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AAN Staff |
09-17-2003 4:56 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
Tribune Plans Another Free Daily, This Time in NYCnew
The new tabloid, amNewYork, will target
young urban commuters and will be launched early
in the fourth quarter, according to Newsday.
Distribution will begin in Manhattan
and then spread to the other boroughs,
with papers given away at
subway stations and bus stops as well as health
clubs, bars, restaurants and bookstores.
Tribune Publishing, which owns the youth-oriented
daily Red Eye in Chicago, will partner in New York
with
newspaper executive Russel Pergament,
who developed the original idea for amNewYork.
Newsday |
09-16-2003 4:47 pm |
Industry News
Newspaper War Heats Up in Lafayettenew
Steve May, who sold the Times of Acadiana
to Thomson in 1996, tells Gambit Weekly it was
subsequent acquirer Gannett that brought
him out of retirement. May says he started his new
paper, The Independent, because Gannett
is "on the verge of owning Louisiana. They
are two markets away from total ownership
concentration." Ted Power, who serves as
publisher of both the Times of Acadiana
and
Gannett's local daily, The Advertiser, admits the
weekly has declined in quality since Gannett's
acquisition. "The Times has been neglected," he says,
promising to revamp the paper, moving it further
away from its alternative-weekly roots
Gambit Weekly |
09-11-2003 12:34 pm |
Industry News
Ben Fulton Named Editor of Salt Lake City Weeklynew
After working at the paper for over a decade
and filling in as interim editor on three
separate occasions, the veteran Admissions
Committee
member is named to replace John Yewell. There
are two Ben Fultons, says Publisher John Saltas: The
one who "has a special rapport with
budding writers
and the respect of veteran wordsmiths," and the
"worry-wort" who "is consumed with the curse of
being only nearly perfect."
Salt Lake City Weekly |
09-11-2003 2:01 am |
Industry News
Blogger Flays Alt-Weeklies in CJR Piecenew
In a 3700-word article about the blogging
phenomenon, Matt Welch uses his first
660 words to castigate AAN members,
calling them "conformist," politically correct and
"politically monochromatic." According to Welch, he
attended AAN West in February and learned that
alternative newspapers and the people
who work for them are all "the same,"
which led him to question whether they still deserve
to be called "alternative."
Columbia Journalism Review |
09-09-2003 10:25 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Writers Head to Medill for Workshop
AAN Staff |
09-09-2003 10:56 pm |
Association News
Alt-Weekly Video Game Coverage Still in Incipient Stages
With half of all Americans pulling on joysticks
and the game industry topping both music and
film in total receipts, video games might seem
ripe for regular review by AAN papers. But
an informal survey conducted by AAN News reveals
fewer than a dozen regular columns focused on
video games, and more editors and publishers with
reasons not to attempt it. "Games have yet to seep
into the cultural consciousness and become part of
the daily language as movies have," says Village
Voice "Joystick" columnist Nick Catucci. "But
that's changing."
(FULL STORY)
Marty Levine |
09-07-2003 4:03 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Ultra-Conservative Ex-Congressman New Columnist For Creative Loafing
National Rifle Association member and right-wing
firebrand Bob Barr was hired recently to
write a regular column for the Creative Loafing
chain's flagship paper in Atlanta. Editor Ken
Edelstein hopes that publishing Barr will
broaden readers' perspectives -- and spice up the
paper. "Alternative newspapers tend to be a bit
predictable, and having a guest columnist who
adds another dimension is a good thing,"
he tells AAN News.
(FULL STORY)
Whitney Joiner |
09-05-2003 4:22 pm |
Industry News
School District Creates Separate Interview Rules For Houston Pressnew
Houston's alternative newsweekly was never an
enthusiastic cheerleader for the so-called
Houston Miracle, the "public relations
barrage" that landed former Houston schools
superintendent Rod Paige his job as U.S.
secretary of education. So PR whiz Terry
Abbott (pictured), "the man behind the curtain
of the
'miracle'", last week announced an official policy that
he would do his best to ensure that no school district
employee ever speaks with the paper. "We just can't
get any kind of fair shake out of the
Houston Press," says Abbott, whose new policy
applies to "a few reporters at other organizations
and then the Houston Press in general."
Houston Press |
09-04-2003 11:48 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Houston Press
Minority Fellows Learn Narrative Journalism at AAJnew
“I hadn’t done investigative reporting
before and now I’m definitely interested in it,”
Porochista Khakpour, a graduate of the
Johns Hopkins master’s program in writing, tells
Medill News. Khakpour and nine other students
recently concluded the residential summer
program
at Medill’s Academy for Alternative
Journalism, where they completed stories
ranging from
"what happens to the wrongfully convicted to
tracking a female urban explorer to investigating a
skydiving company with a high mortality rate."
Medill News |
09-03-2003 2:41 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Where Was AAN When the Lights Went Out?
AAN members scrambled to
keep operations running after the massive
Aug. 14 blackout that plunged 50 million people
into darkness across the U.S.
and Canada. "This was a disastrous scenario,”
Grant Crosbie, ad director for NOW
Magazine in Toronto tells AAN News. But most
papers had flexible printers and were
fortunate that the power failure
occurred on a Thursday, after that week's issue
had already hit the streets.
(FULL STORY)
Ann Hinch |
08-26-2003 11:29 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
New Times Papers Win Two Clarion Awardsnew
The Association for Women in Communications
grants Martin Kuz of Cleveland Scene a
Clarion Award for his story, "The Wal-Mart
Menace" in the Newspaper Hard News Story
category. Geri Dreiling of Riverfront
Times also picks up a Clarion Award in the
Newspaper Feature Story category for "Nasty
Boys."
The Association for Women in Communications |
08-26-2003 10:06 am |
Industry News
Dailies Experiment to Reverse Readership Trendsnew
In a desperate bid to attract young readers
"who have been deserting daily newspapers in droves
and driving news executives to distraction,"
mainstream media companies "are churning out ...
easy-to-
read publications that are light on serious
journalism, heavy on the partying scene, and,
for the most part, free," reports Mark Jurkowitz. "I
think it's a silly strategy because it's all
about what they're putting out in daily papers that's
driving [young] readers away,'' Nashville Scene's
Albie Del Favero tells Jurkowitz. ''Daily
newspapers in general write in a style that is not at
all appealing to young readers.''
Boston Globe |
08-21-2003 11:01 am |
Industry News
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