AAN News
Alt-Weekly Considered Investigating Spokane Mayornew
The Spokesman-Review |
05-09-2005 6:14 pm |
Industry News
Tags: The Local Planet Weekly
One of Spokane's Alt-Weeklies Stops Publishingnew
The last issue of The Local Planet, an AAN-member paper in Spokane, Wash., was distributed July 8. A year ago, publisher Matt Spaur's wife, founding editor Connye Miller, died, and Spaur said he no longer had the interest or energy to keep publishing. During the "feisty" paper's four-year run, it "poked at Spokane's conservative establishment and took readers on irreverent romps through the region's political, music and dating scenes," The Spokesman-Review's John Stucke writes. Spokane is home to another AAN member, The Pacific Northwest Inlander.
The Spokesman-Review |
07-20-2004 11:23 am |
Industry News
Co-Founder of Alternative Paper in Spokane Dies at 37new
The Local Planet Weekly's
Founding
Editor and Co-Publisher, Connye
Miller, died June 15 of complications
related to the rare disease porphyria.
Matt Spaur, her husband and
co-publisher, remembers her in 475
words of poetry, pain and love.
Local Planet Weekly |
06-21-2003 1:33 pm |
Industry News
Council Member Drops Libel Suitnew
Spokane, Wash., City Councilman Steve Eugster has dropped a libel suit against The Local Planet Weekly's parent company. He claimed the Local Planet defamed him in a column that suggested he followed no law but his own and depicted him with a pitchfork and horns.
Local Planet Weekly |
05-30-2003 1:22 pm |
Industry News
Tags: The Local Planet Weekly
Local Planet Editor Runs for Mayor of Spokanenew
Tom Grant, editor of the Local Planet Weekly, announces that he's leaving his job and running for mayor of Spokane, Wash. Grant has been a journalist for 23 years, primarily as an investigative television reporter. His reporting helped free more than a dozen innocent people from jail in the mid-1990s, and he recently helped uncover a secret deal in Spokane by which millions in taxpayer dollars were being diverted to the richest family in town. He has been with The Local Planet for two years.
Local Planet Weekly |
05-01-2003 12:41 pm |
Industry News
Alt-Weeklies Look to Media Rivals as Partners
Alternative newsweeklies have found
myriad ways to team up with competitors
for lucrative cross-promotional
arrangements. Radio is perhaps the
most common partner for alt-weeklies
and music events the most frequent
vehicle for cooperation, Ann Hinch writes
for AAN News. Television and even print,
however, have been mined by AAN
members “to reach a broader
audience and more diverse
demographic.”
(FULL STORY)
Ann Hinch |
11-18-2002 12:34 pm |
Industry News
Cowles Family Sends Subpoenas Flying in Spokanenew
“The Family” is taking on new meaning in
Spokane, Wash. The Local Planet
Weekly reports that the Cowles
family, developers of River Park
Square mall in downtown Spokane, has
filed subpoenas in the long-running
legal battle over the public-private
partnership established to remodel
the mall and adjoining parking garage.
The Cowles family also owns Spokane’s
daily newspaper, The
Spokesman-Review, as well as the local
business journal and NBC television
affiliate. The subpoenas target
political opponents, including The
Local Planet Weekly and anyone who
helped with its AAN first-place
award-winning story, "All in the Family,"
which details the Cowles family's
conflicts of interest.
Local Planet Weekly |
06-20-2002 8:11 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Local Planet Weekly
Alternative Papers Rip Up Fronts to Cover Terrorist Nightmare
Across the country, alternative newsweeklies ditched their planned front pages as the awesome events of Tuesday unfolded. East Coast papers like The Village Voice and Washington City Paper are sharing stories and pictures with colleagues from Maine to California.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
09-12-2001 4:11 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Boston Phoenix, Cincinnati CityBeat, City Newspaper, Creative Loafing (Atlanta), Gambit, Nashville Scene, The Village Voice, Philadelphia City Paper, Metroland, Washington City Paper, Willamette Week, Colorado Springs Independent, The Local Planet Weekly, Monterey County Weekly, Illinois Times
Two Takes on Alt-Weekly Moralenew
Columbia Journalism Review delves into newsroom morale in its latest issue. Among the views presented are two from alternative newsweeklies. Former TV reporter Tom Grant is positively euphoric about his new job at The Local Planet Weekly . Meanwhile, over at East Bay Express, there's quite a different outlook.
Columbia Journalism Review |
09-10-2001 7:10 am |
Industry News
New Member, New Name (New Motto Too!)new
The Local Planet of Spokane, Wash., which was approved for AAN membership last month in New Orleans, is changing its name to The Local Planet Weekly. President and Co-Publisher Matthew Spaur credits Folio Weekly Publisher Sam Taylor for the suggestion: “He said it would add $100,000 to our value. I’m still waiting for the check,” Spaur jokes in a news release posted on the AAN Web site.
The Local Planet Weekly Press Release |
08-20-2001 6:21 am |
Industry News
The Local Planet Changes Names
Nothing too drastic, though
(FULL STORY)
08-17-2001 11:51 am |
Press Releases
Tags: The Local Planet Weekly
Seven New Members Admitted at Annual Meeting
New Board members elected and $1.23 million budget approved
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
07-15-2001 11:51 am |
Association News
