AAN News
Sacramento News & Review Writer Passes Awaynew
Ralph Brave, 54, died on Saturday of lung cancer. "We remember him for his brilliance and intensity, his commitment to working for a better world and his depth of heart," say his colleagues at the News & Review.
Sacramento News & Review |
09-06-2007 4:33 pm |
Industry News
AAN Announces Conference Schedule for 2008
The annual convention will be held in Philadelphia on June 5-7, with the Philadelphia City Paper hosting the event. In an unusual arrangement, the association will host back-to-back conferences this winter in San Francisco, with a Web Publishing Conference on Jan. 30-Feb. 1, and AAN West on Feb. 1-2. And in addition to the Alternative Journalism Writing and Design Workshop to be held in Evanston, Ill. on Aug. 15-16, AAN will organize a Publishers Conference for the first time in 2008, date and location still TBD.
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AAN Staff |
09-05-2007 3:53 pm |
Association News
Willamette Week's Musicfest NW Kicks Off Tomorrownew
"MusicfestNW is that special time of year when Portland adopts the best of music everywhere and gives it a home," music editor Amy McCullough writes in an introduction to the paper's guide to the annual festival. The four days of MusicfestNW will feature over 170 sets in 16 venues, ranging "from melodic indie rock icons Spoon and Rilo Kiley to alternative hip-hop heroes Aesop Rock and the Clipse to psychedelic music legend Roky Erickson & the Explosives," Corey duBrowa writes in the Oregonian.
Willamette Week |
09-05-2007 12:27 pm |
Industry News
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
GameZnFlix Announces Syndicated Video Game News Service [members only]
GameZnFlix, Inc. Press Release |
09-05-2007 9:21 am |
Press Releases
The Village Voice Playfully Responds to Criticism on Adult Adsnew
When the New York Press was sold to Manhattan Media in early August, the new CEO announced the paper would stop running "explicit" ads. The National Organization for Women and some op-ed writers took that opportunity to put more pressure on the Voice and New York magazine to also stop running the ads. The Voice "fired back by defiantly running eight naked ladies on the cover" a few weeks ago, the New York Observer reports. Editor Tony Ortega tells the Observer that the cheeky cover was his idea. "The subject of our adult ads has been brought up lately in the local press," Ortega says. "I thought the best response from the newsroom was to poke some fun at ourselves." Manhattan Media CEO Tom Allon tells the Observer that, while he thinks "the punchline was only clear to a small sliver of their readership," he's glad to have stirred up the attention. "Clearly it was a nod to us and to our decision," he says. "I was flattered that they thought that a decision we made warranted a Voice cover."
The New York Observer |
09-04-2007 10:01 am |
Industry News
Missoula Independent Editor to Leave Paper
"I'm writing to announce my impending departure from the Missoula
Independent after five lovely years," Brad Tyer writes in a farewell email to colleagues. Tyer joined the Independent in 2002 after spending time elsewhere in the alt-weekly universe, including the Texas Observer, Houston Press, and Willamette Week. "As much as I've
enjoyed working in newsrooms, especially this one, I'm also looking
forward to seeing what the world looks like through a non-alt-weekly
lens for the first time since -- my God -- 1991," he says. Tyer, who expects to leave no later than Oct. 4, says he will stay in Missoula and continue writing.
AAN News |
09-04-2007 8:31 am |
Industry News
Birmingham Weekly Celebrates 10th Anniversarynew
"We've made it this far because we embraced the editorial freedoms others refused themselves," writes columnist Kyle Whitmire. "While our orthodox brethren have feared innovation, we lived by it." Editor Glenny Brock, columnist Courtney Haden, and former staff writer and editor Thomas Spencer also reflect on why the paper has survived and what it means for the city.
Birmingham Weekly |
08-30-2007 11:48 am |
Industry News
What Will the Metro Newspaper Look Like in 2020?new
Dave Morgan's Online Spin |
08-30-2007 3:04 pm |
Industry News
Study Shows Video Playing Big Role for Newspaper Sitesnew
Newspapers & Technology |
08-30-2007 12:31 pm |
Industry News
San Diego CityBeat Music Editor Inks Book Deal
San Diego CityBeat Press Release |
08-30-2007 8:03 pm |
Press Releases
Redesign Begins at AltWeeklies.com
As part of a larger redesign and graphic overhaul of the site to be revealed later this year, we've made some initial changes to AltWeeklies.com:
In addition to cutting down on clutter in certain sections, these changes also mark the first step towards a modified folksonomy for organizing the information on the site.
- The "Movies" section is now "Movies+TV" and TV stories have been moved there from the "Culture" section.
- Food and Drink stories now have their own "Food+Drink" section.
- The "Politics" section has been resurrected.
- The "Opinion" section, on the other hand, has been eliminated, and its contents have all been shifted to other sections.
In addition to cutting down on clutter in certain sections, these changes also mark the first step towards a modified folksonomy for organizing the information on the site.
AAN Staff |
08-29-2007 4:31 pm |
Association News
Pasadena Weekly Editors on Deleting Online Contentnew
With web archives getting more robust by the day, more sources are asking editors to change or delete old quotes and comments, Online Journalism Review reports. Reporter Elizabeth Zwerling talks to a few papers about how they've handled such requests, including the Pasadena Weekly, which in 2006 decided to remove the name of an ex-con from an archived story, six months after it came out in print. The story, on Crips co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams, featured quotes from a man who said he'd been in prison with Williams. The man had been charged with raping and sodomizing his former girlfriend, and convicted of assault -- information that was included in the story, along with the man's claims of innocence. "Our first reaction was 'no don't change it'," deputy editor Joe Piasecki says. "I tend to say that unless (the reporter) screwed up, don't change it." Piasecki, who was also the reporter for the story, says the paper made an exception in this case because the man wasn't familiar with the internet and his quotes weren't that important in the context of the story. The paper ultimately took the man's name out but kept the quotes in. "The guy said every time he applied for a job they Googled his name and this was the only hit," Piasecki says. "We took his name out so he could move on with his life."
Online Journalism Review |
08-29-2007 8:50 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weeklies Win Three NABJ Awardsnew
Earlier this month, the National Association of Black Journalists announced the winners of the 2007 Salute to Excellence Awards, which "recognize exemplary coverage of people of color or issues in the African Diaspora." Riverfront Times took home two first-place awards: Kristen Hinman for her "Basketball by the Book" series, in the Enterprise division; and Ben Westhoff for "Ace of Spaides," in the Business division. Seattle Weekly's Nina Shapiro also placed first in the Feature division for "Schooling the District."
National Association of Black Journalists Press Release |
08-28-2007 7:58 am |
Press Releases
New Internet Venture in Minnesota Taps Former City Pages Staffers
MinnPost.com, which is slated to launch later this year, will be a not-for-profit internet-based daily "paper" run by former Star Tribune editor and publisher Joel Kramer. Corey Anderson, formerly online managing editor at City Pages, will be web editor, and three former staffers will be contributors: David Brauer, Beth Hawkins, and Mike Mosedale.
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MinnPost.com Press Release |
08-27-2007 12:10 pm |
Press Releases
