AAN News
Voice Redesign Has Edit Staff Grumblingnew
"It's a newsroom in a lot of upheaval and
unhappiness," Senior Editor Brian Parks
tells Sridhar Pappu, who reports that the "rejiggering
has only worsened an already troubled relationship
between the staff and management." The complaints
come from writers who have less space to write
in and who felt left out of the redesign process.
Voice Editor Don Forst says
morale at the paper is fine and calls the
implementation of the redesign "perfect." Pappu also
reports that the Voice "had a pretax profit
margin of
27.2 percent, according to an internal
management
source." (Second item.)
The New York Observer |
08-14-2003 10:40 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Design & Production, Editorial
Boston Phoenix Hires Two New Political Writers
David Bernstein and Adam Reilly
have both been hired to replace Seth Gitell,
who left in May to become Mayor Tom Menino's
press secretary, reports Boston Magazine's James
Burnett. The double-hire also helps to address a
vacancy created when Dorie Clark left the
paper to serve as a spokesperson on Howard Dean's
campaign. The Phoenix has been "a longtime
incubator for well-known national political scribes,"
says Burnett, who lists Joe Klein, Sid
Blumenthal, Michael Crowley and Ted Widmer
among the paper's distinguished alumnus.
Boston Magazine |
08-14-2003 1:04 pm |
Industry News
Pittsburgh Post-Mortem Released
AAN Staff |
08-11-2003 5:18 pm |
Association News
East Bay Express Puts Actor on Ballot in Calif.new
Arnold Schwarzenegger is grabbing all
the headlines, so few may have noticed
that Gary Coleman is also running for the
Golden State's top job. According to CNN.com,
Coleman's candidacy was engineered by New
Times' paper in Berkeley "in protest of the scheduled
vote aimed at recalling Gov. Gray Davis." Editor
Steve Buel, Coleman's campaign treasurer,
says he collected the 65 petition signatures
necessary to place the former child star on
the ballot at a recent Oakland A's game.
Even though he's throwing his own hat in the ring,
Coleman says he's voting for Schwarzenegger and
admits, "I'm
probably the least qualified for the job, but I'll have
some great people around me."
CNN.com |
08-07-2003 2:44 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Medill Writing Workshop Focuses on Ethics, Features Walt Harrington
AAN Staff |
08-06-2003 11:06 am |
Association News
City Paper Parodies Post Co.'s Free Dailynew
When the free weekday tabloid Express
debuted Monday morning, the City Paper and its
band of merry pranksters were prepared,
hawking 10,000 copies of its own Expresso
at subway stops across the nation's capital.
The
City Paper parodists, led by Webmeister Dave
Nuttycombe, "anticipated the journalistic
emptiness of Express," according to Slate's Jack
Shafer, who says the Post's new lite version "ladles
the news out
with an eyedropper into tiny text boxes and then
flattens it with a steamroller." Also revealed: The
editor of Express is none other than Dan
Caccavaro, former editor of AAN-member
Valley Advocate.
Slate |
08-05-2003 10:09 am |
Industry News
Ex-Voice Writer Admits She Fudged Factsnew
Vivian Gornick told a "stunned"
audience at
a creative nonfiction seminar that she used
"composite" characters for some of her
pieces that ran in the Village Voice, reports Terry
Greene Sterling. Gornick, who wrote for the Voice
from 1969 to 1977, also admitted making
up scenes and conversations in "Fierce Attachments,"
a memoir chronicling her relationship with her
mother. Voice Editor Don Forst says
Gornick "wouldn't do that under my editorship.
If she did it once that would be the end of it."
Salon |
08-01-2003 11:08 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Latest Issue of Street Miami Recalled, Sanitizednew
Seventy thousand copies of Miami Herald's
faux alternative were yanked
off the streets and within 24 hours were replaced
with a new version that deleted an unflattering
satirical portrait of local developer Stuart
Miller.
The Herald's general counsel tells Miami New Times'
Tristram Korten that the issue was
"withdrawn for legal reasons," but Korten reports
that it may have had more to do with
management's sensitivity to Miller, whose
family and powerful friends lashed out last year at
the Herald in response to a column written by New
Times alum Jim DeFede.
Miami New Times |
07-31-2003 12:41 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Gannett Daily to Introduce Free Weekly in Louisvillenew
The Courier-Journal’s new tabloid will
target 25- to 34-year-olds and will focus on lifestyle
and entertainment news, according to an internal
memo intercepted by LEO's Tom Peterson.
The as-yet-unnamed paper will launch as early as
November with shared C-J personnel but ultimately
will have its own staff, according to the memo. Boise
Weekly Publisher Bingo Barnes tells
Peterson that the free weekly published by
Gannett's Idaho Statesmen doesn't compete fairly:
“They’ve
given some advertisers free ads for a year. And we’ve
lost some ads as a result. Their goal is total
market dominance."
Louisville Eccentric Observer |
07-30-2003 3:20 pm |
Industry News
AAN Discontinues Non-Member Recruitment Ads
AAN Staff |
07-30-2003 6:56 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Eugene Weekly Launches Ducks Illustrated
07-29-2003 5:08 pm |
Press Releases
FBI Questions Man Seen Reading Alt-Weekly Articlenew
Marc Schultz was grilled by FBI
agents acting on a tip from someone who
saw the dark, bearded freelance writer
reading something "suspicious" in a
coffee shop: After retracing his steps,
Schultz remembered what he had been
reading: a printout of an
article from Weekly Planet (Tampa) --
Hal Crowther's "Weapons of
Mass Stupidity." "(I)t seems like a dark
day when an American citizen regards
reading as a threat, and
downright pitch-black when the federal
government agrees," Schultz writes.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
07-17-2003 4:02 pm |
Industry News
Shafer Says Free Commuter Dailies About Business, Not Journalismnew
"Before the Express can work as
an advertising vehicle, it must first
achieve marginal editorial success,"
Slate's Jack
Shafer says about Washington Post
Co.'s
"latest strategy to reclaim young AWOL
readers."
New Times CEO Jim
Larkin tells Shafer the Post and other
dailies are
trying to stem the erosion of their near
monopoly that began in the
early 60's; San Diego Reader's
Howie Rosen suggests the
papers have priced themselves out of
local markets with their steep advertising
rates. Village Voice Media CEO
David Schneiderman says the
dailies "patronize" young readers, and
"then wonder why they don't read their
newspapers."
Slate |
07-17-2003 12:11 pm |
Industry News
Medill Workshop Set for Mid-September
AAN Staff |
07-14-2003 5:19 pm |
Association News
Washington Post Co. Launching Free Weekday Tabloidnew
In another daily paper attempt to capture young readers, The Washington Post's Express will be given away to commuters and is designed to be read in 15 minutes. "So The Post is going after the hipster demographic -- what a surprise," Washington City Paper Editor Erik Wemple tells the Post. Express will debut in August.
The Washington Post |
07-11-2003 10:04 am |
Industry News
