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Philly City Paper Publisher to New Editor: "Welcome Home"new
When Philadelphia City Paper publisher Paul Curci conducted a national search for a new editor, he spoke to "no less than three dozen candidates," according to his open letter in the paper's latest issue. With input from his staff, he handpicked Philly native Duane Swierczynski, who worked at Philadelphia magazine and Men's Health before moving on to New York and an associate editor position at Details. Curci says that Swierczynski "made good in Philly, elevated his game in New York and chose to return to the city he loves to do what he does best -- lead young writers to excellence."
Philadelphia City Paper |
10-26-2004 12:50 pm |
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Philadelphia City Paper Appoints New Editor-In-Chief
Former Men's Health and Details Editor to Join City Paper's Editorial Team
(FULL STORY)
10-14-2004 3:30 pm |
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Philadelphia City Paper Names New Editornew
Duane Swierczynski is the new editor of Philadelphia City Paper, filling the spot left vacant when Howard Altman was fired in June 2004. Adding an interesting twist to the hiring is that in 1999 the paper published a mildly scathing rebuke regarding the publication of a phony article Swierczynski wrote for Philadelphia magazine about a gay Mummer. (Mummers are blue-collar guys who paint themselves to look like super-mimes and march through Philly each Jan. 1.) Publisher Paul Curci tells Dan Gross of the Philadelphia Daily News that City Paper staffers deem the long-ago hoax "a nonissue."
Philadelphia Daily News |
10-12-2004 3:19 pm |
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AAN Editors Think Local in Adding Content
Rather than just deliver the same old reliable features and columns every week, editors of AAN papers look for ways to tweak their content, thus attracting new readers and re-engaging the faithful. But there's no sense rounding up a focus group to predict what new ingredients will work when freelancers, staff and the guy on the next barstool are all eager to give their advice. John Dicker interviews editors of four weeklies who messed with the mix to get happy results.
(FULL STORY)
John Dicker |
03-04-2004 7:27 pm |
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Editorial Change at City Paper
Philadelphia City Paper news release |
03-10-2003 2:39 pm |
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City Paper Investigation Leads to Espionage Chargesnew
Earlier this year a Philadelphia City Paper writer received e-mails from one "Mr. Fantastic" offering information and pictures from within one of the Army's top-secret facilities, Editor Howard Altman writes. Now Maurice Threats, 21, an Army MP, has been indicted on charges of espionage and bribery. "This case came from calls that City Paper placed to us," Martin Carlson,
assistant U.S. Attorney, Middle District of Pennsylvania, tells Altman. However, federal prosecutors won't confirm that Threats and "Mr. Fantastic" are the same person. [This is an updated version of last week's story.]
Philadelphia City Paper |
09-19-2002 11:32 am |
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How a City Paper Ad Nearly Triggered an International Incidentnew
Howard Altman, executive editor of Philadelphia City Paper, describes for AJR how a Saint Jack's Bar ad featuring the Thai King in hip-hop regalia nearly severed relations between the United States and Thailand. "It certainly was not the first advertising complaint City Paper had ever received, considering that we once printed an ad for a bar depicting the Virgin Mary with udders," Altman writes. "But this complaint was different. It was from an unhappy representative of a foreign government."
AJR |
09-03-2002 11:19 am |
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Angry Thais Deluge City Paper with E-Mailsnew
Saint Jack's bar and restaurant has withdrawn its ad in the Philadelphia City Paper depicting the king of Thailand (a demi-God to his people) as a "bling-bling hipster," but the letters and e-mails continue to roll in, Howard Altman writes. "One man explained. 'It's like if I dig your
beloved parents body from the grave. And I kick them like toys then I drag them through the very long
road. Finally, I leave your parent's body for dogs and the dogs might not eat them cuz they are so terrible ...
can you take it if it's just my 'Joke' ha?!'"
Philadelphia City Paper |
07-03-2002 12:36 pm |
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Ad Sparks International Incidentnew
Thailand has threatened to cut off relations with the United States beause of an ad run in the Philadelphia City Paper. "The ad -- which depicts [Thai King Bhumibol] Adulyadej as a bling-bling hipster with bleached highlights, lines
shaved into his hair, stone-encrusted glasses and a shirt that sports an Adidas logo" was run by a suburban housewife for her restaurant, Howard Altman writes.
Philadelphia City Paper |
06-27-2002 11:08 am |
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City Paper Yanks Series After Fox Threatens to Suenew
With a terse note, Philadelphia City Paper kills its serialized novel, Transit of Venus by Anonymous D, because the local Fox affiliate threatened a lawsuit. The novel about a young woman's experiences as a TV news neophyte apparently cut too close to the Fox bone. The chapters published to date have been removed from the newspapers' Web site.
Philadelphia City Paper |
02-08-2002 11:15 am |
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Hollywood Sniffing at "Transit of Venus"new
A Hollywood producer has asked about the rights to Philadelphia City Paper's serialized novel "Transit of Venus" by Anonymous D, says Philadelphia Daily News columnist Stu Bykofsky. "Among the cast of characters so far is a self-cent ered, prima-donna female anchor,
defiant photographers, an ineffectual news director, a lesbian PR person, naive
production assistants, horndog salespeople, a bearded, lecherous general manager and a
police commissioner with a brogue," Bykofsky writes. Could Hollywood resist a cast of characters like that??t
Philadelphia Daily News |
01-30-2002 11:26 am |
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News Racks Corralled in Phillynew
News racks in downtown Philadelphia have been corralled by a non-profit charged with developing the center city. Philadelphia City Paper Publisher Paul Curci was supposed to be part of the committee planning the installation, but he says he got no chance to comment and was told only the day before the corrals were installed. Nevertheless, Curci says he has no complaints about them.
Philadelphia City Paper |
11-29-2001 11:34 am |
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Philly City Paper 9/11 Cover Chosennew
Philadelphia City Paper's front page is one of 25 chosen for a poster, produced by the National Press Club, featuring front pages from around the world that ran the week of the 9/11 disaster. Sales of the poster will raise funds for the September 11, 2001 Family Relief Fund. (last item)
Philadelphia City Paper |
11-15-2001 5:13 pm |
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Books Keep Man off Planesnew
The brother of a Philadelphia City Paper employee was twice barred from boarding a United Airlines flight for Phoenix recently. The reason apparently was his choice of reading material: the first time he carried Hayduke Lives! by Edward Abbey, which had a picture of explosives of the cover. The second time it was Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Philadelphia City Paper |
10-24-2001 2:32 pm |
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