AAN News
OC Weekly Staff Writer Releases Second Booknew
Nick Schou has followed up his 2006 book on Gary Webb with Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World, which was released yesterday. The book examines the Brotherhood, dubbed the "Hippie Mafia," which grew from a small group of surfers to the biggest group of acid dealers and hashish smugglers in the nation. Schou tells his Weekly colleague Matt Coker that he had to go to some extraordinary lengths to track down Brotherhood members for the book. "I had to hike a mile up a really remote slope in Maui to talk to a Buddhist hermit who was able get me an interview with Ram Dass, [Timothy] Leary's Harvard philosophy colleague and acid researcher," He says. "Another time, I had to play guitar with a Brotherhood smuggler who has a cable access television show in Santa Cruz."
OC Weekly |
03-17-2010 8:59 am |
Industry News
Discounted NewsU Webinar on Location-Based Services Set for April 1
The emerging world of location-based services are helping news organizations serve their customers better and helping cutting-edge reporters succeed. An upcoming webinar from NewsU will explore how a these new platforms can be valuable reporting tools. Through AAN's partnership with NewsU, the first 25 AAN members to register will receive a reduced rate of $12.95 for the webinar (the regular rate is $27.95). Click here to get the AAN password. Click here to register.
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AAN |
03-16-2010 12:28 pm |
Association News
Senators Introduce FOIA Streamlining Bill as Sunshine Week Kicks Offnew
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press |
03-16-2010 11:41 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Bay Guardian Joins ACLU and Asian Law Caucus in Seeking FBI Surveillance Recordsnew
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
03-12-2010 8:46 am |
Industry News
Worcester Mag Editor Departsnew
"This issue marks my last as editor-in-chief of Worcester Mag," Jim Keogh writes. "After a year and a half at the helm, and 23 total years of pushing news for The Holden Landmark Corp., I'm stepping away from journalism and into a new career." The search is on for a replacement. "I leave here feeling proud to be a member of the continuum of reporters, editors, salespeople, designers and, yes, bean counters who have published Worcester Magazine, now 'Mag,' without fail since 1976," Keogh adds. "We do good work here, and the magazine will continue to thrive."
Worcester Mag |
03-11-2010 9:32 am |
Industry News
Michael Musto Releasing New Booknew
Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back "is the latest zippy collection of columns and essays" from the Village Voice nightlife/gossip columnist, according to press materials. Musto, who is currently celebrating his 25th anniversary at the Voice, talks to Black Book about New York nightlife, social networking and writing a daily column. "Sometimes it's on the days that you have nothing to write about that you do your best work because it forces you to dig inside yourself and come up with some high concept," Musto says. "I come up with good stuff like advice to celebrities, telling them how to get a life, or I'll just do questions and let the readers do the work for me." MORE MUSTO: In a video segment, he talks to Streetsblog about his preferred mode of transportation: his bicycle.
Black Book |
03-11-2010 9:08 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weeklies Among National Education Reporting Award Winnersnew
Westword's Patricia Calhoun took home a first place win and Willamette Week's Beth Slovic received a special citation at the Education Writers Association's 2009 National Awards for Education Reporting. Calhoun took first in the Small Media: Opinion category for "School Daze," while Slovic was recognized in the Small Media: Feature, News Feature or Issue Package category for "Cheerless."
Education Writers Association |
03-11-2010 8:32 am |
Honors & Achievements
New York Press' Armond White Will See 'Greenberg' Screeningnew
Despite rumors that were flying around the web yesterday, the controversial film critic has not been banned from seeing a screening of director Noah Baumbach's latest film. "He has RSVP'd for Friday afternoon," Baumbach publicist Leslee Dart tells the Village Voice. "I made a decision, not the filmmaker, that based on the horrible comments he's made about Noah personally -- like how his mother should have had an abortion and how he's never met him, but he's an asshole -- I made a decision that he shouldn't be one of the first critics to see the film." IFC.com's Independent Eye blog has more on the backstory involving White and Baumbach's mother, Georgia Brown, who reviewed movies for the Voice in the 1980s. MORE from New York and Movieline.com.
New York Press |
03-09-2010 12:35 pm |
Industry News
Only Three Weeks Left to Register for Columbia's Journalism Career Expo
Registration is open for our annual Career Expo, to be held Sat. March 27, 2010 from 9 - 5 at Columbia University in New York City.
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Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Press Release |
03-09-2010 9:00 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, Management
Michael Musto Celebrates 25 Years at The Village Voice with 'a Simply Marvelous Party'new
The Village Voice |
03-05-2010 9:34 am |
Honors & Achievements
Three Alt-Weeklies Among Bert Greene Award Finalistsnew
The International Association of Culinary Professionals has announced the finalists for this year's Bert Greene Awards, which honor "one of the most sophisticated and dynamic genres in contemporary journalism" -- food writing. This year, both the Houston Press and SF Weekly are finalists in the brand-new Blog category, and the Village Voice's Sarah Digregorio is a finalist in the Culinary Writing without Recipes category for her February 2009 piece on foie gras. The winners will be announced at a ceremony in Portland on April 22.
International Association of Culinary Professionals |
03-04-2010 9:00 am |
Honors & Achievements
Oklahoma Gazette Picks Up Dozens of Awards in Three Contestsnew
The Oklahoma Gazette received 18 honors at the 2009 Oklahoma Pro Chapter's Society of Professional Journalists awards, including five first-place wins. The Gazette also picked up 10 awards (including four firsts) at the 2009 Oklahoma Press Association's Better Newspaper Contest, and received seven honors at the Oklahoma City Ad Club's 44th annual ADDY Awards.
Oklahoma Gazette |
03-03-2010 11:47 am |
Honors & Achievements
Book from Seattle Weekly's 'Uptight Seattleite' Out This Weeknew
A Sensitive Liberal's Guide to Life: How To Banter With Your Barista, Hug Mindfully, And Relate To Friends Who Choose Kids Over Dogs is being published this week by Gotham Books. The book is a collection of the Weekly's "Ask an Uptight Seattleite" columns, where the aforementioned Uptight Seattleite, as Gotham's press materials put it, "delights his loyal readers each week with snide insight on everything from fashion ('Can I pull off a Rasta beret?') to ear-bud etiquette."
Seattle Weekly |
03-03-2010 10:30 am |
Industry News
Oklahoma Gazette Earns an Array of Awards and Accolades
Oklahoma Gazette |
03-03-2010 6:18 pm |
Press Releases
VVMH Partners with GoTime to Launch Happy Hours Mobile App
Village Voice Media Holdings, LLC announced today that it has partnered with happy-hour guide GoTime to launch a mobile app detailing more than 15,000 happy hour deals in 30 cities across the country. Users can search happy hours by name, location, time and even type of cuisine, all within one location-aware mobile application."We want to be everywhere our readers are, and that's out on the town, anywhere in the country," VVMH president and COO Scott Tobias says in a release. "We own the night -- and this app really delivers on that." MORE: Seattle Weekly's Mike Seely has more on the origins of the partnership with GoTime.
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Village Voice Media Holdings, LLC Press Release |
03-02-2010 12:45 pm |
Press Releases
