AAN News
Ted Rall Joins United Media, Will Help Acquire and Develop Featuresnew
Editor & Publisher |
06-29-2006 7:33 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Nikki Finke Pours Salt in Hollywood's Wounds
"Finke's prickly distrust for (figures of authority) practically borders on disrespect, if not outright disdain," writes Jon Friedman, who also says "nobody writes tougher stuff than this L.A. Weekly scribe." Finke says she's different than other reporters who cover the movie industry because she focuses on business, not celebrity, and because she could care less about what Tinseltown royalty thinks of her: "I write mean -- end of story. I'm unapologetic about it - end of story. I watch out for the shareholders -- end of story." UPDATE: Finke responds on her blog that Friedman "wouldn’t have dared write an article like this about a male business journalist working for a mainstream newspaper." She also accuses him of attributing his own statements to her and printing her off-the-record remarks.
06-28-2006 8:29 am |
Industry News
City Newspaper's Mary Anna Towler Feels 'Loss' After Clinton Speechnew
City Newspaper (Rochester) |
06-28-2006 12:55 pm |
Association News
Blogging For Fun, Then Profit: An Interview With Om Maliknew
Online Journalism Review |
06-28-2006 6:56 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Food Journalists Tapped for Awards
AAN members dominate the "Restaurant Criticism" category of the Association of Food Journalists' 2006 Awards, the finalists in which were announced today. In the division for circulation 150,000 and under, all three Restaurant Criticism finalists are alt-weekly writers: Jonathan Kauffman of East Bay Express, Gail Shepherd from New Times Broward-Palm Beach and Bill Addison, who was nominated for work he did at Creative Loafing (Atlanta). L.A. Weekly's Jonathan Gold is also a Restaurant Criticism finalist in the larger-circulation division. Arturo Ciompi from Independent Weekly (Durham), Dara Moskowitz from City Pages (Twin Cities), Ron Russell from SF Weekly, and Zach Dundas from Willamette Week were named finalists in other categories. Winners will be announced September 16.
06-27-2006 1:43 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Dart Center Offers Fellowships in Journalism and Trauma
Dart Center Press Release |
06-27-2006 1:52 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial
Jackson Free Press Raises Concerns About Public Records Settlementnew
Jackson Free Press |
06-27-2006 11:26 am |
Industry News
Little Rock vs. Laura Fries: Convention Aftermath
While attending the AAN Convention two weeks ago, Creative Loafing's Laura Fries made regular blog posts about her experiences in the city of Little Rock. Arkansas Times posted a few of her pictures and a link to her coverage, but its readers were offended by Fries' failure to be impressed by the barbeque and her assertion that "Little Rock’s downtown ... consists of one street." "God have mercy on this idiot woman," one of the most generous commenters wrote. Fries then posted the meanest comments back on her own blog, under the title "HHHooo-wee! Little Rock bites back!"
06-26-2006 11:04 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Laura Fries
Boulder Weekly's Fake Expert Due for Sentencing
David Race Bannon, the man who claimed to have been an assassin for Interpol as well as an expert on child sex-trafficking, has pleaded guilty to one count of criminal impersonation and will likely face fines, not jail time, at his sentencing on Thursday, The Charlotte Observer reports. Back in February, Boulder Weekly Editor Pamela White published an apology to her readers for featuring Bannon in a 2004 cover story.
06-26-2006 10:52 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Boulder Weekly
Yarmuth and Opponent Are Both Wealthy, Differ on Financial Policiesnew
The Courier-Journal |
06-26-2006 10:35 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, LEO Weekly
Joy Press Will Be Arts and Culture Editor at The Village Voicenew
Gawker |
06-26-2006 10:30 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Village Voice
Bloggers Find Financial Backers For Their Independent News Sitesnew
Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) |
06-26-2006 6:30 am |
Industry News
Stephen Colbert 'Asks a Mexican'
We're a little slow in posting this, but OC Weekly's Guastavo Arellano -- who just won a first-place AltWeekly Award for his column -- was the guest on Monday's episode of The Colbert Report (available for download on iTunes). Colbert initially called the column "Ask THE Mexican," and according to Arellano's blog post, also mispronounced his name, but the two still managed to discuss topics ranging from immigration to little people. Arellano tried to provide a legitimate Aztec cultural background on the latter topic, but Colbert evidently thought the explanation was too sophisticated so he interrupted, asking, "Are you speaking Spanish right now?"
06-23-2006 7:04 pm |
Industry News
Westword Pranks 'The Real World' -- Sort Of
"The Real World" is filming its next season in Denver, and according to writer Jared Jacang Maher, the Westword crew "desperately wanted to be a part of this celestial sphere of reality television." They put together a fake cast, added cameramen, producers, and security, and hit the town. Young Denverites in bars reacted as you might expect, hurling insults, mugging for the camera, and hitting on the cast. They even encountered a legitimate MTV celebrity -- Holly Shand from "Road Rules: Latin America." The cast also filmed fake "confessionals" and edited the footage into a four-minute "episode," available for download here in MP4 format.
06-22-2006 9:56 am |
Industry News
Call for The Best Creative Nonfiction
Creative Nonfiction Press Release |
06-22-2006 1:16 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial
