AAN News
Board Addresses Membership, Budget Issues
02-14-2003 10:30 am |
Industry News
AAN West Attendance Triples
AAN Staff |
02-12-2003 4:40 pm |
Association News
The Heroic Media Attorney: An Endangered Species
Award-winning investigative reporter Willy Stern drops his usual expletive-laced style in favor of a cap and gown in this 8,500-word essay on the role of lawyers in investigative journalism. Stern concludes that corporate ownership of the media has resulted in timid editors, tepid reporting and lawyers who play it safe at all cost. "In the eyes of many investigative reporters, these changes have weakened the historic, watchdog role of the press in American society, and present a new and substantive threat to the press freedoms embedded in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution," Stern writes in an essay originally intended for inclusion in an academic collection.
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Willy Stern |
02-11-2003 3:25 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Willy Stern
City Pages Wins Another Round in Courtnew
A state appeals court has sided with City
Pages (Twin Cities) in its attempt to force
the state and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of
Minnesota to reveal how much they
paid a high-powered law firm for its
work on the state's lawsuit against the
tobacco industry. "We saw the lawsuit as
a golden opportunity
to
remind our elected officials and their
powerful friends that to be healthy, a
democracy
must be
watched over by a free, independent, and
vigorous press," the paper says in an
unsigned editorial.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
02-05-2003 5:29 pm |
Industry News
Alternative Newsweekly Awards Draw Record 1,063 Entries
AAN Staff |
02-05-2003 11:04 am |
Association News
AAN Exec: Alt-Weeklies Rarely Speak With One Voicenew
"It's absurd to ascribe a monolithic set of attitudes and beliefs to all 116 papers that are members of our group," AAN Executive Director Richard Karpel writes in the letters section of Jim Romenesko's Web site. To make his point, Karpel contrasts the Chicago Reader's "cerebral, mostly apolitical" journalism with the "unabashedly
liberal" sledgehammer approach of the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
Media News Letters |
01-31-2003 5:07 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Hapless Media Swallow New Times Hoaxnew
Phoenix New Times |
01-24-2003 7:41 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Phoenix New Times
Membership Application Forms Available
AAN Staff |
01-16-2003 4:47 pm |
Association News
LA Weekly Critic Questions Antitrust Investigationnew
In the conclusion of his year-end review of media events and trends, John Powers notes that "it's striking that two comparatively small chains should face the scrutiny of the same DOJ that notoriously gave Microsoft a cushy deal in its antitrust settlement, takes no steps against America's broadband monopolies, and does nothing to limit huge 'synergistic' empires like Fox, AOL Time Warner and Disney.
LA Weekly |
12-31-2002 7:01 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Willamette Week Trash Search Raises Ire of Public Officialsnew
Several months ago, the Portland police,
without getting a
search warrant, poked through the
garbage of a fellow
officer that they were investigating. They
did so because, they argued,
trash is public once the can gets
to
the street. They used evidence found in
the garbage to indict the officer.
Testing the "garbage is public" thesis,
Willamette Week searched through the
trash of Portland's
police chief and a couple of other
public officials -- and they aren't
happy.
The Oregonian |
12-20-2002 3:21 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Willamette Week
Alt-Weekly Start-Up Strategies at AAN West
AAN Staff |
12-13-2002 4:58 pm |
Association News
Wimer Named to Iowa Business Hall of Famenew
Connie Wimer, owner/publisher
of Cityview in Des Moines, is the first
woman ever inducted into the Iowa
Business Hall of Fame. Her company,
Business Publicatons Corp., publishes
the weekly Des Moines Business Record
in addition to Cityview and six other
publications.
Des Moines Register |
12-12-2002 5:24 pm |
Industry News
Rick Barrs Named Editor of Phoenix New Timesnew
Barrs, who was editor-in-chief and "The Finger" at New Times LA until it was shuttered, takes over at New Times' flagship paper, according to a NT Media press release. Joining him in Phoenix as associate editor is Tony Ortega, who worked for Barrs in LA after starting his career in Phoenix. Meanwhile, former Associate Editor Patti Epler is named managing editor.
New Times news release |
12-11-2002 11:02 am |
Industry News
Diversity Foundation in Place, Academy Recruiting Begins
AAN Staff |
12-09-2002 5:12 pm |
Association News
Alternative Newsweeklies Sharpen Their Edgesnew
As the alternative newsweekly industry
matures, competition from dailies and
other media for the desirable
18-to-34
reader intensifies, E&P's Lucia
Moses
reports in this week's cover story. Despite
the burgeoning youth-oriented offerings
from daily media empires, "it may not be
all that dire for alt-weeklies," she
concludes. "They are a long way from
being confused with dailies. They
still write with more opinion and attitude,
and take more risks."
Editor & Publisher |
12-05-2002 1:40 pm |
Industry News
