AAN News
LA Weekly Staffers Play Rock 'N' Roll Bingo for Charity
A Los Angeles Times story describes how Operations Manager Sybil Nicholson and Ad Assistant Shelly Brown have created a monthly fundraising event for their favorite charities. The bingo is made "rock 'n' roll" through a "band name" component of the game, concert tickets as prizes, and hosts such as Weezer's Scott Shriner and Audioslave's Tom Morello.
02-16-2006 10:01 am |
Industry News
Tags: L.A. Weekly
Jonathan Gold: Giving Cuisine a Context
Jonathan Gold has reviewed everything from opera to architecture, but it was his mouth-watering food criticism that won him a first-place AltWeekly Award. Gold tries to include as much description of the setting as of the food, to give readers a "vicarious experience" of "how the restaurant might integrate into their lives." And while he can easily drop a reference to béchamel, he is just as likely to mention Fatboy Slim. This is the 37th in a "How I Got That Story" series highlighting the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners.
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Andrew Vanacore |
02-15-2006 12:46 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial, L.A. Weekly
LA Weekly Launches Provocative Ad Campaignnew
AdWeek |
02-01-2006 6:31 am |
Industry News
LA Weekly Launches Provocative Ad Campaignnew
AdWeek |
02-01-2006 6:31 am |
Industry News
Tom Christie: Listing Toward the Left
Tom Christie led the staff of L.A. Weekly in kicking their year-end "Zeitlist" issue into gear. He says "it's surprising how the past year comes into focus" when compiling lists like "6 Reasons Why November 2 Wasn't a Total Gay Political Nightmare." This is the 32nd in a "How I Got That Story" series highlighting the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners.
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Nora Ankrum |
01-09-2006 8:24 am |
Association News
Los Angeles Ponders the Future of L.A. Weeklynew
Los Angeles Times staff writer Scott Martelle describes the fears and hopes for L.A. Weekly's role in the New Times-controlled Village Voice Media. He details the turbulent recent history of alt-weeklies in Los Angeles and speaks to several notable Angelenos. Local pol Jackie Goldberg, "a frequent target of New Times LA columnists" during New Times' previous residency in the city, says: "They were not just a gadfly, they were an assault vehicle." Martelle also speaks to a few current L.A. Weekly staff members, including editor Laurie Ochoa, and addresses speculation that Phoenix New Times editor Rick Barrs will replace her. (Barrs says that he hasn't been asked, but adds that he would "have mixed emotions about it.")
Los Angeles Times |
12-14-2005 8:21 am |
Industry News
LA Weekly Explains Merger, Interviews Laceynew
LA Weekly |
12-01-2005 6:19 am |
Industry News
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
Staff Departures Raise Questions About L.A. Weekly's Visionnew
Recently departed L.A. Weekly writers like education reporter Howard Blume have been left baffled as to why they were fired or forced out. Pasadena Weekly reporter Joe Piasecki delves into changes at the 26-year-old Los Angeles alternative weekly that have led to staff anxiety and the filing of union grievances. Writer and union shop steward Erin Aubry Kaplan says the overall emphasis of the paper has gone to "softer stuff," but Editor-in-Chief Laurie Ochoa denies there is any trend toward "fluffier features and blander politics."
Pasadena Weekly |
12-09-2004 9:26 pm |
Industry News
L.A. Weekly Employees File Grievance Through Unionnew
At least five L.A. Weekly senior editorial and art department employees -- including veteran education reporter Howard Blume -- have filed grievances with management via the International Association of Machinists, the paper's bargaining unit, reports L.A. Alternative Press. Most are alleging that they're being pushed out of their jobs without adequate union process as specified in their contracts and only because they make some of the paper's top union salaries. These charges come on the heels of the September ouster of several veteran employees at The Village Voice, which, like L.A. Weekly, is owned by Village Voice Media.
L.A. Alternative Press |
10-06-2004 3:25 pm |
Industry News
Firebrand L.A. Weekly Reporter Scorches Tinseltownnew
Nikki Finke, who writes the Deadline Hollywood column for L.A. Weekly, has become essential reading for those who follow the Industry, reports Los Angeles Magazine. Capitalizing on her position as both insider (with numerous longtime sources) and outsider (what studio exec would talk to an alt-weekly reporter?), she reveals, critiques and influences showbiz power. "Nikki is part of a tradition of women reporters in Hollywood who terrify people," says Vanity Fair contributing editor Bruce Feirstein.
Los Angeles Magazine |
08-26-2004 3:56 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, L.A. Weekly
Real Musicians Have Day Jobs
They need to make a living but can't afford to let the conformity demanded by some day jobs sap their creative spirit. Independent Weekly's Leslie Land, Tucson Weekly's Marc Desilets and others explain the migration of musicians to the classified sales departments of alternative newsweeklies. What's the appeal? Good pay, good vibes -- altogether a decent daylight gig for a breed that Cincinnati CityBeat's Chuck Davis has dubbed "rawker-ad-hawkers."
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Noel Black |
08-04-2004 11:02 am |
Industry News
Anonymous Sources Are No Longer Frightened Little Mennew
"The source seeking anonymity isn’t 'bucking the system' -- he is the system," David Ehrenstein writes in L.A. Weekly. It's not just the Jayson Blairs of the news industry who deceive readers; it's those reporters who publish dubious information supplied by public relations representatives whose identity and motives remain concealed. In some journalistic circles, shoe-leather reporting has been replaced by a formula Ehrenstein describes this way: "Promise the bosses at your paper that you will get scoops, then cut deals with highly placed individuals to serve as their conduit to the front pages."
Tags: L.A. Weekly
Secrecy Still Prevails in Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandalnew
Cardinal Roger Mahony's three-point plan for handling some 500 claims of molestation by priests continues to exploit those seeking reparations, Jeffrey Anderson writes in L.A. Weekly. He describes how judges, trial lawyers and the media have deferred to the cardinal's desire for secrecy, and says Los Angeles "has become a beehive of intrigue at the expense of the collective psyche of already damaged victims of child rape."
Tags: L.A. Weekly
Retired Regional Analyst Discloses Motives for War in Iraqnew
U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski worked in the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans during the year leading up to the war. The same week the U.S. invaded Iraq, she retired so she could speak openly about what she says she observed: "a neoconservative coup, a hijacking of the Pentagon." Kwiatkowski tells L.A. Weekly's Marc Cooper the search for weapons of mass destruction was a façade—"they didn't expect to find anything"—and offers three motives for the war that never became part of the Republican Administration's spin.
Tags: L.A. Weekly
