AAN News
Don Was Stirs Reaction With Metro Times Blog
Don Was, the Grammy-winning star producer, comes on board beginning this week for a writing stint on the new Star Traction blog at Metro Times (Detroit).
(FULL STORY)
12-17-2010 8:00 am |
Press Releases
Metro Times Presents Higher Ground: A Home-Grown Event
Metro Times and pro-pot activists will take over almost 30,000 square feet to inform, educate and celebrate medical marijuana.
(FULL STORY)
Metro Times |
11-04-2010 10:40 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Marketing, Metro Times
John Sinclair and Larry Gabriel to Write Marijuana Column for Metro Times
Topics covered will range from culture to legality issues, from law enforcement to the politics of pot.
(FULL STORY)
Metro Times |
09-28-2010 9:59 am |
Press Releases
Metro Times Brings Home Six Detroit SPJ Awardsnew
The Detroit alt-weekly has received six awards -- including top honors for criticism and feature writing -- in the annual contest held by the Detroit chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Metro Times |
04-23-2010 8:35 am |
Honors & Achievements
Metro Times' 13th Annual Blowout Music Festival Kicks Off Tonightnew
Metro Times |
03-03-2010 10:34 am |
Industry News
Metro Times Wins SPJ Awards, Announces Job Moves
The Detroit alt-weekly took 10 awards, including three first-place finishes, in the Detroit chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists' Excellence in Media competition. Metro Times has also hired Travis Wright as its arts editor, and promoted features editor Brian Smith to managing editor.
(FULL STORY)
Metro Times Press Release |
04-24-2009 2:56 pm |
Press Releases
Metro Times Announces 2009 Blowout Bands
Metro Times Press Release |
02-11-2009 11:22 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Marketing, Metro Times
Michigan's Alt-Weeklies Weigh In on Auto Industry Bailout
As chatter increases about a potential federal bailout of the foundering American automotive industry, Michigan's alt-weeklies are addressing the crisis. Lansing's City Pulse is "having some serious doubts about this bailout," adding: "Like giving spare change to an alcoholic outside a liquor store, it would be a waste to hand these companies $25 billion and expect everything to be OK." In Detroit's Metro Times, longtime columnist Jack Lessenberry takes a different tack, arguing that it would be "extremely foolish" to let the auto makers fail, and that it would lead to "something very like the Great Depression."
City Pulse | Metro Times |
11-20-2008 8:24 am |
Industry News
Metro Times Picks Up Several State Press Awardsnew
The Detroit alt-weekly won seven awards in the Class A weekly division of the Michigan Press Association's 2008 Better Newspaper Contest, including first-place finishes in three categories: Feature Story, Picture Story, and Sports Feature. Winners were announced last weekend.
Metro Times |
10-10-2008 8:00 am |
Honors & Achievements
Ted Rall Elected President of Editorial Cartoonists Group
Rall, whose cartoons and columns appear in many alt-weeklies, took over as president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists on Sept. 12. "For some reason my colleagues have made me president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC), the organization for professional political cartoonists. (I suspect cartoonists' predilection for hard drinking had something to do with it.)," Rall writes in his weekly column. "Kidding aside, I'm honored." V. Cullum Rogers, the cartoonist at North Carolina's Independent Weekly, remains the group's secretary-treasurer, and Mikhaela Reid, whose work appears in Metro Times and other AAN papers, was elected to the group's board of directors.
AAN News |
09-17-2008 9:28 am |
Industry News
San Antonio Current Names New Publisher
Chris Keating, who was publisher of SF Weekly from 2004-2006, will relocate to San Antonio and take over as the Current's publisher effective Aug. 1, AAN News has learned. He replaces Chris Sexson, who took the publisher spot at the Current's Times-Shamrock sister publication Metro Times in mid-June.
AAN News |
07-23-2008 8:13 am |
Industry News
Chris Sexson Named New Publisher of Metro Times
San Antonio Current publisher Chris Sexson has accepted the position of publisher at Detroit's Metro Times. Both papers are owned by Times-Shamrock Communications. Sexson, who has been with the Current for five years, will take over at Metro Times in mid-June.
(FULL STORY)
Times-Shamrock Communications Press Release |
05-02-2008 1:03 pm |
Press Releases
Metro Times Wins Three Citations from Local SPJ
Metro Times Press Release |
04-17-2008 8:46 am |
Press Releases
Judge Strikes Down Michigan's Primary Records Lawnew
The judge agreed to overturn the law enabling only the Democratic and Republican parties to obtain lists of people who voted in the state's presidential primary, Metro Times reports. The law had been challenged by a lawsuit from the ACLU of Michigan, which the alt-weekly had joined. "The state is not required to provide the party preference information to any party," the judge wrote. "When it chooses to do so, however, it may not provide the information only to the major political parties." Michigan's elections director says they will comply with the ruling, but will not release the records to anyone, even via the Freedom of Information Act. Metro Times reports the ruling won't have any effect on the results of the primary, but could have some implications were Michigan to have a mail-based "do over" primary in order to seat its Democratic delegates at this summer's convention. "[If] voters would be eligible for re-voting in a Democratic primary only if they voted in the first primary," Metro Times asks, "how would the election directors know if the records weren't released?"
Metro Times |
03-27-2008 8:30 am |
Legal News
Tags: Metro Times
Judge Grants Injunction in Metro Times Voter Info Casenew
A federal judge on Wednesday granted a request for a preliminary injunction in a case brought in January by the ACLU of Michigan on behalf of Metro Times, three political parties, and a political consulting firm, the Associated Press reports. The suit seeks information about who voted in the state's primary and whether they took a Republican or Democratic ballot -- records that are currently available only to those two political parties. Under current law, the secretary of state is required to provide this information to the parties within 71 days of the primary, which was held this year on Jan. 15. But the plaintiffs argue that violates the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. The ruling yesterday prevents the information from being disseminated before the judge can make a definitive decision. A hearing on the matter is scheduled for March 26.
The Associated Press via the Detroit Free Press |
02-28-2008 8:29 am |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial, Metro Times
