AAN News
Sydney Schanberg Wins Media Criticism Award for Voice Columnnew
The Village Voice |
03-27-2006 9:22 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Village Voice
Online Syndicate Plans to Challenge News Wiresnew
New York Times (reg. req.) |
03-27-2006 7:33 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
In First Race, Riverfront Times' Namesake Places Second
The staff of the St. Louis alt-weekly was unable to attend when the three-year old, River Front Times, made his debut March 18 at Fairmount Park. "If we'd been able to go, I'm convinced we would have cheered him on to victory," Editor Tom Finkel tells AAN News. "But we also probably would have bet the odds down and no one would have made any money." Former staff writer and racing aficionado Mike Seely convinced the horse's owner to change his name from Pollys Jaybird last year as long as the paper paid the $100 name-registration fee. The staff is planning to attend River Front Times' next race in full force. "As usual, the hopes of our company ride on a longshot," adds Andy Van de Voorde, executive associate editor for Village Voice Media.
03-24-2006 2:42 pm |
Industry News
Brad Mindich To Replace Barry Morris as Phoenix Media Presidentnew
Morris' upcoming retirement was announced Thursday morning via an e-mail from Brad Mindich (pictured) to employees of the Phoenix Media/Communications Group that was subsequently posted on senior writer Mark Jurkowitz's blog. Morris has worked for the company for 36 of its 40 years. "I find it a bit strange for me to be the one making this announcement," writes Mindich. "Barry has known me since I was a baby, known me well enough to have watched me taking baths in the sink of my family’s small West Roxbury apartment." Mindich is the son of Phoenix publisher and founder Stephen Mindich and has served as executive vice president for three years. Morris tells Jurkowitz that he's looking forward to new challenges, but adds, "It's very possible I can still play a role in the company."
The Boston Phoenix |
03-24-2006 10:17 am |
Industry News
Oregonian M.E.: Willamette Week Story Is 'Sloppy Reporting'new
Angela Valdez penned this week's WW cover story alleging that The Oregonian "manufactured" a meth epidemic by devoting at least 261 stories to methamphetamine abuse over the past 18 months, and by relying "on bad statistics and a rhetoric of crisis, ultimately misleading its readers into believing they face a far greater scourge than the facts support." Steve Engelberg, managing editor/enterprise for The Oregonian, fired back in a strongly-worded letter on Romenesko that disparaged Valdez's reporting as "one-sided," "intellectually dishonest," "built on anecdotal comments that ignore the facts" and meeting "no acceptable journalistic standard." The fundamental disagreement between the papers seems to be whether the number of meth users is increasing, and how that number should be measured.
Romenesko Letters |
03-24-2006 8:48 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Willamette Week
New Religious Section in Sacramento News & Review
03-24-2006 3:16 pm |
Press Releases
How Severe Were Nick Sylvester's Transgressions?new
His fabrications in The Village Voice were "neither culturally significant nor journalistically shocking," Philadelphia City Paper founder and former owner Bruce Schimmel writes in his weekly column, and the disciplinary actions that resulted were "a shot across the bow of the mother ship of New Journalism." But Duane Swierczynski uses his editor's letter to disagree: "If we're not vigilant about separating truth from fiction, can you imagine what schoolkids will be saying about George W. Bush in 200 years?" Fabrications are too often rewarded, and editors who prod writers for amazing dialogue need to be equally passionate about checking accuracy, Swierczynski argues.
Philadelphia City Paper |
03-23-2006 8:45 am |
Industry News
Pew: Web Users Still Unlikely to Pay for Newsnew
Editor & Publisher |
03-23-2006 7:44 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Lisa Sorg Steps Down as Editor of San Antonio Currentnew
"I steered the paper in a populist direction, and viewed our job as to say what others could not, or would not," Sorg (pictured) writes in this week's issue. Sorg, who arrived in San Antonio five years ago and was named editor two years later, says she derived great joy working with the small editorial staff "to transform the Current into a credible, relevant, and indispensable publication -- one that offers the urgency of a newspaper and the context of a magazine." Satisfied that she accomplished what she set out to do, Sorg will continue to contribute to the paper as a freelance writer.
San Antonio Current |
03-22-2006 10:50 am |
Industry News
New Managing Editor Takes Reins at Boise Weeklynew
Boise Weekly |
03-22-2006 3:09 pm |
Industry News
50M Music Listeners are Young, Smart, Use Simultaneous Medianew
Center for Media Research (reg. req.) |
03-22-2006 7:34 am |
Industry News
AAN East, AAN West Post-Conference Surveys a Mixed Bag
The editorial programming scored high with attendees of both conferences, but the advertising and design streams were rated uneven at best. And while Craig Newmark was a particular favorite among the speakers at AAN West, attendees gave higher marks overall to AAN East. Still, the overwhelming majority of respondents agreed that both of this year's regional conferences were a success.
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AAN Staff |
03-21-2006 7:24 am |
Association News
Judge's Interpretation of Espionage Law Threatens Journalistsnew
Slate |
03-21-2006 11:15 am |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial
LEO Founder's Congressional Race Heats Up
The 3rd District Democratic primary in Kentucky is a lively competition between four men, says David Hawpe with The Courier-Journal. Candidate John Yarmuth, who founded the Louisville Eccentric Observer (and wrote its political column until a few months ago), is "extremely well connected, as well as very well known," but he risks being seen as "a mere son of privilege." The Courier-Journal has received a complaint that Yarmuth made a campaign appearance at a drug court graduation, but Hawpe notes, "hey, those people (along with all the clerks, judges and other courthouse workers who were in the vicinity) vote, too, don't they? Maybe we have a real campaign."
03-20-2006 7:02 am |
Industry News
Media Columnist: Westword Covers Aimed at Young Audiencenew
Rocky Mountain News |
03-20-2006 6:15 am |
Industry News
