AAN News
'How I Got That Story' Live Chat with Art Critic Set for Friday
Washington City Paper's Jeffry Cudlin will discuss his award-winning arts criticism with Tucson Weekly editor Jimmy Boegle this Friday, Dec. 4, in the latest installment of AAN's live chat series with 2009 AltWeekly Award winners. The chat will take place on AAN.org at 3 pm EST.
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AAN |
11-30-2009 11:41 am |
Association News
VVM Launches a National Blog Covering Cannabis Culturenew
Toke of the Town is the latest national blog property launched by Village Voice Media, joining titles like Heartless Doll, Joystick Division and True Crime Report.
Westword |
11-30-2009 11:03 am |
Industry News
White Supremacists Threaten OC Weekly's Gustavo Arellanonew
On a recent episode the show "88 Degrees" on internet radio station Radio White, white supremacist Martin Cox and co-host Jeremy Moody attacked Arellano for his coverage of an incident this summer involving skinheads in Huntington Beach. During the show, Cox called Arellano everything from a "Mexican homosexual beaner" to a "faggot communist" to a "fricking reporter for a newspaper that comes out once a week and it's free," before talking about attacking Arellano. "I know who he is, where he works. I know everything about this dude," Cox said. "We have his home address. We have everything we need to know about that dude."
OC Weekly |
11-30-2009 10:19 am |
Industry News
How I Got That Story Live Chat: Sarah Fenske Talks About Her Award-Winning Columns
Phoenix New Times' Sarah Fenske, who won first place for column writing in this year's AltWeekly Awards, was interviewed by the Santa Fe Reporter's Zane Fischer (who won the column-writing award in 2008) in a live chat today.
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AAN |
11-27-2009 2:51 pm |
Association News
Registration for Web Publishing and AAN West Conferences Now Open
After a one-year absence, both AAN West and the Web Publishing Conference are returning to the Bay Area this winter. The Web Publishing Conference will take place Jan. 27-29 at the Argonaut Hotel near San Francisco's famed Fisherman's Wharf, and AAN West will happen Jan. 29-30 across the bay in Berkeley.
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AAN |
11-23-2009 9:16 pm |
Association News
Another 'How I Got That Story' Live Chat Scheduled for Friday
At 3 pm EST, this Friday, Nov. 27, AAN will continue its live chat series with 2009 AltWeekly Award winners when Phoenix New Times' Sarah Fenske, who won first place for column writing, will be interviewed by the Santa Fe Reporter's Zane Fischer (who won the column-writing award in 2008).
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AAN |
11-23-2009 2:17 pm |
Association News
L.A. Weekly Responds to Neon Tommy Storynew
Last week, the USC Annenberg web publication Neon Tommy ran a lengthy piece on the future of the Weekly as new editor Drex Heikes settles in. After correcting a few factual errors, Weekly news blogger Dennis Romero turns his focus to the larger context of the piece -- the changes at the paper since it came under control of Village Voice Media in 2006. "What's seen as a reduction of the editorial department is also a changing of the guard," he writes. "While some liberals and the ex-Weekly writers who catered to them lament the loss of the paper's crusty, bell-bottom voice, we'd argue that the future here is bright -- and digital."
L.A. Weekly |
11-23-2009 8:47 am |
Industry News
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How I Got That Story Live Chat: Anne Schindler Talks About Her Award-Winning Columns
Folio Weekly editor Anne Schindler discussed her column writing with Santa Fe Reporter editor Julia Goldberg in a live chat. Schindler's columns won her a first-place AltWeekly Award in the 50,000 and under circulation division.
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AAN |
11-20-2009 2:50 pm |
Association News
Richard Karpel, Erik Wemple Talk About Alt-Media's 'Economic Woes'new
AAN's executive director and Washington City Paper's editor joined the Project for Excellence in Journalism's Mark Jurkowitz and former Washington Blade editor Kevin Naff on a D.C. public-radio show yesterday for a wide-ranging discussion about how the digital transformation, changing demographics and the recession are affecting alternative media.
