AAN News
Is Glen Warchol the (Old) Face of Alt-Weeklies?
John Saltas pokes fun at Warchol, a former Dallas Observer journalist, in his Jan. 19 Salt Lake City Weekly column, claiming that a recent photo of Warchol reveals the true age of the alt-weekly business. Writes Saltas, "I can't speak for my peers .. but if the face of AAN is the face of Glen -- who by the looks of things can no longer "Do the Hustle" -- we're toast. If Glen's old, I'm old, and all my friends are old. Alternative papers are old. At least, thank God, I have my hair."
01-18-2006 1:12 pm |
Industry News
San Antonio Current 'Grows Up, But Not Old'new
The Current kicks off its 20th anniversary year with a Jan. 18 retrospective of the paper's two decades, from breaking news about then-Mayor Henry Cisneros' adulterous affair, to the phallic cartoon that prompted businesses to ban the paper, to award-winning stories about media ownership. Journalist Steven G. Kellman writes of the newspaper culture in San Antonio: "Though the entire editorial staff of the Current is outnumbered by just the sports department at the Express-News, they keep the Hearst daily on its toes often by stepping on the toes of the powerful." The Current will auction framed digital prints of its most notable covers at four anniversary events over the course of the year.
San Antonio Current |
01-18-2006 11:44 am |
Industry News
Baltimore City Paper Publishes Rebuttal of Olesker Charges
This week's issue contains a defense of former Baltimore Sun columnist Michael Olesker by former Sun writer
David Simon. Olesker was asked to retire earlier this month after
City Paper's Gadi Dechter found that Olesker had lifted
language from other writers at the Sun, the New York Times and the
Washington Post. Simon argues that "most reporting -- unless it utilizes confidential sources or results from some investigative effort or special project -- has a short shelf life before it becomes nonproprietary," and says that if Olesker is a plagiarist, so are all journalists.
01-18-2006 9:57 am |
Industry News
San Antonio Current Celebrates 20th Anniversary
01-18-2006 10:43 am |
Press Releases
The Stranger's Unusual Corrections Draw Praise
The Stranger recently took a unique approach to address a significant error made by Theater Editor Brendan Kiley: Kiley confused Eugene O'Neill and Neil Simon, so The Stranger administered a "Eugene O’Neil Simon Quiz." Kiley was asked to identify photos of the two men, as well as biographical facts and excerpts of dialogue. Kiley achieved a perfect score, although The Stranger failed him on his essay (which could be summarized as "big deal"). The "correction" was picked up by Romenesko and Regret the Error, and the latter praised The Stranger's quiz as "fun, interactive, and it demonstrates that the paper takes accuracy seriously enough to do something innovative."
01-17-2006 9:33 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Stranger
Jackson Free Press Launches Councilman's Blog
Ben Allen, a conservative Ward 1 Councilman in Jackson, Miss., is authoring a blog hosted on the Jackson Free Press Web site. The blog went live on Jan. 12 with a post in which Allen explains that Free Press Editor in Chief Donna Ladd is "a personal friend," and that he can "live with" the paper's liberal bent if his blog is a venue for two-sided political discussion. Allen goes on to say that he is "enthusiastic about the depth of many of the local ISSUES researched AND REPORTED in-depth by the JFP. We in government get so weary of the lack of real information in local and state issues as covered by our State's largest newspaper." In its first week, the blog generated nearly a thousand views and some polite questions about bike lanes and streetlights.
01-17-2006 8:34 am |
Industry News
AltWeekly Awards Deadline Is This Friday
By now, all newspapers planning to enter the 2005 AltWeekly Awards should have logged in to the contest site and reviewed the steps necessary to upload entries. Each entry must be registered online, regardless of whether the material itself is being entered in PDF or tearsheet format. As the midnight EST deadline approaches on Friday, the Web site may become slower, so don't wait until the last minute! Hard copies and payment must be received in the AAN office by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 24.
01-16-2006 2:58 pm |
Association News
Tags: Design & Production, Editorial
San Diego Reader Reaches Agreement with Drug Companynew
The Daily Northwestern |
01-16-2006 8:47 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, San Diego Reader
World Magazine Profiles San Diego Reader Publisher Jim Holmannew
World Magazine |
01-16-2006 3:36 pm |
Industry News
Boston’s Weekly Dig Announces New Lifestyle Editor
01-16-2006 1:37 pm |
Press Releases
Former Boston Mayor Contributes to Weekly Dig
01-16-2006 12:17 pm |
Press Releases
San Antonio Current Kicks Off 20th Anniversary
01-15-2006 2:42 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, San Antonio Current
Phoenix New Times Answers Critics and Releases Election Report
The Jan. 12 issue of New Times' flagship paper summarizes a report by Douglas Jones on "widespread problems within the Maricopa County [Ariz.] Elections Department." Jones, a University of Iowa computer science professor, has been a subject of controversy ever since state Sen. Jack Harper issued a subpoena allowing him to examine the county's voting machines. Both Harper and New Times, which paid for Jones' report, have been strongly criticized in the local press. New Times Editor Rick Barrs said local politicians and press have drummed up controversy over the subpoena to obscure the real story: local elections are ripe for error and fraud.
(FULL STORY)
Lindsay Kishter |
01-13-2006 11:36 am |
Industry News
Public Health Proposal Would Throw Out FOIAnew
Baltimore Sun (reg. req.) |
01-13-2006 8:31 am |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial
Westword Editor Doffs Shirt for Public Television
Patty Calhoun gave up the (cowboy) shirt off her back during pledge week on Denver's KBDI-Ch. 12, and in so doing she gained the attention of the Denver Post (here, third item). What happened, in her words: "The lovely teal cowboy shirt in question spent much of its life in my truck, and only got hauled out for respectable events -- such as AAN conventions and an occasional appearance on "Colorado Inside Out," the weekly public-affairs TV roundtable I'm on. One day, Westword's music editor reported that he'd run into some of the TV techs at a club, and they were talking about how much they hated that shirt. So the last time I wore it on TV, when the host was talking about how it was pledge week but our show was never pre-empted, I said I'd donate the dreaded shirt to whoever pledged $100. Someone did, so during last week's show, I took it off." But don't get the wrong idea -- Calhoun was wearing another shirt underneath.
01-12-2006 4:16 pm |
Industry News
