AAN News
The Stranger Parodies a Famous Journalistic Firing
03-19-2004 3:12 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, The Stranger
Officials Didn't Want Dan Savage to Be Marital Test Casenew
King County Executive Ron Sims had to race ahead with his plan to challenge state law prohibiting gay marriage after the editor of The Stranger showed up at the courthouse on March 5 seeking a marriage license. Bob Young reports in The Seattle Times that gay marriage proponents wanted to have "hand-picked couples" challenge the law but feared the controversial author of the sex advice column Savage Love (pictured) might beat them to it.
Seattle Times |
03-09-2004 9:56 am |
Industry News
The Stranger Hosts Local Election "Smackdown"new
The City Council President posed for a photo with a
bong in his hand and another Council
candidate was the lucky recipient of a lap
dance during a candidate forum sponsored last
week by "Seattle's cheeky weekly." The Seattle Times
also reports that candidates who appeared at the
forum "faced serious questions" about local issues,
and that Jack Pageler, who stood in for his
wife, veteran Councilwoman Margaret, "suffered the
indignity of being called 'Margaret' repeatedly by
Dan Savage (pictured), editor of The
Stranger and master of smackdown ceremonies."
Seattle Times |
11-03-2003 6:24 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Marketing, The Stranger
The Stranger's Genius Awards Honor Local Artistsnew
A packed house toasted the Seattle arts
community last week as four local artists and two
arts organizations were named the first recipients of
the $5,000 prize, reports the Seattle Post-
Intelligencer. All the hugging and kissing between
critics and award winners brought a disclaimer of
sorts from Stranger Editor Dan Savage.
"None of our critics has slept with any of the award
winners. Not yet. Maybe it's time they paid up."
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
10-12-2003 12:16 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Marketing, The Stranger
Roger "Hank" Thornhill Terminated in Stranger's Get Out the Vote Initiative
09-30-2003 8:38 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: The Stranger
Regular Column in The Stranger Being Made Into Movienew
Zimbabwe-born Charles Mudede has been
writing the unique "Police Beat" for five years.
According to The Seattle Times, Mudede "visits
police stations once a week, checks the log, and,
after talking with the officers involved, incorporates
whatever he finds most interesting into his column."
Director Robinson Devor says his love for
Seattle and Mudede's "fantastic" journalism
convinced him to make the low-budget
independent film: 'Police Beat' particularly
caught my eye because it has a poetic tone
to crime that other crime logs in other papers do
not."
The Seattle Times |
09-29-2003 12:58 am |
Industry News
The Stranger Names Roger "Hank" Thornhill to Circulation Staff.
07-10-2003 2:46 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: The Stranger
Lacey, Savage Respond to WSJ Commentarynew
When you call us wealthy monopolist
bullies, "(d)o you mean this in the
positive sense of wealthy, monopolist
bullies?" New Times' Michael
Lacey asks the Wall Street Journal,
which last week ran a commentary by
Daniel Akst on the New
Times-Village Voice Media antitrust
investigation. In his letter to the editor,
Lacey says the Justice Dept. "is trying to
create legal theory with this ... probe",
which he calls a "stunning grab for
unprecedented federal power." In a
separate letter, Dan Savage,
editor of The Stranger (and AAN Editorial
Awards Host-for-Life), says his paper
was "distressed to be lumped in with
other alternative weekly papers."
Wall Street Journal |
01-23-2003 6:04 pm |
Industry News
Stranger Smooches Advertisers' Behindsnew
The Stranger this week publishes its First Annual "Best of [our advertisers in] Seattle 2002" issue, taking a few pot shots at Seattle Weekly's recent "Best of Seattle" issue in the process. "We know when we're licked," the newspaper says in its introduction to the feature. "Dump the irony, screw the humor,
and cut out the fucking middleman. Kissing the asses of advertisers
is a game that two can play."
The Stranger |
07-25-2002 1:04 pm |
Industry News
Chicago Reader Invests in The Stranger
Tim Keck, publisher of The Stranger in Seattle, has a cash infusion from the Chicago Reader to turn up the heat on his competition. The Reader is now a minority shareholder in Index Newspapers LLC, a company formed early yesterday that now owns and operates The Stranger and The Portland Mercury in Portland, Ore. Keck’s first goal: increase circulation in both markets. “We’ve been bootstrapping it for 10 years,” Keck tells AAN News. “Now we are going to be aggressively growing the business.”
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
05-02-2002 2:07 pm |
Industry News
Alt Wars in Seattlenew
The bare-knuckled battle between Seattle Weekly and The Stranger in the land of Starbucks is laid bare by Seattle Post-Intelligencer writer John Marshall. He looks into whether two alt-weeklies can survive in a city the size of Seattle and whether the Stranger's "performance-art" journalistic style can knock out the more upscale, serious Weekly.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
02-07-2002 3:52 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Seattle Weekly, The Stranger
The Stranger Publishes Guide to Seattle
Since its mid-June release, “The Stranger Guide to Seattle: The City’s Smartest, Pickiest, Most Obsessive Urban Manual” has been flying off bookstore shelves and out of dot.com mail-order warehouses -- and not just in Seattle.
(FULL STORY)
John Ferri |
08-01-2001 11:50 am |
Industry News
The Stranger Parodies Seattle Weekly Best-Ofnew
A photo of the marquee of a local nudie bar ("Breast of Seattle") graces the covers this week of both Seattle Weekly and The Stranger. For the Weekly, the photo illustrates the paper's annual "Best of Seattle" reader survey; for The Stranger, it fronts for "the Best of Kevin Jones' Apartment." Weekly publisher Alisa Cromer tells the Seattle Times, "It's like having an annoying younger brother repeating everything you say."
Seattle Times |
07-27-2001 11:49 am |
Industry News
Seattle Style with Dan Savagenew
Seattle Style: A Contradiction in Terms?
New York Times |
05-27-2001 11:50 am |
Industry News
Tags: The Stranger
Dan Savage Takes Editorial Reins at The Stranger
"Who wouldn't want him?" publisher asks.
(FULL STORY)
Eileen Murphy |
05-09-2001 11:50 am |
Industry News
