AAN News
Veteran Alt-Weekly Reporter Found Dead at 43new
Ron Curran (pictured), a "dogged, award-
winning
investigator and unblushing idealist" died this week
in his Southern California home, according to his
former
employer, the LA Weekly. Curran, who left
the Weekly after ten years to work at the
San Francisco Bay Guardian, recently
founded the alternative wire service, Pulp
Syndicate. "Ron was one of the best writers and
reporters I ever worked with," Bay Guardian Executive
Editor Tim Redmond tells the Weekly.
LA Weekly |
11-20-2003 12:49 pm |
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Bay Guardian Story Leads to Freeing of Innocent Man
J.J. Tennison to be released 13 years after his
conviction
(FULL STORY)
08-28-2003 1:01 pm |
Press Releases
AAN Papers Take Three Firsts in NNA Contestnew
The San Francisco Bay Guardian
wins two first place awards in the
National Newspaper Association's 2002
Better Newspaper Contest: Tali
Woodward for Best Health Story, and
Dan Zoll for Best
Education/Literacy Story. Willy
Stern of the Nashville Scene
takes a first in Best Investigative or
In-Depth Story or Series for his five-part
dissection of The Tennessean.
National Newspaper Association |
10-10-2002 1:58 pm |
Industry News
Chronicle Recognizes Bay Guardian's Long PG&E Battlenew
The San Francisco Bay Guardian wrote its first article about PG&E's monopoly on power in the Bay area in 1969, not long after the paper was founded. The San Francisco Chronicle looks back on this "lone, frequently bombastic crusade
to make the city establish the municipal power utility Congress intended" and how the daily papers in San Francisco have opposed public power. The article quotes Stephen Buel, editor of the East Bay Express, as saying, "The sad fact is that a lot of the Bay Guardian's criticisms of PG&E
are very apt, but the way in which the paper hammers home its message makes it get lost because it is so mind-numbingly repetitive."
San Francisco Chronicle |
09-16-2002 5:03 pm |
Industry News
Bay Guardian Editor Named Knight Science Fellownew
Annalee Newitz, culture editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian, joins nine other reporters from around the world in the 2003-03 class of Knight Science Journalism Fellows. Newitz is also author of the syndicated column, "Techsploitation," which she describes as "rants about high tech media and everyday life." She founded the online publication Bad
Subjects in 1992. In 1997 she co-edited "White Trash: Race and Class in America," a small-press best seller.
Knight Science Journalism Fellowships |
06-19-2002 2:31 pm |
Industry News
Bay Guardian Buys Its Own Building
The San Francisco Bay Guardian expects to move into its own $4.7 million building sometime this month – where they will "never have to worry about an eviction … never have to worry about a bad landlord," says Executive Editor Tim Redmond. A 1950s era law banning SBA loans to media companies was repealed in 1994. Milwaukee’s Shepherd Express took advantage of the program in 1995. Now the Bay Guardian has swung a deal for a 30,000-square-foot building with a rooftop view of the Bay Bridge thanks to an SBA loan guarantee package.
(FULL STORY)
John Ferri |
06-05-2002 10:55 am |
Industry News
Clear Channel Empire To Control SF News Racksnew
Under a settlement with the city, Bay Area newspapers have agreed to let the city erect pedmounts in high-traffic areas. Problem is, a subsidiary of media conglomerate Clear Channel Communications will control those pedmounts, who gets to use them and what's advertised on the back. "The idea of giving
Clear Channel exclusive control over newspaper distribution -- and ad space on the back of the news racks -- in the city is extremely troubling," the San Francisco Bay Guardian writes.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
04-25-2002 9:54 am |
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Bay Guardian Challenges SF Weekly Over "Anticompetitive Practices"new
In an article penned by Executive Editor
Tim Redmond, the 35-year-old
weekly announces that it has "launched
the first stage of a legal offensive
to stop" its New Times-owned competitor
"from engaging in anticompetitive
business practices that may violate
federal and state (antitrust) laws."
Redmond also details a settled
lawsuit in which the Bay Guardian
charged a sales rep who had decided to
jump ship with secretly
downloading
over 1,000 pages of sales records
and providing them to her then-new
employer, SF Weekly.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
03-11-2002 11:57 pm |
Industry News
B3 to the Rescue!new
Bruce B. Brugmann, publisher of the San Francisco Bay Guardian, is one of four International Press Institute delegates who went to South Korea to investigate the arrest of three newspaper owners/publishers. The IPI "press freedom mission" met with members of the South Korean government and legislature, and held a news conference in Seoul on Sept. 6.
International Press Institute |
09-06-2001 3:09 pm |
Industry News
Two AAN Members Take 11 NNA Awards
The Nashville Scene and the San Francisco Bay Guardian snag nearly a dozen awards in the National Newspaper Association's Better Newspaper Contest. NNA will recognize the winners in all 125 categories at its 116th annual convention in September.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
08-14-2001 11:49 am |
Industry News
SFBG Vindicated Over Pacific Gas & Electricnew
Was the Bay Guardian Right All Along About PG&E?
San Francisco Magazine |
05-24-2001 11:51 am |
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