AAN News
Once Again, Court Orders New York Times Writer to Out Sourcesnew
New York Times |
10-24-2006 1:39 pm |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial
NYT Says Yarmuth Is Closing on GOP Incumbent
Democratic congressional candidate and LEO publisher John Yarmuth seems to have gained some ground in his challenge to five-term Republican Rep. Anne M. Northup. A New York Times article indicates that the GOP stronghold of Kentucky's third Congressional District may now be less so. The Times observes that CQPolitics.com has downgraded the race from "Republican Favored" to "Leans Republican," while another poll gives Yarmuth a 48-47 point advantage over Northup. Northup's zealous support of the war in Iraq and the congressional-page scandal appears to have eroded Northup's voter base, the Times suggests.
10-23-2006 4:38 pm |
Industry News
Former Columnist Details Estrangement From Post-Merger VVM Papernew
Geov Parrish, a Seattle Weekly columnist who resigned in August, is airing his grievances with the alternative weekly. In a column in Eat the State!, a twice-monthly Washington state political and opinion journal, Parrish
laments the acquisition of his paper's parent company, Village Voice Media, late last year by New Times. "The new Seattle Weekly is being run by an enormous corporation that will run it the same way they'd run a widget factory," he writes. While much of Parrish's criticism of the reconstituted, 17-paper VVM is familiar, he offers an up-close-and-personal account of the impact of the merger on a single paper.
Eat the State! |
10-23-2006 10:11 am |
Industry News
Savage Shreds Green Candidate on Campaign Trailnew
Dan Savage, editor of Seattle's The Stranger and writer of the syndicated column Savage Love, continues to moonlight as a political activist, according to the Chicago Reader. (See second item.) His current efforts are focused on unseating arch-nemesis Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Penn. But in an interview with Stephen Morse, a reporter for the Daily Pennsylvanian, a University of Pennsylvania student newspaper, Savage reserves much of his invective for Green Party candidate Carl Romanelli, a potential spoiler who could siphon off votes from Democratic candidate Bob Casey Jr. In a video clip of the session, Savage says, among other things, "Carl Romanelli should be dragged behind a pickup truck until there's nothing left but the rope." Savage later apologized for the remark on the Stranger's blog.
The Chicago Reader |
10-23-2006 9:48 am |
Industry News
Tucson Weekly Reporter Tapped for Ariz. Journalism Hall of Famenew
Arizona Daily Star |
10-23-2006 3:04 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Tucson Weekly
Ban of Free Newspapers From Legislature Decried, Scrutinizednew
Monday Magazine |
10-23-2006 9:16 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Staffer Tells of Triumph Over Disabilitynew
Long Island Press |
10-23-2006 8:43 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Long Island Press
The News Industry's Five Stages of Griefnew
Digital Deliverance |
10-22-2006 10:44 pm |
Industry News
SFBG Celebrates 40 Years of 'Fighting Urbicide'new
This week the San Francisco Bay Guardian celebrates 40 years of living up to its name and its motto: "IT IS A NEWSPAPER'S DUTY TO PRINT THE NEWS AND RAISE HELL." Founding Editor and Publisher Bruce B. Brugmann recounts four decades of duking it out with JOA-armed "SuperChron" and other competitors in "the Bermuda Triangle of publishing." Executive Editor Tim Redmond looks back at the quarter-century since the day a roommate showed him a Guardian ad seeking freelancers with "story ideas." Redmond recalls: "I sat down in the crummy flat we shared on Hayes Street and cranked out a list of outrages."
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
10-20-2006 10:13 am |
Industry News
Cleveland Free Times Staffer Investigates Famous Unsolved Murder in New Book
Publisher's Press Release |
10-20-2006 10:59 am |
Press Releases
GoogTube Deal Shifts Paradigm On-Demandnew
The Hollywood Reporter |
10-20-2006 5:12 am |
Industry News
OPA Study Analyzes Demographics, Purchasing Activity of Web Usersnew
Editor & Publisher |
10-20-2006 5:07 am |
Industry News
Phoenix Reports Hunger Strike at Maine Supermax Prison
Portland Phoenix reporter Lance Tapley is the first to break news about a hunger strike at Maine's Supermax prison. Posted on ThePhoenix.com, the news comes soon after an inmate of Maine State Prison's solitary confinement unit committed suicide. Following two more suicide attempts and an ensuing crackdown, an undisclosed number of prisoners have refused to eat in protest of conditions. Earlier this year, Tapley won an AltWeekly Award for his coverage of abuse at the prison, and The Phoenix has covered the escalating bedlam there over the past year.
10-19-2006 10:20 am |
Industry News
PBS Kneels to Alt-Weekly's 'Green God' Story
Bill Moyers' recent PBS special on environmentalism among progressive Christians seems to have roots in a progressive newspaper. "Is God Green?" aired Oct. 12, the Boise Weekly notes, nearly 10 months after it ran an article under the same title. Therein Jill Kuraitis wrote about Boise's Vineyard Christian Fellowship and their "green" pastor, Tri Robertson, who was preaching the gospel of good earth stewardship. The paper was soon fielding calls from PBS about Robertson and his faith-based conservation. During the program, Moyers talked to Idaho Statesman reporter Rocky Barker, who gave credit where credit was due: "The Boise Weekly, which is this kind of liberal, alternative weekly, did the first story on it."
10-19-2006 8:41 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Boise Weekly
Prisoner Suicide Leads to Hunger Strike at Maine State Prison
Portland Phoenix Press Release |
10-19-2006 1:56 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, Portland Phoenix
