AAN News
Independent Weekly's Assoc. Publisher Honored by Restaurant Assn.new
Odie Terry was among the winners named at Monday's awards dinner for the Acadiana Chapter of the Louisiana Restaurant Association, taking home the 2008 Associate Member of the Year award.
The Independent Weekly |
10-22-2009 9:15 am |
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Dallas Observer's Live-Blogging Wins Local Bar Association Awardnew
The Dallas Bar Association honors the best legal news reporting in the Dallas-Fort Worth area with its annual Stephen Philbin Awards; this year the Dallas Observer's Jim Schutze and Robert Wilonsky took home an award in the new category of Electronic Media News/Feature Article for their live-blogging of a City Hall corruption trial, which the association says "gave readers a play-by-play account of each day's courtroom activities."
Dallas Bar Association (PDF file) |
10-14-2009 11:48 am |
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Oklahoma Gazette Celebrates 30th Birthdaynew
"What began as an upstart, 2,000-circulation bimonthly publication with roots in historic preservation has grown into the largest weekly in Oklahoma," editor Rob Collins writes. "To celebrate its first three decades, Gazette contacted former editors, writers and contributors to share their memories and unique experiences." Collins says publisher Bill Bleakley founded the paper as a "journal of contributions to Oklahoma's quality of life." MORE: Joe Wertz looks at the paper's future.
Oklahoma Gazette |
10-14-2009 10:08 am |
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Tags: Management, Oklahoma Gazette
Once Again, Alt-Weeklies Fare Well in Food Journalists' Awardsnew
The Association of Food Journalists last week named the winners of its 2009 Awards Competition at a banquet in New Orleans. Seattle Weekly's Jonathan Kauffman won first place for Best Newspaper Restaurant Criticism and Creative Loafing (Atlanta)'s Besha Rodell took home first for Best Newspaper Food Feature. (Riverfront Times' Kristen Hinman took third in that category.) Kauffman's victory marks the fourth year in a row that a Village Voice Media paper has won the Best Newspaper Restaurant Criticism category.
The Association of Food Journalists (PDF file) |
10-13-2009 8:54 am |
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Ohio Alt-Weeklies Take Home 14 State Press Awardsnew
The Ohio Society of Professional Journalists Awards have announced the winners of its 2009 awards contest. The Cleveland Scene won seven total awards, finishing first for Arts Profile, Media Criticsm, Newsmaker Profile, Public Service Journalism and Rock and Roll Feature Reporting. The Cleveland Free Times, which was merged with the Scene in July 2008, took home two awards, including a first-place win for Consumer Reporting, and The Other Paper of Columbus won five awards.
Ohio Society of Professional Journalists (PDF file) |
10-08-2009 9:21 am |
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Three AAN Members Win Northern California SPJ Awardsnew
The Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists announced the winners of its 2009 Excellence in Journalism Awards last week, and three alt-weeklies took home honors. The SF Weekly's Joe Eskenazi won the Explanatory Journalism (print, non-daily) award for "Service with a Snarl," a piece that "examines, with clarity and humor, the laws around the use of service animals in San Francisco." Kathleen Richards of the East Bay Express won the Investigative Journalism (print, non-daily) award for "Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0," which the judges say is "a strong example of consumer-affairs reporting." And the staff of the North Coast Journal won the Student Special Project award for "Meltdown," a project the paper undertook with students from Humboldt State University's Investigative Reporting Class.
The Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists |
09-28-2009 1:29 pm |
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Nevada Alt-Weeklies Win Big in State Press Contestnew
Las Vegas CityLife, Las Vegas Weekly and the Reno News & Review took home a total of 74 awards at the annual Better Newspaper Contest put on by the Nevada Press Association. CityLife won 34 awards, with 16 first-place finishes; the News & Review won 28 awards, including 11 firsts; and the Weekly won 12 awards, four of which were first-place.
Nevada Press Association |
09-25-2009 9:42 am |
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Mikhaela Reid Elected VP of Editorial Cartoonists' Associationnew
Reid, whose "The Boiling Point" comic appears in Metro Times and other AAN member papers, has been elected Vice President of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) Board of Directors. Ted Rall, who was elected president last year, will move into the Immediate Past President role, while V.C. Rogers, the cartoonist at North Carolina's Independent Weekly, remains the group's Secretary-Treasurer.
