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Three VVM Papers Win Criminal Justice Reporting Awardsnew
Seattle Weekly, The Village Voice and Westword have all won 2008 Prevention for a Safer Society (PASS) Awards, which honor journalists "who try to focus America's attention on our criminal justice system, juvenile justice system, and child welfare systems in a thoughtful and considerate manner." The awards are sponsored by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency.
The National Council on Crime and Delinquency |
04-01-2009 8:31 am |
Honors & Achievements
Seattle Weekly Managing Editor Releases Book on Dive Barsnew
Mike Seely's Seattle's Best Dive Bars: Drinking & Diving in the Emerald City "chronicles the nooks, crannies, and characters in over 100 bars within the Seattle city limits," he writes. "By and large, these places are the most distinctive, preservation-worthy bars in a city where watering holes of their ilk are swiftly disappearing. What they have in common isn't so much attributes, but a state of mind -- you just know one when you see one."
Seattle Weekly |
03-26-2009 8:50 am |
Industry News
Former Seattle Weekly Editor Releases Collection of Columnsnew
Knute Berger, who edited the Weekly for nearly 15 years before leaving in July 2006, is releasing Pugetopolis: A Mossback Takes on Growth Addicts, Weather Wimps, and the Myth of Seattle Nice this month. Many of the essays in the book, which covers the region's identity, first ran as columns in the Weekly. "To me the book has been my sort of ongoing personal exploration to be a Seattleite," Berger tells the Seattle Times. "I hope that people will read it and just sort of enjoy thinking about our identity."
Sasquatch Books Press Release (PDF) |
01-13-2009 11:35 am |
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Alt-Weeklies Win Four Food Journalism Awardsnew
Miami New Times' Lee Klein won a first-place award for Newspaper Restaurant Criticism in this year's Association of Food Journalists awards. Robb Walsh of the Houston Press and Randall Roberts of Riverfront Times took second and third place, respectively, in the Newspaper Food Feature category; and Seattle Weekly's Maggie Dutton finished second in the Newspaper Food Column category. Winners were announced last weekend at a banquet in Houston.
Association of Food Journalists (PDF) |
10-22-2008 10:36 am |
Industry News
Four New Alt-Weekly-Related Books Hit the Shelves
OC Weekly staff writer and ¡Ask a Mexican! columnist Gustavo Arellano's second book is due to be released on Sept. 16. Orange County: A Personal History is a memoir that examines the history of Orange County as seen through four generations of his family moving back and forth between Mexico and Anaheim. Ed Zotti, longtime editor of the syndicated Straight Dope column, also has a new memoir, which was released this week. His The Barn House: Confessions of an Urban Rehabber is a "memoir about fixing up an old house in the city and pursuing the urban version of the American Dream." Check out an excerpt on the Chicago Reader's site. Another memoir on the horizon is Prince Joe Henry's Princoirs. Henry is the longtime author of the "Ask a Negro Leaguer" column in the Riverfront Times, and the book is an extension of the column. If you're not into memoirs, some of Seattle Weekly cartoonist Scott Meyer's "Basic Instructions" comic strips have been collected in the new Help Is on the Way: A Collection of Basic Instructions, which was released this week.
AAN News |
09-05-2008 8:08 am |
Industry News
Two AAN Members Win Four NABJ Awardsnew
Philadelphia Weekly and Seattle Weekly both finished first in two categories in this year's National Association of Black Journalists' Salute to Excellence National Media Awards. PW's Kia Gregory took first-place honors in Newspaper--Feature (Single Story) and Newspaper--Commentary, while Seattle Weekly's Mike Seely finished first in Newspaper--Sports and Brian Miller finished first in Newspaper-Business. Winners were announced Saturday in Chicago. This marks Seely's fourth award from the NABJ in the past five years, according to the Weekly.
National Association of Black Journalists |
07-31-2008 8:16 am |
Honors & Achievements
Seattle Weekly Columnist Inks Book Dealnew
Penguin imprint Gotham Books has signed the "Uptight Seattleite" columnist to do a book version of his popular advice column. Publication date is set for Spring 2010.
Seattle Weekly |
07-11-2008 7:21 am |
Industry News
AAN Members Win 38 Pacific Northwest SPJ Awardsnew
The winners of the 2007 Society of Professional Journalists' Pacific Northwest Excellence in Journalism Awards were announced on Saturday night, and dozens of awards went to four alt-weeklies. Seattle Weekly led the way with 15 awards, including a total of eight first-place finishes in the Business, Education, Government, Investigative, Lifestyle, Science and Health, Special Section, and Sports categories. The Pacific Northwest Inlander took home 12 awards, including four first-place wins in the Consumer/Environmental Affairs, Humor, Page Design, and Social Issues categories. Eugene Weekly also won seven awards, and the Missoula Independent took home four.
