AAN News
Alt-Weeklies Take Home SPJ Awards in Texasnew
The Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists presented a total of seven First Amendment awards to Fort Worth Weekly and the Houston Press last week, the Houston Chronicle reports. The Weekly won a first-place award in the "Student" category for their collaborative effort with students on excessive use of Tasers by law enforcement. In addition, the Weekly won two second-place and one third-place awards, while the Houston Press won two third-place and one second-place award.
Houston Chronicle |
04-16-2007 8:44 am |
Honors & Achievements
Spurred by Alt-Weekly Reporting, Texas Legislator Pushes Taser Billsnew
A bill Rep. Lon Burnam (D-Fort Worth) filed in December to restrict the use of electroshock Taser weapons by police was prompted by an article in the Fort Worth Weekly suggesting that police were using Tasers frequently, according to the Austin Chronicle. But with support for it stalled, Burnam has introduced four new bills "in an attempt to further define the proper role of the Taser weapon within the police arsenal," the Chronicle reports.
Austin Chronicle |
03-01-2007 2:24 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Fort Worth Weekly
Will the Aussies Buy Fort Worth Weekly?new
The Texas alt-weekly recently published a cover story criticizing the Trans-Texas Corridor, arguing "that the project could wipe towns off the map, gobble up about a million acres of farm and ranch land, crumble the state’s current highway system, and gouge motorists with tolls as high as 44 cents a mile." An item on the paper's Web site this week notes that another Texas publisher which also wrote critically of the project was acquired for "upward of $100 million" by Macquarie Media Group of Australia, which is a sister company to Macquarie Infrastructure Group, one of the world’s major toll road operators. "Surely Fort Worth Weekly publisher Lee Newquist’s phone will be ringing any second now with a call from Australia and an offer of millions of dollars," predicts the paper's Static column.
Fort Worth Weekly |
02-02-2007 10:27 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Fort Worth Weekly
Fort Worth Weekly Profiting From Online Auctionsnew
Newspapers & Technology |
10-10-2006 1:03 pm |
Industry News
Fort Worth Weekly FOI Project Wins James Madison Award
Fort Worth Weekly Editor Gayle Reaves, former investigative reporter Dan Malone and journalism professor Craig Flournoy were recently chosen as co-recipients of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas’ James Madison Award of 2006. The three were honored for their work on the Light of Day project, in which journalism students from several Texas universities filed hundreds of open records requests with local law enforcement agencies on their use of Tasers and other non-lethal measures. The best of the resultant stories were printed in the Weekly. The Madison award was presented Friday at the FOIFT annual convention in Austin.
09-11-2006 7:17 am |
Industry News
Fort Worth Weekly: Ten Years and Going Strongnew
Having reached "the tweener stage," the Weekly is proud of its warts-and-all history, which is recounted in this week's cover story. From its early days as "a raucous conglomerate of gays, old hippies, cynical journalists, fresh-faced young writers, revolving-door sales reps, and tart-tongued receptionists" facing fierce opposition from the local daily, through its sale to New Times in 2000 and resale to Lee Newquist the following year, the Weekly has focused on "critiquing the emperor’s new clothes" and has stuck by a statement made in the first issue: "We're having fun. ... And we plan to be around for a long, long time."
Fort Worth Weekly |
04-13-2006 8:11 am |
Industry News
Betty Brink: Going From the Underground to the Alternative Press
One of the secret weapons in Betty Brink's reporting arsenal is the way she looks. Because she cuts a grandmotherly figure, people can't help but confide in her. The reporter who started out at an underground paper in college now does award-winning news reporting for Fort Worth Weekly. This is the 17th in a "How I Got That Story" series highlighting the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners.
(FULL STORY)
Derek Schleelein |
11-20-2005 8:46 pm |
Association News
Fort Worth Weekly Named Best Newspaper by Press Club of Dallas
11-09-2005 10:20 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, Fort Worth Weekly
FW Weekly Wins Environmental Journalism Award
The Society of Environmental Journalists awarded the first-place prize for Outstanding Small Market Reporting to freelancer Wendy Lyons Sunshine for "Mud Wrestling," a three-part series about "the environmental damage caused by the fast-growing region's ravenous appetite for construction stone."
10-04-2005 6:47 pm |
Industry News
Fort Worth Weekly Named a Finalist for Environment Reporting Award
The Texas alt-weekly was among those nominated in the "Outstanding Small Market Reporting, Print" category of the Society of Environmental Journalists' 4th Annual Awards contest. Writer Wendy Lyons Sunshine's "Mud Wrestling" series garnered the honor.
08-05-2005 2:11 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Fort Worth Weekly
More on the Changes at fwweeklynew
Eric Celeste muses in the Dallas Observer on the departure of Lee Newquist from New Times and the future of Fort Worth Weekly in the post-John Forsyth era.
Dallas Observer |
10-23-2001 9:10 am |
Industry News
Fort Worth Weekly Says Goodbye to Its Axed Editornew
In an unsigned column, Fort Worth Weekly bids farewell to its "fiercely independent and damn-the-torpedoes" editor John Forsyth, who was fired this week by new owner Lee Newquist. "We can only hope that Lee Newquist will make good on his promise to support the same kind of gutsy journalism that Forsyth did," says the author(s).
Fort Worth Weekly |
10-12-2001 1:18 pm |
Industry News
Gayle Reaves Named Editor at FW Weekly
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Replaces Founding Editor John Forsyth.
(FULL STORY)
10-10-2001 12:49 pm |
Press Releases
Synergy’s the Word in DFW
Lee Newquist, the owner of AAN's newest independent newsweekly, says there’s plenty of room to grow Fort Worth Weekly. The special relationship between the paper he bought this week and the Dallas Observer may allow cooperative ad sales efforts, and neither paper’s going to park its boxes on the other paper’s turf, Newquist says.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
10-04-2001 1:55 pm |
Industry News
