AAN News
Pasadena Weekly Wins Child Health and Welfare Journalism Award
Joe Piasecki's "Throwaway Kids" investigative series examining flaws in the foster care system was awarded the 2007 Price Child Health and Welfare Journalism Award by The Children's Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law. "This outstanding series focuses much-needed attention on the dangers and pitfalls that await thousands of youth aging out of the foster care system each year," reads a notification letter from the institute.
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Pasadena Weekly Press Release |
08-24-2007 3:07 pm |
Press Releases
Pasadena Weekly Series Wins National Awardnew
Deputy Editor Joe Piasecki's five-part series on foster care and homeless youth, "Throwaway Kids," won a first-place award in the National Low Income Housing Coalition's first-ever Cushing Niles Dolbeare Media Awards, the group announced on Tuesday. Piasecki's series, the publication of which spanned over a month and 16,000 words, received the $2,500 prize in the Non-Daily Newspaper or Magazine category.
Pasadena Weekly |
02-08-2007 4:14 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Pasadena Weekly Founder, Now City Manager, Garners Good Government Honornew
Ventura County Star |
10-31-2006 10:35 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Pasadena Weekly
Pasadena Weekly Considers Adult Ads, Prostitution and Alt-Weekliesnew
Pasadena Weekly |
08-03-2006 11:54 am |
Industry News
Superintendent Accused of Plagiarizing in Pasadena Weekly Will Lose Jobnew
Los Angeles Times |
06-05-2006 3:04 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Pasadena Weekly
Schools Chief's Plagiarism: 'An Embarrassing Mistake'new
Pasadena Weekly |
05-12-2006 7:58 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Pasadena Weekly
Pasadena Weekly Guest Columnist Admits Mistakenew
Pasadena Star-News |
05-08-2006 7:26 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Pasadena Weekly
Pasadena Weekly Pulls Story From Web Site Over Possible Copyingnew
A guest column in the paper's May 4 issue apparently contained phrases from a sermon that has been widely circulated on the Internet, according to the L.A. Times. The column was written by Pasadena schools superintendent Percy Clark, Jr., who has been a frequent target of the alt-weekly's criticism. PW pulled the column from its Web site after questions were raised about several passages that were similar to those found in the 1991 sermon. In a response posted on the paper's Web site, PW Editor Kevin Uhrich says, "in hindsight, I suppose we should have checked every word, but we do not do that with the other leaders in their fields, who are supposed to write with the authority that their positions afford them." Reviewing the similarities between Clark's column and the sermon, Uhrich asks, "Is Clark guilty of plagiarism, or did he merely use material that he did not properly attribute?" Uhrich also criticizes the local activist who publicized the story, who, he says, "may have done something similarly unethical, at least from a journalism perspective," by failing to reveal his source.
L.A. Times |
05-05-2006 8:19 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Pasadena Weekly
Pasadena Weekly: Column's Critics Aren't Playing Fairnew
Pasadena Weekly |
05-05-2006 8:32 am |
Industry News
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Pasadena Weekly Editor Reaches 500-Issue Marknew
Pasadena Weekly |
05-04-2006 11:00 am |
Industry News
AAN Papers Cover Iraq War's Psychological Impact on Veterans
This week, almost two dozen Association of Alternative Newsweeklies member papers published "Soldier's Heart," an article by freelance reporter Dan Frosch that casts a critical eye on the Department of Veterans Affairs' ability to properly treat Iraq War veterans with serious psychological problems. The article will appear in more than 40 AAN papers in coming weeks. Many of the participating weeklies will supplement the article -- AAN's latest collaborative story project -- with additional reporting to reflect the issue's regional and local impact. The collective stories can be found in a dedicated section of AltWeeklies.com.
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Ryan Learmouth |
12-16-2004 12:47 pm |
Industry News
New Publisher, Editor at Southland Pubs
Marc Brancaccio leaves New Times Los Angeles to become publisher of Pasadena Weekly, replacing Charles Gerencser, who has moved to San Diego to start up San Diego CityBeat. At Ventura County Reporter, Sharon McKenna, also an alt-weekly veteran, becomes editor, replacing David Rolland, who is editor at CityBeat.
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AAN Staff |
07-29-2002 12:50 pm |
Industry News
Ventura Newspaper Inc. Buys San Diego's SLAMM
Owner of Ventura County Reporter and
Pasadena Weekly also changes it's
name to Southland Publishing, Inc.
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06-04-2002 4:46 pm |
Press Releases
Gerencser Going to Pasadena Weeklynew
Charles Gerencser, former publisher of New Times Los Angeles, has been named publisher of Pasadena Weekly, one of the seven papers that were admitted to AAN last month. Gerencser comes to the alt pub from NuSign Industries and will help lead Ventura Newspaper Inc.'s efforts in the Los Angeles suburbs, says Group Publisher David Comden.
Pasadena Weekly News Release |
08-27-2001 8:47 am |
Industry News
