AAN News
MTV Launches Social Networking Site for Causes, Social Activismnew
Hollywood Reporter |
09-25-2007 10:17 am |
Industry News
The Emerging Online-Only Local Newspapernew
MediaLife Magazine |
09-25-2007 10:03 am |
Industry News
Federal Shield Law Progressesnew
"It is past time for Congress to act" on a federal shield law, the New York Times editorializes. While saying the compromise bill introduced earlier this month "does not contain everything we would have liked," the Times notes that "passage of a federal shield law would be a major achievement." The bill may get a mark-up in the Senate Judiciary Committee as early as this week. AAN is a member of the Shield Law Coalition, and encourages its members in states with senators on the Judiciary Committee to call their senators in support of the bill.
The New York Times |
09-24-2007 9:53 am |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial, Management
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 |
Honors & Achievements
Alibi Turns 15, Redesigns, Loses Editornew
The Albuquerque alt-weekly celebrates it's quinceañera by tracing its history from Oct. 9, 1992: the 12-page, black-and-white debut as NuCity, threats of a lawsuit from Chicago's Newcity, the name change to the Weekly Alibi, all the way to, well, this week's 15th anniversary issue and a newly unveiled print redesign. But it's not all good news in Duke City: editor Steven Robert Allen is leaving the paper on Oct. 1 to become executive director of Common Cause New Mexico. "I fully expect the paper's best days are ahead of it," he writes in a farewell column. "That's one reason why I don't mind making an exit, not too much, anyway. To tell you the truth, I'm eager to just be an ordinary reader, to pick up the Alibi on Thursday from one of those ubiquitous blue metal boxes, just like everyone else, and take a peek inside."
Alibi |
09-21-2007 3:56 pm |
Industry News
The Stranger Clarifies Post-Intelligencer Reportnew
"I'm not leaving The Stranger, and I'm still in charge of The Stranger's
editorial content," says Dan Savage in a blog post, adding some
detail to Wednesday's item in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer announcing
Christopher Frizzelle's promotion to editor. "So Frizzelle is taking over the day-to-day management of the editorial department as well as overseeing more to most of The Stranger's features," Savage says. "I am still going to be sitting in my coveted corner office, watching helmetless hipsters ride by on their brand-new fixies, posting obsessively to Slog, working with Christopher -- and the rest of the editorial staff -- to create, shape, and direct our editorial content online and in print."
The Stranger |
09-21-2007 12:37 pm |
Industry News
Boston Phoenix Writer Pens 'History of Boston Rock & Roll'new
Longtime music critic Brett Milano's new book, The Sound of Our Town: A History of Boston Rock & Roll, surveys 50 years of Beantown's popular music. "Brett's book is something this city has needed," a former program director for local radio station WBCN tells the Globe. "As a whole scene, maybe [Boston] didn't have the national impact of some other towns, but take Mission of Burma or the Pixies. Look how many people have said those bands are an influence. Sometimes we don't get the recognition we deserve."
The Boston Globe |
09-21-2007 11:41 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Boston Phoenix
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 |
Honors & Achievements
L.A. Weekly Columnist Joins Huffington Post Citizen Journalism Projectnew
Marc Cooper will be the editor of OffTheBus, the Huffington Post's project to cover the 2008 campaigns via citizen journalists, Wired reports.
Wired |
09-19-2007 9:56 am |
Industry News
The Stranger Names New Editornew
Christopher Frizzelle is replacing Dan Savage as editor of the Seattle alt-weekly, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. The 27-year-old Frizzelle has also worked at crosstown rival the Seattle Weekly, where "he was fired for leaking internal tidbits to the Stranger and trying to get a job there," according to the P-I. His time at the Stranger has thus far included stints as books editor, and most recently, as arts editor. "I'll report to Dan, who is now editorial director, and everybody else reports to me," he says. Asked what changes he wants to make, he said none. "The paper's really good right now. I work with 20 of the most talented people I know."
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
09-19-2007 8:18 am |
Industry News
AAN Board Member Resigns, Two Others Appointed
Executive editor Mike Lenehan (pictured) left Chicago Reader, Inc. on Aug. 30, and
as a result he has stepped down from his position as Diversity Chair on the
AAN Board of Directors. AAN president Stephen Leon appointed Jackson Free Press editor and current at-large
board member Donna Ladd to serve the one year remaining in Lenehan's term as
Diversity Chair, and appointed East Bay Express publisher Jody Colley to take Ladd's
at-large seat for the one year remaining in her term. "I think I speak for everyone on the board in expressing our gratitude for
Mike's service over the years," Leon says. "We're going to miss his dry wit, and also his common sense." Lenehan has served on the board since 2002 and was elected as the association's first Diversity Chair in 2004.
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AAN News |
09-18-2007 10:17 am |
Association News
Dailies Jump on the Widget Bandwagonnew
Editor & Publisher |
09-18-2007 9:34 am |
Industry News
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 |
Honors & Achievements
Village Voice Revists its Reporting on 9/11 Cancer Linknew
Graham Rayman's cover story last week, "Clearing the Air About 9/11's Toxic Dust and Cancer," doesn't refer directly to last year's Kristen Lombardi story on the same subject, but it "reads nevertheless like an unequivocal attempt at refuting its claims," according to the New York Observer. Lombardi's piece, which won a first-place AltWeekly Award for investigative reporting, stipulated that exposure to the Ground Zero rubble was giving rescue workers cancer, while Rayman's piece argues that research on the topic is murky. The Observer asks editor Tony Ortega, who fired Lombardi in May, if Rayman's story was a way of distancing his Village Voice from the version published under previous editor David Blum. "There was no conscious effort to 'tie' this cover to anything," he says. "New editor, new writer, and a new look at an evolving story. Call it weird if you like." He added: "The piece he wrote does contradict what has been written by other journalists, and what the Voice has written in the past. But that's the nature of journalism -- we're always gathering new evidence and trying to make sense of what we find."
The New York Observer |
09-14-2007 2:47 pm |
Industry News
Daniel Hernandez Leaving L.A. Weekly to Write Book for Scribnernew
"He's leaving L.A. Weekly not because of some New Times conspiracy but because Scribner has asked him to write a book about Mexico City based on his amazing cover story from last year," OC Weekly's Gustavo Arellano writes. Hernandez, who Arellano credits as "the man who made my career" with a big profile in the Los Angeles Times, writes on his blog that the book will be "about the underground, basically -- youth and subcultures."
OC Weekly |
09-14-2007 8:47 am |
Industry News
