AAN News
Creative Loafing Hosts Pre-Debate Political Party
10-12-2004 11:59 am |
Press Releases
Alt-Weekly Writers Bag Book Deals
Freelance journalist Becky Oberg wanted to expand her reportage for NUVO, an Indianapolis alt-weekly, into a book. Carlo DeVito, publisher of Chamberlain Bros., a Penguin imprint, was looking for new projects. Despite the fact that Oberg was, in her words, "an unknown, unagented, first-time author," DeVito called her and asked if she'd turn her story about an Army private's desertion to Canada via an "underground railroad" into a book. Why was a publisher scouring alt-weeklies for book ideas? Says DeVito: "We're always looking for a good story and a new point of view, and that's what a lot of these papers express."
(FULL STORY)
Joy Howard |
09-20-2004 4:02 pm |
Industry News
Newsweekly for Upscale Young Adults to Launch in Atlantanew
Patrick Best, a former ad salesman at Creative Loafing Atlanta, will launch The Sunday Paper next month, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. He hopes to reach affluent 25- to 44-year-olds tired of what he perceives as some alternative weeklies' left-leaning and pessimistic slant. "Being an American and living in the United States is a good thing," he says. "We will not be constantly, ad nauseam, critiquing it to the point people don't feel good about it." Fifty-thousand copies of the paper will be distributed each Saturday in the city's high-rent ZIP codes and northern suburbs.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
08-10-2004 5:45 pm |
Industry News
Marshall and More at CL's Political Party
08-06-2004 2:18 pm |
Press Releases
Eclectic Panel to Headline Creative Loafing's Political Party
05-06-2004 12:33 pm |
Press Releases
Prostitute Says She Killed Three to Prove Love for Pimpnew
"When you're out there and you're living that fast life, you can never say what you wouldn't do," Falicia Blakely tells Mara Shalhoup in a jailhouse interview. Shalhoup reconstructs the events that led an 18-year-old to commit murder. The nude dancer was seduced by a club patron who bought diapers by the caseload for her baby and later insisted she sell herself to bring in cash. When her pimp made the ultimate demand, she delivered. The Creative Loafing Atlanta cover story is the first in a series.
AAN Editors Think Local in Adding Content
Rather than just deliver the same old reliable features and columns every week, editors of AAN papers look for ways to tweak their content, thus attracting new readers and re-engaging the faithful. But there's no sense rounding up a focus group to predict what new ingredients will work when freelancers, staff and the guy on the next barstool are all eager to give their advice. John Dicker interviews editors of four weeklies who messed with the mix to get happy results.
(FULL STORY)
John Dicker |
03-04-2004 7:27 pm |
Industry News
Creative Loafing Board Censures Two Members from Cox Newspapersnew
President Jay Smith and his chief financial officer, Charles "Buddy" Solomon, voted against censuring themselves for "violating business and journalism ethical standards" but were overruled by the other six members of Creative Loafing Inc.'s board of directors. The resolution's author, Sterling "Jim" Soderlind, accused the Cox executives of getting "a very good education in the alternative newspaper business while sitting on our board," and then using that knowledge to launch a competing free newspaper, Access Atlanta. John Sugg's Nov. 20 report on the meeting was followed by Smith's response the next week.
Creative Loafing Atlanta |
12-23-2003 4:02 pm |
Industry News
Ultra-Conservative Ex-Congressman New Columnist For Creative Loafing
National Rifle Association member and right-wing
firebrand Bob Barr was hired recently to
write a regular column for the Creative Loafing
chain's flagship paper in Atlanta. Editor Ken
Edelstein hopes that publishing Barr will
broaden readers' perspectives -- and spice up the
paper. "Alternative newspapers tend to be a bit
predictable, and having a guest columnist who
adds another dimension is a good thing,"
he tells AAN News.
(FULL STORY)
Whitney Joiner |
09-05-2003 4:22 pm |
Industry News
Creative Loafing to Investigate Cox Board Membersnew
The Board of Directors of
Creative Loafing, Inc., announced that it
will investigate two of its directors from
Cox Newspapers, Inc., owner of the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The
question is whether the two directors
used the confidential board
meetings to learn enough about
publishing alternative newsweeklies to
launch "accessAtlanta" as a direct
competitor to Creative Loafing
(Atlanta).
Creative Loafing Inc. news release |
06-03-2003 10:59 am |
Industry News
AAN Papers Dominate Green Eyeshade Awardsnew
Six AAN member papers in the Southeast
picked up 61 percent of the awards in
SPJ's Green Eyeshade Awards' print
(weekly/monthly) division. SPJ has
announced the finalists for the awards,
and the order of finish will be announced
at the Green Eyeshade Banquet April 5.
Creative Loafing Atlanta and New Times
Broward-Palm Beach picked up six each,
while Miami New Times snagged four.
Memphis Flyer has two nominations, and
Mountain Xpress and Creative Loafing
Charlotte came in with one each.
SPJ news release |
03-26-2003 12:41 pm |
Industry News
Creative Loafing Editor John Sugg Running for Congressnew
"Because I am most decidedly not a politician, I am best qualified for
political office," says John Sugg, senior editor, Creative Loafing Atlanta, in announcing his candidacy for the 7th Congressional District. Sugg, who is running a write-in campaign as a Whig, says fellow journalists shouldn't question his political activism. "Your bosses have neutered real journalism by creating the cult of objectivity --
passionless journalism that is beholden to the status quo." Sugg is challenging "ho-hum" Democrat Mike Berlon and John Linder, "a water-carrier for the most corrupt elements of corporate America," he writes in his "Fishwrapper" column.
Creative Loafing Atlanta |
09-16-2002 5:37 pm |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Writers Appear in Da Capo Collection
“This book, I hope, is a book of encounters, none of them predictable,” novelist and music writer Jonathan Lethem writes in his introduction to “Da Capo Best Music Writing 2002.” Seven of the 28 articles in the collection were originally published in alternative newsweeklies, including The Village Voice, Chicago Reader and City Pages (Twin Cities).
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
08-30-2002 1:54 pm |
Industry News
AAN Papers Bat .625 in SPJ-Southeast Contestnew
Bob Norman of New Times
Broward/Palm Beach was the big winner
in
this year's Green Eyeshade
competition, picking up three awards,
including two first-places. Norman wasn't
alone; AAN members captured 15
of the 24 awards handed out in the
weekly/monthly category of SPJ's
Southeast region contest: Miami New
Times picked up six, New Times
Broward/Palm Beach won five,
Creative Loafing Atlanta took
home three, and the Nashville
Scene received one.
Society of Professional Journalists |
04-25-2002 4:28 pm |
Industry News
The Spy Who Came in from the Art Salenew
A major international espionage saga is unfolding across the United States. It's been hush-hush so far, largely because the implications could be a major embarrassment for the government. The spy story is even more touchy because it isn't Saddam, Fidel, Osama or even what passes nowadays for the KGB spying on America -- but our "friend" in the war against "evil," Israel. Creative Loafing last week obtained a copy of the 60-page Drug Enforcement Agency report that provides the basis of the allegations, and CL's John Sugg writes the story in his Fishwrapper column.
