AAN News
WSJ, Washington City Paper Articles in the Same (Kick)Ballparknew
An article in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal by reporter Yochi J. Dreazen about a "turf war" between adult-kickball leagues in Washington, D.C., bears a resemblance to a May 2005 City Paper article by Dave McKenna about the same subject. There are enough similarities for McKenna to tell Media Mob that he "feel[s] flattered" because "thievery is the sincerest form of flattery." He concludes: "In the end, it's just about kickball."
The New York Observer |
07-07-2005 1:55 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Washington City Paper
Washington City Paper Starts Using Hawkersnew
With retail outlets down and competition up, the Capital's alt-weekly has turned to street hawkers to help it get the paper into readers' hands, reports the Washington Post. While the District's free commuter dailies employ hawkers during morning rush hours, the City Paper crew hit the streets Thursday afternoon, to target readers leaving work during "happy hour," says publisher Amy Austin.
Washington Post |
06-03-2005 12:00 pm |
Industry News
Washington City Paper Columnist Wins James Beard Award
Todd Kliman receives honors for Young and Hungry column
(FULL STORY)
05-04-2005 1:07 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Washington City Paper
Washington City Paper Critic Wins Prestigious Awardnew
Trey Graham, a City Paper theater critic since 1995, is the winner of the 2003-04 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. The awards committee -- composed of the chairs of the English departments of Cornell, Princeton, and Yale, among other experts -- commended Graham for writing "with sensitivity and flair about the individual masterworks of the British and American canon," calling him "adept at linking these and other works from the past with the best the present has to offer." Past winners of the award include Walter Kerr and Hilton Als.
Cornell News |
03-23-2005 12:09 pm |
Industry News
Washington City Paper Editor Dishes on State of Journalism, Altsnew
Interviewed by the Columbia Journalism Review's Campaign Desk, Washington City Paper editor Erik Wemple says the reports of his profession's death are greatly exaggerated. "I just am not buying into this journalistic apocalypse," he says. He thinks a lot of papers, including the one he edits, serve their communities well. Turning a critical eye on alt-weeklies, Wemple cites predictability as the root of "whatever malaise might exist" in the industry. "Alt-weeklies do descend from a certain tradition where it's no surprise that the editorial is slamming Bush or supporting Kerry or Nader," he says.
CJR Campaign Desk |
12-13-2004 1:54 pm |
Industry News
Washington City Paper Runs Corrections for Dailynew
Noticing that The Washington Times hadn't run a single correction in nine days, City Paper editor Erik Wemple decided to provide that service in his own pages. Wrong name, wrong block, wrong date of crime: Such errors will be duly noted and corrected in the alt-weekly. City Paper will "manage this critical function," Wemple writes, because the Times "lacks the resources to run its own corrections."
Washington City Paper |
04-16-2004 12:36 pm |
Industry News
City Paper Parodies Post Co.'s Free Dailynew
When the free weekday tabloid Express
debuted Monday morning, the City Paper and its
band of merry pranksters were prepared,
hawking 10,000 copies of its own Expresso
at subway stops across the nation's capital.
The
City Paper parodists, led by Webmeister Dave
Nuttycombe, "anticipated the journalistic
emptiness of Express," according to Slate's Jack
Shafer, who says the Post's new lite version "ladles
the news out
with an eyedropper into tiny text boxes and then
flattens it with a steamroller." Also revealed: The
editor of Express is none other than Dan
Caccavaro, former editor of AAN-member
Valley Advocate.
Slate |
08-05-2003 10:09 am |
Industry News
Finalists Announced in Alternative Newsweekly Awards
Washington City Paper leads the
field with six nominations in the eighth
annual awards contest,
followed by the Dallas Observer
with five. Among individual contestants,
Thomas Francis of Cleveland
Scene and Heather Swaim of OC
Weekly are nominated twice. The order of
finish in
the contest will be announced June 6 at
the AAN Convention.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
05-02-2003 2:28 pm |
Industry News
Washington City Paper Has Resident Publishernew
Long-time General Manager Amy
Austin was promoted to publisher of
D.C.'s alt-weekly, taking over from
Thomas Yoder, who also has
responsibilities in Chicago with CP's
sister paper. "I think we've gotten to the
point now where this is just a mature,
strong paper with not only a great person
in Amy, but a good management staff
under Amy," COO Jane Levine
tells the Washington Business Journal.
Washington Business Journal |
01-09-2003 1:27 pm |
Industry News
Austin Named Publisher of Washington City Paper
Chicago Reader Inc. news release |
01-08-2003 1:09 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Management, Washington City Paper
Alt-Weekly Personal Ad Results in Groundbreaking Gay Partnershipnew
The first gay couple to have a commitment/civil
union announcement published in the New York Times, Daniel Gross
and Steven Goldstein,
met through a personal ad in the Washington City Paper. According to the announcement, Gross's ad read: "Nice Jewish boy, 5 feet 8 inches, 22, funny, well-read, dilettantish, self-deprecating, Ivy League, the kind of boy Mom fantasized about." He got 35 responses and one lifetime commitment.
New York Times |
09-03-2002 2:12 pm |
Industry News
New Editor at Washington City Paper, Associate Editor Leaving
Erik Wemple, a former Washington City Paper senior editor, returns to become editor, the paper announces today. Wemple replaces Howard Witt, who left the paper for the Washington bureau of the Chicago Tribune. Richard Byrne, interim editor and media columnist, is leaving the paper to become executive editor of TheGlobalist.com.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
12-19-2001 3:30 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Washington City Paper
Resumes Rolling in for City Paper Editor's Jobnew
Washington City Paper is getting
great resumes for Howard Witt's old
editor's job, and for sales positions,
because of media layoffs, says Jane
Levine, CEO of City Paper's parent,
Chicago Reader Inc. Levine tells the
Washington Business Journal: "It's a
great time to be hiring. There aren't many
silver linings to the clouds that
are out there, but this is one of them."
Washington Business Journal |
11-27-2001 3:22 pm |
Industry News
Witt Leaving Washington City Paper
Howard Witt has resigned as editor of Washington City Paper, effective Nov. 16. “Please join me in congratulating Howard,” Jane Levine, publisher of City Paper's parent Chicago Reader Inc., says in a memo to staff. "The search will take as long as it takes to find a good editor," Levine says. Meanwhile, Associate Editor Richard Byrne has been named interim editor. MORE: The Washington Post reports Friday morning that Witt is leaving to take a job covering the State Department for the Chicago Tribune.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
11-08-2001 6:13 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Washington City Paper
Thinking Outside the Newsbox
Newspaper companies in the District of Columbia, including Washington City Paper, reached a voluntary agreement with downtown business officials on newsracks. Under the agreement, publishers will use demonstration sites to test three different rack systems to see which one works best.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
10-26-2001 12:18 pm |
Industry News
