June member news

Here is a roundup of things going on in the NASNA community the past month.  Seems like it is a popular time to redesign websites and newspaper layouts.

Street Roots: Joanne Zuhl, managing editor of Street Roots attended the INSP conference and she shared her experiences in a recent story.  Street Roots was also the recipient of 3 first place awards at the recent local Society of Professional Journalists awards event.  Congratulations!

Real Change News: Real Change completed a contentious move on May 24 and are now firmly in their new offices in the neighborhood of Pioneer Square in Seattle.  The Real Change staff also recently earned four awards in the 2009 regional contest of the Society of Professional Journalists.

StreetWise: This past school semester StreetWise partnered with journalism students from the Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism.  And this week StreetWise vendors are selling the magazine with a redesigned look.  They have also designed a new website for the the organization.
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Street Sense: Street Sense is currently conducting a reader survey and will host their 3rd annual summer fundraiser: The David Pike Excellence in Journalism Awards.  The event honors the late David Pike who was a former Street Sense board member.

Street Sights: From the looks, it seems like Street Sights has slightly redesigned their logo and updated the look of their website.

Spare Change News: Welcome to the club of recently redesigned papers. (old first, new second)

Street Speech: The board just approved a trial run of printing 2 issues a month in July and August.  With the recent growth in circulation they hope to capitalize on community support and increase their vendor’s earnings.

Streetvibes: Greg Flannery, editor at Streetvibes, attended the INSP conference in May and shared his experiences in the latest issue of Streetvibes.

Toledo Streets:  Amanda has taken to social media to keep her community up to date on how they can help after tornadoes ripped through northwestern Ohio.

The Contributor: Again the folks in Nashville have jumped on the redesign band wagon and produced a great new website.  They have also stayed busy working to help their vendors affected by the recent floods.

Megaphone Magazine: Megaphone got some recent press in the Vancouver Courier that resulted in a donor stepping up and covering the cost of the vendor writing program to the tune of $5,000 after reading the news article.

Denver Voice: Also currently in the process of the 2010 Reader survey and had their first big fundraiser in mid-May, a concert/comedy show that brought in almost $10,000.  Also some positive press about their Boulder distribution project in the Daily Camera.

Street Pulse: Street Pulse will have the most delegates at the conference with 8 folks making the drive down from Madison.

Oregon Vagabond: Became the newest street paper member on Wednesday June 9.  The paper is located in Eugene, Oregon.

Homeless Image: St. Petersburg’s street paper is still working to get their vendor program up and running, but was accepted as an associate member by the board at their last meeting.  They face an uphill battle with pending legislation looking to outlaw sidewalk sales of newspapers in St. Pete.

One Step Away: Circulation of our newest member (since Dec 09) continues to rise and is hovering around 7,000 a month.  They have seen many individual vendor successes recently, including one vendor who saved his money from selling the paper to send his daughter to prom.