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Westword Editor Boards the Silver City Expressnew
Patricia Calhoun, editor of Denver's Westword, joined director John Sayles and others associated with his new film, Silver City, on a promotional tour through Colorado. She has a cameo appearance as a journalist in the film. From her seat on the Silver City Express bus, she observes what happens as the movie premieres in several cities. Also on the tour was cartoonist Tom Tomorrow, whose work appears in many alt-weeklies.
Westword |
09-16-2004 5:12 pm |
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Stalking Charges against Reporter Droppednew
Westword staff writer David Holthouse won't face criminal charges for allegedly having a friend follow a man he accused of raping him when he was a child. The man and his wife had contacted police when they noticed they were being followed, but the case fell apart when they refused to help prosecutors, John Ingold reports in the Denver Post. Holthouse defended his decision to have the man followed in an interview with 9News reporter Paula Woodward.
DenverPost.com |
07-02-2004 5:30 pm |
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Westword's Laura Bond Wins Casey Medalnew
The Denver alt-weekly writer won a 2004 medal in the nondaily newspaper category for her story “Nowhere Boy,” which chronicles the struggle of an adoptive family to obtain mental health services for their severely emotionally troubled son. The article "touches on funding of the mental-health system, high-risk adoption and the various mental disorders and conditions linked to fetal alcohol syndrome. It’s a compelling subject done nicely," the judges commented. The awards are sponsored by the Casey Journalism Center on Children and Families.
Casey Journalism Center |
06-10-2004 8:16 am |
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Westword Writer Ties for a First in Livingston Awardsnew
The Denver alt-weekly's Julie Jargon, 29, tied for first in the national reporting category for "The War Within," a series on rape of female cadets at the United States Air Force Academy. The Livingston Awards are given only to journalists under the age of 35. The $10,000 awards are the largest all-media, general-reporting prizes in the country.
The Livingston Awards Site |
06-09-2004 12:57 pm |
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D.A. Claims Arrest of Westword Reporter Not Tied to What He Wrotenew
Bob Grant, district attorney for Broomfield and Adams counties in Colorado, told the Denver Post's Sean Kelly Tuesday that David Holthouse's arrest was based solely on the suspicion that he followed an unnamed man over the weekend. The person Holthouse is accused of stalking is the man he says raped him when he was a 7-year-old. The 33-year-old Westword reporter is free on $2,500 bond.
Denver Post |
06-02-2004 10:11 am |
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Writer Confronts Man Who Raped Him 26 Years Agonew
At age 7, Westword reporter David Holthouse was raped by the teenage son of his parents' friends. A year ago, he became obsessed with the idea of finding and killing the man who had darkened his childhood, in order to prevent him from harming others. And then Holthouse's parents discovered one of his childhood diaries, and the secret was out.
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John Bartlow Martin Second Place Goes to Westword Writer
05-03-2004 2:34 pm |
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Westword Wins Investigative Award for Rape Storynew
The Denver weekly's Julie Jargon won an Investigative Reporters and Editors Certificate for her story "The War Within," about two female cadets who were punished and kicked out of the U.S. Air Force Academy after they complained of being raped. IRE judges noted that the article "is a great example of tackling a sensitive story at a powerful institution."
Investigative Reporters and Editors news release |
04-01-2004 6:11 pm |
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Westword Hosts Film Shoot
The offices of Denver’s alt weekly were
transformed into a movie set last week for director
John Sayles’ (pictured) next movie,
Silver City.
Presently lensing
in the Mile High City, Sayles' film is about a “George
W. Bush-like” character, played by Chris
Cooper,
who’s running for Colorado governor. Westword
Editor Patricia Calhoun will have a small
role in the movie if she doesn't end up on the
cutting room floor.
(FULL STORY)
Whitney Joiner |
10-21-2003 10:50 am |
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AAN Writers Are Winners and Finalists in James Beard Awardsnew
New Times writers swept the Newspaper Restaurant Review or Critique category of the 2003 James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards with Jason Sheehan of Westword winning, while Jill Posey-Smith of Riverfront Times and Robb Walsh of Houston Press were finalists. Mark Stuertz of the Dallas Observer was the winner in the Newspaper, Magazine or Internet Reporting on Consumer Issues, Nutrition and/or Health category for his article “Green Giant." Dara Moskowitz,
City Pages (Twin Cities) and Walsh
were finalists in the newspaper series category.
James Beard Foundation |
05-14-2003 1:14 pm |
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Denver TV/AP Lift Westword Expose (third item)new
Westword |
02-20-2003 5:07 pm |
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AAN Food Writers Spoon up Awardsnew
Three AAN papers were awarded first-place in under 200,000 circulation division of the 2002
Association of Food Journalists competition: Robb Walsh of
Houston Press for food news
reporting; Marty Jones of
Westword for food columns and
Bonnie Boots, former food editor for the Weekly
Planet (Tampa), for restaurant criticism. Willamette Week takes three
awards from
the foodie group, a
second for restaurant criticism for
Roger Porter and a second and
third
for special sections edited by Arts &
Culture Editor Caryn
Brooks.
Association of Food Journalists |
10-04-2002 5:09 pm |
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Secret Writings of Columbine Killernew
"I'm full of hate and I love it." That's a sample of the secret writings of Columbine shooter Eric Harris, obtained by Westword. The story by Alan Prendergast reveals the explosive rage of a young killer -- and his power to manipulate others. The handwritten pages of Harris' diary "provide glimpses of a teenage terrorist who couldn't wait to carry out his violent fantasies, who was more virulently racist and more acutely psychotic -- batshit mad-dog crazy, in layman's terms -- than previously reported," Prendergast writes. Fully a year before the 1999
shootings at Columbine High School, Harris had the plans for the
massacre scribbled in his journal, along with his ambition to
crash a plane into a New York City skyscraper, and his efforts to find a
girlfriend before the coming apocalypse. Seized as evidence by police hours after the
shooting and kept under wraps for more than two years, Harris' secret
journal writings first saw light Tuesday on Westword's Web site.
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Westword Follows Pedophiles Into Cyberspacenew
Steve Jackson serves up a
compelling expose of what happens
when a sexual
predator enters a teen chat room.
Mike and Cassandra Harris of
Colorado’s Jefferson
County District Attorney's Crimes Against
Children unit were among the
first to set up stings of Internet
predators, with Cassandra as bait,
playing both boys and girls. “The
advantage here, of course, over
dailies is that instead of telling readers
that these men get online and
say bad things to children, I could put
down in black-and-white what
they say and how they say it ... hit the
reader over the head with the
reality of it,” Jackson tells AAN News
in an e-mail.
Westword |
08-30-2001 3:09 pm |
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