AAN News
The Pitch Wins 12 Local Press Club Awardsnew
The Kansas City alt-weekly's haul in the 2009 Heart of America awards included first-place finishes for Blog and Entertainment writing (The Pitch swept the latter category). In addition, editor C.J. Janovy was named "Member of the Year" for her "several years" of service as chair of the awards committee. The awards were given out by the Kansas City Press Club, a local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Kansas City Press Club |
06-15-2009 8:12 am |
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City Ethics Commission Gives Folio Weekly Contributor Kudosnew
Marvin Edwards, a longtime contributor to the Jacksonville alt-weekly, recently received a commendation from the city's Ethics Commission for exposing the city's failure to respond to public-records requests. The 87-year-old writer went to great lengths to obtain public records from the city -- an effort that required hiring a law firm -- in his push to expose the true cost to the city of hosting the 2005 Super Bowl. Ultimately, the chief deputy in Jacksonville's General Counsel Office acknowledged the city "dropped the ball" and should have responded faster and more appropriately. "It shouldn't have taken that kind of effort to obtain the records or get the story," the Florida Times-Union editorializes. "Because of what Edwards did, perhaps it won't be as hard for the public or the media in the future."
The Florida Times-Union |
06-11-2009 9:30 am |
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Long Island Press Fares Well in Regional SPJ Awardsnew
When the Press Club of Long Island, the local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, announced the winners of its 2009 Media Awards contest at its annual awards dinner Thursday night, Long Island's only alt-weekly came away with a total of 17 awards. The Press won two "all media" awards -- Brad Pareso was named Cub Reporter of the Year, and the paper was named a co-winner (with Newsday) of the Robert Greene Public Service Award for a story on heroin use in the area. (That story is also up for a Public Service AltWeekly Award.) In competition with other weeklies, the Press won first-place awards in the following categories: Arts, Business/Economic/Financial, Deadline News, Feature, Government/Politics, and Non-Deadline News.
Press Club of Long Island |
06-05-2009 10:01 am |
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Phoenix New Times Scribe Wins Livingston Awardnew
John Dickerson has been named the 2008 Livingston Award winner for local reporting for "The Doctor is Out," a three-part series on medical standards and regulation in Arizona. The Livingstons are limited to journalists under the age of 35 and are the largest all-media, general-reporting prizes in the country. This marks the second year in a row that an alt-weekly has won the award, which comes with a $10,000 prize. Dickerson's series is also an AltWeekly Award finalist in the investigative reporting category.
Livingston Awards |
06-04-2009 8:46 am |
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Bay Area Alts Win Regional Awardsnew
Two alt-weeklies took home awards in the East Bay Press Club's 2008 Excellence in Print Journalism Contest. The East Bay Express won a total of five awards, with first-place finishes for Best Analysis, Best Opinion Piece and Lifestyle Feature. SF Weekly also took home one of the press club's awards, which were announced at a reception on Friday.
East Bay Express |
06-03-2009 8:47 am |
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AAN Members Pick Up Dozens of SPJ Awards in Pacific Northwestnew
Five alt-weeklies won a number of awards in the Oregon and Southwest Washington chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists' 2008 Excellence in Journalism Awards. Among non-daily newspapers in Oregon, Willamette Week took home 10 first-place awards, while Eugene Weekly took home one. Among alt-weeklies in the Northwest region, WW won six first-place awards; Seattle Weekly won four; the Missoula Independent won two; and the Pacific Northwest Inlander won one.
Society of Professional Journalists, Oregon and Southwest Washington Chapter |
06-01-2009 8:27 am |
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Alt-Weeklies Make it into 'Best Music Writing 2009'new
James Parker's essay in the Boston Phoenix -- "Unauthorized! Axl Rose, Albert Goldman, and the renegade art of rock biography" -- has been selected for the annual book that the Phoenix says has "become, next to free Radiohead tickets, the rock critic's highest professional honor." Rebecca Schoenkopf's piece on Hall & Oates for the now-defunct LA CityBeat is also included in the book, which won't be out until October.
