AAN News
Does Bush or Capitol Hill Have a Better Solution to FOIA Reform?new
Federal Times |
01-30-2006 2:56 pm |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial
Congress Should Be Required to Obey FOIAnew
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
01-30-2006 2:45 pm |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial
Bush's FOIA Order May Aim to Head Off a Tougher Lawnew
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |
01-29-2006 8:44 am |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial
Porn and Counter-Pornnew
In the Jan. 26 issue of New Haven Advocate, three writers engage in a debate on alt-weeklies' connection to pornography. In "Porn Free," Carole Bass questions why alt-weeklies "reflexively pimp for porn." Ryan Kearney and Tom Gogola provide counterpoints in "Porn Goes Public" and "Slings and Eros."
New Haven Advocate |
01-27-2006 12:31 am |
Industry News
The Life and Death of Faux-Alt Coreweeklynew
Isthmus |
01-27-2006 12:42 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Madison's Coreweekly Halts Productionnew
The Daily Cardinal |
01-27-2006 1:47 am |
Industry News
Bay Guardian Asks Questions About Harmon Leon Affairnew
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
01-26-2006 10:05 am |
Industry News
Don Eggert: Making Stories Into Something More
Don Eggert is an art director who loves deadlines: he thrives on the challenge of working against time constraints and enjoys the sense of relief that a job is done. He spent two hours, start to finish, creating his award-winning layout, "The Blogger."
This is the 35th in a "How I Got That Story" series highlighting the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners.
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Isaiah Thompson |
01-25-2006 9:50 am |
Association News
Former Editor Returns to Artvoice
Geoff Kelly has returned to his former job as editor of Artvoice, according to representatives of the Buffalo, NY-based alt-weekly. Kelly recently returned from the Middle East after serving for two years as senior media officer for the Qatar Foundation. Before that he served briefly as the editor of the now defunct Pulp, an arts and entertainment paper in Pittsburgh. Artvoice also announced that Lauren Newkirk Maynard has left her position as managing editor and associate music editor Mark Norris has been promoted to replace her.
01-24-2006 9:42 pm |
Industry News
Tisserand's Latest Essay Available for Free to AAN Members
Michael Tisserand, who wrote the "Submerged" series about the evacuee experience in post-Katrina New Orleans, argues for a National Mardi Gras in the Jan. 24 issue of Gambit Weekly. "It's time to honor the dead and celebrate the living," Tisserand writes. The article is available to AAN member newspapers for reprint at no charge.
01-24-2006 12:30 pm |
Industry News
AltWeekly Awards Set Entry Record -- Again!
The 2006 AltWeekly Awards received 1554 entries from 99 member newspapers. Improvements made to the contest rules and Web site were successful in making the process less problematic. If the AAN staff is not buried alive by the onslaught of paper and FedEx boxes, we will next begin sorting entries and distributing them to the preliminary round judges.
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Amy Gill |
01-24-2006 10:54 am |
Association News
Tags: Design & Production, Editorial
OC Weekly Writer Signs Book Deal
According to Publisher/Editor Will Swaim, News and Investigations Editor Nick Schou will pen a biography of Gary Webb, the late investigative journalist, for Nation Books. Webb is best known for his San Jose Mercury News "Dark Alliance" series, which explored links between the CIA, Nicaraguan contras, and crack cocaine. Webb worked briefly at the Sacramento News and Review before his suicide in 2004. Schou has reported on the controversy over the "Dark Alliance" series in several articles for OC Weekly.
01-24-2006 8:45 am |
Industry News
Bellingham Weekly Update and Timelinenew
The Bellingham Business Journal |
01-23-2006 4:26 pm |
Industry News
Mara Shalhoup: Depicting the Life of a Teenage Killer
Mara Shalhoup's award-winning feature story is a long-form narrative that often assumes the perspective of a teenage prostitute-turned-killer. It wasn't a hard article to write, Shalhoup says, and the strong response proves that readers want more stories with a human focus. This is the 34th in a "How I Got That Story" series highlighting the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners.
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Erika Beras |
01-20-2006 8:21 pm |
Association News
SF Weekly Drops Columnist Over Misrepresentations
The departure of Harmon Leon, who wrote the paper's regular "Infiltrator" column, was announced in a Jan. 18 Editor's Note (here, last item). In last week's column, Leon wrote about "infiltrating" the Adult Video News awards show, but as local Web site SFist later noted, he misidentified the city in which the show was held. According to the Editor's Note, Leon initially claimed that he had written about a previous AVN show, but the paper later discovered that he was actually at a different adult-entertainment awards show and that he had already written about that event for another magazine. Following the publication of the Editor's Note, SFist criticized the Weekly for its handling of the incident, and said that morale at the paper "may be in decline after the departure of (former editor) John Mecklin."
01-19-2006 6:05 am |
Industry News
