative newsweeklies welcome ads from industries that may have difficulty finding a place in other media.
		These weekly papers are often the only alternative to the leading daily paper in a given market, and many consider themselves watchdogs dedicated to keeping an eye on the daily's actions as well as news outlets for stories not covered by the major papers.
		Many newsweeklies that position themselves as local underdogs may actually be owned by conglomerates headquartered in another part of the country.
	www.hrsbdc.org /media/weeklies.html (282 words)

	DOJ/Antitrust
		Alternative newsweeklies are published and distributed weekly for free through street boxes and other displays located in various urban business establishments, which typically focus exclusively on local events and news.
		In the past fifteen years, alternative newsweeklies have grown dramatically, largely because advertisers have recognized their unique ability to reach a young, urban audience in a cost-effective manner.
		Although the Defendants' alternative newsweeklies in the Cleveland and Los Angeles Markets are distributed for free, the Defendants competed though their alternative newsweeklies' news and advertising content to attract readers.
	www.sfbg.com /37/18/complaint.html (3073 words)

	Alternative News-Weeklies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Wide Distribution: Newsweeklies are usually distributed on hundreds of racks throughout a city, ready to be picked up on a whim by your target audience.
		In particular, the local newsweekly is the source of choice for entertainment news among this demographic.
		Newsweeklies’ ad clients can drive readers to their ads with Radio coverage, and Radio advertisers can supplement their Radio ads with greater detail in a corresponding newsweekly ad.
	www.rab.com /station/mediafact/mfweeklies.html (827 words)

	News & Opinion: Judging the Alternative Press (Memphis Flyer . 06-22-98) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		It was a time when alternative newspapers, then known as “underground” papers, were ubiquitous.
		Since 1992, yearly ad revenues for the nation’s alternative newsweeklies have almost doubled, to $345 million.
		Hitchens had recently served as a judge in an awards competition sponsored by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.
	weeklywire.com /ww/06-22-98/memphis_n_fea.html (574 words)

	Demographics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Alternative newsweeklies have a vibrant tradition in urban centers across the U.S. and Canada.
		The readers of alternative newsweeklies are hardly a vanilla kind of crowd.
		When compared to the average adult, the alternative newsweekly reader will buy more houses, cars, TVs, stereos, computers, and home furnishings during the next year.
	www.awn.org /everybody/demographics.html (241 words)

	SALON Daily Clicks: Media Circus
		As a journalist long associated with the alternative press, what struck me was their (read our) overriding preoccupation with the public realm -- politics, corporate America, the civic culture -- and our sense that the best way to attain social change is to keep things the same.
		While the alternatives' front political sections invariably depict a country polarized by racial tensions, their back pages sizzle with an array of intimate fantasies, a curiosity about "the other," that transgresses every border.
		The danger for the alternatives is that, increasingly fearful of where the cultural energies of the country are moving, we will forget to read our own sex ads, much less take our political cues from them.
	archive.salon.com /media/media960606.html (689 words)

	Alternative weekly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An alternative weekly is a type of weekly newspaper that eschews comprehensive coverage of general news in favor of opinionated reviews and columns, investigations into edgy topics and magazine-style feature stories highlighting local people and culture.
		Most alternative weeklies are free, earning revenue through the sale of advertising space; they are a favored advertising outlet of local bars, clubs, art galleries, cafés, concert venues, and retail stores.
		Alternative weeklies represent the more commercialized and mainstream evolution of the underground press associated with the 1960s counterculture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alternative_weekly (1221 words)

	Publishing giants go toe-to-toe with rival alternative weeklies - New Times Los Angeles Weekly; LA Weekly Los Angeles ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Now that the opening shots has been fired in the battle between L.A.'s alternative newsweeklies, two out-of-town publishing giants are settling down for a long fight for the hearts and eyeballs of Angelenos.
		On July 1 it acquired the Los Angeles View, a 75,000-circulation alternative newsweekly based in West L.A. A month later, it announced the purchase of the Miracle Mile-based Los Angeles Reader, which was subsequently closed.
		According to the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, revenues at its 107 member papers have risen an average of more 10 percent annually for the last six years.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m5072/is_n40_v18/ai_18833219 (895 words)

	freedomforum.org: Corporation shuts down alternative newspaper
		CLEVELAND — In the end, an alternative weekly that for 10 years railed against the city's power brokers was dismantled by the corporation that owned it.
		Of the 118 alternative newspapers that are members of Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, more than half are still independently owned, said Richard Karpel, the association's executive director.
		He said the only thing that could threaten the voice of alternative newspapers would be if they were bought up by a corporate giant.
	www.freedomforum.org /templates/document.asp?documentID=17094 (665 words)

	70 Free, Alternative and Independent Online News Sources - Robin Good's Latest News
		As a nationwide consortium of policy researchers, the Institute for Public Accuracy seeks to broaden public discourse by gaining media access for those whose perspectives are commonly drowned out by corporate-backed think tanks and other influential institutions.
		This is a Jerusalem-based site which is able to bring alternative and very up-to-date news to the public often before the mainstream news is able to.
		Alternative news site for cover-ups, behind the scenes info and other alternative views on major issues.
	www.masternewmedia.org /2001/12/31/70_free_alternative_and_independent_online_news_sources.htm (1983 words)

	Alternative Press & Media, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Resource Guide
		The Alternative Press Center (APC) is a non-profit collective dedicated to providing access to and increasing public awareness of the alternative press.
		The trade organization for alternative newspapers in North America, AAN is a diverse group of 119 non-daily publications, most of which are free-circulation papers.
		AlterNet.org sees itself as an "alternative to the corporate conglomerates that dominate the media marketplace." From the Independent Media Institute.
	www.carnegielibrary.org /subject/media/alt.html (663 words)

	World-Wide Web Resources - V.A.M.P. (Alphabetical Listing)
		Alternative Press Index, one of the oldest self-sustaining alternative media institutions in the U.S. Alternative Resources on the U.S. "War Against Terrorism", from International Responsibilities Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association.
		Alternatives, alternative views in international relations, politics, and Third World study.
		Association Of Alternative Newsweeklies, a coordinating and administrative organization for 113 alternative newsweeklies in the U.S. and Canada.
	www.uky.edu /Libraries/vamp.html (4123 words)

	The Critics: Alternative Papers - CJR, March/April 2000
		Of the 119 papers that are members of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, "probably half" have full-time media writers, says Patricia Calhoun, the president of AAN and the editor of Westword, the New Times paper in Denver.
		Most of the alternatives seek to do more than just critically review their local dailies or print the gripes of staffers.
		For all their differences, the media critics at the alternatives are strikingly similar in some surprising ways.
	archives.cjr.org /year/00/2/alternative.asp (1272 words)

	Newspapers Alternative News
		Kids tricking you with noise and newspapers, well-dressed women sliding up next to you and you suspect nothing, until you find your billfold is missing.
		A seriously undermines his plan B of a straight buyout alternative, and is...
		The tactic of ignoring the Zioncon power bloc while building an alternative is a...
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/News/Alternative/Newspapers (497 words)

	News & Opinion: Needs More Color (Austin Chronicle . 12-01-97) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Titled "Color, Culture, and Compromise: An Unabashed Look at Racial Diversity in Alternative Newsweeklies," the report queried the 106 member papers of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) about the racial composition of their staffs and the effects that it has on their news coverage.
		"We're alternative papers who claim that what we stand up for is the voices of the city, the voices that aren't represented, and yet minority writers are underrepresented in AAN and alternative papers, as they are in lots of areas of publication."
		Since the alternative press does not have deep pockets, it's on the short end of the stick.
	weeklywire.com /ww/12-01-97/austin_pols_feature3.html (3101 words)

	Alternative Newsweeklies Go Global (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Amsterdam Weekly received support from the Chicago Reader, a major investor in the new publication and founding member of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.
		Amsterdam Weekly looks to fit the mold of a sleek, stylish urban weekly with critical stories on arts and culture in the Amsterdam region, reports Matt Pulle, writing for AAN News at http://aan.org.
		Since its founding in 1978, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies has grown to include 123 free-circulation weekly newspapers throughout North America.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-11-2004/0002126623&EDATE= (345 words)

	DOJ/Antitrust
		Since then, the popularity of alternative newsweeklies has increased dramatically, fueled by the typically "anti-establishment" perspective of these publications which emerged during the 1960's and 1970's.
		Their popularity with readers continues to be driven largely by a unique editorial mix of politics, investigative reporting, and entertainment issues, often presented with a somewhat controversial or highly opinionated slant, and all of which is focused on decidedly local issues.
		The local nature of these alternative newsweeklies, with their in-depth coverage of local happenings in the arts, music, politics, and entertainment fields, makes them particularly attractive to advertisers hoping to reach a young, educated, and urban audience in a cost-effective manner.
	www.usdoj.gov /atr/cases/f200700/200715.htm (4727 words)

