AAN News
Russ Smith Speculates About "Unlikely" New Times-VVM Mergernew
New York Press |
09-07-2005 4:03 pm |
Industry News
Michael Tisserand Interviewed on Australian Radio
The Gambit Weekly editor was one of three American guests
on Late Night Live, an ABC Radio National program broadcast from Australia. He gives an account of his own family's evacuation from New Orleans and discusses the far more difficult plight of the city's poor. He also describes AAN's efforts to cover the issues raised by the catastrophe. You can download the September 5 program on Hurricane Katrina from this page.
09-06-2005 6:55 pm |
Industry News
AAN Announces Relief Effort to Support Gambit Employees
AAN announced today that it had established a multi-pronged effort to provide immediate relief to employees of its New Orleans-based member paper
who have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The centerpiece of the effort is a special fund that the association has
established in its Alternative Newsweekly Foundation to accept charitable
contributions from members who want to provide immediate assistance to
Gambit Weekly employees. Several AAN-member companies have already announced significant contributions to the fund.
(FULL STORY)
09-02-2005 12:01 pm |
Association News
Forums Available: Tracking Gambit Staffers, Talking Strategy
09-02-2005 12:53 pm |
Association News
AAN Articles Predicted FEMA Disaster
As FEMA stumbles in response to Hurricane Katrina, it's instructive to re-read a couple of articles published in AAN papers eleven months ago. In the first -- a story sponsored by AAN and published in over 20 of its members' papers -- Jon Elliston and the Independent Weekly reported the Bush Administration was shifting FEMA resources from protection from hurricanes and other natural hazards to homeland security. Disaster in the Making was published as FEMA was preparing for Hurricane Frances, only three weeks after their bang-up performance on Hurricane Charley. "They're doing a good job," one former FEMA executive told Elliston. "And the reason ... is because it's so close to the election, and they can't fuck it up, otherwise they lose Florida -- and if they lose Florida, they might lose the election."
In Homeland Insecurity (which was reported and published in conjunction with Disaster in the Making), Eileen Loh Harrist and Gambit Weekly reported that FEMA snubbed Louisiana and violated its own funding standards when it failed to provide the state with badly-needed Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM) funds to protect it from flooding. According to Loh Harrist, "the nearly $60 million pot of federal PDM money went to 31 other states and Puerto Rico. Texas received the biggest share, more than $8.8 million, followed by California ($6.1 million) and Florida ($5.3 million)."
In Homeland Insecurity (which was reported and published in conjunction with Disaster in the Making), Eileen Loh Harrist and Gambit Weekly reported that FEMA snubbed Louisiana and violated its own funding standards when it failed to provide the state with badly-needed Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM) funds to protect it from flooding. According to Loh Harrist, "the nearly $60 million pot of federal PDM money went to 31 other states and Puerto Rico. Texas received the biggest share, more than $8.8 million, followed by California ($6.1 million) and Florida ($5.3 million)."
09-01-2005 10:34 pm |
Industry News
What It's Like to Be a Refugeenew
"New Orleans is gone and I can’t say when it will come back," writes Gambit Weekly editor Michael Tisserand, encamped with his family (pictured) at a friend's home near Lafayette. Tisserand describes what it feels like after the floodwaters have washed away your home, your job, and your city, and you don't know whether they're ever coming back.
AltWeeklies.com |
08-31-2005 5:57 pm |
Industry News
Shadow Ads --A Threat to Editorial Integritynew
editorsweblog.org |
08-31-2005 9:59 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Retail Advertising
Former NUVO Editor's New Book Hits Shelves
Ron Tierney's latest Deets Shanahan mystery sees the Indianapolis-based detective "investigating the disappearance of a pregnant, unmarried drug company employee," according to this report in the Indianapolis Star (second item). The Star notes that Tierney's book has already received "a warm write-up in Booklist magazine."
08-29-2005 5:43 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
California Assembly Approves Federal Shield Law Resolutionnew
CNPA Legislative Bulletin |
08-29-2005 3:03 pm |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Times-Dispatch Fires Photographer for Plagiarizing Style Weeklynew
Richmond Times-Dispatch |
08-29-2005 10:41 am |
Industry News
Mike Sager's Tips from Medill Workshop Added to the AAN Library
Sager, writer-at-large for Esquire and author of "Scary Monsters and Super Freaks," offered writing tips to attendees of the recent AAN/Medill Writers Workshop. A list of his tips are now available to download.
08-26-2005 12:32 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
More Annual Convention Materials Available in the AAN Library
Two slideshows from the San Diego convention are now available to download: one from Dave Thomas' presentation about videogame writing and the other from Fran Zankowski's seminar about putting together alt-weekly employee handbooks.
08-26-2005 12:31 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Another Skirmish in the Alt-Weekly War in San Francisco
While San Francisco Bay Guardian's Bruce B. Brugmann was railing against a New Times-Village Voice Media merger that is still merely a rumor, his competitors at the New Times-owned SF Weekly were commissioning a handwriting analysis of the outspoken publisher. The handwriting expert says that B3's penmanship suggests that he's smart, respectful, and generous, and that he's "very much in control of himself and .... confident in how he impresses himself upon his environment." She also says he's a few other things as well.
08-25-2005 1:28 am |
Industry News
Richmond Daily Apologizes for Ripping Off Style Weekly Covernew
Richmond Times-Dispatch |
08-25-2005 5:30 pm |
Industry News
New York Press Editorial Team Issues Its Manifestonew
In this week's issue, new editor-in-chief Harry Siegel and senior editor Jonathan Leaf say that the "part of New York that belongs to those who make it their home, rather than those who are passing through, is slowly dying" and call the city "an anachronism" in a time that "technology allows financiers, diplomats and scholars to do their work just as well from Jersey City, Chicago, or Omaha as from Midtown." With those things in mind, they lay out what will be their paper's guiding principles: openness, expansiveness and the idea that "a newspaper must serve an ideal of justice."
New York Press |
08-24-2005 4:18 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, New York Press