Society of Professional Journalists Region 10 |
06-03-2008 8:55 am |
Honors & Achievements
The Stranger Removes Writer's Stories Over Possible Plagiarismnew
"We recently discovered that an art review by Nate Lippens published in The Stranger in August 2004 bears striking similarities to an art review by John Miller published in ArtForum in the summer of 2002," editor Christopher Frizzelle wrote last week. On advice from the Poynter Institute, the paper decided to take down and reexamine all of Lippens' stories, and will re-post the ones that are OK "as quickly as we can." When contacted by The Stranger by email, Lippens wrote: "I'm, of course, deeply embarrassed by this. I feel terrible." The next day the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported it was "looking at dozens of pieces written by Lippens" after editors discovered similarities between something he wrote for the daily and Art in America magazine. Lippens has also freelanced for Seattle Weekly, which has "found no evidence thus far of any plagiarism" in the handful of pieces he wrote for them, editor Mike Seely tells AAN News in an email.
The Stranger | Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
05-21-2008 2:40 pm |
Industry News
Seattle Weekly Partners With Local TV Networknew
Seattle's ABC affiliate KOMO-4 will now regularly take print stories from the Weekly and turn them into TV news stories on its 11 pm newscast. The partnership began last week.
Seattle Weekly |
02-25-2008 8:38 am |
Industry News
Why Did The Stranger Pull Negative Restaurant Review from Website?
The paper and its crosstown rival the Seattle Weekly are giving competing explanations for the review's disappearance. The restaurant's co-owner tells the Weekly that The Stranger agreed to give him "a deal" on advertising and take the story off the website after he complained about the review when it ran in the Jan. 3 print edition. But Stranger publisher Tim Keck says the review wasn't fair, and a note on the Stranger's website says the review was taken down because the restaurant was visited within the first three months of its opening, which is against the paper's editorial policy. Keck tells the Weekly that the restaurant was given free ads, but it wasn't part of a deal to quiet the owner, but rather due to "production errors" in earlier ads the restaurant had run.
Seattle Weekly | The Stranger |
01-25-2008 3:01 pm |
Industry News
Seattle Weekly's 'Dategirl' Columnist Set to Release Booknew
"During my seven-plus-year tenure as a sex and love advice columnist, I've either experienced firsthand or read about dates so heinous, it's truly a wonder my vagina didn't seal itself shut," Judy McGuire writes in an excerpt of her new book, How Not to Date. The book, which collects many of the aforementioned "henious" dates, will be released Jan. 10 by Sasquatch Books.
Seattle Weekly |
01-07-2008 11:22 am |
Industry News
Krist Novoselic Starts Blogging for Seattle Weeklynew
Novoselic, best known for being Nirvana's bassist, began what will be a weekly blog column yesterday with a post on the origins of the title "Smells Like Teen Spirit," anarchy, and the WTO riots of 1999. Weekly web editor Chris Kornelis tells AAN News that he approached Novoselic with the idea, and it developed from there. "Expect his columns to focus heavily on politics, culture, and music -- but really, he's going to be writing about whatever is on his mind," Kornelis says in an email. "We feel very fortunate to have his perspective on our daily website."
Seattle Weekly |
11-08-2007 2:39 pm |
Industry News
Comic Strip Calls on The Stranger to Stop Running Tobacco Adsnew
"The Adventures of Strangie," an anonymous weekly strip distributed online and in at least one Seattle neighborhood, is hell-bent on getting the Stranger -- and other Seattle publications -- to drop advertising from tobacco companies, the Seattle Times reports. The strip's main character is -- you guessed it -- Strangie, a tabloid-sized newspaper who is always pushing smokes on folks. In an open letter, the strip's creator calls on Stranger publisher Tim Keck, Seattle Weekly publisher Ken Stocker and two other Seattle publishers "to meet with each other and create a pact to stop advertising tobacco altogether." (S)he is also "calling on all employees to consider where your paychecks are coming from, and to stand up to your employers." Keck says he's not swayed by the comic. "Our readers are educated adults who can make up their own minds about smoking, drinking and fixed gear bikes," he tells the Times. "We've added their site to our 'Friends of The Stranger' Slog roll. Who doesn't love a didactic comic with the Space Needle as the protagonist?" UPDATE: The Seattle Times now reports that 37-year-old Seattle artist Jeff Weedman is the creator of "Strangie."
The Seattle Times |
10-09-2007 12:42 pm |
Industry News
Alt-Weeklies Win Three NABJ Awardsnew
Earlier this month, the National Association of Black Journalists announced the winners of the 2007 Salute to Excellence Awards, which "recognize exemplary coverage of people of color or issues in the African Diaspora." Riverfront Times took home two first-place awards: Kristen Hinman for her "Basketball by the Book" series, in the Enterprise division; and Ben Westhoff for "Ace of Spaides," in the Business division. Seattle Weekly's Nina Shapiro also placed first in the Feature division for "Schooling the District."
National Association of Black Journalists Press Release |
08-28-2007 7:58 am |
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