AAN News
Dan Savage Sets Awards Lunch on Fire
In one of the
most memorable events ever at an
AAN convention, Dan Savage
electrified the seventh annual Alternative
Newsweekly Awards affair with a
high-voltage performance that included
nearly naked waiters and publishers
shedding trousers. One attendee
called it "the best hour of
comedy I've ever seen." Savage's
fatwah: every first-place winner had to
drink a shot and shed an article of
clothing. Two-thirds of the way in,
he admitted, "I can't believe you are
all playing along. The power of one
pushy fag in AAN -- it's amazing."
(FULL STORY)
06-04-2002 4:18 pm |
Industry News
AAN Accepts MetroBeat
Members approve budget, foundation,
new board members and
member-services committee
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
06-03-2002 11:04 am |
Association News
Alternative Newsweekly Award Winners Announced
Gambit Weekly took four first-place awards today in the seventh annual Alternative Newsweekly Awards, the most of any paper in AAN for the first-place awards.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
05-31-2002 7:31 pm |
Industry News
Admissions Committee Blesses Only One
Also questions three and passes on 10
(FULL STORY)
AAN Admissions Committee |
05-31-2002 5:16 pm |
Association News
Vanessa Leggett Describes Her Crash Course in Journalism
Speaking at AAN's First Amendment Luncheon, Vanessa Leggett said she learned journalism "the same way an adolescent boy learns about sex -- groping and fumbling my way through, getting rejected and slapped occasionally." Slapping in her case included jail time for refusing to turn over materials from confidential sources to a Texas grand jury. "We must always work to ensure the free flow of information to the public," she said. "When the government gets involved, that can't occur."
(FULL STORY)
Matt Olson |
05-30-2002 2:58 pm |
Industry News
Village Voice Wins SPJ's Deadline Club Awardnew
Erik Baard and Rebecca Cooney win for
their piece "China's Execution Inc."
Society of Professional Journalists |
05-29-2002 12:50 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Village Voice
Village Voice Wins Berger Award
Michael Kamber Wins Columbia J-School
Award
(FULL STORY)
05-29-2002 12:34 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, The Village Voice
Publisher’s Roundtables To Swap Ideas
New format for business-stream sessions
(FULL STORY)
Ryan Fox |
05-24-2002 11:02 am |
Association News
Gibson, Lenehan Appointed to Board
Six others announce candidacies
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
05-20-2002 11:41 am |
Association News
Dallas Observer Faces Libel Suit for Satirical News Articlenew
Earlier this month, a Texas appeals court
declined to dismiss a case in which the
Dallas Observer and reporter
Rose Farley were sued for libel
by local officials who were offended by a
"news story" penned by Ms. Farley. The
article wasn't labeled as satire,
so
Denton County Judge Darlene Whitten
and District Attorney Bruce Isaacks
apparently are concerned that readers
may have believed Ms. Farley's satirical
tale, which has the pair jailing a first
grader for a book report on Maurice
Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are."
New York Times |
05-19-2002 1:25 pm |
Industry News
AAN Proposes Creating Foundation
Diversity will be focus
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
05-17-2002 9:20 am |
Association News
Huge Increase in Academy for Alternative Journalism Applications
AAN CAN drives the surge
(FULL STORY)
Matt Pulle |
05-16-2002 3:22 pm |
Association News
Vanessa Leggett, Dan Savage to Speak at Convention
To replace Bergman and Feldman
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
05-13-2002 5:29 pm |
Association News
Vice Mayor Threatens Alt-Weekly Writernew
Cincinnati Vice Mayor Alicia Reece (pictured here) has threatened to call out the firefighters to intimidate a political rival and a Cincinnati CityBeat staff writer, the paper's Gregory Flannery reports. "Your Negro Tour Guide" columnist Kathy Y. Wilson has filed a complaint with police about the alleged threat. Editor John Fox says Reece visited him to complain about Wilson's coverage. "She said, 'If you can't control her, I will ... I have 150 firefighters who are willing to do anything I ask them.'"
Cincinnati CityBeat |
05-09-2002 12:51 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Cincinnati CityBeat
Finalists Announced in Alternative Newsweekly Awards
AAN announces the results of the
seventh annual Alternative
Newsweekly Awards. Five AAN
papers picked up five nominations each:
Gambit Weekly, Independent Weekly,
Creative Loafing Atlanta, LA Weekly
and Willamette Week. Some of
AAN's best writers and artists picked up
nominations for the second, third, fourth,
fifth and even sixth year. And a tough
bunch of judges awarded only a
first-place in several categories. So
congratulations to first-place winners
Clancy DuBos and Katy
Reckdahl of Gambit Weekly
and cartoonists Garrett Gaston
and Ken Fisher (Ruben Bolling).
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
05-09-2002 10:44 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
