AAN News
Cleveland's Scene Goes Where the Plain Dealer Won'tnew
Doug Clifton, editor of the Cleveland daily, recently admitted to keeping two stories "of profound importance" from readers. His contention: The stories, based on leaked documents, could ultimately force reporters to reveal sources or go to jail (see: Miller, Judith). This week, Scene broke one of those suppressed stories -- about the FBI's probe of former Cleveland Mayor Mike White -- in a cover story by Pete Kotz titled "City for Sale."
Scene |
07-20-2005 5:52 pm |
Industry News
Efforts to Enact Federal Shield Law Intensify with Reporter's Jailingnew
Newsday |
07-19-2005 3:03 pm |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial
Workshop to Address Not Sucking and Other Topics
The Stranger's Dan Savage (pictured) will lead a workshop titled "On Not Sucking" at the AAN/Medill Writers Workshop, which will be held at Northwestern University on Aug. 12-13. Also presenting will be Chicago Reader's Steve Bogira, author of the critically acclaimed book "Courtroom 302"; Mike Sager, Esquire contributor and bestselling writer of "Scary Monsters and Super Freaks"; and award-winning reporter Julie Jargon.
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AAN Staff |
07-18-2005 12:53 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
WSJ, Washington City Paper Articles in the Same (Kick)Ballparknew
An article in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal by reporter Yochi J. Dreazen about a "turf war" between adult-kickball leagues in Washington, D.C., bears a resemblance to a May 2005 City Paper article by Dave McKenna about the same subject. There are enough similarities for McKenna to tell Media Mob that he "feel[s] flattered" because "thievery is the sincerest form of flattery." He concludes: "In the end, it's just about kickball."
The New York Observer |
07-07-2005 1:55 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Washington City Paper
AAJ Grads Grab 2005 AltWeekly Awards
Both Ayana Taylor and Michael Marsh (pictured) attended the Academy for Alternative Journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Funded by AAN and its Alternative Newsweekly Foundation, the six-week summer program teaches students how to pick and structure stories, and it apparently teaches skills necessary for award-winning writing.
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Lindsay Kishter |
07-01-2005 2:54 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
Independent Weekly Wins 17 National, Regional and State Awards
07-01-2005 1:41 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, Independent Weekly (NC)
Dan Savage, Steve Bogira to Present at AAN/Medill Writers Workshop
Savage is editor of The Stranger and author of the ubiquitous Savage Love, and Bogira is a staff writer for the Chicago Reader and author of the recently released and highly-praised "Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse." Also on tap: Mike Sager ("Scary Monsters and Super Freaks: Stories of Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n Roll and Murder"), an award-winning writer for Esquire magazine who started his journalism career at Creative Loafing. The workshop will be held at the Medill School of Journalism on the Northwestern Univ. campus on Aug. 12-13; registration materials will be issued next week.
06-30-2005 5:03 pm |
Industry News
Columbia's National Arts Journalism Program Closes
Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism is closing its National Arts Journalism Program July 1, says the program's director, Andras Szanto. More than 130 NAJP fellows and 25 NEA Arts Journalism Institute fellows have gone through the program during its 11-year existence, forming the largest interdisciplinary group of arts journalists in existence. AAN members who have been named fellows include Caryn Brooks, who was then arts and culture editor at Willamette Week, and Robert Christgau, a senior editor at The Village Voice. The NAJP Board is exploring finding a
new home for the program, says Szanto, who has served the past two years as an AltWeekly Awards judge. Further updates on those efforts will be
posted at www.najp.org and at www.artsjournal.com. The NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Classical Music and Opera will reconvene at Columbia this fall under Szanto's direction.
06-29-2005 12:39 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Awards Judge Admires Alt-Weeklies' "Straight-Talking, Polemical Vigour"new
For the past two years, Simon Warner -- director of the Centre for the Study of the World's Popular Musics at the University of Leeds -- has been a final-round judge in the Music Criticism category of the AltWeekly Awards contest. In his most recent column for the Web site PopMatters, Warner says AAN papers "cover that edgy waterfront the mainstream editors still have great difficulty embracing." He also discusses the judging process that this year resulted in Rene Spencer Saller of Illinois Times and Melissa Maerz of City Pages (Twin Cities) landing top honors for their writing.
PopMatters |
06-24-2005 5:37 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
"Welcome to the City of Crooks."new
That's how author Mike Davis (pictured) greeted his First Amendment Lunch audience this weekend in San Diego, beginning a speech that exposed the corruption and "civic mayhem" lurking beneath the tranquil and sun-bleached veneer of "Enron by the Sea." Members can now download a copy of Davis' speech -- which included a paean to the city's alternative press -- from the AAN Library.
AAN Library |
06-23-2005 12:28 am |
Association News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Transcription of "75 Story Ideas" Now Available
A list of story ideas generated by AAN editors during the "75 Story Ideas in 75 Minutes" session in San Diego was added to the AAN Library today. The session was moderated by OC Weekly editor/publisher Will Swaim and transcribed by executive editor Matt Coker. Also posted in the Library: Willamette Week's thorough deadline schedule for major issues, special sections and event guides in 2005. The schedule and its operational function were addressed by WW editor Mark Zusman during the "Sequencing the Editorial and Production Process" session on Friday morning in San Diego.
06-22-2005 11:49 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Three More Weeklies Admitted to AAN
Las Vegas Weekly (cover pictured above), Bellingham Weekly of Bellingham, Wash., and Style Weekly of Richmond, Va., were voted in as members of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies at the organization's annual meeting on June 18. The Las Vegas and Richmond papers were the first two daily-owned alt-weeklies ever admitted to AAN.
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AAN Staff |
06-21-2005 10:03 am |
Association News
Judges for the 2005 AltWeekly Awards Announced
Ruth Hammond |
06-21-2005 2:15 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
Medill Writers' Workshop Set for Aug. 12-13
The annual editorial conference at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism "is designed to offer hands-on, boot-camp like training for newer staff writers, but it works equally well as a refresher course for more experienced writers and editors," says Editorial Chair Patricia Calhoun. The Evanston, Ill. workshop will be held several weeks earlier than usual, and will coincide for the first time with the final weekend of the Summer class of the Academy for Alternative Journalism. So this year, editors have another reason for going: To meet the ten graduates of the 2005 AAN/Medill diversity program. The registration cost is $25 for AAN members, and $200 for non-members. Details and registration materials will follow shortly.
06-20-2005 9:03 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Julia Goldberg Blogs San Diego
Santa Fe Reporter's editor files the first post-convention blogpost after returning from San Diego. Well, we think it's the first. If anyone else has written about the convention in their paper or on their blog let us know and we'll find a way to post it.
06-20-2005 8:34 pm |
Industry News
