AAN News
Baltimore City Paper Celebrates 30 Years at Art Gallery Shownew
City Paper art director Joe MacLeod narrates a short video shot during the paper's recent party at G-Spot, a local art gallery displaying large blow-ups of pages and covers published during the last three decades by Baltimore's finest alt-weekly. "Each page is sort of like a piece of artwork," says MacLeod, who laments the fact that the "archetypal alt-weekly-style feature ... it has that certain look ... it's all kinda going away because of digital. ... That kind of classic alt-weekly look is disappearing." Not that he cares, of course.
Baltimore City Paper |
02-07-2008 12:54 pm |
Industry News
Baltimore City Paper Column Gets the Stage Treatment
In her weekly "Murder Ink" column, Anna Ditkoff factually recounts Baltimore's homicides as they are made public by the police department and gives updates as they go through the legal system. This week, the Single Carrot Theatre compiled all the 2007 columns (282 murders) and did a straight reading of all of them, in order to give a comprehensive view of Baltimore's murder rate. City Paper managing editor Erin Sullivan tells AAN News that the reading was nearly three hours long, there were so many murders to cover.
AAN News |
01-11-2008 2:49 pm |
Industry News
Cartoonist Emily Flake Turns Alt-Weekly Feature into Booknew
Last year, the creator of the comic strip "Lulu Eightball" did a comics feature for Baltimore City Paper about her her love/hate relationship with cigarettes, which is now been adapted into book form. These Things Ain't Gonna Smoke Themselves: A Love/Hate/Love/Hate/Love Letter to a Very Bad Habit was released by Bloomsbury this month. In a conversation with Philadelphia City Paper, Flake says she's once again a smoker, and that it took her "a great many cigarettes" to write the book. She also offers sage advice to anyone trying to get someone else to quit smoking: "Refuse to kiss them on the mouth. While you're fucking them."
Philadelphia City Paper |
08-17-2007 11:45 am |
Industry News
Tags: Baltimore City Paper
Baltimore City Paper Celebrates 30th Anniversarynew
In 1977, Johns Hopkins University graduates Russ Smith (who later founded New York Press) and Alan Hirsch launched the first issue of City Squeeze. "Despite the dreadful name (soon changed to its current handle) and shoestring origins, it quickly established itself as the house organ of Baltimore's demimonde as well as a feisty elbow-thrower in the local media scrum," says current editor Lee Gardner in this week’s cover intro. The issue features several stories from the archives, including a 1979 examination of Charm City's political bosses by Black Hawk Down author Mark Bowden, a 1984 interview with child molester Arthur Goode by Hairspray filmmaker John Waters, and a selection of photography by long-time contributor Jennifer Bishop. Online readers can also check out the first year of City Squeeze issues in a PDF gallery. "As for the future of City Paper, well, there’s another issue to get out next week, and another the week after that, and I believe that the paper offers something distinctive enough that the demand for it will endure for weeks and weeks and weeks to come," writes Gardner.
Baltimore City Paper |
08-02-2007 1:53 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Baltimore City Paper
Baltimore City Paper Celebrates 30 Years
Started as City Squeeze by Russ Smith and Alan Hirsch in 1977, the alt-weekly has "evolved from monthly to bi-weekly to weekly, switched back and forth between free distribution and paid distribution before finally settling on free distribution as it is today," according to a press release. A special 30th anniversary issue will hit the streets of Baltimore Aug. 1.
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Baltimore City Paper Press Release |
07-24-2007 7:41 am |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Management, Baltimore City Paper
Military Recruiters Punished On Heels of Alt-Weekly Investigationnew
The Maryland Army National Guard's recruitment chief was stripped of his command and about a dozen other recruiters were punished after an internal investigation revealed misuse of government money, fraudulent enlistments and improper relationships among Guard members, the Washington Post reports. The probe was sparked by recent stories in Baltimore City Paper that "alleged deceptive recruiting practices aimed at meeting quotas," according to the Post.