	SFU Library - Alternative news sources
		This guide lists selected print and electronic information sources available to SFU faculty, students, and staff who are seeking an alternative perspective on topics and events.
		For the purposes of this guide, "alternative" means that which does not represent society's mainstream or dominant ideology.
		Alternative Press Index to find articles in a variety of alternative, radical, and left publications.
	www.lib.sfu.ca /researchhelp/subjectguides/cmns/alternative_media.htm (1697 words)

	Association of Alternative Newsweeklies :: Bill Clinton, Wesley Clark, Ted Conover and Susan McDougal to Headline ...
		As in years past, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies will hold the AltWeekly Awards Luncheon, as well as its annual membership meeting, in conjunction with the annual confab.
		Alternative newspapers need no schooling in the value of alternative sources, of course.
		As daily newspaper readership continues to deteriorate, as radio and television audiences become progressively more fragmented, as competition for the 18- to 39-year-old demographic soars in an already cluttered marketplace, alternative newsweeklies continue to engage young, active, educated and influential readers.
	sev.prnewswire.com /publishing-information-services/20060510/CLW52310052006-1.html (1351 words)

	Columbia News ::: Journalism Students' 9/11 Coverage Wins 2002 Alternative Newsweekly Award
		Columbia students win alternative newsweekly award for their submission to The Local Planet.
		Seventeen students from the Graduate School of Journalism's class of 2002 have won the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies' feature writing award for their coverage of 9/11 for The Local Planet, a weekly based in Spokane, Washington.
		Announced this year on May 31, the awards recognize journalism in alternative newsweeklies across the United States and Canada that is "well written, incisively reported and original, and that presents an effective challenge to established orthodoxies in a manner consistent with the mission of alternative newspaper journalism."
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/02/06/journalism_911_coverage.html (154 words)

	Welcome to the Best of New Orleans! Feature Story 03 25 03
		A native of Boston, Benjamin has enjoyed a career that has mirrored the growth of alternative newsweeklies as an industry -- and he has played a significant role in that growth.
		He soon found that his sensibilities were a natural fit with the alternative press.
		For Benjamin, another draw to Gambit is the opportunity to return to what he calls the heart of the alternative press: independent, locally owned media.
	www.bestofneworleans.com /dispatch/2003-03-25/feat.html (610 words)

	Alternative Newsweekly Award Winners Announced
		The awards, announced at the Association of Alternative Newsweekly annual convention, recognize superior journalism and graphic design among the 118 AAN member papers, which represent urban alternative newsweeklies across the United States and Canada.
		AAN is a not-for-profit organization representing the alternative newsweekly industry, which includes publications such as The Village Voice, Chicago Reader and LA Weekly.
		Headquartered in Washington, D.C., AAN represents 118 newsweeklies in the United States and Canada with combined total weekly circulation of more than 7.6 million and a reach of more than 20 million readers.
	www.writenews.com /2001/071301_alternative_newsweekly_awards.htm (414 words)

	AltWeeklies.com
		The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies does not hold the copyrights in any of the material on AltWeeklies.com that originates from one of its members.
		Any questions about the copyright status of an article or artwork should be directed to the contact person at the publication that posted the piece.
		The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies does not exert editorial control over the content of the articles that have been posted to the Web site.
	www.altweeklies.com /alternative/AltWeeklies/Page?oid=134721 (216 words)

	Alternative Newsweekly Award Winners Announced
		For the second consecutive year, Gambit Weekly of New Orleans led the pack in the Alternative Newsweekly Awards with four first-place awards, followed by LA Weekly with three firsts, and Independent Weekly, The Local Planet Weekly, and The Village Voice, each with two.
		The awards, announced at the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies annual convention, recognize superior journalism and graphic design among the 120 AAN member papers, which include alternative newsweeklies across the United States and Canada.
		In the second annual Alternative Newsweekly Award Cartoon competition, Garret Gaston won first place for his strip "La Petite Camera," among those cartoons that appear in five or fewer AAN papers.
	www.writenews.com /2002/060702_aan_awards.htm (475 words)

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