AAN News
OC Weekly Writer Named Annenberg Senior Fellow
Gustavo Arellano was selected to participate in the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communication seminar, "Latinization of Art and Culture in America: Understanding Its Impact and Why It Matters," which will be held the third week of October. Twenty-two fellows were honored with an invitation, but only Arellano and Augustin Gurza of the LA Times were named senior fellows; they are expected to assume leadership roles for the duration of the conference. Arellano was the recipient of an AAN Diversity Internship grant in 2002.
09-21-2005 10:34 am |
Industry News
Gambit Weekly Managing Editor Leaves AAN to Return to Louisiana
Newly named AAN assistant editor Shala Carlson (pictured), who was serving as Gambit Weekly's managing editor prior to Hurricane Katrina, has decided to return to Louisiana.
"I think I just acted too quickly," Carlson says. "I believed I was ready to make a move, but I didn't anticipate how much I need friends and family and familiarity right now." AAN posted a help-wanted ad today for the newly reopened position.
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09-20-2005 9:11 am |
Association News
Nation Institute Funds Available for Investigative Reporting
The Nation Institute's Investigative Fund seeks to financially assist individual projects focusing on subjects frequently overlooked by mainstream media outlets. AAN editors with a project and writer in mind may contact fund editor Kim Nauer at (212) 209-3380 or by email at nauer@nationinstitute.org for an initial conversation regarding well-researched potential projects. The Nation Institute was founded in 1966 and endeavors to strengthen free speech and the independent press through a variety of programs.
09-20-2005 12:43 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Mecklin Resigns, Walsh Takes Over as SF Weekly Editornew
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09-20-2005 7:34 am |
Industry News
Matt Taibbi on Russ Smith, New York Press
In a recent interview with John Dicker that appears in the September issue of The Toilet Paper (a monthly "Monster-Truck/Gay-Cowboy tabloid" based in Colorado Springs), Taibbi talks about his new gig with Rolling Stone and his recent departure from the New York Press. Taibbi offers a characteristically heated denunciation of columnist and former New York Press owner Russ Smith; says ex-editors Jeff Koyen and Alexander Zaitchik were scapegoats for the failures of the paper's management; and predicts new editor Harry Siegel ("a Smith protege") will turn the paper "into a dumb neocon rag."
09-19-2005 12:09 pm |
Industry News
Inter American Press Association Announces General Assembly
The non-profit Inter American Press Association will host its 61st General Assembly Oct. 7-11 in Indianapolis. "This is a great group, doing extraordinary work in the Americas (from Canada down to Argentina) and of particular interest to the alternative press for a lot of good editorial and business reasons," writes San Francisco Bay Guardian editor and publisher Bruce Brugmann. "Among them: a snapshot of the action in the Americas, lots of good news and editorial ideas, entree into the latest in technology and business developments, and most important a direct way to really lend a hand to supporting a free press in these critical countries." Registration information is available through the organization's Web site; the association has more than 1,300 members from newspapers and magazines throughout the Americas.
09-16-2005 11:11 am |
Industry News
AAN FEMA Disaster Articles Appear in Blogosphere
As the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina continue to unfold, blogs the Web over are turning to the discussion of what exactly went wrong in those crucial early hours. The 2004 AAN-sponsored FEMA disaster story appears often. Most notably, Eschaton and Washington Monthly have linked to the story and the Sept. 7 follow-up published on altweeklies.com, both written by Jon Elliston of the Independent Weekly. In addition, a Louisiana-specific report written by Gambit Weekly staffer Eileen Loh-Harrist shows up on Talking Points Memo.
09-16-2005 10:01 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weeklies Dominate Food Journalism Awards
Alt-weeklies walked away with half of the 18 winning entries in the under-150,000 circulation category of the Association of Food Journalists awards announced last week. New Times foodies at Dallas Observer, SF Weekly and Riverfront Times each picked up a first-place prize, while Houston Press' Robb Walsh took home both a first- and second-place. Independent Weekly, Creative Loafing-Atlanta and Willamette Week were the other AAN winners in the AFJ's small-paper category. LA Weekly's Jonathan Gold, who won first-place in this year's AltWeekly Awards Food Writing category (Walsh placed second), also won first-place for Restaurant Criticism in the AFJ contest, in the 150,001-300,000 circulation category.
09-14-2005 12:50 pm |
Industry News
OC Weekly: Stories That Made a Differencenew
OC Weekly |
09-14-2005 2:38 pm |
Industry News
Dan Savage's New Book "About Creating and Appreciating Family"
So says Brangien Davis in this lengthy feature previewing "The Commitment," due to be released later this month by Dutton. Among other topics, Davis talks to the sex columnist and editor of The Stranger about his family -- both old and new -- and gay marriage. Explaining why he doesn't feel that the family focus of "The Commitment" is philosophically at odds with his weekly sex column, Savage says, "If people are reading my column closely, I think they can see I'm conservatively pro-family. Most people have sex with their spouses, and being pro-sexual-pleasure is the way to keep that love alive."
09-13-2005 3:35 pm |
Industry News
AAN Commissions Weekly Series by Gambit Editor
Michael Tisserand (pictured at left, with family) this week launched a series of weekly columns available to all AAN-member papers that will focus on the evacuee experience in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. "Although the voice of these pieces will be personal," says Tisserand, "this is going to be a heavily reported column seeking to give specific voice to the general evacuee population." The 2,000-word columns will be available free of charge each Monday to member papers for use in their pages or on their Web sites.
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09-13-2005 1:03 pm |
Association News
Gambit Staffer Describes Her Ordeal in New Orleans Hospitalnew
When the order to evacuate came, Gambit Weekly staff writer Katy Reckdahl had to decide which would be worse: staying in New Orleans for the storm or delivering her first child in a car on the evacuation route. She stayed. Here is her account of her son's first days at Touro Infirmary and her family's eventual escape from the city.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
09-09-2005 3:21 pm |
Industry News
"Alternative Monthly" in Maine Celebrates First Anniversary
Mount Desert Island, Maine is host to an Onion-like satirical monthly that the Bangor Daily News insists on calling an alternative newspaper. The one-year-old Summer Squash "makes a few people nervous but it's great entertainment," says the MDI police chief. And according to the paper's editor, "We don't get many complaints, surprisingly, despite our [far left] politics. We get a lot of positive feedback. There are no rules, no regulation. We print everything we get."
09-08-2005 5:36 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
The Stranger's Take on Potential New Times-VVM Mergernew
The Stranger |
09-08-2005 8:03 pm |
Industry News
AAN Hires Gambit Weekly Managing Editor
Shala Carlson will take over as the association's assistant editor next week, replacing Ryan Learmouth, whose last day at AAN is this Friday. Carlson has worked for the New Orleans alt-weekly since 1998, and before that served stints as an editor at the Times of Acadiana in Lafayette, La., and an administrator for a Louisiana-based nonprofit organization. She has been living with her parents in Opelousas, La., since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast last weekend.
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AAN Staff |
09-07-2005 7:05 am |
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