AAN News
Fort Worth Weekly: Ten Years and Going Strongnew
Having reached "the tweener stage," the Weekly is proud of its warts-and-all history, which is recounted in this week's cover story. From its early days as "a raucous conglomerate of gays, old hippies, cynical journalists, fresh-faced young writers, revolving-door sales reps, and tart-tongued receptionists" facing fierce opposition from the local daily, through its sale to New Times in 2000 and resale to Lee Newquist the following year, the Weekly has focused on "critiquing the emperor’s new clothes" and has stuck by a statement made in the first issue: "We're having fun. ... And we plan to be around for a long, long time."
Fort Worth Weekly |
04-13-2006 8:11 am |
Industry News
Metroland Wins 9 New York Press Association Awards
04-13-2006 2:31 pm |
Press Releases
Democracy Now Investigates Village Voice 'Shake-Up'new
Democracy Now |
04-13-2006 10:22 am |
Industry News
The Case of the Stranger Critic and the Stolen Cookie
The first two items in Performance Editor Brendan Kiley's Mar. 30 column reported on a couple of incidents in which local theaters in Seattle were victimized by small-time hoods. Determined to maintain the petty-theft theme but "unable to find any outlaws associated with" the third production he covered that week, Kiley took it upon himself to steal a cookie from the concession table. He determined that the play was "so-so" but "the cookie, full of chocolate chips, was pleasantly moist." There is no doubt that someone at the theater read the review, because, according to today's Stranger blog, Kiley received a bill from the theater this week -- $2.50 for one "moist chocolate chip cookie."
04-12-2006 1:32 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Stranger
Alleged Page Six Extortionist's Days at NY Press
Before he was in a position to charge a fortune for protection from gossip, Jared Paul Stern was a writer for New York Press. In this week's issue, Ernie Koy describes his first encounter with Stern, "a pretentious man who was suffering from early male-pattern baldness" and who "sucked up to whoever needed to be sucked up to." Based on these attributes, Koy decided that "he would do well in the New York media."
04-12-2006 12:46 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, New York Press
Program Announced for 2006 Annual Convention [members only]
AAN Staff |
04-12-2006 9:58 am |
Association News
Creative Loafing Bids Farewell to Food Critic Bill Addisonnew
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
04-12-2006 7:47 am |
Industry News
Weekly Dig Gets Props From CBS Analyst
Jon Keller, a political analyst for the local CBS affiliate in Boston, gives high praise to the Weekly Dig in an April 8 post on his blog. Keller calls the newspaper "indispensable" and points readers to a recent Dig story on Keno as a must-read in Massachusetts' legalized-gambling debate. According to his bio on the station's Web site, Keller also broadcasts morning drive commentaries on WBZ NewsRadio 1030 and contributes weekly to The Boston Herald and monthly to Boston Magazine, which is owned by the same company that owns the Dig.
04-11-2006 10:24 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Boston's Weekly Dig
S.C. Supreme Court Rules Against Charleston CP in Defamation Suitnew
Linda Erickson could be awarded millions of dollars in actual and punitive damages, her lawyer told The Post and Courier in Charleston. Erickson sued the City Paper's parent company, Jones Street Publishers, claiming that the newspaper defamed her in a January 2000 story on court-appointed guardians for children. The story contained "unfounded allegations against Erickson's professional abilities" made by the grandmother of a child for whom Erickson was a guardian, even though Erickson was not identified by name, according to The Post and Courier. A new jury will be seated to award damages.
The Post and Courier |
04-11-2006 6:54 am |
Industry News
Dailies Buying Into Blog Syndication Servicenew
Boston Globe |
04-10-2006 6:30 am |
Industry News
Newspapers Predicted to Phase Out, Go Onlinenew
Media Daily News (reg. req.) |
04-10-2006 6:04 am |
Industry News
Village Voice Offers Mea Culpa For Posting Inappropriate Link
The NY-gossip blog Gawker tweaked the Village Voice this morning for posting a home-page link on villagevoice.com to a six-year old story on "Online Celeb Torture" written by Peter Braunstein, who was charged last year with brutalizing a woman in her Manhattan apartment. The Voice quickly removed the link and posted an editor's note, admitting that the employee responsible for the link "should have known better" and that Gawker's ridicule was well-placed.
04-07-2006 10:25 am |
Industry News
New York Press Names Adario Strange Editor-in-Chief
04-07-2006 10:00 am |
Press Releases
Reporter Jennifer Gonnerman Resigns From Village Voicenew
New York Observer |
04-07-2006 5:51 am |
Industry News
