AAN News
U.S. Errors Could Inflame Deeper Conflicts in Iraq, CPA Official Warns
The postwar stabilization of Iraq is not going well, a Coalition Provisional Authority official wrote in a memo in early March. The result: "Baghdadis have an uneasy sense that they are heading towards civil war." The memo describes corruption within the Iraqi Governing Council, resentments about the centralization of power in Baghdad, insufficient security in the Green Zone where CPA officials stay, and black-market sales of U.S.-supplied weapons by Iraqi police. Investigative reporter Jason Vest obtained a copy of the memo from a Western intelligence official and was commissioned to write an article about it for the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. His piece, "Fables of the Reconstruction," is being published simultaneously on the Web sites of scores of AAN papers.
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04-22-2004 8:40 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Electronic Publishing
Readers Want to See Memo
04-20-2004 3:33 pm |
Letters to the Editor
Iraq Memo: Amazingly Unsurprising
04-20-2004 1:13 pm |
Letters to the Editor
Washington City Paper Runs Corrections for Dailynew
Noticing that The Washington Times hadn't run a single correction in nine days, City Paper editor Erik Wemple decided to provide that service in his own pages. Wrong name, wrong block, wrong date of crime: Such errors will be duly noted and corrected in the alt-weekly. City Paper will "manage this critical function," Wemple writes, because the Times "lacks the resources to run its own corrections."
Washington City Paper |
04-16-2004 12:36 pm |
Industry News
Toronto Star Reporter Plagiarized from Village Voicenew
The copying didn't go undetected because The Village Voice Online has too many readers in Canada. A former teaching assistant called the Toronto Star to point out that the narrative structure and phrasing in Prithi Yelaja's story about U.S. Army deserter Brandon Hughey reminded him of what he'd read in the New York City alt-weekly two days earlier. Star ombudsman Don Sellar reports that nearly a third of the Star article was rooted in a Village Voice story by Alisa Solomon. The remorseful Yelaja called Solomon to apologize.
Toronto Star |
04-15-2004 11:45 am |
Industry News
Freelancer Notes Editors Can Also Have Bad Attitudes
04-14-2004 10:50 am |
Letters to the Editor
Tags: Editorial
Dan Savage Ties Knot with Lesbian Reporternew
Amy Jenniges, a reporter for The Stranger, was denied a marriage license to legalize her relationship with her longtime lesbian partner. To make a point about the so-called sanctity of marriage, Jenniges' gay editor, Dan Savage, asked if he could get a license to marry her. Because the two met the man-woman criterion, the King County Clerk's office granted the license. Savage told Matt Markovich of KOMO 4 News in Seattle that he and the woman he doesn't love planned to stay married just 55 hours and 10 minutes in order to best Britney Spears.
KOMO TV |
04-13-2004 11:04 am |
Industry News
Freelancers Help Determine Quality of AAN Papers
Alternative newsweeklies may fill more than half of their editorial space each week with contributions from freelancers. But how do editors go about finding the writers who are willing to work erratic hours for modest pay and yet are professional enough to deliver prose that not only comes in on time but sings? Writer Marty Levine collects the wisdom of several AAN editors who explain how they found their best freelancers, how they keep them content and what pitfalls to avoid.
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Marty Levine |
04-12-2004 10:39 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Westword Wins Investigative Award for Rape Storynew
The Denver weekly's Julie Jargon won an Investigative Reporters and Editors Certificate for her story "The War Within," about two female cadets who were punished and kicked out of the U.S. Air Force Academy after they complained of being raped. IRE judges noted that the article "is a great example of tackling a sensitive story at a powerful institution."
Investigative Reporters and Editors news release |
04-01-2004 6:11 pm |
Industry News
Reporter's Note-Taking at Bush Speech Angers GOP Stalwartsnew
A writer for the Orlando Weekly column Happytown™ was there when George W. Bush kicked off his re-election campaign in Orlando March 20. Emily Ruff's note-taking looked suspicious to some Republican women, who accused her of being a "dirty hippie" and "terrorist." After Ruff responded with some chants of her own, a security guard escorted her out the door.
Orlando Weekly |
03-25-2004 8:54 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Orlando Weekly
Ten Papers Seek AAN Membership
AAN Staff |
03-25-2004 1:02 pm |
Association News
Academy for Alternative Journalism 2004 Fellows Chosen
AAN Staff |
03-19-2004 6:07 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
The Stranger Parodies a Famous Journalistic Firing
03-19-2004 3:12 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, The Stranger
Weekly Resolves Not to Use Word That Offended—Except in Quotesnew
Alt-weeklies may have to stop branding themselves as the papers unafraid to print the word "fuck." Editor Ben Fulton says Salt Lake City Weekly was briefly kicked out of Wal-Mart "because we used the f-bomb in our paper," Glen Warchol reports in The Salt Lake Tribune. City Weekly lost a week's distribution at the chain after a self-identified Christian stumbled upon the word in its pages and complained to the store's regional managers. Wal-Mart let the paper return based on promises of increased vigilance about the use of profanity.
The Salt Lake Tribune |
03-15-2004 11:50 am |
Industry News
