AAN News
Michael Shavalier: Setting the Visual Stage
To create his award-winning editorial layout, "Coffin Classics," Miami New Times art director Michael Shavalier mixed studio shots of older Goths with shots of modern, drinking, club-going Goths. When designing in black and white, arresting images and good typography are key, he says. This is the 28th in a "How I Got That Story" series highlighting the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners.
(FULL STORY)
Joy Howard |
12-18-2005 8:52 pm |
Association News
ACLU Files Lawsuit on Behalf of Miami New Times Reporter
Celeste Fraser Delgado was arrested on Nov. 20, 2003 while covering protests during the Free Trade Area of the Americas ministerial meetings in downtown Miami. On Thursday--the two-year anniversary of the event--the ACLU filed three lawsuits, including one on Delgado's behalf, charging that police officers had used excessive force to intimidate and unlawfully arrest innocent bystanders and protesters. Delgado, who wrote a 2700-word article about her experience, is no longer with Miami New Times.
11-18-2005 9:56 am |
Industry News
New Times Newspapers Dominate NABJ Awards
The National Association of Black Journalists announced the winners of its Salute to Excellence Awards competition this weekend in Washington, D.C. The organization handed out six first-place prizes for newspapers with circulations of 150,000 or less, and every last one of them were awarded to New Times papers. Here's the complete list of NABJ award winners.
10-18-2005 12:29 pm |
Industry News
Mullin: "The farewell column I promised myself I wouldn't write"new
In his final column as editor of Miami New Times, Jim Mullin (pictured) touches on the
"dramatic, dizzying change" that has taken place in the city since the paper debuted over eighteen years ago. Mullin says a paper like his, "with a small staff, closely reflects the personalities who produce it" and gives a shout out to all those who played a role in helping him chronicle the flux in this city that is "long on illusion and short on memory" and where "change is the only constant."
Miami New Times |
10-03-2005 10:09 am |
Industry News
Miami New Times Editor to Leave Papernew
After 18 years at the alt-weekly, Jim Mullin (pictured) will step down from his position. The announcement comes less than a month after former city official Arthur Teele's suicide, which came on the heels of a New Times cover story about Teele's involvement with a transvestite prostitute. Mullin says that while he was "profoundly affected" by the tragedy, he'd been considering leaving the paper for the past year. His successor will be Chuck Strouse, the current editor of New Times Broward-Palm Beach.
Miami Herald (registration required) |
08-23-2005 10:50 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weeklies Dominate Green Eyeshade Nominations
The Society of Professional Journalists announced the 2004 Green Eyeshade Award finalists yesterday, and AAN papers received 17 of the 27 nominations in the weekly/monthly division. According to SPJ, the Green Eyeshades "have honored the best in professional journalism in 11 southeastern states for 55 years." New Times Broward-Palm Beach and its sister paper, Miami New Times, did particularly well, receiving eight and five nominations, respectively. (NTBPB swept the nominations in the sports reporting category.) Independent Weekly's FEMA story, which ran in over 20 AAN papers this fall as part of an editorial joint project, was nominated in the investigative reporting category. Here's SPJ's announcement.
04-15-2005 12:49 pm |
Industry News
Miami New Times Bids Farewell to Competing Weeklynew
"High hopes and disappointing realities are the bookends of Street's brief biography," writes Tristram Korten of Knight Ridder's defunct faux-alt. "Street was the [Miami] Herald's research-and-development experiment in attracting the elusive 18 to 34-year-old reader. For more than a decade daily newspapers nationwide have been grappling with declining circulation figures, especially among younger readers. But after five years Street failed to convince clients their advertisements were being seen by enough people, young or old."
Miami New Times |
01-13-2005 4:43 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Miami New Times
Knight Ridder's Miami Faux Alt Goes Undernew
Miami New Times reports that the Miami Herald has closed Street Weekly, which began its run in 1999. According to the report, the free tabloid "was meant to engage young readers and compete directly with Miami New Times."
Miami New Times |
01-06-2005 5:30 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Miami New Times
In Harm's Way, Alt-Weeklies Weather Hurricanes
Readers of Gambit Weekly, New Times Broward-Palm Beach, Miami New Times, Weekly Planet (Tampa), Weekly Planet (Sarasota), Folio Weekly and Orlando Weekly have lately seen Mother Nature at her worst. Distributed in areas affected by the hurricanes that have pounded Florida and surrounding states since August, these alt-weeklies have come out on schedule -- thanks to determined staffers and contingency plans.
(FULL STORY)
Ann Hinch |
09-17-2004 6:06 pm |
Industry News
New Times Reporter Arrested Covering Protests in Miaminew
"Throughout the day I'd witnessed police provoke
protesters," writes Celeste Fraser Delgado,
who was reporting on the protests surrounding last
week's free-trade meetings.
"I'd seen young people cuffed and lined up along the
street, but I thought they must have done something
bad to be detained." Her perceptions quickly
changed when
she was handcuffed and jailed by
Miami police who ignored her press
credentials. Her crime: Doing "nothing but walking
down the street."
Miami New Times |
11-27-2003 10:31 am |
Industry News
AAN Papers Dominate Green Eyeshade Awardsnew
Six AAN member papers in the Southeast
picked up 61 percent of the awards in
SPJ's Green Eyeshade Awards' print
(weekly/monthly) division. SPJ has
announced the finalists for the awards,
and the order of finish will be announced
at the Green Eyeshade Banquet April 5.
Creative Loafing Atlanta and New Times
Broward-Palm Beach picked up six each,
while Miami New Times snagged four.
Memphis Flyer has two nominations, and
Mountain Xpress and Creative Loafing
Charlotte came in with one each.
SPJ news release |
03-26-2003 12:41 pm |
Industry News
AAN Papers Bat .625 in SPJ-Southeast Contestnew
Bob Norman of New Times
Broward/Palm Beach was the big winner
in
this year's Green Eyeshade
competition, picking up three awards,
including two first-places. Norman wasn't
alone; AAN members captured 15
of the 24 awards handed out in the
weekly/monthly category of SPJ's
Southeast region contest: Miami New
Times picked up six, New Times
Broward/Palm Beach won five,
Creative Loafing Atlanta took
home three, and the Nashville
Scene received one.
Society of Professional Journalists |
04-25-2002 4:28 pm |
Industry News
Past and Future Dark for Haitian Tonton Refugeenew
Kathy Glasgow of Miami New Times interviews Marilese, who came to the United States in 1992 fleeing political violence in her Haitian homeland. Now she has three children, an uncertain place in the United States and a heart filled with dark memories. "Marilise's story of
degradation, poverty, and fear begins to reveal a person who in some ways has
been an innocent victim all her life, except there's really no such thing," Glasgow writes. "It's
hardly inspirational. Perhaps it's allegorical, a story not too far removed from
that of every other Haitian woman who ever came here on a boat, except in
degrees of darkness. She tells it in a stream of consciousness, pouring out
vignettes then suddenly skipping to a different incident years removed. It
sounds too awful to have happened, but so do too many stories from Haiti."
Tags: Miami New Times
Miami New Times Vanishes from College News Racksnew
Miami New Times sleuths crack the case of the vanishing alternative newsweeklies. The paper wrote a critical story about Eduardo Padron, president of Miami-Dade Community College, and suddenly reports roll in about empty news racks on all the campuses. A 72-year-old journalism student finally produces a smoking gun: he says he was with a security officer who scooped up the papers. The guard sheepishly admitted Padron had ordered security to confiscate them, the student says.
Miami New Times |
12-19-2001 2:20 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Miami New Times
