AAN News
Subject of Forthcoming Profile Accuses Alt-Weekly of Unethical Reportingnew
Having been allowed to read an advance draft of a critical story about him that the Washington City Paper is apparently preparing to publish, investigative reporter Murray Waas (pictured) beats D.C.'s alt-weekly to the punch with a rambling indictment on Huffington Post. Waas accuses the City Paper of baiting him to get juicy quotes for the story; making "degrading comments" about his experience as a cancer survivor; and using the newspaper as a tool to wage personal battles. "I believe that I have a clear obligation to other cancer survivors not to remain silent about such acts of prejudice and intolerance," Waas explains in defending his decision to go public.
The Huffington Post |
12-22-2006 3:21 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Washington City Paper
AAN Papers Used to Solicit Business for Prostitutes
On Monday, a federal grand jury returned an 18-count indictment accusing three individuals -- including a woman named Ho -- of operating brothels in the Denver area. Court documents suggest the defendants drummed up business by purchasing ads in Westword. Several hundred miles east in Indianapolis, a woman was arrested this week on prostitution charges after an undercover officer responded to her ad in Nuvo that said, "For An Afternoon So Sweet to Treat, Call Candy." And last month in the nation's capital, the feds seized the assets of a woman accused of running a prostitution ring. According to court documents, the alleged madam spread her ad dollars among several local media outlets, including the Washington City Paper.
Rocky Mountain News/WRTV News/Diamondback Online |
12-06-2006 8:07 pm |
Industry News
Washington City Paper Dismisses Writer for 'Lapse in Critical Integrity'new
Theaterboy |
09-25-2006 9:05 am |
Industry News
Washington City Paper Hires New Columnistnew
Fishbowl DC |
09-19-2006 1:07 pm |
Industry News
Washington City Paper Staff Gets Dunked
The Washington City Paper operated a dunking booth at the Adams Morgan Festival in D.C. on Sunday. Fishbowl DC reports that Editor Erik Wemple and columnist James Jones both volunteered to get wet, and there are photos of the latter.
09-12-2006 7:53 am |
Industry News
Tags: Washington City Paper, Erik Wemple
Nell Boeschenstein Leaves Washington City Paper After Monthnew
Fishbowl DC |
08-10-2006 8:39 am |
Industry News
Wemple: Job of Making Washington City Paper Better 'Is an Ongoing One'new
Erik Wemple's coworkers at Washington City Paper had been "excited about the opportunity" for him to become editor of the Village Voice, he tells Mediabistro's FishbowlDC a week after changing his mind about taking the position. That doesn't mean they were anxious for him to leave: "Proof of Wemple's worth to the City Paper can be found in the fact that you'll be hard pressed -- and trust us, we've tried -- to find a CityPaper employee who's not pleased to have Wemple back in the saddle," FishbowlDC Editor Patrick W. Gavin writes.
Wemple does acknowledge that "there are clearly legitimate questions about whether my head is in the game at this stage" -- questions that he intends to answer by doing solid work.
FishbowlDC |
06-21-2006 7:40 am |
Industry News
Wemple: Next WCP Editor Should Continue Watching the Postnew
Fishbowl DC |
06-02-2006 8:43 am |
Industry News
Erik Wemple Hired to Lead the Village Voice
05-31-2006 4:13 pm |
Press Releases
Achievements and Innovations: Washington City Paper's 'Nosh Mobs'
In the first installment of AAN's new interview series, Amy Austin (pictured), Dave Nuttycombe and Tim Carman of Washington City Paper describe how reader-created restaurant reviews have forged a new relationship between the newspaper's print and Web products. They also explain the meaning of sporks. To suggest a topic for a future interview, contact Amy Gill at amyg@aan.org.
(FULL STORY)
Isaiah Thompson |
05-25-2006 7:23 am |
Association News
Washington City Paper Premieres Editorial Blog
03-29-2006 11:44 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, Washington City Paper
Circulation Software Makes Life Easier at Alt-Weeklies
A recent survey of AAN papers revealed that the applications alt-weeklies are using to track circulation are as diverse as the newspapers themselves. A few papers rely on their in-house wiz for a custom-made program, but for the rest of the industry, a commercial package is the only sophisticated option. Alt-weekly circulation insiders describe their woes, successes, and dreams of better uses for the numbers.
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Isaiah Thompson |
03-06-2006 10:53 am |
Association News
Staff Writer: Washington CP Edit Staff Has More Utahans Than Black People
"It’s not all that surprising that the Washingtonian is a really white magazine," writes the City Paper's Huan Hsu, scolding his employer in a sidebar to its 2,900-word demolition of the upscale city mag's lily-white staff and hypocrisy on diversity issues. "It would seem a much bigger problem for the City Paper, which purports to write about a predominately black city, yet is produced by a bunch of young white folks who live in Northwest D.C. Our urban cred is just as contrived as the Washingtonian’s class." (CP's Washingtonian story can be found here; scroll down for Hsu's sidebar.) "It wasn't always this way," according to Hsu, a Chinese-American who grew up in Utah and says he spent most of his "childhood aping the mannerisms of Mormons, not Chinese people." Former Editor in Chief David Carr established a minority fellowship that "wasn't just window dressing," he says, and the paper's "high-water mark (in edit-staff diversity) came in 2001, during Howard Witt’s tenure, when there were three black female editorial staffers and two black female interns." The paper's last minority fellow departed in 2001, and current Editor in Chief Erik Wemple accepts the blame: “It’s clearly my fault that we don’t have more minority representation on staff,” he tells Hsu.
03-02-2006 4:07 pm |
Industry News
'Save Richmond' Blogger New Managing Editor at Washington CPnew
Style Weekly |
02-15-2006 8:34 am |
Industry News
Michael Little: Writing From the Fringe
Michael Little, a freelancer for Washington City Paper, knows what he likes to write about: "failure and futility -- and losers." That fascination led him to write an arts feature about a woman consigned to an insane asylum in the early 1900s who produced a piece of lace that hinted at her dark sexual story. This is the ninth in a "How I Got That Story" series highlighting the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners.
(FULL STORY)
Isaiah Thompson |
11-02-2005 9:03 am |
Association News
