AAN News
Columnists Cover Media's Dark Underbelly and Successes, Too
Someone's got to keep an eye on the Fourth Estate. Media columnists at AAN papers, like The Village Voice's Cynthia Cotts and Westword's Michael Roberts, tackle the challenge of covering the local journalism scene without coming across as too tedious or self-absorbed. John Dicker reports for AAN News on several columnists who make meaty stories of plagiarism scandals, stiffed freelancers and toppled editors.
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John Dicker |
06-09-2004 12:04 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
AAN Editors Think Local in Adding Content
Rather than just deliver the same old reliable features and columns every week, editors of AAN papers look for ways to tweak their content, thus attracting new readers and re-engaging the faithful. But there's no sense rounding up a focus group to predict what new ingredients will work when freelancers, staff and the guy on the next barstool are all eager to give their advice. John Dicker interviews editors of four weeklies who messed with the mix to get happy results.
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John Dicker |
03-04-2004 7:27 pm |
Industry News
Neal Pollack Tosses Smarties to Award Winners
Promising not to try to top last year's
"bacchanalian romp" with Dan Savage
("Dan Savage is dead!"), Neal Pollack
presents the eighth annual
Alternative Newsweekly Awards with dry
wit and wild pitches.
(FULL STORY)
John Dicker |
06-07-2003 9:37 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
AAN's War: Home Front Coverage
AAN papers pushed against ambivalence about both the Iraq war and how to cover it in recent months, producing the localized, alternative voice on the war that is the industry's hallmark. Yet, many editors tell AAN News' John Dicker that even making the obligatory anti-war protest pieces interesting was a battle. "The challenge for our papers is what a long bridge we have to build to write with any intelligence about Islamic communities, Iraqi refugees and the like without sounding like really distant observers," Willamette Week Editor Mark Zusman says.
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John Dicker |
05-02-2003 9:11 am |
Industry News
Reporter Ordered to Surrender His Notebook
John Dicker, staff writer for the
Colorado Springs Independent,
describes how he physically
defended the First Amendment
against the combined might of the
Colorado Springs human resources
department after a rookie staffer turned
over a police detective unexpurgated file.
"I did consider bowling her over, but
this woman was big, more
linebacker than power forward," Dicker
writes for AAN News. "Call me an effete
East Coast twit, but I just couldn't manage
it."
(FULL STORY)
John Dicker |
11-25-2002 10:51 am |
Industry News