American Association of Editorial Cartoonists |
09-23-2009 1:01 pm |
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Tags: Design & Production
C-Ville Weekly Celebrates 20th Anniversarynew
The Charlottesville, Va., alt-weekly is marking the occasion by taking a look back at some of the memorable moments since the paper launched in 1989. The staff has compiled some of the hits and misses, while co-founder Bill Chapman takes a walk down memory lane in this video tour of the eight buildings that have called C-Ville home over the last 20 years.
C-Ville Weekly |
09-23-2009 12:23 pm |
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Tags: Management, C-Ville Weekly
Two Florida Alts Nab 16 State Press Awardsnew
Miami New Times and New Times Broward-Palm Beach each won eight total awards in the Florida Press Club's 2009 Excellence in Journalism contest. Miami took home first-place honors in the General News, Light Feature Writing, Minority News and Religion Writing categories, while Broward placed first in the Blog Writing, Criticism, Health Writing and Sports Feature Writing categories. However, blog winner Bob Norman points out that the press club put all of the alt-weeklies' nonblog entries in Class D, the lowest category in the contest. "The last time they did this a few years ago, we refused to accept our awards (yeah, we're arrogant like that)," Norman writes. "Now they've gone off and done it again. We've been judged over the years in Category A, where we belong, all the way down to D. It's an issue that needs to be ironed out beforehand."
Florida Press Club |
09-21-2009 9:15 am |
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Handful of Alt-Weekly Pieces End Up in 'Best Food Writing 2009'
AAN News has just received a copy of Da Capo's Best Food Writing 2009, and it is chock full of alt-weekly talent. Included in the collection are stories from City Pages' Rachel Hutton ("Spam: It's Not Just for Inboxes Anymore"), New Times Broward-Palm Beach's John Linn ("Highway to Hog Heaven"), SF Weekly's Peter Jamison ("Out of the Wild"), The Stranger's Bethany Jean Clement ("The Beauty of the Beast"), Washington City Paper's Tim Carman ("How Not to Hire a Chef"), and Westword's Jason Sheehan ("The Last of the Great $10 Steaks"). The book also includes a selection from Houston Press food writer Robb Walsh's book on oysters, and is slated to be released this fall.
AAN News |
09-02-2009 4:54 pm |
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Mountain XPress Celebrates 15th Anniversary
After running the monthly "activist publication" Green Line for seven years, Jeff Fobes launched Mountain XPress on Aug. 10, 1994. The Asheville, N.C., weekly takes a look back with a special issue featuring a timeline of milestones and commentaries from ad director James Fisher and Fobes, who discusses -- among other things -- the shift from monthly to weekly. "[It] was an astonishing experience. The pace picked up fourfold, and it never let up," he writes. "Our tiny staff lived and breathed the audacity of the effort, working for paltry pay (though we had, thankfully, closed the multiyear chapter of working for no pay)."
AAN News |
08-19-2009 8:53 am |
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UPDATE: Houston Press Contributor Also Named Annenberg/Getty Fellownew
Yesterday, we noted that L.A. Weekly music editor Randall Roberts had been named one of the six journalists to receive a 2009 USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship. However, we neglected to note that Houston Press contributor Kelly Klaasmeyer will also be in the 2009 class of fellows when the three-week program begins this November. We apologize for the omission.
USC Annenberg School for Communication |
08-14-2009 2:48 pm |
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L.A. Weekly Editor Tapped for Arts Journalism Fellowshipnew
Music editor Randall Roberts has been named one of six journalists to receive a 2009 USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship. "This year the Fellowship will focus on the visual arts and architecture of Los Angeles, with attention paid to the challenges confronting journalists working in the digital-media era," according to a press release. The three-week program begins in November.
USC Annenberg School for Communication |
08-13-2009 8:24 am |
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Metroland Contributor's Play Hits NY Fringe Festivalnew
Byron Nilsson, who reviews restaurants and writes about music and theater for the Albany alt-weekly, will premiere Mr. Sensitivity during the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival opening this weekend. Nilsson tells The Ridgefield Press that the play, which is a comedy about a man who gives his wife an hour with a porn star for her birthday, "combines the antic humor of a Neil Simon play with potty-mouthed drollery too crude even for David Mamet."
The Ridgefield Press |
08-12-2009 8:58 am |
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