AAN News
Orange County Gets New Free A&E Weekly (reg. req.)new
Editor & Publisher |
10-02-2005 1:49 pm |
Industry News
Reader Critic Named Arts Fellow
Ken Mayer, a freelance critic for The Reader in Omaha, Neb., was one of 25 critics, editors and reporters chosen as fellows in the second annual National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Arts Journalism Institute in Classical Music and Opera. The institute, which offers intensive training to arts journalists working outside the country's major media markets, will take place at Columbia University in New York City from October 16-27.
09-29-2005 10:22 am |
Industry News
White Supremacist Comments on AltWeekly Award-Winning Article in "Hippy-Newspaper"
In an unsigned article titled "Negress Awarded for Interviewing Nationalist," the Mississippi-based Nationalist Movement takes a swipe at one of the three pieces that netted Ayana Taylor of Jackson Free Press an AltWeekly Award earlier this year. Richard Barrett, editor of the group's Web site and the subject of Taylor's profile, "X Marks the Boycott," calls the story "light on accuracy," claiming he was misquoted and that Taylor "editorialized considerably in the article." Barrett also says he had "trouble understanding (Taylor)," and congratulates himself for "departing from precedent in which pro-majority activists invariably refused to speak to Negroes."
09-29-2005 8:53 am |
Industry News
The Dig on Bosox-Yanks: Gayest Cover Ever?new
There are three things you should know about this week's cover, the Dig's Joe Keohane tells the Boston Herald: 1. The timing was right, since the Sox and Yankees are "neck and neck (so to speak)'' in the pennant race. And the one-year anniversary of the Massachusett's same-sex marriage ruling is only, umm, six weeks out. 2. The photo was snapped by Tony Bennett's granddaughter. 3. It's an experiment to see who would be more pissed off -- baseball fans or homophobes.
Boston Herald |
09-29-2005 2:50 pm |
Industry News
Joe Keohane Comments on Weekly Dig Cover of Two Men Kissing
09-29-2005 10:43 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial
Clarification Regarding Houston Press "Best Of"
We reported yesterday that "Houston Press' 'Best of Houston' was due to go to press this week, but was forced to close early in advance of Hurricane Rita." Which is kinda true but kinda not true, too. The Press did, in fact, complete production of its "Best Of" issue in the wee hours of Friday morning, several days earlier than usual, in case Rita prevented the paper from reopening the following week. But when the hurricane proved to be less destructive than initially feared, the staff returned to the office on Monday and resumed production. The first run was sent to the printer last night; the remainder will be printed this afternoon; and the 224-page issue will hit the streets with a thud as scheduled tomorrow afternoon.
09-28-2005 2:39 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Houston Press
East Bay Express First U.S. Paper to Cover Army-Photo Scandalnew
Last Wednesday, Chris Thompson reported that American soldiers have been trading gruesome photographs of dead and mutilated Iraqis in return for free access to an amateur porn site. Thompson wrote, "(I)n the weeks since the European press uncovered the story and in the week since the site was first noticed by Eric Muller, law professor and author of the blog IsThatLegal.com, not a single US daily newspaper had covered it." That silence ended yesterday when the Army announced that it has launched an investigation of the matter.
East Bay Express |
09-28-2005 9:54 am |
Industry News
The Village Voice Announces Judges for the 51ST Annual OBIE Awards
Awards honor Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway
productions
(FULL STORY)
09-28-2005 8:34 am |
Press Releases
The "Best Of" Curse?
You may have heard by now that Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on the same day that Gambit Weekly's "Best of New Orleans" issue was scheduled to be delivered. But you probably didn't know that Houston Press' "Best of Houston" was due to go to press this week, but was forced to close early in advance of Hurricane Rita. Mere coincidence? Not according to the members of the editorial committee, who see in these two natural disasters nothing less than God's wrath against special issues and the publishers who demand them.
09-27-2005 6:07 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Baltimore City Paper Article Forces Change at Daily
The Baltimore Sun's Edward Gunts will be forced to liquidate his real-estate investments as the result of an article in City Paper noting that the architecture critic has written extensively about the neighborhoods in which the properties are located. When Gadi Dechter's piece was published in the City Paper, "what was being treated as an internal personnel matter became news," says Paul Moore, the Sun's ombudsman. Moore also says that while "Gunts had no nefarious intent to use his position for personal gain ... it also is clear that (he) should not be investing in Baltimore real estate while writing about architecture here."
09-27-2005 5:44 pm |
Industry News
The Village Voice Names Jorge Morales Theater Editor
09-27-2005 2:42 pm |
Press Releases
Community Newspapers Holdings, Inc. Launches "Alternative Weekly" in Buffalonew
BuffaloPundit |
09-27-2005 1:38 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
SLO New Times' Subhead Not Defamatory, Court Rulesnew
Editor & Publisher |
09-27-2005 11:23 am |
Industry News
AltWeeklies.com Can Now Sort Stories for Relevance
Ruth Hammond |
09-26-2005 6:33 pm |
Association News
AltWeekly Awards Book Released
This year AAN put out no ordinary awards book. Among the honored first-place entries is a Pulitzer Prize-winning story by Willamette Week's Nigel Jaquiss. "Best AltWeekly Writing and Design 2005" offers a wide selection of riveting reading, produced by some seasoned writers and others just beginning to make their mark. The bookstore-quality volume is designed to reach a wider audience than ever.
(FULL STORY)
Ruth Hammond |
09-21-2005 6:20 pm |
Association News
