AAN News
Article from 'Submerged' Series Wins Press Association Contest
Former Gambit Weekly Editor Michael Tisserand won first place in the Individual Feature Writing Category of the 2005 Louisiana Press Association journalism competition, the LPA announced this weekend. Tisserand won for an entry from his "Submerged" series that also ran as a cover story for Lafayette's Independent Weekly, which competes in the Free Circulation/Special Interest Publication category against other weeklies in the state. Tisserand's ten-part series chronicling the Katrina-evacuee experience was commissioned by AAN and ran in dozens of AAN member papers and Web sites. The Independent, a three-year old publication applying for AAN membership this year, earned 50 awards in the competition, including 21 first-place honors. Gannett's competing weekly in Lafayette, the Times of Acadiana, picked up 27 awards.
05-16-2006 9:46 am |
Industry News
Mansion Battles Reaction from Phoenix New Times 'Spoof' Storynew
The Business Journal (Phoenix) |
05-16-2006 2:34 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Phoenix New Times
Willamette Week's Jaquiss Is Finalist for Loeb Business Journalism Award
Pulitzer-winning journalist Nigel Jaquiss is in the running for a 2006 Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, it was announced today. Jaquiss' investigation into the planned sale of Portland General Electric is a finalist in the "Small Newspapers" category (for newspapers with circulation of less than 150,000). Winners will be announced June 26.
05-15-2006 2:30 pm |
Industry News
Illinois Times Story May Prompt Investigation Into Discharge -- Or Not
The case of Marty Dwyer, a gay man who was discharged from the Air National Guard under questionable circumstances, was first reported in Illinois Times' April 13 cover story. Other media outlets later picked it up, and Gov. Rod Blagojevich last week told the Associated Press that he had asked the state attorney general to investigate Dwyer's discharge. However, the attorney general's office denied receiving the request. Dwyer told the AP, "I think the governor’s office is paying lip service to me."
05-15-2006 10:46 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Illinois Times
2006 Academy for Alternative Journalism Fellows Named
Ten aspiring journalists have been chosen to attend the seventh annual AAJ summer residency program at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. This year's class includes a former staff writer for Tampa's Weekly Planet and several other young writers who have experience freelancing for AAN papers. The ten fellows were selected from 420 applicants for the eight-week program, which is designed to train minority journalists in the fundamentals of long-form journalism.
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05-15-2006 9:59 am |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
Opinion: 'Convergence' Could Be the Next Media Disasternew
The Miami Herald |
05-15-2006 9:49 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Electronic Publishing
Alt-Weeklies Wonder if 'NYT' Borrowed Approach to 'Woodpecker' Storynew
Editor & Publisher |
05-12-2006 1:30 pm |
Industry News
Schools Chief's Plagiarism: 'An Embarrassing Mistake'new
Pasadena Weekly |
05-12-2006 7:58 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Pasadena Weekly
Study Shows Youth Get Online News From Portals, Not Newspapersnew
Editors Weblog |
05-12-2006 6:32 am |
Industry News
U.S. Subpoenas Newspaper for Sources in Steroid Casenew
New York Times (reg. req.) |
05-12-2006 6:18 am |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Are Portals a Growing Threat to News Sites?new
E-Media Tidbits |
05-11-2006 8:44 am |
Industry News
Best Bloggers Will Have Ties to Newspapersnew
Online Press Gazette |
05-11-2006 8:08 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Santa Fe Reporter Columnist Takes a 'Turn' in Newsweek
Robert Wilder, who writes the column "Daddy Needs a Drink" for the Reporter, is the guest columnist for the "My Turn" feature in the current issue of Newsweek. Wilder's subject is his own father, whom he contacts each Mother's Day to "let him know how much I appreciate all the ways he tried to be both the hand that rocked the cradle and the one that held a hammer."
05-10-2006 1:02 pm |
Industry News
Air America Radio to Present at AAN Convention
05-10-2006 6:12 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Alt-Weeklies Reign in Food-Writing Competitionnew
The prestigious James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards were announced Monday at an awards reception in New York (which was hosted by none other than AAN's favorite speaker, Cokie Roberts) and four Village Voice Media writers were awarded first-place medallions. Jonathan Kauffman of East Bay Express, Jonathan Gold of LA Weekly, Kristen Hinman of Riverfront Times, and Dara Moskowitz of City Pages triumphed in four of the seven categories in which alt-weeklies were eligible to participate. And one of the other winners -- The Times-Picayune's Brett Anderson -- formerly did his writing in the pages of the Washington City Paper.
James Beard Foundation |
05-09-2006 8:13 am |
Industry News
