AAN News
2005 AltWeekly Awards Winners Announced
At a luncheon Friday during the AAN convention in San Diego, Dan Savage handed out four first place awards to L.A. Weekly. Four papers -- Chicago Reader, Folio Weekly, Jackson Free Press and Orlando Weekly -- took first place honors in two categories each. Read the full list of winners.
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06-17-2005 6:14 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
Warning to Alt-Weeklies: Innovate Online or Perish
With his Macintosh PowerBook and a projection screen, AlwaysOn network founder Tony Perkins (pictured) stood before AAN convention goers in San Diego to explain his solution to the biggest threat facing alternative weeklies today: the blog revolution. His assessment? Join 'em or fail. Beating them isn't an option.
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Vernal Coleman |
06-17-2005 10:54 am |
Association News
Diversity Internship Recipients Bring Artistic Ambition to Alt-Weeklies
Thabi Moyo and Doron Monk Flake (pictured) won AAN's winter/spring 2005 Diversity Internship grants. Moyo, an aspiring cinematographer and photojournalist, recently completed her internship at Jackson Free Press; while Flake, lead singer of a rock band, covered arts and news for New Haven Advocate.
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Joy Howard |
06-13-2005 6:03 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
AAN Papers Sweep CJC Awards Categorynew
The Casey Journalism Center, a nonprofit program at the University of Maryland, has awarded its 2005 Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism in honor of distinguished coverage of disadvantaged children and families. The winning story in the "Nondaily Newspaper" category is "Good Kids, Bad Blood," written by Lauren Gard for East Bay Express. The runner-up and honorable mention in that category are from Gambit Weekly and Westword, respectively.
Casey Journalism Center |
06-07-2005 12:14 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Mark Jurkowitz to Return to Boston Phoenix
05-31-2005 12:23 pm |
Press Releases
Virginian-Pilot Drops 'Click and Clack' After Advertisers Complainnew
Editor & Publisher |
05-27-2005 6:35 am |
Industry News
More Rumors of New Times-VVM Mergernew
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
05-26-2005 4:34 pm |
Industry News
New Program Added in Convention Edit Stream
"Public Figures/Private Lives," a panel discussion examining the sticky issues raised when journalists cover the private peccadilloes of public figures, has been added to the program on Friday, June 17, at 10 a.m. Westword editor Patricia Calhoun will moderate, and Pulitzer Prize winner Nigel Jaquiss and his editor at Willamette Week, Mark Zusman, will serve as panelists. The panel previously scheduled in that time slot -- "Who Does What, When? Sequencing the Editorial and Production Process" -- will now be structured as an open discussion moderated by Santa Fe Reporter editor Julia Goldberg, and will be held an hour earlier at 9 a.m. Both programs are scheduled concurrently with the tour of Tijuana's underbelly, for which buses will depart at 8 a.m. and return after the AltWeekly Awards Luncheon on Friday afternoon.
05-25-2005 6:02 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
AlterNet Announces Termination of Syndication Service
"AlterNet is moving in new directions, and syndication is no longer economically viable as we focus our attentions on expanding the web magazine component of the site," says the announcement issued today by the Independent Media Institute. The syndication service, which was originally started by AAN in 1989, will close shop on June 23.
05-24-2005 5:39 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
AltWeeklies.com Turns One Year Old
A year ago, AltWeeklies.com was a fledgling Web site with just a hundred stories, intent on escaping the notice of many visitors besides the AAN editors who would buy and sell stories there. Now it is an active news site with more than 4,400 stories and a readership that is rapidly growing.
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Ruth Hammond |
05-18-2005 9:35 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
New Times Reporters Named Finalists for Loeb Awards
Bob Norman of New Times Broward-Palm Beach and Bruce Rushton of Phoenix New Times were named today as finalists in the 2005 Gerald Loeb Awards contest. Norman and Rushton received two of the four nominations in the small-newspapers category, which includes papers with circulation under 150,000. The Loeb Awards, which recognize superior business journalism, have been presented by UCLA's Anderson School of Management since 1973.
05-17-2005 5:43 pm |
Industry News
Village Voice Celebrates 50 Years of the Obiesnew
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared yesterday "Village Voice Obie Awards Day" in the Big Apple, celebrating the half-century mark of a program that recognizes the best of Off and Off-Off-Broadway theater. Jerry Tallmer, the awards' founder, recalls the original Obies, held in June, 1956, when Shelley Winters hosted the event. Pictured above are Obie golden anniversary hosts Brían F. O'Bryne and Stockard Channing.
The Village Voice |
05-17-2005 1:03 pm |
Industry News
2005 AltWeekly Awards Finalists Announced
L.A. Weekly, Folio Weekly, Independent Weekly and The Texas Observer all had particularly strong showings in the 2005 AltWeekly Awards. The finalists in the 10th annual competition are listed here.
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Ruth Hammond |
05-10-2005 2:18 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
Craigslist Founder Eyes Journalismnew
Craig Newmark (pictured above left, with Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster) expressed his fascination with community journalism to a group of Associated Press editors and writers. The AP reports that Newmark hopes to "develop a pool of 'talented amateurs' who could investigate scandals, cover politics and promote the most important and credible stories." To that end, he's been brainstorming with Dan Gillmor, a former technology writer for the San Jose Mercury News and 2005 AAN West speaker.
AP via Yahoo! News |
05-06-2005 9:42 pm |
Industry News
