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Blum Tells Voice Staffers: No More Layoffs in the Worksnew
New York Observer |
09-07-2006 8:18 pm |
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Former Baltimore City Paper Writer's 'Shocking' Job Change
"When we learned our favorite media muckraker, City Paper reporter ... Gadi Dechter, was taking a new job at The Sun, we were shocked. Shocked!" writes Baltimore magazine's Geoff Brown. The July announcement was surprising because Dechter had repeatedly criticized the daily, most notably exposing instances of plagiarism by columnist Michael Olesker. Dechter says he "was never bored at City Paper," and calls it "the best job I ever had." Van Smith, the City Paper's political reporter, wishes that the alt-weekly had been able to keep Dechter on board: "It would be good for Baltimore storytelling to have Gadi at City Paper," he says.
09-06-2006 9:35 am |
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Rosen: Christgau's Dismissal From Village Voice Leaves Hole in the Critical Communitynew
Slate |
09-06-2006 7:30 am |
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Chicago Reader Staff Writer Has Spent 16 Years Exposing Torture by Police
John Conroy first embarked on the police brutality beat in 1989, when he covered the story of Andrew Wilson, a convicted cop killer who alleged that his confession had been coerced by electric shock torture. Conroy's subsequent reporting for the Chicago Reader has resulted in several awards -- and multiple subpoenas. "I bet you that there's not another paper in the country that has been willing to let one person do what I have done for so long, at such cost, in terms of every story we do involves extensive legal review," Conroy tells Editor & Publisher. The complete story is available to subscribers here.
09-05-2006 7:42 am |
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How Dave Rudolph Got a Job at the Nashville Scene
As part of the Nashville Scene's August 24 "College Survival Guide," Music Listings Editor Dave Rudolph recounts his experience getting a job at the alt-weekly after graduating from college. The tale begins with a coffee shop encounter with former Scene editor Bruce Dobie, and ends with Rudolph drunk-dialing the current editor, Liz Garrigan, at 2:30 a.m. "It's a story that’s both convoluted and simple, like a drunken conversation among friends. I can't help it if I'm lucky," Rudolph writes.
09-05-2006 6:53 pm |
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John Dougherty's Last Column for Phoenix New Times
"The kind of journalism I practiced at [Phoenix] New Times is not for the weak-hearted who want approval from the powerful and wealthy, or who want to be invited to lunch with the governor and to power brokers' fancy parties," reporter John Dougherty writes in the weekly's Aug. 31 issue. In his final column, Dougherty reflects on his personal and professional development and explains his decision to leave "one of the best jobs in American journalism" after 13 years.
09-05-2006 9:33 am |
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Rocky Mountain Chronicle Aspires To Be Different From the Bullhornnew
Northern Colorado Business Report |
09-05-2006 12:04 pm |
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Tags: Editorial, Vanessa Martinez
The Village Voice Lays Off Eight, Including Robert Christgaunew
Five of those dismissed yesterday were senior arts editors, including Christgau, who had been a music critic for the paper on and off since 1969. The other three employees were design staff, including Art Director Minh Uong. In a statement, Village Voice Media describes the layoffs as an effort "to reconfigure the editorial department to place an emphasis on writers as opposed to editors." David Blum, who was named the editor of the Voice three weeks ago, tells The New York Times, "It wouldn't have been appropriate for me to weigh in on these decisions before I even took over the job." Blum's first day is September 12.
The New York Times (reg. req.) |
09-01-2006 7:30 am |
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Music Editor Sam Machkovech and Dallas Observer Part Waysnew
Dallas Observer |
09-01-2006 4:53 pm |
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San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Office Says New Times Meth Story Found at Lab Sitesnew
KSBY-TV |
09-01-2006 11:44 am |
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Weight Jokes in Willamette Week Create Uproar
Karla Starr, who compiles the listings of book-related events for Willamette Week, got a bigger reaction than she expected to an item in the August 23 issue. Starr wrote:
Are you a fatty? Want to be in a book? Waddle over to a computer, grab your typing stick (those sausage fingers hit too many keys at once, don't they?), go to stacybias.net, and fill out the contact form for your chance to contribute to Bias' FatGirl Speaks, a short-fiction anthology inspired by her event of the same name.According to a note in the Aug. 30 issue, "WW's email inboxes, voicemail and front desk were inundated by responses." The Letters to the Editor section includes six messages from angry readers, one from Bias, and an apology from Starr. "After experiencing firsthand the power of reading so many stories, my appreciation and respect for Stacy Bias' work and upcoming book has grown tremendously," Starr says.
08-31-2006 1:00 pm |
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Seattle Weekly Writer Objects to Dan Savage's Gun 'Experiment'
To make a point about proposed club regulations, The Stranger's editor, Dan Savage, walked into Seattle's City Hall carrying pot cookies and a fake gun. Seattle Weekly Staff Writer Philip Dawdy argues that Savage went too far because he used his press credentials to take the illicit materials into restricted areas of the building. In a post on The Daily Weekly, SW's blog, Dawdy notes that the Seattle press, including The Stranger, has fought to maintain access to offices in City Hall in the past; now, Savage's actions could "make the security folks at City Hall rethink who gets to go where and under what circumstances," he writes.
08-31-2006 8:50 am |
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¡Ask a Mexican!, Just Not in Spanish
"It's troubling ... to know that some people actually get upset when a U.S.-born-and-bred Latino isn't fully fluent in Spanish," Gustavo Arellano writes in a Los Angeles Times editorial published Monday. Arellano is a reporter for OC Weekly and the author of the controversial syndicated ¡Ask a Mexican! column. He explains that his parents taught him a rural Mexican dialect, which became "mangled" after he attended a public school where he only spoke English. The criticism of Arellano's Spanish intensified after a June appearance on The Colbert Report, but he swears he doesn't care: "I'm an English-language columnist; it's my job to help Americans understand Mexicans, not to write the next Don Quixote."
08-31-2006 8:12 am |
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Dan Savage Takes Pot Cookies, Gun to City Hall
Dan Savage, editor of The Stranger, disagrees with proposed Seattle regulations that would require club owners to prevent patrons from entering the premises while carrying drugs. Naturally, he chose to demonstrate the difficulty of enforcing such a ban by tucking a fake gun into his waistband, packing his bag full of pot cookies, and heading to City Hall. As he describes in the Aug. 31 issue of The Stranger, he not only got in the door and consumed the cookies while on city property, he also offered pot cookies to several mayoral staffers without repurcussions. Photos of the cookies, the gun and Savage can be found on Slog, The Stranger's blog.
08-30-2006 4:04 pm |
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Miami New Times' Unsatisfying Sandwich
"It's a bit mind-blowing ... to realize one's place of employment is perceived as a citadel of crunchy-granola neo-hippies," writes Pamela Robin Brandt in Miami New Times' Aug. 31 issue. Brandt is describing her experience dining at the Daily Creative Food Co. restaurant, where sandwiches bear the names of newspapers. Miami New Times' namesake comprises vegetables, mozzarella and pesto on ciabatta bread. Brandt suggests a better choice would have been the lobster club, which contains a Bacardi-spiked chili mayonnaise.
08-30-2006 2:33 pm |
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