AAN News
Christgau of Voice Gets NAJP Senior Fellowshipnew
Robert Christgau, senior editor for The Village Voice, will use his National Arts Journalism Program senior fellowship to write a world history of popular music. The fellowships at Columbia's School of Journalism are funded by the Pew Charitable Trust. Two freelance arts writers, Douglas Wolk and Sarah Frere-Jones, are named research fellows under the program. Both have written for AAN papers.
National Arts Journalism Program |
05-07-2002 11:37 am |
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Tags: Editorial, The Village Voice
AAN Papers Bat .625 in SPJ-Southeast Contestnew
Bob Norman of New Times
Broward/Palm Beach was the big winner
in
this year's Green Eyeshade
competition, picking up three awards,
including two first-places. Norman wasn't
alone; AAN members captured 15
of the 24 awards handed out in the
weekly/monthly category of SPJ's
Southeast region contest: Miami New
Times picked up six, New Times
Broward/Palm Beach won five,
Creative Loafing Atlanta took
home three, and the Nashville
Scene received one.
Society of Professional Journalists |
04-25-2002 4:28 pm |
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New Times Dominates John Bartlow Martin Awardsnew
Two New Times investigative
series were selected as winners in
the 2002 John Bartlow Martin Awards,
sponsored by Northwestern's Medill
School of Journalism. First place went to
"Fallout," a look at the U.S. Navy's
radioactive legacy in the Bay Area by
SF Weekly's
Lisa Davis. Phoenix New Times staff
writer Amy Silverman captured
third
place for her special series "Slammed,"
which exposed abuses in Arizona's
juvenile justice system.
Sandwiched between them was
Katherine Boo, former managing editor of
Washington City Paper, for her story in
The New Yorker on welfare
mothers.
Medill School of Journalism |
04-25-2002 1:17 pm |
Industry News
Derf on Growing Up with Dahmernew
Andy Newman, editor of Pittsburgh City Paper, interviews John Backderf, "known to everyone but his mother simply as Derf." Derf's comic strip "The City" strip appears in more than 50 AAN member papers. Newman asks Derf about two comic books he
just
published, one called "My Friend Dahmer" about being high
school pals
with serial cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer and another about working on the back of a
garbage
truck.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
04-25-2002 11:01 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, John Backderf
CityBeat Critic Still Banned at Art Movie Housenew
Bowing to reader pressure,
Cincinnati CityBeat has resumed
printing movie times for two art movie
houses after a nearly yearlong standoff
with the owner. City Beat's film critic,
Steve Ramos, is still banned at
the theaters, and the owner, Gary
Goldman, still won't allow CityBeat racks
in the lobby. Ramos made Goldman mad
last June by revealing that Goldman had
ordered three XXX seconds of film
snipped out of the movie, The Center
of the World. "We will not, however,
apologize for br eaking the unauthorized
editing story last year, nor will we
apologize for criticizing Goldman's
handling of the situation,"
Co-Publisher and Editor John
Fox writes.
Cincinnati CityBeat |
04-18-2002 9:59 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Third Round of Diversity Grants Awarded
OC Weekly, Gambit Weekly are recipients
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
04-17-2002 1:13 pm |
Association News
Advice Goddess Campaigns Against SUVsnew
Syndicated columnist Amy Alkon, Advice Goddess, has some advice for SUV owners: ditch that roadhog and get a life. From her home base in Venice, Calif., she began placing small printed cards on the windsheids of SUVs that read: "Road-hogging, gas-guzzling, air-fouling
vulgarian! Clearly you have an extremely small penis or
you wouldn't drive such a monstrosity. " Since she wrote up the campaign in New Times Los Angeles, along with the responses she's been getting to a telephone number printed on the card, the movement has spread. She's been written up as far away as Britain.
New Times Los Angeles |
04-16-2002 10:09 am |
Industry News
AAN Going to SHRM
First booth at recruitment expo
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
04-15-2002 4:28 pm |
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Phoenix Gets Laurel for Geoghan Coveragenew
Kristen Lombardi of the Boston Phoenix is singled out by CJR for her coverage of the story of pedophile priests being shielded by the Catholic hierarchy. "Her prodigiously
reported pieces documented the sorry history of
Geoghan's career, as well as the still sorrier
protection of that career, and too many others like it,
by the church and by Cardinal Law," CJR writes.
Columbia Journalism Review |
04-12-2002 11:21 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Boston Phoenix
Pittsburgh City Paper Takes Pulp to Court
Pittsburgh City Paper has obtained an injunction ordering the new weekly Pulp not to place its papers in City Paper racks. The judge, however, has told both sides to reach a final agreement on other distribution issues without further rulings from the bench. City Paper Publisher Michael Frischling says he wants Pulp to “make an investment in racks.” Pulp’s Publisher Catherine Nelson, former publisher of In Pittsburgh, says what City Paper is demanding amounts to Pulp not distributing, period.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
04-09-2002 5:57 pm |
Industry News
LA Weekly Task: "Reinvent Alternative Journalism"new
Los Angeles Magazine reporter R.J. Smith says the city's dominant alternative "has improved" since "smart and low-key" Laurie Ochoa took over as editor a year ago. Smith calls the paper Ochoa inherited "lucrative but dull, a cash cow in need of a prod" and says Village Voice Media CEO David Schneiderman -- who argues that "anxiety is healthy" -- is doing the prodding. "The pressure I'm putting on them is not because of investors," Schneiderman says. "It's so we don't become dinosaurs."
Los Angeles Magazine |
04-01-2002 12:08 pm |
Industry News
"Fallout" Takes Another Awardnew
Lisa Davis' "Fallout" series, which won a George Polk Award a few weeks ago, wins a 2002 IRE Award for investigative journalism. Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. honors Davis and John Mecklin of the SF Weekly for “Fallout,”
which reveals "how a Bayfront property about to be turned
over to the city by the Navy may be far more contaminated
with radioactive waste than current cleanup plans
acknowledge." Other AAN members Phoenix New Times and New Times Los Angeles were the two finalists in the local circulation weekly division, giving New Times a lock on the division.
Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. |
03-15-2002 2:19 pm |
Industry News
Hentoff on Leaked Pulitzer Finalist Listnew
Nat Hentoff, columnist for The Village Voice, is on a leaked list of Pulitzer Prize finalists making the rounds of American newsrooms, E&P's Joe Strupp reports. No one's vouching for the list's authenticity publicly, but it's making for some tense journalists between now and April 8, when the winners are announced.
Editor & Publisher |
03-15-2002 9:18 am |
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