AAN News
Philadelphia City Paper Wins State Press Awardnew
The alt-weekly was named the 2007 Non-Daily Newspaper of the Year by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association. City Paper also took home first place awards in General & Departmental News Coverage and Diversity, where it finished in a tie with Philadelphia Weekly.
Pennsylvania Newspaper Association |
10-23-2007 10:14 am |
Honors & Achievements
Alt-Weeklies Grab a Handful of Utne Independent Press Nominations
Utne Reader has announced the finalists for its 2007 Independent Press Awards, which honor the very best in independent media from the pool of more than 1,300 sources Utne uses to cull its content. Louisiana's Independent Weekly and Denver's Westword are nominated for Local/Regional Coverage; The Texas Observer and The Village Voice are nominated for In-Depth/Investigative Coverage; and L.A. Weekly is nominated for Best Writing. Winners will be announced in early 2008.
AAN News |
10-18-2007 5:24 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Editorial, Management
Columbia Free Times Celebrates 20th Anniversarynew
"It's a testament to the unending dedication of [founding publisher] Amy Singmaster that she continued to take on such tasks as delivery and small-time sales some seven years into the paper's existence," writes editor Dan Cook. "But it also speaks to how long it actually took for Free Times to reach a solid footing." Like many AAN papers, the Columbia, S.C., alt-weekly began its life as a biweekly in 1987, and has only grown since then. In 2004, the paper was bought by Portico Publications, which also owns C-Ville Weekly and Metro Spirit. "Twenty years into its history, Free Times is stronger than it’s ever been, now publishing larger issues and more of them -- 40,000 copies -- than it ever has," Cook writes.
Columbia Free Times |
10-11-2007 9:05 am |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Management, Columbia Free Times
Miami New Times Wins State Press Awardnew
Josh Schonwald took home a first-place award in the Florida Press Club Excellence In Journalism Contest's "light feature writing" category. Winners will be honored at an Oct. 20 reception.
Florida Press Club |
10-02-2007 10:38 am |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Editorial, Miami New Times
Alt-Weeklies Win Three Regional SPJ Awardsnew
The San Francisco Bay Guardian's G.W. Schulz won "the coveted Public Service award" for his coverage of MediaNews Group's purchase of nearly all Bay Area daily newspapers. SPJ's panel of judges noted that the Bay Guardian "demonstrated by example the value of diversity in news media ownership." Eliza Strickland's examination of questionable practices at an expensive cooking school and how California has failed to regulate for-profit schools for SF Weekly won for investigative reporting, while East Bay Express' Kara Platoni took home the award for feature writing for her piece on gun violence and gun availability. The Society of Professional Journalists' Northern California Chapter will honor the winners at a Nov. 8 dinner.
Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California Chapter |
09-25-2007 8:16 am |
Honors & Achievements
Westword Editor Inducted into Denver Press Club Hall of Famenew
"Patty Calhoun is the co-founder and editor of Westword and probably has a greater knowledge of metro Denver than any other living journalist," the Denver Post writes. She was inducted into the Hall with four others on Friday evening. Calhoun, who was a founding member of AAN and served as its president in 1999-2000, currently chairs the association's editorial committee.
The Denver Post |
09-24-2007 8:06 am |
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Seven Days Takes Home a Handful of State Press Awardsnew
The Vermont Press Association awarded the alt-weekly first place in its General Excellence (non-daily newspapers) category, The Barre Montepelier Times-Argus reports. Seven Days won five additional awards, with a one-two-three sweep of the Arts Criticism (daily and non-daily) category, and a second place finish in both the Feature Writing (non-daily) and Photo Feature (non daily) categories. Winners were announced at a luncheon yesterday.
The Barre Montepelier Times-Argus |
09-21-2007 8:18 am |
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Gustavo Arellano Honored by National Hispanic Media Coalitionnew
The group, which works to "improve the image of American Latinos as portrayed by the media," presented the OC Weekly writer and "Ask a Mexican!" columnist with an Impact Award for Excellence in Print Journalism. Awards were presented at a luncheon last Thursday.
OC Weekly |
09-17-2007 7:46 am |
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Houston Press Writer Wins Clarion Award for 2nd Year in a Rownew
Todd Spivak's "Run Over by Metro" took first place in Clarion Awards' Newspaper Feature Story category, the same category in which he finished first last year. Both men and women are eligible for the Clarion Awards, which are presented by The Association for Women in Communications.
