AAN News
An Alternative View of What to Read
Who are the best writers out there? Which are the best magazines? In a candid exchange on the AAN editorial listserv, alt-weekly editors share views on who the best writers in America are, and who are some of the worst, with a smattering of fiction, foreigners, and dead writers. Grab your pen: Here’s an alt-weekly summer reading list.
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AAN Staff |
07-01-2002 10:44 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
AAN Attends SHRM Conference
Philly convention draws 15,000
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AAN Staff |
07-01-2002 3:49 pm |
Industry News
Dysfunction and Hilarity at AAN
Paul Butler, Co-Publisher, The Source Weekly |
06-27-2002 11:28 am |
Letters to the Editor
Hitchcock's the One to Blame
Aaron Wolfe, former owner of Icon |
06-21-2002 3:13 pm |
Letters to the Editor
Why the Admissions Process Works
Richard Karpel |
06-21-2002 10:49 am |
Association News
Cowles Family Sends Subpoenas Flying in Spokanenew
“The Family” is taking on new meaning in
Spokane, Wash. The Local Planet
Weekly reports that the Cowles
family, developers of River Park
Square mall in downtown Spokane, has
filed subpoenas in the long-running
legal battle over the public-private
partnership established to remodel
the mall and adjoining parking garage.
The Cowles family also owns Spokane’s
daily newspaper, The
Spokesman-Review, as well as the local
business journal and NBC television
affiliate. The subpoenas target
political opponents, including The
Local Planet Weekly and anyone who
helped with its AAN first-place
award-winning story, "All in the Family,"
which details the Cowles family's
conflicts of interest.
Local Planet Weekly |
06-20-2002 8:11 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Local Planet Weekly
Bay Guardian Editor Named Knight Science Fellownew
Annalee Newitz, culture editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian, joins nine other reporters from around the world in the 2003-03 class of Knight Science Journalism Fellows. Newitz is also author of the syndicated column, "Techsploitation," which she describes as "rants about high tech media and everyday life." She founded the online publication Bad
Subjects in 1992. In 1997 she co-edited "White Trash: Race and Class in America," a small-press best seller.
Knight Science Journalism Fellowships |
06-19-2002 2:31 pm |
Industry News
Convention Tapes Still Available
Most sessions were taped
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AAN Staff |
06-19-2002 1:58 pm |
Association News
Creative Loafing at 30new
"Can you trust an alternative newspaper over 30?" Creative Loafing Atlanta's Senior Editor John Sugg asks. Well, yes and no. In a column published in Weekly Planet Tampa, Sugg's old stomping ground, he says alt-weeklies may be greying and corporate but they're still kicking the dailies' butts. Mainstream media have "dumbed themselves down to the point of imbecility," Sugg says. "Maybe now the alternative press will stand and achieve its true greatness, revealing what the powerful don't want revealed." If they don't, Sugg's hoping some firebrand now in high school is waiting in the wings to create the next underground press.
Weekly Planet |
06-14-2002 3:07 pm |
Industry News
Phoenix Media Critic Switches Position on Pearl Photonew
Dan Kennedy, the Boston Phoenix's
media critic, originally opposed
publication of the video and photo of
Daniel Pearl's grisly slaughter. Now that
his paper has carried through with its vow
to publish the images, Kennedy has
changed his mind. "It's important to
see the Daniel Pearl video because it's
important to look into the face of the pure
evil we're up against," Kennedy writes.
"It's important to see it because merely
reading a description of it cannot do
justice to its full horror."
Boston Phoenix |
06-13-2002 9:37 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Boston Phoenix
New Times Writer Wins Prestigious Awardnew
Bob Norman, a staff writer for New Times Broward-Palm Beach, recently took home the 2001 Livingston Award for national reporting for his investigative series "Admitting Terror." The series revealed how incompetence and a
skewed set of priorities at the federal Immigration and
Naturalization Service helped set the stage for the
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Norman's recognition is the latest notch in New Times Media's belt in what they are calling a "banner year."
NT Media "New Times" |
06-07-2002 11:40 am |
Industry News
Early Plans for Pittsburgh Convention
Last look at Madison
(FULL STORY)
Ryan Fox |
06-07-2002 4:50 pm |
Association News
AAJ Fellows Named
Strong class from pool of 750 applicants
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Ryan Fox |
06-06-2002 3:13 pm |
Association News
Dailies Struggle to Reach Young Readersnew
Traditional approaches like special kids' sections or youth-oriented stories sprinkled throughout the paper aren't working, so newspaper chains are testing alternative strategies to snag the elusive 18-to-34-year-old demographic, Editor & Publisher reports. For example, Gannett is launching free weeklies this fall in Boise, Idaho, and Lansing, Mich. and others have tried free-standing publications circulated to high school students. Meanwhile, some media conglomerates have decided that print is not enough, and have added youth-oriented content via radio, broadcast and the Web.
Editor & Publisher |
06-05-2002 5:50 pm |
Industry News
Boston Phoenix Links to Video Footage of Daniel Pearl's Murdernew
"This is the the single most gruesome,
horrible, despicable, and horrifying thing
I've ever seen,'' Boston Phoenix
Publisher Stephen Mindich says in an
editorial accompanying his paper's
link to the unedited video showing Pearl's
decapitation. In an interview with the
Boston Globe, Mindich decried the fact
that
the tape had not been more widely
viewed and discussed.
Boston Globe |
06-04-2002 11:32 pm |
Industry News
