AAN News
Baltimore City Paper Exposes Plagiarism By Sun Columnist
Gadi Dechter, who writes the City Paper's biweekly Media Circus column, found several examples of similar language between Michael Olesker's columns in the Baltimore Sun and work by other writers in the Sun, the New York Times and the Washingon Post. Dechter decided to pursue the story after a Dec. 24 correction of an Olesker column referred to a failure of attribution rather than plagiarism. The Sun's city editor initially told Dechter that there would be no further investigation of Olesker, so Dechter and a research assistant took on the process of checking language from Olesker's past columns against the LexisNexis database. "There was something unusual in the correction, as if it were just a mistake," Dechter says. "Olesker is kind of an institution here in Baltimore, so I set about checking it out." A story in the Sun this morning announced that Olesker had resigned.
01-04-2006 10:19 am |
Industry News
Baltimore City Paper Article Forces Change at Daily
The Baltimore Sun's Edward Gunts will be forced to liquidate his real-estate investments as the result of an article in City Paper noting that the architecture critic has written extensively about the neighborhoods in which the properties are located. When Gadi Dechter's piece was published in the City Paper, "what was being treated as an internal personnel matter became news," says Paul Moore, the Sun's ombudsman. Moore also says that while "Gunts had no nefarious intent to use his position for personal gain ... it also is clear that (he) should not be investing in Baltimore real estate while writing about architecture here."
09-27-2005 5:44 pm |
Industry News
New York Press Co-Founder Says Weeklies "At a Crossroads"new
Russ Smith, founder of Baltimore City Paper and co-founder of New York Press, talks to Gawker about the state of alternative papers. He thinks the industry is dealing with "the brain drain of talented youngsters who, 20 years ago, would be fresh blood but are now involved with Internet projects." Smith then tells writers Andrew Krucoff and Chris Gage that editors hoping to sustain alt-weekly success need to "focus on the quality of writing, rather than knee-jerk politics and Quentin Tarantino hagiography."
Gawker |
09-24-2004 6:47 pm |
Industry News
Russ Smith Returns to Baltimorenew
The alt-weekly contrarian launches a new weekly column this week in City Paper under the header "Right Field." Smith will also continue writing his "Mugger" column for New York Press, which he sold late last year. But he and his family left Manhattan to return to Charm City, where he co-founded the City Paper (it was originally called City Squeeze) in 1977 and sold it a decade later.
Baltimore City Paper |
07-02-2003 4:55 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Baltimore City Paper, Russ Smith
Baltimore City Paper Razzes the Sunnew
A few weeks ago the Baltimore Sun launched "LiVE!" its version of the ubiquitous daily paper sop to "young readers." Baltimore City Paper wasted no time in starting its own new weekly "Advice Column for Journalists Looking to Get in on the Lucrative Alt-Weekly Market." Here's a sample: "After more than two years with virtually no homegrown pop-music coverage ... three LiVE! covers in a row devoted to the hot musical acts of today. Ga-zinga! You surely are giving us a run for our money, pop-music-wise, which, of course, as everyone knows, is a big reason people pick up a publication like ours. And that's the idea, right? A publication like ours? Except folks gotta pay for yours."
Baltimore City Paper |
05-07-2003 3:07 pm |
Industry News
Honolulu Weekly, Baltimore City Paper Receive AAN Diversity Grants
Josef Sawyer |
11-06-2002 2:38 pm |
Association News
Anft Bids Farewell to City Papernew
Media critic Michael Anft announces
he is ending his 20-year on-and-off
relationship with Baltimore City
Paper and retiring "to flip through
heretofore-unread copies of The New
Yorker and Harper's." Anft takes a parting
shot at "the mostly uninspired local
product we unfortunate
viewers/readers/listeners have spewed at
us."
Baltimore City Paper |
09-26-2002 9:59 am |
Industry News
Markowitz Leaving Baltimore City Paper
Batimore City Paper Editor Andy Markowitz and his wife, Barbara Frye, plan to travel and perhaps work in Europe for the next few years. Markowitz has served on the AAN Editorial Committee since 1999 and is the most prolific contributor to the aan.org editorial discussion group. Arts Editor Lee Gardner will move into the editor’s chair upon Markowitz’ departure.
(FULL STORY)
Ryan Fox |
06-28-2002 12:03 pm |
Industry News
Baltimore City Paper Bitten on 25th Birthdaynew
Originally Baltimore's alt-weekly was known as the City Squeeze and edited by "recent Johns Hopkins grad and inveterate pain-in-the-ass Russ Smith," Michael Anft writes. Anft takes a page from Smith's book and offers some biting suggestions for the Baltimore City Paper at the quarter-century mark, including spending more money on younger staff, instead of "aging hippies."
Baltimore City Paper |
05-08-2002 5:48 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Baltimore City Paper, Michael Anft
Don Farley Named to AAN Board
Will assume Marketing chair.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
05-25-2001 11:51 am |
Association News
