AAN News
Suspects Arrested in Eugene Weekly Burglary
According to The Register-Guard in Eugene, Ore., two brothers have been arrested in a series of 29 burglaries, including 12 at area churches and one at the Eugene Weekly. Editor Ted Taylor tells AAN that the burglars smashed the front door and a cash register during the December break-in, but only made off with change from a charity donation jar. "Jerry, the old homeless guy who camps in our
carport every night, wasn't very useful -- he slept through the whole thing," Taylor reports. He also notes that the newspaper has "an ongoing campaign going against our local cops over excessive
force and selective enforcement, but they showed up anyway and were very
professional."
03-02-2006 4:37 pm |
Industry News
Staff Writer: Washington CP Edit Staff Has More Utahans Than Black People
"It’s not all that surprising that the Washingtonian is a really white magazine," writes the City Paper's Huan Hsu, scolding his employer in a sidebar to its 2,900-word demolition of the upscale city mag's lily-white staff and hypocrisy on diversity issues. "It would seem a much bigger problem for the City Paper, which purports to write about a predominately black city, yet is produced by a bunch of young white folks who live in Northwest D.C. Our urban cred is just as contrived as the Washingtonian’s class." (CP's Washingtonian story can be found here; scroll down for Hsu's sidebar.) "It wasn't always this way," according to Hsu, a Chinese-American who grew up in Utah and says he spent most of his "childhood aping the mannerisms of Mormons, not Chinese people." Former Editor in Chief David Carr established a minority fellowship that "wasn't just window dressing," he says, and the paper's "high-water mark (in edit-staff diversity) came in 2001, during Howard Witt’s tenure, when there were three black female editorial staffers and two black female interns." The paper's last minority fellow departed in 2001, and current Editor in Chief Erik Wemple accepts the blame: “It’s clearly my fault that we don’t have more minority representation on staff,” he tells Hsu.
03-02-2006 4:07 pm |
Industry News
Voice Writer Suspended for Fabricationsnew
The Village Voice removed this week's cover piece, "Do You Wanna Kiss Me?" from its Web site after learning that Senior Associate Editor Nick Sylvester invented a scene in the story. According to an editor's note posted on the Web site, Sylvester lied about meeting three TV writers in a bar to discuss pickup techniques. Sylvester admits that the "scene was a composite of specific anecdotes" and says he "deeply regret[s] this misinformation." The Voice has begun a review of the entire story.
The Village Voice |
03-02-2006 8:02 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Village Voice
Phoenix New Times Runs Muhammad Cartoonsnew
The Arizona Republic |
03-02-2006 10:51 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Phoenix New Times
Miami New Times Editor Defends Police Chief Quote
Since being quoted in a Feb. 16 New Times Miami column as saying "Fuck the Cubans," Miami Police Chief John Timoney has denied speaking those words in local broadcast and print media. But in this week's Miami New Times, Editor Chuck Strouse addresses Timoney directly: "Though you've declined to return our phone calls, two things are clear to us. You, not New Times, have a motivation to lie about this. And you have a history of shading the truth and disavowing your words."
03-01-2006 4:43 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Jim Mullin Takes Professional Timeoutnew
Having endured intense criticism twice in the past six months after publishing controversial stories that sent some readers into fits of rage, the former Miami New Times editor tells the Miami Herald, "I certainly am devoted to journalism, but maybe it would be a good idea to give it a rest for a little while." Nevertheless, Mullin defends "Meth Made Easy," which included a recipe for methamphetamine and caused an uproar when it ran in the San Luis Obispo New Times earlier this month. Mullin says he knew he'd get heat for publishing the recipe, but he still thinks it served two good purposes: It let readers know about the "really awful stuff" that's in meth, and it grabbed people's attention, which kept it "from suffering the fate of so many meth articles -- they don't get read."
Miami Herald |
02-28-2006 12:39 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Jim Mullin
Voice Columnist Dishes on Celebrity Journalism
Michael Musto, who writes the "La Dolce Musto" column in the Voice, says his secret to staying relevant is keeping his distance from celebs, in this Toronto Star profile. Musto also claims that he "pioneered snark" and says that the proliferation of celebrity blogs and Web sites "forces me to go wilder and aim lower and provide something the Internet can't." Apparently, the decline in standards hasn't hurt Musto's reputation. Says here that "(h)e's been described rapturously as 'one of the wittiest stylists in the English language, master of the Oscar Wildesque segue.'"
02-28-2006 10:26 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Village Voice
Amsterdam Weekly Marks 100th Issue With Special Comics Edition
02-28-2006 11:00 am |
Press Releases
Scholarships to Study Religion Available
Full-time journalists are eligible for scholarships to attend any accredited college or university course in religion.
(FULL STORY)
02-27-2006 12:31 pm |
Press Releases
Jackson Free Press Editor Honored for Work on Race
Co-founder and Editor Donna Ladd will be honored by Jackson 2000, "a multi-racial organization that fosters positive race relations," at it's annual Friendship Ball. Ladd and Derrick Johnson, state president of the Mississippi NAACP, will both be recognized for "asking the hard questions and getting out the truthful answers when it comes to issues on race," according to the group's press release.
02-27-2006 11:24 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Laurie Ochoa: Building Reader Loyalty Through Special Issues
As Editor in Chief of L.A. Weekly, Laurie Ochoa tries to find innovative approaches to special issues, so that "you don't feel like you're reading the same copy over and over again." Viewing the "Best of L.A." through a theme of the seven deadly sins won Ochoa and her staff a first-place AtlWeekly Award for Special Section. This is the 38th and final in a "How I Got That Story" series highlighting the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners.
(FULL STORY)
Isaiah Thompson |
02-27-2006 9:22 am |
Association News
San Diego Reader To Publish Content from Diario San Diegonew
Editor & Publisher |
02-27-2006 11:41 am |
Industry News
AAN East Wrapup
It was cold outside, but almost 220 individuals braved the weather in Washington, D.C., to attend the AAN East regional conference. They were rewarded with lively seminars, networking opportunities -- and an invitation to write on the walls.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
02-24-2006 8:08 am |
Association News
Student Newspaper: Core Weekly's Demise Was Entirely Predictable
Anyone "familiar with the alternative newspaper industry in Pittsburgh would have seen failure coming" at the Madison, Wis. faux-alt, argues Indiana University of Pennsylvania student Emily Jo Boots in the school newspaper. According to Boots, the Core Weekly train wreck was foreseeable because the paper was the brainchild of Catherine Nelson, the same publisher who oversaw the demise of both In Pittsburgh and Pulp in the Steel City. "It sounds to me like Nelson thinks that dumbing down a newspaper will make everyone want to read it," Boots writes after summarizing Core Weekly's business plan.
"It seems that Nelson didn’t learn a thing when her business philosophy as a publishing consultant ran Pulp into the ground."
02-24-2006 7:14 am |
Industry News
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Tags: Editorial, Management
New Report Shows Fair Use Is Under Firenew
USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review |
02-24-2006 3:51 pm |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial
