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Air America Co-Founders to Start Nova M Radionew
Mediaweek |
10-19-2006 7:12 am |
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Maine Supermarket Pulls Phoenix Over Nude Photonew
Portland Press Herald |
10-18-2006 3:09 pm |
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Tags: Editorial, Portland Phoenix
Stranger Editor Rues 'Lapsed Judgment' of Double-Dipping Staffer
Following revelations that the alt-weekly's coordinator for club advertising secretly contributed to the Stranger's music blog and newspaper under the pseudonym "Keenan Bowen," both she and the editor who solicited the articles resigned. In an interview with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Editor Dan Savage calls Music Editor David Segal's arrangement with staffer Bailee Martin "a lapse in editorial judgment, and a serious one." But Savage also said the potential for conflict appears to have been untapped, and the weekly will repost all of Martin's stories upon review.
10-17-2006 1:05 pm |
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Wheelchair Defender Cries Foul Over OC Weekly Piecenew
After the weekly ran an Oct. 12 cover story about a wheelchair-bound man who filed more than 200 onerous lawsuits against small businesses failing to meet accessibility standards for the disabled, a lawyer for the profile subject has lashed back. Marc E. Angelucci, a Los Angeles attorney who represents David Allen Gunther, calls R. Scott Moxley's investigative article
"one-sided, sensationalistic opinion-disguised-as-news," in a post on the OC Weekly staff blog.
"one-sided, sensationalistic opinion-disguised-as-news," in a post on the OC Weekly staff blog.
The Blotter |
10-17-2006 8:46 am |
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The Wanderlust and Whims of the 18-34 Male Web Audiencenew
Adotas |
10-17-2006 7:36 am |
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Willamette Week Hosts Extravaganza for Absentee Gubernatorial Candidatesnew
The Oregonian |
10-17-2006 7:17 am |
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Tags: Editorial, Willamette Week
Defying Grand Jury Order, Blogger Makes His Stand Behind Barsnew
The San Francisco Chronicle |
10-17-2006 7:00 am |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial, Electronic Publishing
Staffers Resign Over Pseudonym Flap at The Stranger
Bailee Martin, club advertising coordinator for the Seattle alternative weekly, served one too many masters. Martin, along with one of those masters, Music Editor Dave Segal, resigned when it was discovered Segal had solicited Martin to contribute music pieces, which she did under the nom de plume "Keenan Bowen." Editor Dan Savage wastes no time posting a full disclosure.
10-16-2006 1:26 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Stranger
Alt-Weekly Veteran Inducted Into Syracuse Journalism 'Hall of Fame'
Long-time Syracuse New Times wordsmith Walt Shepperd has earned his place on the Syracuse Press Club's Wall of Distinction. Although he recently took the editorial helm of City Eagle, a local weekly, Shepperd spent first 35 years at the alternative weekly, under the varied hats of columnist, writer and editor. He joins five other journalists with their names newly emblazoned in the theater lobby of the John H. Mulroy Civic Center, reports The Post-Standard.
10-16-2006 6:43 am |
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Tags: Editorial, Syracuse New Times
Judge Grants Palo Alto Weekly Access to Utilities Reportnew
Palo Alto Online |
10-16-2006 7:02 am |
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Tags: Editorial, Palo Alto Weekly
LaRouche Defenders Lash Out at Alternative Pressnew
Mike Lacey, VVM and a host of other alternative papers have been sucked into
the Byzantine persecution complex of perennial libertarian presidential
candidate Lyndon LaRouche. A column blasting a number of alt-weeklies for
their anti-Larouchian tendencies appeared last week in something called the Executive Intelligence Report and has been circulating in the blogosphere.
Lissa Harris, a blogger for Boston's Weekly Dig, among those papers named,
gamely attempts to respond with a straight face.
Daily Dig |
10-13-2006 2:47 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Boston's Weekly Dig
Alt-Weekly Reporter Leaves Trail of Clips, Smoldering Ruinsnew
Peripatetic reporter Lacey Phillabaum blazed a trail through the alternative press even after sending the University of Washington's Institute for Urban Horticulture up in blazes on behalf of the eco-terrorist group Earth Liberation Front in 2001. Besides working as a staffer at The Source Weekly and C-Ville Weekly, Phillabaum contributed freelance pieces to sundry alternative newspapers and AAN. "I knew she was very interested in environmental stories from the clips she had," Washington City Paper Senior Editor Mike Debonis tells Baltimore City Paper, "But I didn't have an inkling that she had any radical tendencies."
Baltimore City Paper |
10-12-2006 3:23 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Lacey Phillabaum
'Time Is Right' for Birth of Barcelona Alt-Weekly
Barcelona is now home to Spain's first English-language alt-weekly, BCN Weekly, the brainchild of graphic artists whose previous feats include visual overhauls of The Chicago Reader and The Boston Phoenix. "Right now is the moment of new journalism here," says BCN Week Publisher Jennifer Cross.
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Isaiah Thompson |
10-12-2006 12:51 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
LA Times Investigates Its Own Future with 'Manhattan Project'new
New York Times (reg. req.) |
10-12-2006 11:23 pm |
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Hot Off the Press: The Tragedy of Gary Webbnew
OC Weekly editor Nick Schou's book about the dire last days of journalist Gary Webb is out at last, and many AAN members are excerpting it. Schou first met Webb at the peak of the controversy over "Dark Alliance," his 1996 San Jose Mercury Press series on collusion between the CIA and cocaine-trafficking Nicaraguan contras. Scourged by the mainstream media, a broke and unconsolable Webb sank into depression and committed suicide in December 2004. "Kill the Messenger: How the CIA's Crack Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Gary Webb" grew out of an OC Weekly article Schou wrote following his death. In "In These Times," former Village Voice columnist Doug Ireland calls Schou's book a "a meticulous, balanced account" of the affair and "a cautionary tale for anyone considering a career in investigative journalism."
Houston Press |
10-11-2006 3:50 pm |
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