The Washington Post |
02-26-2007 4:29 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Baltimore City Paper
Baltimore City Paper Hires Artist To Create Film For 'Best Of' Party
Baltimore City Paper Press Release |
09-25-2006 5:57 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Baltimore City Paper
Former Baltimore City Paper Writer's 'Shocking' Job Change
"When we learned our favorite media muckraker, City Paper reporter ... Gadi Dechter, was taking a new job at The Sun, we were shocked. Shocked!" writes Baltimore magazine's Geoff Brown. The July announcement was surprising because Dechter had repeatedly criticized the daily, most notably exposing instances of plagiarism by columnist Michael Olesker. Dechter says he "was never bored at City Paper," and calls it "the best job I ever had." Van Smith, the City Paper's political reporter, wishes that the alt-weekly had been able to keep Dechter on board: "It would be good for Baltimore storytelling to have Gadi at City Paper," he says.
09-06-2006 9:35 am |
Industry News
Baltimore City Paper Publisher's Keys to Success
At a recent American Press Institute seminar on "MediaPreneurship," Don Farley, publisher of Baltimore City Paper, and Brad Moore, general manager of the commuter daily RedEye, shared their insights on creating a successful "alternative" print product. (A summary is posted on API's Web site.) Among other things, Farley suggests that it is more important to hire passionate employees than experienced employees, and that change should be viewed as opportunity. Most tellingly, Farley says that "if you have to try to be edgy, you're not edgy"; meanwhile, Moore recounts how prior to the launch of RedEye, staffers identified words they "wanted people to identify with [the] new product, including 'savvy,' 'edgy,' and 'engaged.'"
07-27-2006 11:44 am |
Industry News
Media Reporter Leaves Baltimore City Paper for Job With Local Daily
Gadi Dechter, author of the Baltimore City Paper's "Media Circus" column, will no longer write for the weekly. "Dechter did such a fine job reporting on The Sun ... over the past couple of years that the daily recently up and hired him," notes City Paper Editor Lee Gardner in this week's issue. (The editor's note is here, bottom of the page.) Most notably, in January Dechter exposed instances of plagiarism by veteran Sun columnist Michael Olesker, who then resigned.
07-12-2006 7:59 am |
Industry News
CONVENTION: 'Best Idea' Nets City Paper Staffer $250
AAN Staff |
06-16-2006 9:21 am |
Association News
Baltimore City Paper Takes Home EPpy Award
Baltimore City Paper Online (citypaper.com) won a first-place EPpy in the Best Weekly Newspaper-Affiliated Web Service category, it was announced Friday. The awards honoring the best new media services from the newspaper industry are co-sponsored by E&P and Mediaweek magazines.
05-22-2006 6:40 am |
Industry News
Three AAN Member Web Sites Nominated for Awards
The Village Voice Web site is one of five finalists in the "Newspaper" category of the 2006 Webby Awards, it was announced April 11. Winners will be named on May 9. Orlando Weekly and Baltimore City Paper have also been honored for their online work: Their Web sites are two of the three finalists in the "Best Weekly Newspaper-Affiliated Web Service" category of the EPpy Awards, which are presented by Editor & Publisher and Mediaweek. (The third finalist is a Pennsylvania community newspaper, The Almanac.) EPpy Award winners will be announced May 19.
04-19-2006 1:24 pm |
Industry News
Baltimore City Paper Considers Software's Usefulness in Olesker Case
In January, City Paper writer Gadi Dechter exposed several instances of plagiarism by Michael Olesker, a columnist at the Baltimore Sun, which he found through searches of the LexisNexis database. The Sun's editors followed up on the charges with a laborious manual search of the newspaper's archives. In a Feb. 15 column, Dechter explores the reasons why the Sun's editors chose not to use the plagiarism-detecting software CopyGuard and then puts it to the test, using Olesker's work as the guinea pig. The results: the software works fairly well, and even exposed one case where another journalist appeared to plagiarize Olesker.
02-15-2006 11:07 am |
Industry News
Baltimore City Paper Publishes Rebuttal of Olesker Charges
This week's issue contains a defense of former Baltimore Sun columnist Michael Olesker by former Sun writer
David Simon. Olesker was asked to retire earlier this month after
City Paper's Gadi Dechter found that Olesker had lifted
language from other writers at the Sun, the New York Times and the
Washington Post. Simon argues that "most reporting -- unless it utilizes confidential sources or results from some investigative effort or special project -- has a short shelf life before it becomes nonproprietary," and says that if Olesker is a plagiarist, so are all journalists.
01-18-2006 9:57 am |
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