AAN News
New York Press Association: Metroland Editor is 'Writer of the Year'new
Chet Hardin's topics "are provocative, contemporary and often important," judges for the Association's annual Better Newspaper Contest say. "It is hard to distinguish his hard news stories from features, and that's a great compliment," they write. AAN members were well-represented in the rest of the contest as well. Metroland won one additional first-place and one third-place award; the Ithaca Times received one first-place and one second-place as well as three third-place awards; and Syracuse New Times took home four first-place and two second-place awards.
New York Press Association (PDF file) |
04-05-2007 11:29 am |
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Westword Editor Heading to Denver Press Club Hall of Famenew
Patricia Calhoun will be inducted to the Hall of Fame at a Sept. 21 banquet, the Denver Post reports. Calhoun, who served as AAN President in 1999-2000, currently chair's the association's editorial committee.
The Denver Post (Fifth item) |
04-04-2007 9:10 am |
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Boulder Weekly Editor Up for Prestigious Fiction Award
Pamela Clare's 2006 novel Surrender is a finalist for the Romance Writers of America's RITA Award in the Long Historical Romance category. Clare, better known to AAN members as Pamela White, has published six romance novels since she started writing them three years ago. Surrender is part of a historical trilogy set in pre-Revolutionary Colonial upstate New York during the French and Indian War. Final RITA winners will be announced in July.
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Romance Writers of America Press Release |
04-04-2007 8:20 am |
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Style Weekly Wins Virginia Press Association Awardsnew
The Richmond, Va., alt-weekly took home a total of 10 first-place VPA awards, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports. Writer Brandon Walters and photographer Scott Elmquist each placed first in three categories; Elmquist and art director Jeffrey Bland shared one first place finish; Melissa Scott Sinclair and Scott Bass each grabbed one award for writing; and one went to the entire staff. Another Virginia AAN member, Port Folio Weekly, won two third-place VPA awards. UPDATE: We've been told that in addition to the 10 first-place awards, Style Weekly also won two Best-in-Show VPA awards, which are elected from all first-place winners in a newspaper's division. Photographer Scott Elmquist also recently took home another first-place award, from the Virginia News Photographers Association.
Richmond Times-Dispatch |
03-29-2007 12:45 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Management, Style Weekly
Houston Press Reporter Wins IRE Awardnew
All the finalists in the "Newspapers: Local Circulation Weeklies" category were AAN members, but Todd Spivak came out on top for "Run Over By Metro." The prestigious awards, given by Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc., recognize the most outstanding watchdog journalism of the year. Judges said Spivak's "compelling and vivid narrative writing gives extraordinary power to the victims' stories and fuels the outrage over the agency's misconduct." The other finalists were Sarah Fenske of Phoenix New Times (for "Cracked Houses"), Dan Frosch of the Santa Fe Reporter (for "The Wexford Files"), and Matthew Fleischer of LA Weekly (for "Navahoax").
Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. |
03-27-2007 9:12 am |
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Isthmus Wins Milwaukee Press Club Awardsnew
Nathan Comp took home a first-place award for Feature Writing in the Club's annual Excellence in Journalism contest, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. The Madison alt-weekly's website received two second-place awards in the contest.
Wisconsin State Journal |
03-26-2007 8:29 am |
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Five Alt-Weeklies Up for Food-Writing Awardsnew
The Cleveland Scene, City Pages, Creative Loafing (Atlanta), New Times Broward-Palm Beach, and Westword secured six nominations in four categories in the 2007 James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards, which were announced today. The winners will be unveiled on May 6.
James Beard Foundation (PDF file) |
03-19-2007 2:08 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Editorial, Management
Style Weekly Wins AIGA Design Awardsnew
The Richmond, Va., alt-weekly won two Awards of Merit from the Grade 2007 awards, sponsored by the Richmond chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). Led by Art Director Jeffrey Bland, Style Weekly received kudos for "24 Reasons to Love Richmond" and "Original Tales."
