AAN News
FBI Wants to Know Alt-Weekly Reporter's Sourcesnew
John Sugg wasn't too pleased to receive a call from an FBI agent telling him he was "all over the wiretaps" the agency had made of fired University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian. Judging from the cover of Weekly Planet Tampa, Sugg even feels a little defiant; he's not naming any confidential sources. The former editor of the Planet and now senior editor of Creative Loafing Atlanta is on the FBI's tapes because he's been covering the investigation of the accused mastermind of terrorism Al-Arian for eight years. In a story for the Planet, Sugg reflects on disclosures he's made about officials working on the government's case.
Weekly Planet (Tampa) |
03-11-2004 12:03 pm |
Industry News
New Times Broward-Palm Beach Wins Two EWA Awards
03-10-2004 10:28 am |
Press Releases
Fourth Annual Cartoon Contest Deadline Is April 9
AAN Staff |
03-09-2004 7:21 pm |
Association News
Tags: Design & Production, Editorial
NYTimes.com Drops Ted Rall Cartoon Due to Tonenew
A spokesperson for the digital paper says it's obligated not to publish things that would offend "the reasonable sensibilities of our readers," Editor & Publisher reports. Rall believes the cartoon was dropped because of e-mail campaigns by conservatives. His award-winning cartoon appears in several AAN papers, including The Village Voice and Washington City Paper.
E&P |
03-05-2004 10:15 am |
Industry News
Tags: Design & Production, Editorial
AAN Editors Think Local in Adding Content
Rather than just deliver the same old reliable features and columns every week, editors of AAN papers look for ways to tweak their content, thus attracting new readers and re-engaging the faithful. But there's no sense rounding up a focus group to predict what new ingredients will work when freelancers, staff and the guy on the next barstool are all eager to give their advice. John Dicker interviews editors of four weeklies who messed with the mix to get happy results.
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John Dicker |
03-04-2004 7:27 pm |
Industry News
AAN East 2004 Photo Gallerynew
AAN |
03-03-2004 3:01 pm |
Association News
Gannett Youth Weekly Debuts in Rochester, N.Y.new
Insider, a youth weekly that promises to bring readers "Rochester Remixed," debuted Friday. Editorial content includes weird news, breezily written mainstream news, snapshots of young people having fun, and two articles identified as "big stories." The free tabloid targets ages 25 to 34, according to the Gannett daily paper that publishes it. That age group is "wildly underserved," says Democrat and Chronicle Editor Mike Johansson. AAN member City Newspaper is published in Rochester.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |
02-27-2004 5:16 pm |
Industry News
New York Times Won't Court Short-Attention-Span Readersnew
Chairman Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. tells a journalism school audience his company has no intention of publishing any youth or commuter papers like the Chicago Tribune's Red Eye. Sulzberger considers such papers "condescending" and degrading to the readership, Mark Fitzgerald reports in Editor & Publisher. Sulzberger says the Times doesn't want to "become less than we are to reach an audience whose needs we wouldn't do a good job of meeting."
E&P |
02-25-2004 1:10 pm |
Industry News
AAN to Host Reception at ShoWest March 24
AAN Staff |
02-20-2004 7:29 pm |
Association News
Gannett Swaps Papers with Georgia Media Chainnew
The deal reminds Nashville Scene writer Matt Pulle of the arrangement Village Voice Media and New Times Media made in October 2002 to each close a paper that competed in a market dominated by the other. That plan threw the Justice Department into a snit. In a surprise move Monday, Gannett traded its only sizable Georgia paper, The Times in Gainesville, to Morris Multimedia in exchange for two small papers in Tennessee. Gannett also acquired two weeklies in Tennessee's Rutherford County. "While the swap of several small newspapers is hardly Comcast buying Disney, it marks the crowning achievement in Gannett's stranglehold of the Middle Tennessee area," Pulle writes.
Nashville Scene |
02-18-2004 7:06 pm |
Industry News
Getting the Story Can Be a Question of Race
Brentin Mock |
02-18-2004 11:52 am |
Letters to the Editor
AAN East Marked by Feisty Exchanges and Nose-Flute Playing
Ruth Hammond |
02-11-2004 12:07 pm |
Association News
New Youth-Oriented Tabs Avoid In-Your-Face Tone of Alternatives, Monitor Reportsnew
The new entertainment-focused papers popping up in cities across the U.S. are "a melange of Entertainment Weekly and Reader's Digest," delivering simple content and big photos, says The Christian Science Monitor. But don't expect them to carry Savage Love. AAN Executive Director Richard Karpel says content shaped by focus groups "doesn't create a very compelling product." Readership Institute Director John Lavine argues that the hundreds of thousands of readers who pick up the tabloids prove there's a market.
The Christian Science Monitor |
02-10-2004 3:17 pm |
Industry News
Longtime Political Writer Leaves Houston Pressnew
The Houston Chronicle obtains only brief comments from Tim Fleck, the 57-year-old author of the weekly column The Insider, and Houston Press Editor Margaret Downing, about the circumstances of the departure. Others assess the impact of Fleck's acerbic political coverage. In his last column for the Press, Fleck writes about Congressional candidate Lloyd "Ted" Poe, known for the shame sentences he handed out as district judge, and the time Poe underwent his own moment of shame.
Houston Chronicle |
02-10-2004 12:50 pm |
Industry News
Subpoenaed CityBeat Reporter Tells Council Why She Wrote about Police Pay Abusenew
"This was the definition of silly," a Republican council member says of the Cincinnati City Council's move to subpoena Leslie Blade to talk about her investigative piece. Having Blade testify brought the council no more information than reading the story, he says. Blade refused to answer a few questions during her half-hour appearance before the council Tuesday but said she wrote the article because "you're talking about public funds—about public trust—and the rules should be followed."
The Cincinnati Enquirer |
02-04-2004 1:06 pm |
Industry News