WAMU-FM |
11-20-2009 12:12 pm |
Industry News
More on City Pages' Bachmann/Palin Mash-Up Covernew
Editor Kevin Hoffman and art director Nick Vlcek talk to the Society of Publication Designers about this week's cover design, which uses Sarah Palin's Going Rogue as source material for a cover story (titled "Going Crazy") on Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. As we noted yesterday, Hoffman had said it was the first time in 30 years the paper had gone out without a logo on the cover; a decision that he and Vlcek say was a pretty easy one to come by. "We realized very quickly that in order to make the cover look as much like the book as possible, that we would have to forgo our logo," Hoffman says. "But it was worth it for the impact it would have on our readers."
Society of Publication Designers |
11-19-2009 12:25 pm |
Industry News
How's New Times Broward-Palm Beach Doing?new
The South Florida alt-weekly ran a lengthy cover story this week on the problems facing South Florida's newspapers, and decided that it would only be fair to report on its own struggles as well. Reporter Lisa Rab says that the New Times newsroom staff has shrunk by four (to 13) and its circulation has dropped from around 80,000 to 54,500 over "the past couple of years." She also talks to Village Voice Media president and chief operating officer Scott Tobias, who says there are no plans afoot to make the paper online-only, to sell it or to merge its operations with its sister paper to the south, Miami New Times.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
11-19-2009 12:04 pm |
Industry News
Las Vegas CityLife Staffer Lampoons Pols with Fake Twitter Accountsnew
Andrew Kiraly has taken to Twitter to poke fun at Nevada politicians like Sen. John Ensign and Gov. Jim Gibbons, in what he calls "a text version of an editorial cartoon." Kiraly's fake account for Ensign, who admitted to having an affair this summer, drew the attention of a staffer for the senator, who called the content "vulgar," "offensive" and "deceptive." That account has been shut down by Twitter, but Kiraly has launched a new one that is more clearly labeled as parody. The most recent entry from SenatorEnsign2: "I advise the women of America NOT to postpone breast exams. Be responsible and proactive. Take your health into my own hands."
LasVegasNow.com |
11-19-2009 10:59 am |
Industry News
Creative Loafing (Tampa) Sells Cover, Editorial Space in Holiday Auctionnew
Like several other alt-weeklies, Creative Loafing (Tampa) has put together a holiday auction to raise funds for a local nonprofit, but with a new twist: Cover space, a news story and a restaurant review in the paper are among the items up for bid. "This is our way of saying 'This is not how we do business,'" editor David Warner tells the St. Petersburg Times. "Just this once, you'll see what you get if our content actually is for sale. It's ironic, unchartered (sic) territory."
Creative Loafing (Tampa) | St. Petersburg Times |
11-19-2009 9:23 am |
Industry News
New L.A. Weekly Editor Talks About The Paper's Futurenew
Drex Heikes, the veteran journalist who came to the Weekly from the Las Vegas Sun this summer, tells the USC Annenberg publication Neon Tommy that he was brought in specifically to beef up the paper's reporting, and that's exactly what he will do. "We're pushing things that are very deeply reported," he says. "We want good, hard-nosed investigative work." Heikes acknowledges that the Weekly has seen some tough times in the past few years, but says he remains confident in the paper's future, in part because he's been told by VVM executive editor Michael Lacey that there won't be any more newsroom contractions (as the story notes, the Weekly is actually hiring again). "I would say, God willing, the place is going to grow and we can be judged on where we are a year from now or two years from now," Heikes says. NOTE: The Weekly points out that the Neon Tommy story has an as-of-yet uncorrected error -- the paper has five full-time editors, not three.
Neon Tommy |
11-18-2009 2:42 pm |
Industry News
Court Rules CIA Didn't Violate Valerie Plame Wilson's Free Speech Rightsnew
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a 2007 lower court decision in its ruling in Wilson v. Central Intelligence Agency, which barred the former CIA officer from revealing the length of her tenure with the agency in her 2007 memoir. The three-judge panel said that the CIA made a good argument to keep the information secret and that it would not "second-guess" the agency's decision. AAN was part of a group that filed an amicus brief supporting Wilson in the case.
First Amendment Center |
11-17-2009 10:06 am |
Legal News
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