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Bush's War Against the Pressnew
New York Law Journal |
05-31-2006 1:14 pm |
Legal News
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Syracuse New Times May Take Legal Action Against Bush Aidenew
Editor & Publisher |
05-31-2006 9:27 am |
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Tags: Editorial, Syracuse New Times
Weekly Planet Changes Name, Prematurelynew
Tampa's alt-weekly was formerly called Creative Loafing, and it will be called that again this fall, according to Editor David Warner. But a "universal brain fart'" led the paper to mistakenly make the change several months ahead of schedule and run its latest issue under the nameplate of its sister publications in Charlotte and Atlanta. "The error was partly due to the fact that while the editing staffs for Tampa and Sarasota are in Florida, design and production for all four papers in the Creative Loafing chain is done in Atlanta," Warner wrote last week on his paper's blog. "But such an error has never occurred before, and we here in Tampa should have been more alert."
Weekly Planet |
05-30-2006 12:09 pm |
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Bush Appointee Admits Altering Syracuse New Times Profilenew
President Bush announced last week that he was appointing Karl Zinsmeister, editor of American Enterprise magazine, as the White House's new domestic policy adviser. Two days later, The New York Sun reported that Zinsmeister altered a 2004 profile of himself written by Justin Park for the Syracuse New Times and posted it on the American Enterprise Web site. Park's byline still appeared on the amended article, but several quotes from Zinsmeister had been softened, including one calling residents of Washington, D.C. "morally repugnant" and another criticizing the Bush Administration's conduct of the war in Iraq. In the Washington Post this morning, Zinsmeister admits he made the changes but claims he was merely correcting mistakes made by Park, even though he sent the New Times reporter a laudatory message after the profile was published. New Times Editor Molly English called Zinsmeister's conduct "reprehensible ... Once this is published, it's not his property. From that point in time, he can't just pick and choose," she told the Sun.
Washington Post |
05-30-2006 7:51 am |
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First Amendment Applies to Internet, Calif. Appeals Court Rulesnew
New York Times (reg. req.) |
05-30-2006 3:59 pm |
Legal News
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Former Voice Music Editor Blogs for MTV
Chuck Eddy, who was fired by Village Voice Media in April, is one of the writers providing "exclusive content" for MTV's Urge online, the blog Coolfer reports. Eddy will write a heavy metal blog for the subscription-only music service, which is currently in beta.
05-26-2006 1:35 pm |
Industry News
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Savage Stirs Up Gay Marriage Controversy in Wash. House Race
On May 21, Dan Savage wrote a post on Slog, the Stranger's blog, drawing attention to what he believed were misleading tactics used by volunteers for Jamie Pedersen, a candidate for state representative in Seattle's 43rd District. According to Savage, Pedersen's volunteers at a local street fair were "making it sound like Jamie was the only candidate running in the 43rd who supports marriage equality"; Pedersen is the only gay candidate, but all six Democratic candidates support marriage for same-sex couples."You got my attention, Jamie -- and lost my vote. Way to be a weasel, Pedersen," Savage wrote. A subsequent story in the Post-Intelligencer said the rant created a "teapot tempest" that is "a window into the complex world of gay politics in Seattle and reflects the power wielded by a man known as much for his explicit sex advice as for his iconoclastic punditry and journalism." Pedersen denied being deceptive and told the daily that he still hoped to get the Stranger's endorsement. Expressing surprise at the hoopla, Savage said, "If I really wanted to put a knife in Jamie Pedersen, I would have put all this crap in the paper," adding that he wrote the blog post while drunk.
05-26-2006 11:59 am |
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Parks Wrote Winning Essay 'in 15 Minutes'
Casey Parks, the Jackson Free Press writer who earlier this week won a trip to Africa with New York Times columnist Nick Kristof, told The Columbia Missourian that she hadn't thought she "had a chance" in the contest. During her two-week trip, Parks will write a blog for the Times and create a vlog for mtvU. “I want to learn how to be fearless like [Kristof] is," Parks said.
05-26-2006 11:23 am |
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Judith Moore, Senior Editor at San Diego Reader, Dies of Colon Cancernew
San Francisco Chronicle |
05-26-2006 1:03 pm |
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Tags: Editorial
Judge Orders Speed From DoD in ACLU and Bay Guardian's FOIA Suitnew
Oroville Mercury-Register |
05-26-2006 8:29 am |
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Achievements and Innovations: Washington City Paper's 'Nosh Mobs'
In the first installment of AAN's new interview series, Amy Austin (pictured), Dave Nuttycombe and Tim Carman of Washington City Paper describe how reader-created restaurant reviews have forged a new relationship between the newspaper's print and Web products. They also explain the meaning of sporks. To suggest a topic for a future interview, contact Amy Gill at amyg@aan.org.
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Isaiah Thompson |
05-25-2006 7:23 am |
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Opinion: Gonzales' Threat To Reporters Is Disingenuousnew
OC Register |
05-25-2006 11:41 am |
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Government's Classified Information System Is a Farcenew
The Independent Institute |
05-25-2006 11:34 am |
Legal News
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Jackson Free Press Contributing Editor Wins Trip with Nick Kristof
Casey Parks, a former full-time JFP staffer who remains a contributing editor while she attends graduate school at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, triumphed over nearly 4,000 American college and graduate school applicants in the New York Times' "Win a Trip With Nick Kristof" contest. She will have the chance to accompany the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist on a reporting jaunt to Africa this September. Parks' winning essay describes her goal to be a journalist as "a distinct want (it's a thirst and a flame, all at once) ... for the reaching outside of myself, to break people's hearts so adeptly that they move into action."
05-23-2006 7:35 am |
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Pacific Sun Hires New Editor
Jason Walsh will take the helm from Linda Xiques this Friday, the Marin County weekly announced in its current issue. Xiques began working at the Sun as an intern before becoming a reporter and then serving as an editor of the paper for 23 years. Walsh "has a broad newspaper background in areas of news and features as well as experience in radio and television," according to the Sun. Most recently, he was news editor at the Sonoma Index-Tribune.
05-22-2006 3:46 pm |
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