AAN News
Donna Ladd: Reporting Her Face Off in Mississippi
The editor-in-chief of the Jackson Free Press never intended to write the story that won her a 2005 AltWeekly Award for Feature Story. She'd assigned it to another writer. And then she ran into one of the subjects of the piece, they got to talking, and over the next six months she developed her heart-rending account of a family that suffered at the hands of a priest. This is the second in a "How I Got That Story" series highlighting the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners.
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Erika Beras |
10-13-2005 2:56 pm |
Association News
Blogger: Economics Is Driving Anticipated Alt-Weekly Mergernew
Eddy Sez |
10-13-2005 10:06 am |
Industry News
NYT to Distribute Movie Mag Via Theater Chains in Major Urban Marketsnew
MediaWeek |
10-13-2005 7:32 am |
Industry News
TV Newsman Resigns After Reporting Alt-Weekly Fiction as Fact
Nashville TV news reporter James Lewis recently ended a segment on an undercover prostitution sting by claiming that the Nashville police department arrested a McDonald's employee for selling a Big Mac to a hooker, thereby violating a law against "giving nutrition to a prostitute." Turns out Lewis was a victim of Google -- which he used to find the December 2004 Nashville Scene humor column in which the apocryphal anecdote was reported -- and his own credulity, which prevented him from recognizing obvious signs that the piece was a joke. Like, for instance, the fact that the column is called "The Fabricator." Lewis tells the Scene that it all worked out for the best since he wants to get into the real estate business anyway.
10-12-2005 2:50 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Nashville Scene
English Major Starts "Alternative Newspaper" at N.C. State
Mike Massey's column poking fun at students obsessed with their pickup trucks was rejected by the school paper for being "too liberal," so he decided to start a newspaper of his own. Splat! -- which aspires to be like Rolling Stone magazine in its early years, according to the News & Observer -- is scheduled to debut in November. "You aren't going to see stories about student government votes or trustee meetings in our paper," Massey tells the N&O. "I expect our stories to address the environment, women's issues, minority affairs, sex, student activism, drinking. This is what students talk about, but you don't see it in papers like the [North Carolina State school newspaper]."
10-12-2005 2:05 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Gambit Weekly to Return Nov. 1
Even though Hurricane Katrina left its office (pictured) submerged under more than two feet of water, co-owners Margo and Clancy DuBos always knew the paper would make a comeback. "We're about to celebrate our 25th anniversary [at Gambit]," says Margo. "How could I work that hard and get the company where it is and walk away from that?" The paper will initially operate from a temporary office space in Metairie, La., but it will have to do so without editor Michael Tisserand, who has made the difficult decision to relocate with his family to the Chicago area.
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Joy Howard |
10-12-2005 8:27 am |
Industry News
Nick Goodenough: In the Midst of a Jostling Crowd
One of the youngest winners of a 2005 AltWeekly Award is Nick Goodenough, whose column for Ventura County Reporter, "Nick at Night," took first place for photography in the small-paper division. In an interview with AAN intern Lindsay Kishter, Goodenough explains how he managed to take photos on packed dance floors without blurring his subjects or losing his grip on his camera. This is the first in a series titled "How I Got That Story" that will highlight the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners.
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Lindsay Kishter |
10-07-2005 1:44 pm |
Association News
Norman: Farren's NT-Clear Channel Comparison "Utterly Ridiculous"new
Romenesko |
10-06-2005 10:53 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Bob Norman
"Submerged" Gets Props From NBC News Anchor
In an entry in his MSNBC blog on Monday, network newsman Brian Williams called Part 4 of Michael Tisserand's AAN-commissioned series on the evacuee experience, "a fine piece of journalism" and a "sobering and instructive piece of writing." Speaking of the displaced Gambit Weekly editor, in addition to producing fine journalism, he and some of his former neighbors recently started a new school for their children in New Iberia, La. In case you missed it yesterday on CBS' The Early Show, you can read about the Sugar Cane Academy here.
10-05-2005 5:17 pm |
Industry News
FW Weekly Wins Environmental Journalism Award
The Society of Environmental Journalists awarded the first-place prize for Outstanding Small Market Reporting to freelancer Wendy Lyons Sunshine for "Mud Wrestling," a three-part series about "the environmental damage caused by the fast-growing region's ravenous appetite for construction stone."
10-04-2005 6:47 pm |
Industry News
Why RedEye Waited So Long to Go Freenew
Editor & Publisher |
10-04-2005 10:02 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
AltWeeklies.com's September Traffic Surpasses 250,000
A 33 percent increase in the monthly traffic count enabled AAN's collaborative news site to pass the quarter-million mark in unique visitors. AltWeeklies.com traffic has increased exponentially since April, when the number of unique visitors was less than 10,000. Most of that growth has come from AAN members who run AltWeeklies.com teasers, which have also increased traffic on their own sites.
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Ruth Hammond |
10-03-2005 3:14 pm |
Association News
Mullin: "The farewell column I promised myself I wouldn't write"new
In his final column as editor of Miami New Times, Jim Mullin (pictured) touches on the
"dramatic, dizzying change" that has taken place in the city since the paper debuted over eighteen years ago. Mullin says a paper like his, "with a small staff, closely reflects the personalities who produce it" and gives a shout out to all those who played a role in helping him chronicle the flux in this city that is "long on illusion and short on memory" and where "change is the only constant."
Miami New Times |
10-03-2005 10:09 am |
Industry News
