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Legendary Editor Clay Felker Enters Nursing Homenew
After battling cancer and pneumonia, pioneering editor Clay Felker, 78, has entered a nursing home. The founder of New York magazine exerted a seminal influence in new journalism and the alternative press. Felker owned and edited The Village Voice from 1974 to 1977, and founded
California-based alternative magazine New West. But not everyone saw his influence as benevolent. A capsule history in The Village Voice's 50th anniversary issue claimed that Felker "dulled the Voice's radical edge by crimping the style of some of its more free-spirited writers, giving undue prominence to fluffy lifestyle pieces, and taking articles off the front page." One-time protégé James Brady pays tribute in Forbes magazine.
Forbes |
10-05-2006 8:25 am |
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Proceed Cautiously With Print-Web Integration, Says Editors' Blognew
The Editors Weblog |
10-05-2006 2:03 pm |
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Tags: Editorial, Electronic Publishing
A Scoop Is a Scoop, Online or Offnew
American Journalism Review |
10-05-2006 1:24 pm |
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Tags: Editorial, Electronic Publishing
NYT Inches Toward Crediting Alt-Weekly for Foley Scoopnew
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
10-05-2006 1:14 pm |
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Tuscon Weekly Columnist Bids Adieu With Little Adonew
Tuscon Weekly |
10-05-2006 12:30 pm |
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Colorado Alt-Weekly Rocky Mountain Chronicle Debutsnew
Rocky Mountain Chronicle |
10-05-2006 10:06 am |
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VC Reporter Launches Five New Blogsnew
VC Reporter |
10-05-2006 9:58 am |
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House Candidate Dismisses Letter in Seven Days Faulting Porn Probenew
The Times Argus (Montpelier, Vt.) |
10-05-2006 9:49 am |
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Tags: Editorial, Seven Days
Illinois Times Reporter Need Not Disclose Documents, Judge Rulesnew
The State Journal-Register |
10-05-2006 8:34 am |
Industry News
Dan Savage: No Love for Santorumnew
Ever since Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Penn., publicly equated homosexuality and
bestiality, Dan Savage has been turning up the heat on his homophobic
nemesis. First, he organized a contest to name a sex act after the Republican
senator. Now Savage, the editor of Seattle's The Stranger and one of
altdom's most popular columnists, is taking the fight to Santorum's home
turf. He recently followed the warpath to Philadelphia, where he talked to Philadelphia Weekly about efforts to defeat Santorum's midterm re-election
bid. When questioned about his take-no-prisoners crusade, Savage says, "I
really feel that it's an all-hands-on-deck sort of fucking moment."
Philadelphia Weekly |
10-04-2006 7:45 am |
Industry News
LA Weekly Account of Border Volleyball Match Highlighted in WSJ
The 20-foot-tall fence between the United States and Mexico makes good political theater. Why not a sports venue too? At least that was the bright idea of Brent Hoff, editor of Wholphin, a new DVD magazine from Dave Eggers'
McSweeney's combine. Hoff took a film crew to shoot a game of international volleyball played across the border fence at Tijuana. LA Weekly writer Joshuah Bearman tagged along and even got in on the action. In its "Border Lines" column, the Wall Street Journal revisits this "first-ever game of international border volleyball."
10-03-2006 11:53 am |
Industry News
Amy vs. Amy Split Semantic Hairs Over Headline
When syndicated Advice Goddess Amy Alkon used "polyamory" in a headline for a column on a cheating boyfriend that appeared in the Ventura County Reporter, Poynter contributor Amy Gahran took issue, pointing out the word's true meaning described consensually open relationships. Gahran's reproof precipitated a war of words between the semanticistas that MediaBistro's FishbowlLA blog is calling the "the on-line equivalent of a cat fight."
10-03-2006 11:04 am |
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Illinois Times Scoop Weighs on Discrimination Settlement
The settlement of a racial discrimination lawsuit lodged by police officer Rickey Davis against the city of Springfield could hinge on a recent Illinois Times article, The State Journal-Register reports. Under the settlement, which awaits city approval, Davis would continue to receive his full salary until he retires on Aug. 1, 2007. But a city alderman is holding it up, citing a Times article on a leaked Illinois State Police report alleging that Davis and other officers violated unspecified departmental procedures.
10-02-2006 2:20 pm |
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Tags: Editorial, Illinois Times
Disgraced Fla. Pol Had 2003 Run-in With New Times BPBnew
Rep. Mark Foley (pictured) announced Friday that he is stepping down from Congress after sexually explicit e-mails he sent to a 16-year-old male page were made public. Editor & Publisher notes that in May 2003, Foley "took the unusual step of calling a news conference to denounce a report in [New Times Broward-Palm Beach] that he is gay." The author of that 2003 article, New Times Staff Writer Bob Norman, has followed this week's controversy on his blog The Daily Pulp, and he argues that the newspapers that haven't mentioned Foley's 2003 news conference are "cheating their readers out of important context."
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
10-02-2006 10:31 am |
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Opinion: Bill That Clamps Down on Leaks Goes Too Farnew
Jackson Sun |
10-02-2006 6:36 am |
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