AAN News
Editor of Santa Fe Reporter Blogs on "Ethical Editing"
Julia Goldberg ignited a brushfire on the Editing mailing list earlier this week when she sought advice regarding an angry letter sent by a teacher who was upset by a recent article in the Reporter about her school (which Goldberg felt she had "completely misunderstood"). The letter contained the kind of spelling and grammatical errors that the Reporter would normally correct for publication. What should she do? Most AAN editors advised her to avoid vindictiveness and adhere to the paper's regular letters policy. She took their advice and corrected the mistakes, and saved her revenge for her blog.
05-06-2005 11:12 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Julia Goldberg
Featurewell.com Signs On Two Award-Winning Magazines
In These Times and E/The Environmental Magazine will offer articles through Featurewell's online archive
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04-28-2005 1:55 pm |
Press Releases
San Diego CityBeat asks Mayor Murphy to Resign
04-25-2005 3:17 pm |
Press Releases
UK Daily Publishes Negative Article About Alt-Weeklies
"That Was the Weekly That Was," (registration required) published yesterday in leftist daily The Guardian, was penned by former New York Press editor Jeff Koyen. While the bulk of Koyen's piece is a strongly worded rehash of the by-now-cliched mainstream media take on the subject, he did add a few original tidbits. For instance, Koyen claims that alt-weeklies "paved the way for day time television, foul-mouthed primetime sitcoms and -- last, but by no means least -- blogs." Daytime TV? Sitcoms? Gotta confess we haven't heard that one before. And then there's his take on prostitutes. According to Koyen, their "revenue is crucial" to the alt-weekly biz, but they're "abandoning these libertarian print outposts as word gets around that their johns are being busted." And I believe this is the first time a journalist has ever hinted darkly about AAN's intentions in amending its bylaws, or reported rumors of a New Times-Village Voice Media marriage based on "fresh reports of closed-door meetings and furrowed editorial brows." Most remarkable, however, is that in an article in which the Voice is often portrayed in a negative light, the Guardian failed to inform its readers that until last month Koyen was employed by the Voice's primary competitor. -- Richard Karpel
04-19-2005 4:29 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Alt-Weeklies Running Out of Steam?new
The Guardian |
04-19-2005 2:23 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Riverfront Times Writer Nominated for RNA Award
Ben Westhoff, a staff writer at the St. Louis alt-weekly, has been nominated for the Religion Newswriters Association's Templeton Story of the Year award for a feature titled "Jesus For Juniors," which ran on June 23. Read RNA's announcement here.
04-18-2005 6:03 pm |
Industry News
2005 Alt-Weekly Awards: Dispatch from the PDF Trauma Center
Months ago, AAN Editor Ruth Hammond was carried away by a flood of tearsheets and PDF files. She reappears with this behind-the-scenes look at the Alternative Newsweekly Awards contest, for which she's served as administrator and medic.
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Ruth Hammond |
04-15-2005 4:30 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial, Ruth Hammond
Alt-Weeklies Dominate Green Eyeshade Nominations
The Society of Professional Journalists announced the 2004 Green Eyeshade Award finalists yesterday, and AAN papers received 17 of the 27 nominations in the weekly/monthly division. According to SPJ, the Green Eyeshades "have honored the best in professional journalism in 11 southeastern states for 55 years." New Times Broward-Palm Beach and its sister paper, Miami New Times, did particularly well, receiving eight and five nominations, respectively. (NTBPB swept the nominations in the sports reporting category.) Independent Weekly's FEMA story, which ran in over 20 AAN papers this fall as part of an editorial joint project, was nominated in the investigative reporting category. Here's SPJ's announcement.
04-15-2005 12:49 pm |
Industry News
Mother Jones Offers Free Content to AAN Papers
The independent nonprofit magazine's gratis offer includes a recurring graphically-oriented feature called Exhibit, which presents an intriguing array of statistics on different subjects each issue. The current piece, from the magazine's March/April issue, is This New House, which overlays a series of factoids about the environmental and social footprint of huge suburban homes on a cutaway illustration of a McMansion. (The only charge for this particular piece is a $50 or $75 illustrator's fee.) For an example of how one AAN paper used the piece, see the City Newspaper story, "Supersizing the American Home," which is featured this week on AltWeeklies.com. For more details on the program, contact Richard Reynolds at reynolds@motherjones.com.
04-15-2005 12:28 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Boston Phoenix to Unveil "Major Redesign" in Junenew
Boston Herald |
04-11-2005 2:30 pm |
Industry News
Schanberg Takes Over as Voice Media Criticnew
New York Post |
04-11-2005 12:33 pm |
Industry News
Alt-Weeklies Dominate James Beard Nominations
AAN-member papers grabbed over 60 percent of the nominations in the newspaper categories of the 2005 James Beard Foundation Awards. Robb Walsh of Houston Press was nominated for two awards while his New Times colleagues were nominated for seven others. In an e-mail to Washington City Paper staff announcing food critic Todd Kliman's nomination, editor Erik Wemple called the Beard awards "the Oscars of food writing." For a complete list of the nominees, visit this page.
04-08-2005 2:43 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
NYTBR Lauds Alt-Weekly Editor's New Booknew
San Diego Reader senior editor Judith Moore's book, "Fat Girl," got the full-page treatment in last week's New York Times Book Review. Jane Stern writes that Moore's book "just might be the Stonewall for a slew of oversize people who do not fit the template of what every ostensible expert on beauty, health and nutrition tells us we should strive to be," and judges it "brilliant and angry and unsettling."
The New York Times |
04-05-2005 5:51 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, San Diego Reader
Honors Keep Coming for Willamette's Jaquissnew
Because sometimes winning a Pulitzer just isn't enough: Willamette Week's Nigel Jaquiss also won an award from Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. (IRE) for "The 30-Year Secret" -- the same work for which he won the Pulitzer yesterday. Qualifying as a finalist was New Times Broward-Palm Beach's Bob Norman for "Sick District," his investigation into the mismanagement of Broward County's tax-assisted public health care system.
Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. |
04-05-2005 5:47 pm |
Industry News
Academy for Alternative Journalism 2005 Fellows Selected
AAN Staff |
04-05-2005 3:03 pm |
Association News