Richmond Times-Dispatch |
03-09-2007 8:23 am |
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Alt-Weeklies Take Home Five National Awards for Education Reportingnew
AAN members are well-represented in the 2006 awards given out by the Education Writers Association, with a near-sweep of "Feature, News Feature or Issue Package" for papers under 100,000 circulation. In that category, Todd Spivak of the Houston Press took home First Place for "Cut Short," while Special Citations were awarded to Willamette Week's Beth Slovic for "Illegal Scholar," the Houston Press' Margaret Downing for "Opt In, Opt Out," and New Times Broward-Palm Beach's Kelly Cramer for "FCAT Scratch Fever." Kristen Hinman of Riverfront Times received a First Place award in the "Investigative Reporting" category for her Vashon High School Series.
Education Writers Association Press Release |
03-02-2007 1:04 pm |
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Texas Alt-Weekly Contributor Honored by Fellow Book Criticsnew
Steven G. Kellman, a contributor to the Texas Observer and San Antonio Current and professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, was named the winner yesterday of the National Book Critics Circle's (NBCC) 2006 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, which is awarded to "the most accomplished reviewer," from within the NBCC membership. "Texas is lucky to have Steve Kellman," writes Celia McGee on the NBCC's blog. "His range is open to the most extreme elements, in the writers he considers, but also in himself. That takes guts, and keeps reviewing fresh."
University of Texas at San Antonio Press Release |
02-21-2007 1:18 pm |
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Weekly Dig's Director of New Media Wins Bacon-Eating Contestnew
Jim Stanton, recently hired by the Dig "to rehabilitate the paper's disastrously bad website," out-consumed a dozen or so other hardcore pork eaters at Cambridge's Atwood's Tavern. "I'm glad all my perseverance and hard work paid off," Stanton tells the Emerson College TV show Afterhours.
Afterhours |
02-15-2007 10:55 am |
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Pasadena Weekly Series Wins National Awardnew
Deputy Editor Joe Piasecki's five-part series on foster care and homeless youth, "Throwaway Kids," won a first-place award in the National Low Income Housing Coalition's first-ever Cushing Niles Dolbeare Media Awards, the group announced on Tuesday. Piasecki's series, the publication of which spanned over a month and 16,000 words, received the $2,500 prize in the Non-Daily Newspaper or Magazine category.
Pasadena Weekly |
02-08-2007 4:14 pm |
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Village Voice Reporter Named Jack Newfield Visiting Professornew
Tom Robbins is the second distinguished journalist to occupy the post at Hunter College, established to honor Newfield. Robbins, a former colleague of Newfield's at both the Voice and the Daily News, will teach a course entitled "Urban Investigative Reporting" and will also assist students in researching and writing a lengthy article or series of articles focused on an aspect of city life. "Whether tomorrow's journalists are writing online or on paper, we need more of them who understand and share Jack Newfield's passion for justice and the city he lived in," Robbins says in a press release.
Hunter College |
02-02-2007 2:22 pm |
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Student Journalist Wins Prize for Story in Independent Weeklynew
Duke University senior Jeffrey Stern has been awarded the Melcher Family Award for Excellence in Journalism for a cover story he wrote for the North Carolina alt-weekly, reports Duke News. The story described the lives of three homeless men living in the woods on the outskirts of Durham, NC. Stern hatched the idea for the Indy piece after editor Richard Hart spoke to his journalism class. "Jeff is a monster, and I mean that in the best sense of word," says Hart. "Just as Michael Jordan uses every muscle in his body when he is focused on playing basketball, every ounce of Jeff is completely geared to going out and getting the story."
Duke News |
01-31-2007 4:58 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Editorial, Richard Hart
Style Weekly Celebrates 25th Anniversarynew
The Richmond, Va., alt-weekly marks the occasion by looking back at a quarter-century of pivotal moments in the city's arts scene. The Landmark Communications paper, which was admitted to AAN in 2005, won first-place for best Cover Design in the 2006 AltWeekly Awards.
Style Weekly |
01-31-2007 3:34 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Style Weekly
