AAN News
Miami New Times Editor to Leave Papernew
After 18 years at the alt-weekly, Jim Mullin (pictured) will step down from his position. The announcement comes less than a month after former city official Arthur Teele's suicide, which came on the heels of a New Times cover story about Teele's involvement with a transvestite prostitute. Mullin says that while he was "profoundly affected" by the tragedy, he'd been considering leaving the paper for the past year. His successor will be Chuck Strouse, the current editor of New Times Broward-Palm Beach.
Miami Herald (registration required) |
08-23-2005 10:50 am |
Industry News
Boston's Weekly Dig Attracts the Jewish Advocate's Attention
The Advocate, a Boston-based magazine, reported last week on the Dig's decision to run a crossword puzzle titled "The Jews." Written by managing editor Eric Solomon, the puzzle includes clues such as "Oy, we killed the (blank) of God!" Solomon tells the Advocate that "I'm Jewish, and I don't think [the puzzle is] offensive." He adds: "If we're not in a society where we can make fun of ourselves, that's sad." Robert Trestan of the Anti-Defamation League tells the Advocate that "some people might find [the puzzle] offensive, but I don't think it's anti-Semitic."
08-22-2005 11:36 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Boston's Weekly Dig
Writers Help Writers at Medill Workshop
Creative Loafing's Alyssa Abkowitz gives a blow-by-blow account of last weekend's AAN/Medill Writers Workshop. Speakers included Chicago Reader staff writer Steve Bogira (pictured), who counseled his audience to "take the usual and find the unusual in it." Also on hand were Esquire's Mike Sager, The Stranger's Dan Savage and all manner of alt-weekly editorial riffraff.
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Alyssa Abkowitz |
08-18-2005 10:51 am |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
San Diego CityBeat Editor on the AAN/Medill Writers Workshopnew
San Diego CityBeat |
08-17-2005 4:01 pm |
Industry News
New York Press Will Refashion Its Imagenew
That's what new editor Harry Siegel (pictured) tells The New York Sun. Siegel, founder of the cultural and political blog New Partisan, says that under his direction the Press will appeal to readers who "are interested in argument and reason" by giving them "a more credible, serious, and ideologically open alternative to the [Village] Voice." The first issue under his editorship will hit the streets on August 24.
New York Sun |
08-16-2005 11:45 am |
Industry News
Voice Staff Threaten Walkoutnew
New York Post |
08-16-2005 6:41 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Village Voice
Julia Goldberg on the Medill Conference
On her blog this morning, the Santa Fe Reporter editor summarizes the AAN/Medill Writers Workshop, as well as the Editorial Committee meeting that preceded it. She says the programming "was all quite good," with the high point for her being the discussion between Westword editor Patricia Calhoun and former Westword writer, Julie Jargon, about their story that broke the Air Force rape scandal. She also says Dan Savage was funny and provocative, and although she thinks his philosophy is "pretty reductive," he had everyone "talking about what he had to say well into the night."
08-15-2005 10:38 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Dan Savage
Village Voice Senior Editor Warns Writers of Pay Cutsnew
Romenesko |
08-15-2005 12:12 pm |
Industry News
"Brainy" and "Bizarrely Brilliant" Writers to Leave The Strangernew
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
08-11-2005 4:08 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Stranger
Another Alt-Weekly Movie Sighting
This just in from Gambit Weekly editor Michael Tisserand: "Gambit Weekly's classified section appears in a pivotal scene in the new movie The Skeleton Key. Early on, as Kate Hudson rides a streetcar, she peruses our employment ads and answers one that leads her to the swamp where all sorts of hyper-Hollywoodized hoodoo hijinks start to happen. By the way, Gambit A & E editor/film critic David Lee Simmons says it's no Angel Heart."
08-10-2005 6:15 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Classified Advertising, Editorial
Classical Music/Opera Workshop to Be Held in October
08-08-2005 5:44 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial
Print Confronts Product Placement Issuesnew
Adweek |
08-08-2005 9:45 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Retail Advertising
Fort Worth Weekly Named a Finalist for Environment Reporting Award
The Texas alt-weekly was among those nominated in the "Outstanding Small Market Reporting, Print" category of the Society of Environmental Journalists' 4th Annual Awards contest. Writer Wendy Lyons Sunshine's "Mud Wrestling" series garnered the honor.
08-05-2005 2:11 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Fort Worth Weekly
Fellowships Available for The Media Center's "We Media" Conference
08-05-2005 3:04 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial
Phoenix New Times Article Helped Get Murderball Rolling
Susy Buchanan wrote a piece about quad rugby for the Arizona alt-weekly that caught the eye of Dana Alan Shapiro, Murderball's co-director. Shapiro, at the time a senior editor for Spin, then pitched Maxim on an article that would help launch his film. Click here to read the Austin Chronicle article detailing the process behind the film's success, from securing financing to finding a distributor.
08-03-2005 11:55 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Phoenix New Times
