AAN News
Theater Chain Says Moviegoers Use Web for Infonew
Reuters |
05-14-2009 2:52 pm |
Industry News
North Bay Bohemian Editor Tapped for NEA Program
Gretchen Giles is one of 12 U.S. journalists to win a place in the first International Arts Journalism Institute in the Visual Arts. The program, which provides mid-career art critics and writers the opportunity to participate in a two-week intensive training, is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. State Department.
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North Bay Bohemian Press Release |
05-12-2009 8:39 am |
Press Releases
Al Giordano Previews His AAN Convention Talknew
Giordano, a former alt-weekly reporter whose Friday afternoon session at the AAN Convention is on "how independent journalism is thriving on the internet and in other parts of the hemisphere," decides to "do some thinking out loud on those themes" in a blog post titled "Black and White and Dead All Over." Giordano says that daily newspapers are dying because they are crippled by institutional biases. "Memo to my remaining daily print colleagues and their nostalgia club: Get over it and get over yourselves," he writes. "In your arrogance, you established calcified 'rules' of 'journalism' and false 'objectivity' that neutered and spayed all of your reporters, domesticated so they would never again afflict the comfortable or comfort the afflicted."
Narco News |
05-11-2009 2:37 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Village Voice Editor: Industry Woes are a 'Business Model Crisis'
At a panel discussion earlier this month at the 92nd Street Y in New York, Tony Ortega talked about web publishing and the print media industry, along with Voice publisher Michael Cohen, Gothamist publisher Jake Dobkin and Alana Taylor of Mashable.com. While noting that, like most papers, the Voice is struggling to do more with less right now, Ortega says the product isn't the problem. "Newspapers have never been more popular in their history," he says. "It's just that our advertisers have no money to spend."
AAN |
05-11-2009 11:02 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Parts Ways with Writer After His Credentials Are Questionednew
Last year, John Sakowicz began writing "smartly prescient" pieces on the impending financial collapse for the North Bay Bohemian, editor Gretchen Giles writes, so she kept publishing him and even dubbed him contributing editor on the paper's masthead. However, as Sakowicz's work at the Bohemian landed him a local radio show and "expert" status at the Institute for Public Accuracy, some people started digging into his background. Ultimately, Giles found that she couldn't confirm some details of Sakowicz's biography, and the paper has cut ties with him. "It appears that Sakowicz, while talented at understanding and predicting the economic moonscape, does not have the exact background he claims to have, one that we underscored by repeatedly printing it at the end of his articles," Giles writes in a mea culpa. "A credible publication cannot publish the works of writers whose credentials cannot withstand scrutiny."
North Bay Bohemian |
05-11-2009 10:18 am |
Industry News
As Fire Blazes, Santa Barbara Independent Reports -- Often
Independent senior editor Matt Kettmann tells us via email that the paper has published about 50 stories since the Jesusita wildfire started on Tuesday afternoon at www.independent.com/jesusita. The paper has been doing up-to-the-minute coverage with a staff of about a dozen -- on top of putting out a print edition this week as well. Kettmann says its an example of "how weeklies can handle pretty important and heavy loads."
AAN News |
05-08-2009 3:48 pm |
Industry News
Texas Observer Editor Named Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellownew
Brad Tyer, the Observer's managing editor, is one of 19 journalists selected for the prestigious Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan for the upcoming academic year. He will focus on environmental justice issues. Each fellow receives a stipend of $70,000, supported by gifts from foundations, news organizations and individuals.
University of Michigan Press Release |
05-08-2009 8:39 am |
Honors & Achievements
It's Official: The Onion Kills California Editionsnew
Confirming rumors that rippled through the blogosphere earlier this week, The Onion has announced it is discontinuing its distribution in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The company claims readership had actually increased in the two markets, according to SF Weekly, but bowed out due to an "abysmal" advertising climate.
SF Weekly |
05-07-2009 3:05 pm |
Industry News
Boise Weekly Wins State Awards, Honored for Coverage of Minoritiesnew
The Weekly took home "an armload of awards" from the Idaho Press Club's Best of 2008 competition, including five first-place awards, for arts/entertainment reporting, business reporting, health/medical reporting, political reporting and watchdog/investigative reporting. Weekly staff writer Tara Morgan was also named Rookie of the Year for her work in 2008. Meanwhile, the Hispanic Cultural Center of Idaho awarded the alt-weekly an Animo award in the Outstanding Newspaper category for non-biased coverage of not only the Latino community, but of all minority communities in the area.
Boise Weekly |
05-07-2009 9:21 am |
Honors & Achievements
Amazon's Newest Kindle Takes Aim at Newspapersnew
Fortune |
05-07-2009 10:02 am |
Industry News
Did RedEye Rip Off a Chicago Reader Cover?new
Reader media critic Michael Miner points out the striking similarity between a cover RedEye ran yesterday and one the Reader ran less than a month ago. But RedEye's editor claims no one from his paper ever saw the alt-weekly's April 9 issue. "As for the design, I had not seen that issue of The Reader, nor had my staff," Tran Ha says. "I mean, it was a story about parking meters - and some parking meters say 'fail' when they don't work."
Chicago Reader |
05-06-2009 9:09 am |
Industry News
Jen Sorensen Explains Her 'Ironic Great Depression' Cartoonnew
In this weekend's Washington Post, the "Slowpoke" creator talks about how she got the idea to do a strip on how our irony-drenched culture will handle the economic downturn. Sorensen says that a number of readers tuned into a "tiny background gag" -- a billboard advertising The Grapes of Snark -- and told her they thought it was the funniest part of the strip.
The Washington Post |
05-05-2009 3:17 pm |
Industry News
The Stranger Launches Happy Hour iPhone Appnew
Cocktail Compass, which the alt-weekly rolled out last week, gives iPhone users information on the happy hours currently happening at bars close by. The app allows users to search for bars that have specific attributes, like wifi, dancing or outdoor seating, and it also includes a feature to call a local cab company when the drinking is done. Seattle Weekly responded to the Stranger's news by saying it had launched "the Ripper," a "game-changing new rotary phone app."
The Stranger |
05-05-2009 2:38 pm |
Industry News
Former Sheriff Dogged by OC Weekly Sentenced to 66 Months in Prisonnew
OC Weekly |
05-05-2009 2:23 pm |
Industry News
Is The Onion Ending its LA and San Francisco Print Editions?new
Gawker |
05-05-2009 11:56 am |
Industry News