The Association for Women in Communications |
09-05-2007 11:11 am |
Honors & Achievements
Alt-Weeklies Take Home A Handful of Food Journalism Awardsnew
When the Association of Food Journalists announced the winners of their 2007 Awards this weekend, AAN members came out on top in three categories. Willamette Week's Zach Dundas took first in Newspaper Food Feature (under 150,000 circulation) for "Bean Town;" Blair Campbell's "Wineau" column in East Bay Express was named Best Newspaper Food Column; and Gail Shepherd of New Times Broward-Palm Beach won first in Newspaper Restaurant Criticism. Creative Loafing (Atlanta)'s Besha Rodell took home two third-place awards, in Newspaper Food Feature and Newspaper Restaurant Criticism; and Malcolm Gay from the Riverfront Times took third in Newspaper Food Column.
Association of Food Journalists (pdf file) |
08-27-2007 9:22 am |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Editorial, Management
Charleston City Paper Turns 10new
"Our early years were fun and full of possibility, but man, were they lean and mean," founding editor Stephanie Barna writes in an editor's note introducing the paper's anniversary issue. "We moved here in the middle of the summer from other cities, confident that we could figure out Charleston fast enough to put out an informed and relevant newspaper," she writes. "We relied on our previous experience in the alt-weekly world to establish a newspaper that reflected the city, not so much the people who put it together."
Charleston City Paper |
08-22-2007 11:27 am |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Management, Charleston City Paper
San Diego CityBeat Turns 5new
"I can't lie to you -- this business is a struggle," CityBeat editor Dave Rolland writes. "Whereas we're dying to get into the neighborhood of 72 to 80 pages each week, we're still slogging along at 48 or 52." Looking back on the reasons behind the paper's Aug. 21, 2002, launch, Rolland writes: "There was no publication that represented the city's politically progressive population, no publication that focused on street-level arts and culture and no publication that told stories with lively, conversational flair. It's in these three areas that I believe CityBeat has done its job particularly well."
San Diego CityBeat |
08-15-2007 10:38 am |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Management, San Diego CityBeat
Baltimore City Paper Celebrates 30th Anniversarynew
In 1977, Johns Hopkins University graduates Russ Smith (who later founded New York Press) and Alan Hirsch launched the first issue of City Squeeze. "Despite the dreadful name (soon changed to its current handle) and shoestring origins, it quickly established itself as the house organ of Baltimore's demimonde as well as a feisty elbow-thrower in the local media scrum," says current editor Lee Gardner in this week’s cover intro. The issue features several stories from the archives, including a 1979 examination of Charm City's political bosses by Black Hawk Down author Mark Bowden, a 1984 interview with child molester Arthur Goode by Hairspray filmmaker John Waters, and a selection of photography by long-time contributor Jennifer Bishop. Online readers can also check out the first year of City Squeeze issues in a PDF gallery. "As for the future of City Paper, well, there’s another issue to get out next week, and another the week after that, and I believe that the paper offers something distinctive enough that the demand for it will endure for weeks and weeks and weeks to come," writes Gardner.
Baltimore City Paper |
08-02-2007 1:53 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Baltimore City Paper
Baltimore City Paper Celebrates 30 Years
Started as City Squeeze by Russ Smith and Alan Hirsch in 1977, the alt-weekly has "evolved from monthly to bi-weekly to weekly, switched back and forth between free distribution and paid distribution before finally settling on free distribution as it is today," according to a press release. A special 30th anniversary issue will hit the streets of Baltimore Aug. 1.
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Baltimore City Paper Press Release |
07-24-2007 7:41 am |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Management, Baltimore City Paper
Two Alt-Weekly Cartoonists Compete in 'Science Idol' Contestnew
A strip each of Matt Bors' "Idiot Box" and Jen Sorenson's "Slowpoke" are among the 12 finalists in The Union of Concerned Scientists' competition rewarding "creative takes on the issue of political interference in science." Voting for "Science Idol: the Scientific Integrity Editorial Cartoon Contest" closes July 23.
Union of Concerned Scientists |
07-20-2007 11:43 am |
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