AAN News
John Bartlow Martin Contest Seeks Public Interest Articles
12-10-2003 4:47 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial
Anchorage Press Editor Moves to Honolulu Weeklynew
Robert Meyerowitz will find average temperatures 60 degrees warmer when he leaves Alaska in January to become editor of Honolulu Weekly. "In the five years that Meyerowitz has been editor, the Press has largely forsaken potty mouth to produce thoughtful and provocative journalism that you didn't have to agree with to admire," writes Rosanne Pagano in the Anchorage Daily News. Pagano, a journalism professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage, praises the Press (which is not an AAN member) for its wide range of stories, including a probe of a
for-profit business that managed rural school districts.
Anchorage Daily News |
12-05-2003 1:38 pm |
Industry News
Using Someone Else's Art
Alice Neff Lucan |
12-04-2003 12:51 am |
Legal News
Tags: Design & Production, Editorial
Awards Contest Entry Forms Available
AAN Staff |
12-04-2003 6:10 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
Entertainment Listings Magazine to Debut in Chicagonew
Time Out Chicago will debut next September, entering an already crowded field of publications with extensive entertainment listings in that city, David Carr reports for The New York Times. Distribution of the weekly magazine will be through mailed subscriptions and newsstand sales. “They have been successful in a number of markets, but I don’t think they have ever come into a market that does listings as well as we do,” Jane Levine, publisher of the Chicago Reader, told Carr. Time Out Group also publishes Time Out New York and Time Out London.
New York Times |
12-03-2003 5:25 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Chicago Reader
Market Research Drives Creation of New “Youth” Papersnew
To attract young readers, media companies are publishing free newspapers that capsulize the news and emphasize jazzy graphics. New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg describes what research studies say young readers want and how new papers like Quick, published by Belo Corporation in Dallas, and the 5 Minute Herald, published by Knight-Ridder in Miami, seek to address their needs and capture advertising dollars.
New York Times |
12-03-2003 5:17 pm |
Industry News
New Times Broward-Palm Beach Invents Anarchists’ Storynew
New Times reveals its exclusive story
claiming that antiglobalization anarchists planned to
infiltrate the Republican Governors Association
meeting in Boca Raton, Fla., was a ruse. Supposed
author Greg O’Shube himself was a hoax;
the name is an anagram for George Bush. O’Shube’s
surrogate even created a Web site for the invented
group, Anarchists for a
Better State. “It’d be easy to say this story is
about some bigger issue, like the fact that reporters
all too often base stories on e-mails and websites,
with little actual reporting…. But, hell, what it really
was about was simply pulling one over on
smarty-pants scribes and TV reporters,” O’Shube writes.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
12-03-2003 4:24 pm |
Industry News
New Times Reporter Arrested Covering Protests in Miaminew
"Throughout the day I'd witnessed police provoke
protesters," writes Celeste Fraser Delgado,
who was reporting on the protests surrounding last
week's free-trade meetings.
"I'd seen young people cuffed and lined up along the
street, but I thought they must have done something
bad to be detained." Her perceptions quickly
changed when
she was handcuffed and jailed by
Miami police who ignored her press
credentials. Her crime: Doing "nothing but walking
down the street."
Miami New Times |
11-27-2003 10:31 am |
Industry News
Village Voice Columnist and Critic Hentoff Honorednew
Nat Hentoff (pictured) last week joined an
august group that includes jazz greats like Miles
Davis and Ella Fitzgerald, when he was awarded a
Jazz Master Fellowship by the National
Endowment for the Arts. "No writer has been a
greater friend to jazz than critic, historian,
biographer and anecdotist Nat Hentoff," says the
NEA. Hentoff's weekly
column in the Voice, where he has written for
over 30 years, has also made him one of
the nation's most prominent defenders of civil
liberties.
National Endowment for the Arts |
11-25-2003 11:43 am |
Industry News
Unconventional Pols to Keynote Regional Conferences
AAN Staff |
11-25-2003 5:21 pm |
Association News
Dallas Observer Not Worried About Free Tabsnew
"If you want your newspaper to appeal to young
people, you must be willing to print the word
'fuck,'" says Eric Celeste, and Dallas' new,
competing commuter tabs Quick and
A.M. Journal Express apparently fail the
test. Plus, they're not "smartly written," nor do they
"reflect the world young people live in," violating two
more Celeste rules for reaching the 18- to 34-
year-old reader. But all is not lost, says Celeste:
The papers do have some "utility."
Dallas Observer |
11-20-2003 12:24 am |
Industry News
Classified Manager Appointed to At-Large Board Seat
AAN Staff |
11-20-2003 5:09 pm |
Association News
The End of an Era in Sports Writing?new
"The heyday of the alternative weekly
sports section" came to an end two weeks ago,
according to Wired News, when The Village
Voice discontinued its weekly sports section.
"Since its inception, The Village Voice ... presented
some of the most innovative, interesting and
imaginative sports writing published,"
wrote Glenn Stout in his introduction to the 1996
edition of The Best American Sports Writing. "The
Voice sports section made a regular practice of
covering events and people no one else did in a way
that was wholly unique."
Wired.com |
11-19-2003 3:49 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Village Voice
Dallas Observer's Korosec, Schutze Honored
11-19-2003 11:56 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, Dallas Observer
USA Today on the "Bite-Sized Nuggets" News Trendnew
The Gannett paper that arguably started
the trend reports on the daily newspaper industry's
response to its ongoing readership decline.
Newspaper analyst John Morton claims the
industry's new quick-read publications "shout 'this is
not your father's newspaper.''' AAN's Richard
Karpel says they're "just dumbed-down news"
and complains, ''(a)t a time when 70% of the public
thinks Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11, the last
thing we need is dumber newspapers."
USA Today |
11-17-2003 1:17 pm |
Industry News
