AAN News
How I Got That Story Live Chat: John Dickerson Talks Investigative Reporting
In our debut "How I Got That Story" live chat, John Dickerson talked about his Phoenix New Times series "Prescription for Disaster" with New Times managing editor Amy Silverman. The conversation was moderated by Folio Weekly editor Anne Schindler.
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AAN |
09-25-2009 2:28 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Nevada Alt-Weeklies Win Big in State Press Contestnew
Las Vegas CityLife, Las Vegas Weekly and the Reno News & Review took home a total of 74 awards at the annual Better Newspaper Contest put on by the Nevada Press Association. CityLife won 34 awards, with 16 first-place finishes; the News & Review won 28 awards, including 11 firsts; and the Weekly won 12 awards, four of which were first-place.
Nevada Press Association |
09-25-2009 9:42 am |
Honors & Achievements
Albuquerque Police 'Snooping Around' Backpage.com in New Mexiconew
Santa Fe Reporter |
09-25-2009 3:42 pm |
Industry News
Defense Attorney Sues Tucson Weekly for Defamationnew
The Courthouse News Services reports that Andrew Diodati has sued the Weekly, publisher Tom Lee and a staff writer for allegedly defaming him in a July story in which a former client and her new lawyer accused Diodati of botching a fraud case and overcharging the government. Diodati claims the story spurred investigations by Pima County and the State Bar of Arizona, and that his "reputation has been severely damaged." He is seeking $2.75 million in damages to make up for what he says was the Weekly's "reckless disregard for the truth." Reached by email, attorney D. Douglas Metcalf, who is representing the paper, says they "have no comment other than to say that the Weekly intends to defend the suit vigorously."
Courthouse News Service |
09-24-2009 2:04 pm |
Industry News
What Makes a Good Alt-Weekly?new
Writing on AOL's Digital City, Carly Milne says "usually it's universally accepted that having the cojones to stand on a soapbox and really, creatively say what you're feeling is one requirement," before giving shout-outs to AAN and six alt-weeklies.
Digital City |
09-24-2009 12:23 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management
Justice Department Unveils New Policy on State Secretsnew
Attorney General Eric Holder has laid out out new procedures that will "provide greater accountability and ensure the state secrets privilege is invoked only when necessary and in the narrowest way possible." Open government advocates like OMB Watch and Sen. Patrick Leahy have "expressed cautious optimism" about the policy, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press reports. Secrecy News also has a mixed reaction, saying the policy "includes procedural and substantive changes to current practice," but "it reserves decisions over the exercise of the privilege to the executive branch, and it appears to have garbled its treatment of judicial review."
U.S. Department of Justice |
09-24-2009 11:43 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
What I've Been Tweeting [members only]
Jon Whiten |
09-24-2009 2:23 pm |
AAN Staff Blog
C-Ville Weekly Celebrates 20th Anniversarynew
The Charlottesville, Va., alt-weekly is marking the occasion by taking a look back at some of the memorable moments since the paper launched in 1989. The staff has compiled some of the hits and misses, while co-founder Bill Chapman takes a walk down memory lane in this video tour of the eight buildings that have called C-Ville home over the last 20 years.
C-Ville Weekly |
09-23-2009 12:23 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Management, C-Ville Weekly
New York Times Explores New Twitter Search Productsnew
Saying there is "a lot of power in organizing and curating this world," The New York Times Company senior VP of digital operations Martin Nisenholtz told OMMA conference attendees yesterday that Times has built a search product that aggregates Twitter commentary from both editors and readers for its popular fashion-themed blog The Moment and it plans on building many more. "If you go out and search Twitter, it doesn't work very well," he said. "It's very literal."
Mediaweek |
09-22-2009 3:08 pm |
Industry News
Judge Dismisses Defamation Suit Against The Independent Weeklynew
A judge has dismissed former Stanford Group Company vice president Tiffany Angelle's defamation claim against the Lafayette, La., paper. Angelle had sued the Independent over a story that reported she had given a reluctant investor a Rolex watch and a lavish trip to keep his money in Stanford, which was shut down earlier this year by the Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly perpetrating an $8 billion investment scam. In making his ruling, the judge noted that Independent editorial director Leslie Turk, who was also named in the suit, "reasonably relied on a confidential informant whom she believed to be telling the truth and confirmed the accuracy of the source's statement by making a second call to [the confidential source]."
The Independent Weekly |
09-22-2009 10:14 am |
Legal News
Robert Newman Goes a Little Deeper into Village Voice Cover Archivenew
Last week, we told you about the collection of Village Voice covers posted in Facebook galleries by Robert Newman Design. Over the weekend, he added some even older covers from the 70s and 80s, featuring the work of design luminaries like Milton Glaser, George Delmerico and Michael Grossman. The New York Times' David Carr says "it's a walk down memory lane for people who otherwise might have some trouble remembering those good old days."
The New York Times |
09-22-2009 9:59 am |
Industry News
Despite Industry Turmoil, Many J-Schools Seeing Record Enrollmentsnew
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
09-22-2009 11:22 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Forecast: Internet Ad Spend Will Grow 11 Percent in '10new
Media Daily News |
09-22-2009 10:42 am |
Industry News
AAN Begins Live Chat Series With 2009 AltWeekly Award Winners
The series debuts here on AAN.org this Friday, Sept. 25, with investigative reporting winner John Dickerson discussing his Phoenix New Times series "Prescription for Disaster" with New Times managing editor Amy Silverman. The conversation, which will begin at 3 pm EST, will be moderated by Folio Weekly editor Anne Schindler.
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AAN |
09-21-2009 3:03 pm |
Association News
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Tom Tomorrow Pens His First Children's Book
Promo materials say The Very Silly Mayor uses "humor and social commentary to teach children to trust their own judgment, even if other people might disagree with their views or make fun of them." The book, which is currently available in stores and at web retailers, is the product of Tom Tomorrow's own experience as a parent. "As the parent of a small child, you end up reading a lot of fairly awful story books at bedtime, and as someone whose livelihood is derived from a certain facility at combining words and pictures, the lure of trying to do better was eventually too strong to resist," he explained on his blog earlier this year. You can read more about the book at the Very Silly Mayor website.
AAN News |
09-21-2009 11:35 am |
Industry News
