AAN News
Eccentric Topeka Sex Offender and Lobbyist Profiled by The Pitch Found Dead
Back on Mar. 9, The Pitch's Justin Kendall profiled David Owen, a man convicted of possessing child pornography who later found an unusual purpose in life -- lobbying to reunite the homeless with their families. Kendall detailed the confrontational and occasionally violent encounters Owen had with homeless men, to whom he would offer use of his cell phone. "He estimates that he's been beaten up three or four times. His glasses have been broken and his face bloodied. Owen says his father has bought him a burial plot in Cimarron in case a homeless man kills him," Kendall wrote. The Associated Press reports that "Owen's father was right to worry," because Owen's body was found July 2, and four homeless men have been arrested in his death. A July 13 follow-up story in The Pitch says, "Topeka's David Owen was annoying, but we hope he rests in peace."
07-14-2006 10:49 am |
Industry News
Pitch Story Prompts Investigation
In its May 4 issue, The Pitch profiles John Flowers, founder and chief executive of technology company Kozoru. According to The Pitch, Kozoru received funds from a state economic-development agency, The Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation, even though its application contained inaccurate information about Flowers' background that KTEC could easily have checked. The Kansas City Star reports today that KTEC has already announced that it will hire an independent law firm to review its application process.
05-04-2006 8:36 am |
Industry News
Kansas City Auditor Reprimanded for Photo and Comments in The Pitch
City Auditor Mark Funkhouser and Mayor Kay Barnes have been at odds over economic policies, according to The Kansas City Star, but the tension reached a new exteme when Barnes formally reprimanded Funkhouser for giving "the appearance of inappropriately assisting a mayoral candidate" in the pages of The Pitch. A photo published by The Pitch showed Funkhouser meeting on March 8 with Stanford Glazer, who subsequently declared his candidacy for mayor. Funkhouser was also quoted as saying he would like a mayor "who can wrestle with the city’s financial problems and be open and honest with the citizens on the choices we face," but he did not name a specific candidate. The reprimand is the first Funkhouser has received in his 30-year career, but he "has come close to being fired at least three times in the past 18 years because he speaks bluntly and rarely has good news about city government's performance," according to the Star.
04-28-2006 8:10 am |
Industry News
Former New Times Editor Slams Company
10-31-2005 1:40 pm |
Letters to the Editor
Pitch Hoax Riles Kansas City Officialsnew
Kansas City Star (registration required) |
06-27-2005 10:08 am |
Industry News
Tags: The Pitch
Pitch Outs NABJ Treasurer for Plagiarismnew
Glenn Rice, a reporter for the Kansas City Star, has resigned as treasurer of the National Association of Black Journalists after The Pitch revealed a year-old discipline procedure for plagiarism, the Associated Press reports in a story carried by the Star. Rice had been treasurer of the association for four years and his term was one month from ending. The Pitch last week reported that Rice had been reassigned after he used copy from another daily paper in a concert review.
Kansas City Star |
07-08-2003 5:13 pm |
Industry News
Tags: The Pitch
AAN Papers Take Four Firsts in Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awardsnew
Dallas Observer won two first place awards in the 2003 Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards, and The Village Voice and Phoenix New Times each took one. East Bay Express won second place in the General Excellence category for papers with circulations 50,001 to 100,000, and New Times papers were finalists in nine other categories.
Missouri School of Journalism |
06-17-2003 2:04 pm |
Industry News
Pitch Weekly Now "The Pitch"
The Kansas City alternative newsweekly bows to the citizenry and changes its name to The Pitch. "Weekly" had been added in 1993, "but Kansas Citians never really got used to calling it the Pitch Weekly," says Editor C.J. Janovy. Nothing else about The Pitch has changed, she says.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
08-13-2002 11:08 am |
Industry News
Tags: The Pitch
New Publisher at Pitch Weeklynew
New Times has named Dawson Fercho, former director of e-business for Seventhwave Technology Corporation, as publisher of PitchWeekly in Kansas City.
New Times news release |
06-26-2002 11:19 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, The Pitch
New Times Purchases Kansas City's PitchWeekly
Eleventh Paper for Growing Chain.
(FULL STORY)
Amanda Fazzone |
10-15-1999 11:50 am |
Industry News
The Ruxton Group Adds Two More Papers
PitchWeekly and Metro Times Are the Latest to Defect From AWN.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
08-31-1999 11:51 am |
Industry News
