AAN News
Clarification Regarding Houston Press "Best Of"
We reported yesterday that "Houston Press' 'Best of Houston' was due to go to press this week, but was forced to close early in advance of Hurricane Rita." Which is kinda true but kinda not true, too. The Press did, in fact, complete production of its "Best Of" issue in the wee hours of Friday morning, several days earlier than usual, in case Rita prevented the paper from reopening the following week. But when the hurricane proved to be less destructive than initially feared, the staff returned to the office on Monday and resumed production. The first run was sent to the printer last night; the remainder will be printed this afternoon; and the 224-page issue will hit the streets with a thud as scheduled tomorrow afternoon.
09-28-2005 2:39 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Houston Press
Alt-Weeklies Dominate Food Journalism Awards
Alt-weeklies walked away with half of the 18 winning entries in the under-150,000 circulation category of the Association of Food Journalists awards announced last week. New Times foodies at Dallas Observer, SF Weekly and Riverfront Times each picked up a first-place prize, while Houston Press' Robb Walsh took home both a first- and second-place. Independent Weekly, Creative Loafing-Atlanta and Willamette Week were the other AAN winners in the AFJ's small-paper category. LA Weekly's Jonathan Gold, who won first-place in this year's AltWeekly Awards Food Writing category (Walsh placed second), also won first-place for Restaurant Criticism in the AFJ contest, in the 150,001-300,000 circulation category.
09-14-2005 12:50 pm |
Industry News
AAN Announces Relief Effort to Support Gambit Employees
AAN announced today that it had established a multi-pronged effort to provide immediate relief to employees of its New Orleans-based member paper
who have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The centerpiece of the effort is a special fund that the association has
established in its Alternative Newsweekly Foundation to accept charitable
contributions from members who want to provide immediate assistance to
Gambit Weekly employees. Several AAN-member companies have already announced significant contributions to the fund.
(FULL STORY)
09-02-2005 12:01 pm |
Association News
Houston Press Turns 15new
This week's issue celebrates "a decade and a half of devilish deeds and die-hard journalism" by looking back at some of the alt-weekly's biggest stories: a federal marshal serenading a former port commissioner convicted of bribery; a series of articles that helped exonerate a man wrongly convicted of rape; and the tragic bonfire collapse at Texas A&M.
Houston Press |
05-04-2005 5:25 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Houston Press
AAN Papers Gorge on Food Journalism Awardsnew
On Oct. 9, the Association of Food Journalists named winners in its 2004 AFJ Awards Competition -- and Association of Alternative Newsweeklies member papers came out looking like pigs in the "Under 150,000 Circulation" division. Willamette Week, Independent Weekly, Creative Loafing (Atlanta) and Cleveland Scene each took home an award, while Houston Press garnered a pair. According to the AFJ Web site, the awards "recognize excellence in reporting, writing, and photography in all media, and newspaper food section design and content."
Association of Food Journalists |
10-13-2004 11:32 am |
Industry News
Spanish Blame Oil Spill on Houston Firmnew
Fishermen and citizens harmed by what's been called the worst environmental disaster in Spanish history are looking to a Houston ship classification society to bear some responsibility, writes Josh Harkinson in the Houston Press. In November 2002, the oil tanker M/V Prestige sprang a leak, then split in half and sank 130 miles from the Spanish shore. Now the American Bureau of Shipping, which inspected the ship shortly before it sank, is the subject of lawsuits asking for $1 billion.
Tags: Houston Press
Longtime Political Writer Leaves Houston Pressnew
The Houston Chronicle obtains only brief comments from Tim Fleck, the 57-year-old author of the weekly column The Insider, and Houston Press Editor Margaret Downing, about the circumstances of the departure. Others assess the impact of Fleck's acerbic political coverage. In his last column for the Press, Fleck writes about Congressional candidate Lloyd "Ted" Poe, known for the shame sentences he handed out as district judge, and the time Poe underwent his own moment of shame.
Houston Chronicle |
02-10-2004 12:50 pm |
Industry News
School District Creates Separate Interview Rules For Houston Pressnew
Houston's alternative newsweekly was never an
enthusiastic cheerleader for the so-called
Houston Miracle, the "public relations
barrage" that landed former Houston schools
superintendent Rod Paige his job as U.S.
secretary of education. So PR whiz Terry
Abbott (pictured), "the man behind the curtain
of the
'miracle'", last week announced an official policy that
he would do his best to ensure that no school district
employee ever speaks with the paper. "We just can't
get any kind of fair shake out of the
Houston Press," says Abbott, whose new policy
applies to "a few reporters at other organizations
and then the Houston Press in general."
Houston Press |
09-04-2003 11:48 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Houston Press
AAN Papers Take Four Firsts in Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awardsnew
Dallas Observer won two first place awards in the 2003 Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards, and The Village Voice and Phoenix New Times each took one. East Bay Express won second place in the General Excellence category for papers with circulations 50,001 to 100,000, and New Times papers were finalists in nine other categories.
Missouri School of Journalism |
06-17-2003 2:04 pm |
Industry News
AAN Writers Are Winners and Finalists in James Beard Awardsnew
New Times writers swept the Newspaper Restaurant Review or Critique category of the 2003 James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards with Jason Sheehan of Westword winning, while Jill Posey-Smith of Riverfront Times and Robb Walsh of Houston Press were finalists. Mark Stuertz of the Dallas Observer was the winner in the Newspaper, Magazine or Internet Reporting on Consumer Issues, Nutrition and/or Health category for his article “Green Giant." Dara Moskowitz,
City Pages (Twin Cities) and Walsh
were finalists in the newspaper series category.
James Beard Foundation |
05-14-2003 1:14 pm |
Industry News
AAN Food Writers Spoon up Awardsnew
Three AAN papers were awarded first-place in under 200,000 circulation division of the 2002
Association of Food Journalists competition: Robb Walsh of
Houston Press for food news
reporting; Marty Jones of
Westword for food columns and
Bonnie Boots, former food editor for the Weekly
Planet (Tampa), for restaurant criticism. Willamette Week takes three
awards from
the foodie group, a
second for restaurant criticism for
Roger Porter and a second and
third
for special sections edited by Arts &
Culture Editor Caryn
Brooks.
Association of Food Journalists |
10-04-2002 5:09 pm |
Industry News
AAN Writers Win Education Reporting Awardsnew
Four writers at AAN newspapers have
won awards in the 2001 National
Awards for Education Reporting from
the Education Writers Association. They
are: Nigel Jaquiss, Willamette
Week, first prize in investigative
reporting for "The
Poisoning of Whitaker";
Margaret Downing, Houston
Press, first prize in opinion writing for
"But Who's Counting"; Emily
Bliss,
New Times Broward-Palm Beach,
second prize in feature writing for "
A Scout for Life"; Mike Mosedale,
City Pages (Minneapolis/St. Paul),
special citation for "Take Till It
Hurts."
Education Writers Association |
03-08-2002 4:59 pm |
Industry News
Weekly Standard Lifts Material From Houston Press Articlenew
Houston Press |
02-14-2002 12:36 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Houston Press