Boston Phoenix |
05-28-2009 9:05 am |
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The Coast Story Wins National Award, Leads to Actionnew
A story written by Matt Aikins about suicides off of Halifax's Macdonald Bridge has been named the best investigative piece by the Canadian Association of Journalists. The piece, "Adam's Fall," also recently won a gold Atlantic Journalism Award for enterprise reporting. Perhaps more importantly, the Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge Commission has decided to reverse course and install suicide barriers along the entire length of the bridge, though the commission denies that the Coast's story had any influence on its decision.
Canadian Association of Journalists |
05-27-2009 8:51 am |
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Willamette Week Webmaster Invited to Prestigious TED Conferencenew
WW's new, MIT-grad webmaster Seth Raphael leads a double life as a technologically savvy magician, MagicSeth, who performs "tricks involving telepathic Google searches and psychic digital cameras." It is in that capacity that he's been selected as one of 25 fellows for 2009 TED Global, which will be held this summer in Oxford. Raphael will give a three-minute presentation to the invitation-only crowd, which is slated to include speakers like Naomi Klein and black-hole specialist Andrea Ghez. "I've never been nervous before," he says. "I get on stage in front of hundreds of people. I applied to MIT. I wing everything. But this made me nervous."
Willamette Week |
05-26-2009 3:04 pm |
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Metro Pulse Picks Up East Tennessee SPJ Chapter Awardsnew
The Knoxville alt-weekly was given 10 Golden Press Card Awards from the East Tennessee Society for Professional Journalists last week. Of those, six were first-place awards, for Feature Writing, Investigative Reporting, Personal Columns, Reviews/Criticism, Series/Package/Project Writing and Sports Reporting.
Metro Pulse |
05-22-2009 10:35 am |
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Arizona Alt-Weeklies Win Big in State Press Contestnew
Between them, Phoenix New Times and the Tucson Weekly won 26 excellence in journalism awards in the Arizona Press Club's annual contest. New Times took home 19 awards, including first-place wins for Arts Writing or Criticism; Blogging; Children, Families and Seniors Issues Reporting; Features Column Writing; Growth and Development Reporting; Public Safety Reporting; and Sports Enterprise Reporting. The Weekly won seven awards, including a first-place finish in the Film, Video and Television Writing or Criticism category.
The Arizona Press Club |
05-22-2009 8:05 am |
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Fast Forward Weekly Wins National Journalism Awardnew
On May 21, the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Better Newspapers Competition honored a team from Fast Forward with a best series award for "The Future of the Oilsands." This is the second consecutive year the paper has received the award.
Fast Forward Weekly |
05-21-2009 2:33 pm |
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Two Florida Alt-Weeklies Finalists in SPJ's Green Eyeshades Contestnew
Miami New Times and New Times Broward-Palm Beach have a handful of contenders in the Society of Professional Journalists' 59th annual Green Eyeshade Awards. Miami New Times has five finalists, and Broward-Palm Beach has three, in a variety of categories, from Public Service to Sports Commentary. The Green Eyeshade Awards is a regional journalism competition covering Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia. Winners will be announced this summer.
Society of Professional Journalists via Media of Birmingham |
05-20-2009 8:30 am |
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City Pages Nabs 27 State SPJ Awardsnew
The Twin Cities alt-weekly did well on Thursday night, when the Minnesota chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists held their annual Page One Awards banquet to honor the best journalism in the state. City Pages took home 27 awards, including 15 first-place honors. The impressive showing led MinnPost.com media critic David Brauer to wonder if City Pages might be the best newspaper in Minnesota.
City Pages |
05-18-2009 8:04 am |
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Pasadena Weekly Editor Gets Annenberg Fellowshipnew
Deputy editor Joe Piasecki was chosen last month for the Annenberg Fellowship at the University of Southern California, which requires two semesters of study in USC's graduate-level Specialized Journalism program and includes a $20,000 stipend. In addition, a number of Pasadena Weekly writers, along with scribes from sister papers LA CityBeat and Ventura County Weekly, have been been nominated for the Los Angeles Press Club's 51st Annual Southern California Journalism Awards. L.A. Weekly and OC Weekly also have a large number of nominees in the awards contest.
Pasadena Weekly | L.A. Weekly |
05-18-2009 7:58 am |
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