AAN News
AltWeeklies.com Traffic Grows Exponentially
For the first time, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies' story-sharing site, AltWeeklies.com, has exceeded 100,000 unique visitors in a month. The rapid growth in traffic could have a positive impact on every paper that posts stories to AltWeeklies.
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Ruth Hammond |
08-02-2005 4:00 pm |
Association News
Flight Attendant's Creative Loafing Column Leads to a Writing Careernew
Miami New Times |
08-01-2005 10:38 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
AltWeeklies.com Offers Choice of Columnists
In addition to offering individual stories, AltWeeklies.com can help you
find a regular columnist or cartoonist. Links to 59 of them are listed on
the site, either in the lower left-hand column of the home page or the
right-hand column of the section pages. AAN editorial intern Lindsay Kishter
has collected reprint information for most of these in the past few weeks.
Click on "Reprint Terms" under the group of columns that interests you to
find authors' contact information.
07-27-2005 4:04 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Judges' Comments on Award Winners Are Available
Judges' critiques of the 2005 AltWeekly Awards winners can now be downloaded for review. The same comments will appear in AAN Press's forthcoming book, Best AltWeekly Writing and Design 2005. Individual newspapers can also obtain summaries of remarks on all of their entries.
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Ruth Hammond |
07-26-2005 6:14 pm |
Association News
Web Audio Gives Metro Times Readers Inside Track on Detroit Mayoral Race
07-25-2005 10:55 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, Metro Times
Mississippians Help Brother of Klan Victim Look for Justice
Local Bloggers Raise Money for New Tombstones
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07-25-2005 10:54 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, Jackson Free Press
AAN Joins Coalition Lobbying for an Improved FOIA
The coalition was formed in order to support the passage of several bills that have been introduced in Congress to improve the Freedom of Information Act. The group hopes to educate the public and lawmakers about FOIA by providing examples where its use exposed government corruption, or where a government agency denied or failed to respond in a timely manner to a FOIA request that had the potential to do the same. If you have such an example that you'd like to share, contact AAN Executive Director Richard Karpel at 202/289-8484 or rkarpel-at-aan.com.
07-22-2005 5:01 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
OC Weekly Series Spurs Federal Indictmentsnew
R. Scott Moxley, a writer for the Santa Ana, Calif., alt-weekly, first reported on Dr. George Steven Kooshian (pictured) in July 2001, sparking an FBI investigation. The article detailed allegations of illegal practices, which included administering saline solution -- passed off and billed as expensive medication -- to AIDS patients. Because of the doctor's good reputation in the local gay community, Moxley's series of six investigative stories was at times bitterly criticized. Kooshian (and one of his former nurses) will be arraigned Aug. 1 on 25 counts of health-care fraud and other charges.
OC Weekly |
07-22-2005 11:59 am |
Industry News
Jackson Free Press Teams with CBC to Pursue 1964 Klan-Related Killings
A team of reporters from the Mississippi alt-weekly and a documentarian from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation accompanied Thomas Moore during his recently concluded trip to Jackson, Miss. Moore's brother, Charles, and his friend, Henry Dee, were killed there by the Ku Klux Klan in 1964. During his visit, Moore convinced U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton, who served under Moore in the Army, to commit to forming a task force to re-investigate the case. Read the Free Press story here.
07-22-2005 11:00 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Jackson Free Press
Feds Want to Know Who Leaked Documents to Scene, Plain Dealernew
Associated Press |
07-22-2005 11:45 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
AAN Papers Dominate 2004 Better Newspapers Contest
Winners of the contest, which is sponsored by the California Newspaper Publishers Association, were announced earlier this month. Chico News & Review won the "General Excellence" award for weekly papers. Sacramento News & Review, as detailed here, picked up eight first- or second-place awards, more than any other weekly in the competition. Also snagging awards were Metro Silicon Valley, North Bay Bohemian, Palo Alto Weekly, Pasadena Weekly, San Francisco Bay Guardian and Santa Barbara Independent.
07-21-2005 12:06 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
CJR: Kudos to Scene for Publishing Where Others Held Backnew
CJR Daily |
07-21-2005 12:53 am |
Industry News
Cleveland Plain Dealer Runs Probe Story After Scene Breaks Itnew
Editor & Publisher |
07-21-2005 4:47 pm |
Industry News
Nashville Scene "Zings" Governornew
Associated Press |
07-21-2005 11:23 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Nashville Scene
Gambit's Gourmand Dishes on "Getting Paid to Eat"
In this article for the Chronicle of Higher Education, Todd A. Price of the New Orleans alt-weekly says that "a Ph.D. in Baroque Spanish theater can lead to a career as a food critic" -- at least in his case.
07-20-2005 6:06 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
