AAN News
Brooklyn Illustrator Turns Classified Ads into Artnew
Sophie Blackall uses "Missed Connections" ads from Craigslist and the Village Voice as source material for her "playful prints using Chinese ink and watercolor," the New York Times reports. "I lost about two hours of my life reading them and thought this is just an extraordinary mine of material, ranging from the lyrical, poetic to unintentionally hilarious," she says of the ads. "Many of them threw out ideas for images to me right away." Blackall, who compiled the work on a blog earlier this year and has opened an Etsy shop, says she's also negotiating a book deal for the illustrations.
The New York Times |
09-30-2009 10:45 am |
Industry News
Eugene Weekly Looks for 'Next Big Thing'
Lots of bands think they're just on the verge of busting out of their local bar-band circuit, quitting their day jobs and becoming the next big thing. In Oregon, the Eugene Weekly is hoping to help one lucky band do just that with its own music contest.
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AAN News |
09-29-2009 2:07 pm |
Industry News
Catholic University Bans Washington City Paper After Sex Storynew
Washington City Paper has not been available on Catholic University's campus since May, when the alt-weekly ran a story on the school's campus sex ban, "Screw U: Inside the Secret Sex Life of Catholic University." The university's director of public affairs tells the campus paper The Tower that City Paper's removal was brought on by its "hateful article ridiculing our Catholic faith" but declined to provide any further details. "Whether or not that article was a true portrayal of students, we should be able to decide for ourselves whether or not it's worth reading," sophomore Joe McAnaney says. "It's disappointing that I can't just pick up the City Paper in the Pryz [the student center] anymore, even though I understand the University's decision."
Washington City Paper | The Tower |
09-29-2009 12:11 pm |
Industry News
Seems Like Everyone in D.C. Wants to Help Newspapers These Days [members only]
Richard Karpel |
09-29-2009 6:59 pm |
AAN Staff Blog
Another 'How I Got that Story' Live Chat Slated for This Friday
Jeffrey Billman, who won first place for investigative reporting in the under-50,000 circulation category for his Orlando Weekly piece "Might Makes Right," will discuss the story with Weekly editor Bob Whitby in a conversation moderated by the San Francisco Bay Guardian's Tim Redmond. Like last week, the live chat will happen right here on AAN.org and will take place Friday at 3 pm EDT.
(FULL STORY)
AAN |
09-28-2009 3:52 pm |
Association News
Three AAN Members Win Northern California SPJ Awardsnew
The Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists announced the winners of its 2009 Excellence in Journalism Awards last week, and three alt-weeklies took home honors. The SF Weekly's Joe Eskenazi won the Explanatory Journalism (print, non-daily) award for "Service with a Snarl," a piece that "examines, with clarity and humor, the laws around the use of service animals in San Francisco." Kathleen Richards of the East Bay Express won the Investigative Journalism (print, non-daily) award for "Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0," which the judges say is "a strong example of consumer-affairs reporting." And the staff of the North Coast Journal won the Student Special Project award for "Meltdown," a project the paper undertook with students from Humboldt State University's Investigative Reporting Class.
The Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists |
09-28-2009 1:29 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Application Deadline for IRE's Philip Meyer Journalism Awards is Oct. 31new
Investigative Reporters and Editors |
09-28-2009 3:07 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, Management
How I Got That Story Live Chat: John Dickerson Talks Investigative Reporting
In our debut "How I Got That Story" live chat, John Dickerson talked about his Phoenix New Times series "Prescription for Disaster" with New Times managing editor Amy Silverman. The conversation was moderated by Folio Weekly editor Anne Schindler.
(FULL STORY)
AAN |
09-25-2009 2:28 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Federal Shield Law Sees Further Delaynew
The proposed law again failed to win approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, "after senators from both parties said the current version could damage national security," the Associated Press reports.
The Associated Press via Editor & Publisher |
09-25-2009 11:27 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Nevada Alt-Weeklies Win Big in State Press Contestnew
Las Vegas CityLife, Las Vegas Weekly and the Reno News & Review took home a total of 74 awards at the annual Better Newspaper Contest put on by the Nevada Press Association. CityLife won 34 awards, with 16 first-place finishes; the News & Review won 28 awards, including 11 firsts; and the Weekly won 12 awards, four of which were first-place.
Nevada Press Association |
09-25-2009 9:42 am |
Honors & Achievements
Albuquerque Police 'Snooping Around' Backpage.com in New Mexiconew
Santa Fe Reporter |
09-25-2009 3:42 pm |
Industry News
AltWeeklies.com Launches Twitter Headline Feeds
Earlier this month, AAN's news portal website AltWeeklies.com launched two new ways for readers to check out the great work featured on the site. Now, in addition to the site's myriad (and customizable) RSS feeds, Twitter users can sign up to receive all News and/or Culture headlines from the site in an automated feed. To see the feeds in action or to sign up as a follower, visit AltWeeklyCulture and AltWeeklyNews on Twitter. All the while, AAN's main Twitter account will continue to highlight at least one significant story on AltWeeklies.com each day.
AAN |
09-24-2009 2:32 pm |
Association News
Defense Attorney Sues Tucson Weekly for Defamationnew
The Courthouse News Services reports that Andrew Diodati has sued the Weekly, publisher Tom Lee and a staff writer for allegedly defaming him in a July story in which a former client and her new lawyer accused Diodati of botching a fraud case and overcharging the government. Diodati claims the story spurred investigations by Pima County and the State Bar of Arizona, and that his "reputation has been severely damaged." He is seeking $2.75 million in damages to make up for what he says was the Weekly's "reckless disregard for the truth." Reached by email, attorney D. Douglas Metcalf, who is representing the paper, says they "have no comment other than to say that the Weekly intends to defend the suit vigorously."
Courthouse News Service |
09-24-2009 2:04 pm |
Industry News
What Makes a Good Alt-Weekly?new
Writing on AOL's Digital City, Carly Milne says "usually it's universally accepted that having the cojones to stand on a soapbox and really, creatively say what you're feeling is one requirement," before giving shout-outs to AAN and six alt-weeklies.
Digital City |
09-24-2009 12:23 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management
Justice Department Unveils New Policy on State Secretsnew
Attorney General Eric Holder has laid out out new procedures that will "provide greater accountability and ensure the state secrets privilege is invoked only when necessary and in the narrowest way possible." Open government advocates like OMB Watch and Sen. Patrick Leahy have "expressed cautious optimism" about the policy, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press reports. Secrecy News also has a mixed reaction, saying the policy "includes procedural and substantive changes to current practice," but "it reserves decisions over the exercise of the privilege to the executive branch, and it appears to have garbled its treatment of judicial review."
U.S. Department of Justice |
09-24-2009 11:43 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
