AAN News
Dan Savage Claims Patty Calhoun Slipped Him a 'Roofie'
Or perhaps "speculates" would be the proper way to describe Savage's remark, which was made at the beginning of a presentation promoting his most recent book, "The Commitment," at the Tattered Cover book store in Denver.
Apparently Mr. Savage Love and the editor of Westword went out for a couple
of drinks prior to the speech. Unfortunately, Savage's other slanderous
allegations cannot be published on this family-friendly Web site. For the
20-second MP3 version, click here. And if the kids are out of the room, you can
listen to the entire speech here.
03-17-2006 11:43 am |
Industry News
'State of the News Media' Offers Mixed Forecast for Alt-Weekliesnew
Widespread and unrelenting competition both online and off have left "the large-market alternative weeklies ... bleeding from dozens of little cuts," according to the 2006 report issued earlier this week by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. The report also notes that while national advertising has declined, the industry has "regained upward momentum in circulation" and alt-weeklies in secondary markets continue to grow. The potential threat of a journalism venture from Craig Newmark and the possibility of more mergers fill the crystal-ball portion of the report, which concludes: "The biggest issue on the horizon for the alternative weeklies is the Voice/New Times merger. Despite talk in recent years that the world of the weeklies has been conglomeratized, there is still a lot of room for mergers among the owners that remain."
Project for Excellence in Journalism |
03-17-2006 9:02 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Experts Divided on Impact of Bush's Open-Records Ordernew
First Amendment Center Online |
03-17-2006 11:55 am |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial
Google Wins Copyright Battle, But Issue Still Unclearnew
Wall Street Journal |
03-17-2006 9:16 am |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial
Alt-Weeklies Lap Up Nominations in Food-Writing Awards
Foodies at Creative Loafing (Atlanta), Riverfront Times, Westword, L.A. Weekly, East Bay Express, City Pages (Twin Cities), Phoenix New Times, and Houston Press picked up ten of the 21 nominations for which they qualified in the 2006 James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards announced today. The complete list is available as a PDF here. Alt-weeklies were particularly dominant in the "Newspaper Writing on Spirits, Wine or Beer" category, in which all three nominees are AAN members. The awards recognize and honor excellence and achievement in the culinary arts.
03-16-2006 1:26 pm |
Industry News
Death Row Inmate Apologizes in Letter to Seven Days
The March 15 issue of the Burlington, Vt. weekly contains a letter to the editor from Donald Fell, who was sentenced to death for the 2000 kidnapping and murder of Terry King. In the letter, which can be read here (fourth item down), Fell writes, "I live every day in abject sorrow. Not for myself, but for these righteous people, these innocents whose lives I have destroyed." Fell's trial was the focus of media attention because he is the first person to receive the death penalty in Vermont in 50 years; a representative of The Campaign to End the Death Penalty forwarded the letter to Seven Days. Burlington TV station WPTZ interviewed his victim's daughter, who said, "He sums it up in two paragraphs. That's not remorse."
03-16-2006 9:18 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Seven Days
First Amendment Center's FOI Legislation Updatenew
First Amendment Center |
03-16-2006 12:16 pm |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial
Sacramento News & Review Prints War Issue
03-16-2006 10:00 am |
Press Releases
Gannett News Service: FOIA Denials Have Increased Since 2001new
Gannett News Service via The Ithaca Journal |
03-16-2006 9:00 am |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial
NY Press' Weinstein on Sylvester: Voice Editors Deserve Little Censurenew
New York Press |
03-16-2006 7:52 am |
Industry News
Blogger Steals Content From Seven Days, Gets Firednew
Yesterday morning, Cathy Resmer, a staff writer for Seven Days in Burlington, Vt., discovered text and images snatched directly from Seven Days' Web site had been posted on Explore New England's Vermont blog. (Explore New England is managed by the Boston Globe and its Web site, Boston.com, both of which are owned by the New York Times Co.) Resmer contacted the blogger's boss at Boston.com, who apologized, terminated his contract and promptly deleted the blog. "I think we should all be paying attention to who's writing about our circulation areas online," Resmer tells AAN News. "I think it's worth having somebody on staff who's monitoring local blogs. It's a great way to find out what readers are saying, and in this case, it helped us protect our material."
Seven Days Blog |
03-15-2006 1:41 pm |
Industry News
Members Again Eligible for Free Registrations to AAN Convention
For the second year in a row, AAN papers can qualify for up to two free
registrations to the annual confab, which will be held June 15-17 in Little
Rock, Ark. In addition to former President Bill Clinton, Arkansas natives
Wesley Clark and Susan McDougal have already been confirmed as speakers. And
for the first time ever, AAN members will be able to register for the
convention over the Internet.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
03-15-2006 1:30 pm |
Association News
Buffalo Current Publisher Predicted Putting Artvoice Out of Businessnew
Niagara Falls Reporter |
03-15-2006 8:23 am |
Industry News
Judge Ponders Palo Alto Weekly Lawsuitnew
Palo Alto Online |
03-15-2006 8:01 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Palo Alto Weekly
Seattle Weekly's 'Dategirl' on Being Fired From the NY Press
In an interview with New York blog Gothamist, Judy McGuire dishes on her six years writing a dating advice column for Seattle Weekly -- and, until last October, writing a separate "Dategirl" column for the New York Press. On her separation from the Press, McGuire says, "Getting fired is never pleasant. I miss it, but frankly, I don't think that many people were reading the Press by that point anyway."
She also contrasts her dysfunctional life -- which is "in the grand tradition of advice columnists," she claims -- with the family-friendly ways of the author of Savage Love: "Dan Savage is the only well-adjusted one I can think of (though I’ve heard rumors)."
03-14-2006 3:13 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Seattle Weekly
