AAN News
AAN Hires New Assistant Editor
Amy Gill's primary responsibility will be the association's aan.org Web site. She comes to AAN from the Gulf Restoration Network, an environmental advocacy nonprofit where she had been the director of operations. She was also previously a staff writer at Impact News/Southern Voice, a New Orleans-based GLBT weekly.
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AAN Staff |
11-02-2005 11:38 am |
Association News
Jen Sorensen: Using Humor as a Political Tool
Jen Sorensen's comic strip, Slowpoke, has moved a bit away from social commentary in the past few years to be more political. Her ideas come from, among other places, progressive blogs. She describes here how she draws her cartoon, what inspires her and the creative process. This is the eighth in a "How I Got That Story" series highlighting the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners.
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Derek Schleelein |
10-27-2005 6:30 pm |
Association News
Nigel Jaquiss: Bringing Down an Esteemed Political Figure
The scoop Nigel Jaquiss got about political leader Neil Goldschmidt was one that would create a terrible stir in Oregon, if only he could nail it down. If he couldn't lay out sufficient proof, he risked destroying his paper, Willamette Week. Jaquiss describes the twists and turns that led to the publication of the stories that won him the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting, along with an AltWeekly Award. This is the seventh in a "How I Got That Story" series highlighting the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners.
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Wells Dunbar |
10-26-2005 1:44 pm |
Association News
AAN Statement Regarding Impact of the NT-VVM Merger on Membership Issues
10-25-2005 10:38 am |
Association News
Tags: Management
Renee Downing: Getting a Handle on a Scientific Mystery
An abnormally high number of children in Sierra Vista, Ariz., were getting leukemia, but government agencies had repeatedly declined to investigate the cause of the cancer cluster. Freelance writer Renee Downing stepped into the breach. In her article for Tucson Weekly, "Cancer Wars," she discusses two scientists' research exploring a possible environmental link as well as the politics surrounding the identification of a cancer cluster. This is the sixth in a "How I Got That Story" series highlighting the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners.
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Erika Beras |
10-23-2005 4:12 pm |
Association News
2005 AltWeekly Award Bios Now Available
AAN has made available the complete list of submitted biographies for winners and runners-up.
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10-21-2005 9:08 am |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
Susan Clark Armstrong: Getting the Goods on the Sheriff
Nobody seems to have questioned Clay County, Florida, Sheriff Scott Lancaster about his spending until Susan Clark Armstrong started nosing around his records. What were all those extra cars being used for? The airline tickets? The underwear? After Armstrong's story "Booty Call" appeared in Folio Weekly, an investigation ensued, and the sheriff lost in the Republican primary. This is the fifth in a "How I Got That Story" series highlighting the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners.
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Lindsay Kishter |
10-20-2005 3:48 pm |
Association News
Melissa Maerz: Doing It on the Road
When an interview extends over 10 days -- as it did for Melissa Maerz when she went on tour with Minnesota band Friends Like These -- it was important to set up the rules from the start. Whatever wasn't immediately declared off the record was on the record. The resulting account, published in City Pages, was unsparing in its portrayal of the band's disappointments as well as its hopes, offering a dose of on-the-road realism. This is the fourth in a "How I Got That Story" series highlighting the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners.
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Derek Schleelein |
10-19-2005 10:16 am |
Association News
'How I Got That Story'
AltWeekly Award Winners Reveal the Secrets of Their Trade
The winners of the 2005 AltWeekly Awards unveil the process they went through to create their first-place articles, photography, cartoons and design. The series sheds light on the work found in the book "Best AltWeekly Writing and Design 2005."
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Ruth Hammond |
10-14-2005 2:16 pm |
Association News
Tags: Design & Production, Editorial
Jennifer Loviglio: Finding a Voice
People who don't know Jennifer Loviglio's work sometimes say, "Oh, you write a 'mommy column.'" Far from it. Even when Loviglio is writing about her kids, her City Newspaper column, The XX Files, makes important political and cultural points. In between columns, she's always looking for an issue that will raise her hackles. This is the third in a "How I Got That Story" series highlighting the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners.
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Isaiah Thompson |
10-14-2005 1:05 pm |
Association News
Donna Ladd: Reporting Her Face Off in Mississippi
The editor-in-chief of the Jackson Free Press never intended to write the story that won her a 2005 AltWeekly Award for Feature Story. She'd assigned it to another writer. And then she ran into one of the subjects of the piece, they got to talking, and over the next six months she developed her heart-rending account of a family that suffered at the hands of a priest. This is the second in a "How I Got That Story" series highlighting the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners.
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Erika Beras |
10-13-2005 2:56 pm |
Association News
Nick Goodenough: In the Midst of a Jostling Crowd
One of the youngest winners of a 2005 AltWeekly Award is Nick Goodenough, whose column for Ventura County Reporter, "Nick at Night," took first place for photography in the small-paper division. In an interview with AAN intern Lindsay Kishter, Goodenough explains how he managed to take photos on packed dance floors without blurring his subjects or losing his grip on his camera. This is the first in a series titled "How I Got That Story" that will highlight the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners.
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Lindsay Kishter |
10-07-2005 1:44 pm |
Association News
AAN Makes Second Relief Payment as Gambit Fund Passes Six Figures
The association has collected over $106,000 in charitable contributions since the effort to raise money for Gambit Weekly employees was announced on Sept. 2. A second payment of $1,000 was wired yesterday to each of those employees, who were evacuated from their homes and left without jobs or income after Hurricane Katrina struck.
Most of the money raised has come from AAN-member papers and their employees, although contributions began to trickle in last week from readers as well.
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10-05-2005 6:57 pm |
Association News
AltWeeklies.com's September Traffic Surpasses 250,000
A 33 percent increase in the monthly traffic count enabled AAN's collaborative news site to pass the quarter-million mark in unique visitors. AltWeeklies.com traffic has increased exponentially since April, when the number of unique visitors was less than 10,000. Most of that growth has come from AAN members who run AltWeeklies.com teasers, which have also increased traffic on their own sites.
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Ruth Hammond |
10-03-2005 3:14 pm |
Association News
AltWeeklies.com Can Now Sort Stories for Relevance
Ruth Hammond |
09-26-2005 6:33 pm |
Association News
