AAN News
Catholics Protest Reader's Cartoonnew
About 120 religious activists turned out
last week to protest a "blasphemous"
cartoon published in the Chicago
Reader, reports The Illinois Leader,
which bills itself "Illinois' Conservative
News Source." The cartoon in question
implied
immoral behavior by the Virgin Mary,
the pope and Jesus, the newspaper
says.
Illinois Leader |
09-30-2002 11:41 am |
Industry News
Dailies Launching Youth-Oriented Pubsnew
E&P's Lucia Moses looks at a batch of new daily-owned youth market publications in the works, from Gannett in Lansing, Mich., and Boise, Idaho, and from the Tribune Co., in Chicago and on Long Island. Reaching young readers is a delicate art, as alternative weeklies can attest. "The 'new generation' is newly minted every year," Chicago Newcity President Brian Hieggelke tells E&P. "Those of us who are writing about them ... the older we get, the less we should trust our instincts."
Editor & Publisher |
09-23-2002 2:17 pm |
Industry News
2002 Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism
Nieman Foundation at Harvard University |
09-20-2002 4:46 pm |
Press Releases
Medill Conferees to Rock Out in Chi-Town
Saturday night at the Beat Kitchen
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
09-18-2002 3:29 pm |
Association News
Chicago Trib Mulls Paper for MTV Crowdnew
Taking a page from Gannett, the Chicago Tribune is seriously considering launching a five-day-a-week tabloid aimed at the elusive 18- to 34-year-old urban reader, the Tribune's Jim Kirk reports. "The new Tribune paper would be aimed at the same demographic that has made
the city's free alternative papers, such as the Reader and New City, successful," Kirk writes. Gannett is launching "alternative" weeklies in target markets.
Chicago Tribune |
09-13-2002 9:27 am |
Industry News
AAN Diversity Grant Recipients Head Back to School
Next grant deadline Oct. 14
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
09-13-2002 11:26 am |
Association News
Alternative Takes on Sept. 11 Anniversary
It's the first anniversary of the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks on New York and
Washington, and the nation is in a
period of mourning and memories. Some
alternative weeklies are pointedly
eschewing additional coverage, but most
are taking a special look back at the day
that changed everything. Their viewpoint,
of course, is quite different from the
largely sentimental outpourings of the
mainstream media. Alt-weeklies look
at Sept. 11 and see lost civil liberties,
Muslim communities under siege and
Americans who are confused, angry, sad
and at times uplifted. Here is a sampling
of the alternative view of Sept. 11.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
09-11-2002 2:38 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Government Recall: Civil Libertiesnew
One phrase that has not been
synonymous with Sept 11 is "civil
liberty." The one-year anniversary
not only marks a significant day in history
but also the continuation of an
assault on the Bill of Rights.
"The U.S. Department of Justice
continues to wage its own war to keep
Americans in the dark about its vast
incursions into their civil liberties —
including secret arrests and deportations,
lowered barriers to covert searches, and
a 'don’t ask, won’t tell' attitude toward
public scrutiny," Richard Byrne writes in the Boston Phoenix.
Tags: Editorial
Staff Doesn't Roll Eyes When Wm.(TM) Steven Humphrey Leaves the Roomnew
The Portland Mercury just turned two, and its editor may sometimes act like a terrible two, Joseph Gallivan writes in the Portland Tribune. William Steven Humphrey's antics range from flinging gunpowder "snaps" around the room to performing obscene acts with the doorknobs at rival Willamette Week, Gallivan writes. "He's mature, and he's a little boy and he's a disgusting pervert all at once," Dan Savage tells Gallivan. "I admire how a fortysomething can use the word
'pee-pee' as much as he does," Mark Zusman, editor of Willamette Week, says.
Portland Tribune |
09-03-2002 9:51 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Portland Mercury
Alt-Weekly Writers Appear in Da Capo Collection
“This book, I hope, is a book of encounters, none of them predictable,” novelist and music writer Jonathan Lethem writes in his introduction to “Da Capo Best Music Writing 2002.” Seven of the 28 articles in the collection were originally published in alternative newsweeklies, including The Village Voice, Chicago Reader and City Pages (Twin Cities).
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
08-30-2002 1:54 pm |
Industry News
Straight Man McLeod Shakes up Sales
From a rebellious underground paper in the '60s, The Georgia Straight has grown to a 120,000 weekly circulation institution in Vancouver, B.C. It hasn't gotten that way by resting on its hippie laurels. Publisher Dan McLeod demonstrates that by once again shaking up his sales department, firing a vice president and parting ways with the consultant who helped double the paper's sales. "There's going to be some loud howling, but it's a way to grow the business," McLeod tells AAN News.
(FULL STORY)
Ann Hinch |
08-29-2002 4:21 pm |
Industry News
Animated Film in Works from Michael Moore & Tom Tomorrownew
Dan Perkins, who pens the
cartoon "This Modern World" as Tom
Tomorrow, says he and Michael Moore
are teaming up on an animated
feature film. "It will be a
fictional, satirical narrative film, the look of
which will be based on my work,"
Perkins says in a news release. He and
Moore have been working on the
screenplay since last October and expect
to start pre-production in a few
months.
Dan Perkins, aka Tom Tomorrow, news release |
08-28-2002 1:05 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Design & Production, Editorial
Academy Grad's Real Trial Begins
Pittsburgh City Paper has hired
Brentin Mock, a graduate of the
Academy for Alternative Journalism at
Medill. Each summer 10 minority
journalism students go through the
eight-week residential program, learning
long-form feature writing with the
alt-edge. Mike Lenehan,
executive editor of the Chicago Reader
and one of the founders of the Academy,
says right now he's happy if one or two of
its graduates are snapped up by
alts. In the meantime, the Academy,
which is funded by grants from AAN and
its publishers, is building "a small
army of future writers," Lenehan
says.
(FULL STORY)
Ann Hinch |
08-28-2002 3:53 pm |
Industry News
Reader Critic's Use of Term "Nerve Gas" Causes Uproarnew
Chicago Reader |
08-23-2002 2:34 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Chicago Reader
Does the AAN Convention Need to Change?
That question to be focus of Fall board
meeting
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
08-23-2002 11:53 am |
Association News
