AAN News
AAN Issues Call for Entries in Alternative Newsweekly Award Contest
AAN Staff |
12-05-2002 11:16 am |
Association News
Anti-Trust Investigation of VVM/New Times "Risibly Misplaced"new
"Does the U.S. Department of Justice
really have so little to do it must
investigate why a couple of alternatives
were folded?" E&P asks in a Nov. 25
editorial. With so many media outlets in
both the Los Angeles and Cleveland
markets where the two alternative weekly
chains closed papers to end
head-to-head competition, advertisers
have plenty of places to go. "It's not an
argument Justice can make with a
straight face," E&P concludes.
Editor & Publisher |
12-04-2002 1:36 pm |
Industry News
Whitaker Disappointed in RedEye, Red Streaknew
Charles Whitaker, director of the Academy
for Alternative Journalism at Northwestern
University's Medill School of Journalism,
says the Chicago dailies' two new
youth-oriented weekday tabs "are
neither hip, nor
smart, nor in any way sophisticated."
Whitaker, a former editor of Ebony, says
he'd hoped the Tribune and the Sun
Times would have used their
considerable resources to achieve "a
radical rethinking of what newspapers
are and what they can be. ... Boy, was I
wrong."
Newsday |
12-04-2002 10:29 am |
Industry News
University Journo Dissects Chicago's New Youth Tabsnew
RedEye and Red Streak both "suck
to similar degrees, and both emulate
the clichés of
youth-oriented marketing: brevity, snark,
'edginess' ... and color," Whet Moser of
The Chicago Maroon writes. But their
other, more important, failures
include not being a substitute for the
"brevity and depth" of the Internet or either
a viable substitute for or a precursor to
reading the regular daily, the University of
Chicago columnist writes.
The Chicago Maroon |
11-18-2002 11:30 am |
Industry News
On Going From Alt-Weekly to Dailynew
According to Harris Meyer, Jim
DeFede is learning what it means to
make the "transition from kicking
powerful butts in the pages of the
freewheeling (Miami) New Times to doing
the same at the more sedate (Miami)
Herald." Meyer reports that DeFede,
speaking at a local SPJ meeting, said
that when he wrote a tough column
criticizing two local businessmen, the
Herald was "flooded with angry
responses" and "the paper essentially
repudiated his column in an editorial the
next day lavishing praise" on the targets
of DeFede's ire. On the other hand,
DeFede said, Miami-Dade Mayor Alex
Penelas now returns his calls.
Daily Business Review |
11-15-2002 4:32 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Chicago's Alt-Weeklies Seeing Rednew
Chicago's new weekday tabloids RedEye
and Red Streak are pulling the same
display advertisers as AAN members
Chicago Reader and Chicago Newcity,
Jeremy Mullman reports in Crain's
Chicago Business. "This will have some
short-term impact on the Reader,"
newspaper consultant Scott Stawski tells
Mullman. "I believe it'll put Newcity
out."
Crain's Chicago Business |
11-12-2002 9:42 am |
Industry News
City Drops Request for Gag Ordernew
Faced with a challenge from the ACLU,
the City of Colorado Springs cancels a
hearing on its request for an
injunction against the
Colorado Springs Independent and
drops all charges against the paper. The
city was trying to
block the paper from publishing any
information from Detective Jeffrey
Huddleston's personnel file. By mistake,
the detective's entire file was given to
Editor Cara Degette and
reporter John Dicker, who were
working on an investigative piece. When
the mistake was discovered, the City
demanded that Dicker turn over the
notes he'd been taking.
ACLU Foundation of Colorado |
11-08-2002 4:57 pm |
Industry News
Colorado Springs Drops Effort to Obtain Gag Order Against Weekly Newspaper
ACLU Foundation of Colorado |
11-08-2002 2:50 pm |
Legal News
RedEye Gets the Rotten Tomatonew
Chicago Media Examiner spoofs the Chicago Tribune's new "alternative" weekday tabloid, RedEye. Chicago Red Face has a cool Top Ten Reasons to Read This Web Site list, a whining sports column, lots of blocks of type and pix and a paean to its readers: "You, dear reader, rule the Earth!!!
You are most definitely the most coolest person ever ... We love you. We want to perform oral homage on you. We just can't put into
words how amazingly incredible you are and how honored we are by your existence. Keep up the
good work! "
Chicago Media Examiner |
11-07-2002 2:06 pm |
Industry News
ACLU Challenges City Government's Bid for Gag Order Against Colorado Springs Newspaper
ACLU Foundation of Colorado |
11-07-2002 4:46 pm |
Legal News
Honolulu Weekly, Baltimore City Paper Receive AAN Diversity Grants
Josef Sawyer |
11-06-2002 2:38 pm |
Association News
"Dog's Tale" Wins for Santa Fe Reporter
Santa Fe Reporter |
11-05-2002 3:29 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, Santa Fe Reporter
Dailies Youth Tabs Doomed?new
"The RedEye will be the newspaper equivalent of the middle-aged bald guy with a ponytail," Richard Karpel, executive director of AAN, tells Shirley Leung, a Wall Street Journal reporter. Leung looks at the precipitous flight of younger readers from daily newspapers and the checkered history of their attempts to recapture them. Chicago Reader Editor Alison True questions the entire strategy of the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times, which both launched youth-oriented weekday tabloids this week, RedEye and Red Streak, respectively. "Younger readers don't pick up a daily, so let's give them a daily?" True asks.
The Wall Street Journal |
10-31-2002 9:58 am |
Industry News
Sun-Times' Youth Tab Debutsnew
The Chicago Sun Times' new
youth-oriented tabloid Red Streak hit the
streets today opposite the Chicago
Tribune's RedEye. "Both papers featured
slick designs and a paucity of original
content," Jeremy Mullman writes in
Crain's Chicago Business. Both tabloids
launched Web sites today as well.
Crain's Chicago Business (registration required) |
10-30-2002 1:23 pm |
Industry News
Annual Convention Schedule Condensed
AAN Staff |
10-30-2002 4:51 pm |
Association News
