AAN News
Riverfront Times Hires School Board Member As Sex Columnistnew
Just in case St. Louis, Mo., residents aren't getting their full sex education in the public schools, school board member Bill Haas has started offering supplemental advice in the city's alt-weekly. His column "Bill Me!" covers such sexual topics as -- well, AAN News would like to report what the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said they were, but the paper's Jake Wagman wrote that he couldn't mention them in any but the most general terms in a family newspaper.
STLtoday.com |
06-21-2004 10:34 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Riverfront Times
Election Coverage Aims to Inspire the Young to Vote
Even resource-strapped smaller AAN papers are working hard to bring national election issues down to the local level. They encourage the participation of first-time voters with newspaper-sponsored voter registration drives and humorous presentations of election material. At AAN papers with larger staffs, more resources are devoted to following the candidates and digging up scandals. The Memphis Flyer and other AAN papers have broken stories that the mainstream media had to follow up on.
(FULL STORY)
Charlie Deitch |
06-21-2004 10:09 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Creative Loafing Seeks to Be Free of Cox Enterprisesnew
Ben Eason, CEO of Creative Loafing Inc., confirmed last week that his company's board has agreed to buy out Cox's minority stake in the alt-weekly chain, Steve Fennessy reports in Creative Loafing Atlanta. In addition to the Atlanta paper, the alt-weekly chain publishes newspapers in Charlotte, Tampa and Sarasota. Cox bought a 25 percent stake in Creative Loafing in 2000, but friction resulted when the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a Cox-owned daily, launched its own free entertainment weekly last year. Eason says that if all goes well, the deal could be completed by mid-July.
Creative Loafing Atlanta |
06-15-2004 8:24 pm |
Industry News
Latino Coverage Is Crucial for Many Alt-Weeklies
According to the latest U.S. census, Latinos are now the country's largest
minority group. With this in mind, the question of how alt-weeklies serve
this important segment of the population becomes one of increased urgency. Marty Levine reports for AAN News on how papers from Miami, Fla., to Columbus, Ohio, to Orange County, Calif., are addressing the issue of Latino coverage in their area. It may surprise no one that, for each paper, the questions
-- as well as the answers -- are unique to the community they serve.
(FULL STORY)
Marty Levine |
06-15-2004 6:06 pm |
Industry News
Westword's Laura Bond Wins Casey Medalnew
The Denver alt-weekly writer won a 2004 medal in the nondaily newspaper category for her story “Nowhere Boy,” which chronicles the struggle of an adoptive family to obtain mental health services for their severely emotionally troubled son. The article "touches on funding of the mental-health system, high-risk adoption and the various mental disorders and conditions linked to fetal alcohol syndrome. It’s a compelling subject done nicely," the judges commented. The awards are sponsored by the Casey Journalism Center on Children and Families.
Casey Journalism Center |
06-10-2004 8:16 am |
Industry News
Columnists Cover Media's Dark Underbelly and Successes, Too
Someone's got to keep an eye on the Fourth Estate. Media columnists at AAN papers, like The Village Voice's Cynthia Cotts and Westword's Michael Roberts, tackle the challenge of covering the local journalism scene without coming across as too tedious or self-absorbed. John Dicker reports for AAN News on several columnists who make meaty stories of plagiarism scandals, stiffed freelancers and toppled editors.
(FULL STORY)
John Dicker |
06-09-2004 12:04 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Diversity Internships Benefit Coverage at Two AAN Papers
Joshua Barlow |
06-09-2004 12:54 pm |
Association News
Six Writers and 29 Papers Win Multiple Nominations in AAN Contestnew
Four newspapers lead the pack with five nominations each for the Alternative Newsweekly Awards this year. They are Colorado Springs Independent, SF Weekly, L.A. Weekly and Orlando Weekly. The order of finish in each category of the ninth annual contest will be announced Friday, June 25, at the Alternative Newsweekly Awards luncheon at the AAN convention in San Antonio. New York Times media reporter David Carr will host this year’s awards luncheon.
AAN Association News |
06-03-2004 12:28 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Finalists for 2004 Alternative Newsweekly Awards Announced
AAN Staff |
06-03-2004 12:20 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
D.A. Claims Arrest of Westword Reporter Not Tied to What He Wrotenew
Bob Grant, district attorney for Broomfield and Adams counties in Colorado, told the Denver Post's Sean Kelly Tuesday that David Holthouse's arrest was based solely on the suspicion that he followed an unnamed man over the weekend. The person Holthouse is accused of stalking is the man he says raped him when he was a 7-year-old. The 33-year-old Westword reporter is free on $2,500 bond.
Denver Post |
06-02-2004 10:11 am |
Industry News
Oregon Rocked by Revelation of Leader's Abuse of Girlnew
Since Willamette Week broke the story that former Oregon Governor Neil Goldschmidt had had sex over a three-year period with a girl who was only 14 at the start, Oregonians have been obsessed with the story, Blaine Harden reports on the front page of Monday's Washington Post. One of the questions people are asking, he writes, is why the state's most powerful newspaper, The Oregonian, in its first-day coverage of Goldschmidt's confession, seemed "to go so easy on him, calling his behavior an 'affair' and describing his apology as 'heartfelt.'"
The Washington Post |
05-18-2004 3:06 pm |
Industry News
Half of AAN Papers Publish Exclusive Story
In mid-April, editors of AAN papers waited in suspense to see a promised story discussing a memo by a U.S. official detailed to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Minutes before 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 20, the investigative piece by reporter Jason Vest was posted to the Web sites of two papers, The Village Voice and The Boston Phoenix. Over the following hours and days, AAN papers from New Haven, Conn., to Mill Valley, Calif., also published the story, in print, on the Web, or both. Alerted to the article by blogs, readers rushed to alt-weeklies' Web sites in droves.
(FULL STORY)
Charlie Deitch |
05-12-2004 1:08 pm |
Industry News
Dailies Lose Weekday Circulationnew
The FAS-FAX report from the Audit Bureau of Circulations, released this afternoon, brought good news for the majority of the dozen biggest newspapers, but many other top 50 papers lost readers on weekdays for the six-month period ending March 31, compared with the same period last year.
Editor & Publisher |
05-04-2004 6:11 am |
Industry News
Free Daily Tabloid in Dallas Stops Publishingnew
A free daily newspaper launched last fall, A.M. Journal Express, lost financial support from investors, the Associated Press reports. The Journal Express, published by American Consolidated Media, competed with Quick, a free daily still being published by The Dallas Morning News.
Associated Press |
05-03-2004 12:31 pm |
Industry News
Washington Post Columnist Speculates on Identity of Iraq Memo Writernew
Writing in "The Reliable Source," Richard Leiby (pictured) presents evidence to support the theory that Michael Rubin wrote the memo that was the subject of Jason Vest's story for the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies last week. Leiby describes Rubin as "a thirty-something neocon intellectual" who served as a Coalition Provisional Authority political officer in Iraq for nine months. He is now a scholar at the "hawkish American Enterprise Institute." Rubin wouldn't confirm or deny that he wrote the memo.
Washington Post |
04-26-2004 7:47 am |
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