AAN News
Four Alt-Weeklies Nab New York Press Association Awardsnew
AAN members were well-represented when the winners of the association's 2007 Better Newspaper Contest were announced this weekend. Syracuse New Times took home a total of nine awards, including first-place finishes in Best Advertising Campaign, Best House Ad/Ad Campaign, Graphic Illustration, Sports Feature, and Sports Feature Photo. Metroland won a total of seven awards, and staff writer David King was named 2007 Writer of the Year. Judges called King "a powerful writer, a master storyteller, and a thorough researcher whose convincing style grabs the reader and holds on tight -- navigating difficult subject matter, taking us to places we've never been, enabling us to understand things we never could." The New York Press came away with six awards, including first-place finishes in Best Front Page and Feature Story. The Ithaca Times took home four awards.
New York Press Association (pdf) |
04-08-2008 9:09 am |
Honors & Achievements
Syracuse New Times is History April 9, 2008
Syracuse New Times Press Release |
04-08-2008 4:05 pm |
Press Releases
Keith Knight Launches New Comic Stripnew
The Daily Cartoonist |
04-08-2008 2:32 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Design & Production, Editorial
Application Deadline for DNC Press Credentials Rapidly Approachingnew
All applications for press credentials at this year's Democratic National Convention (Aug. 25-28 in Denver) are due on Tuesday, April 15. AAN members interested in covering the convention should register via the House Periodical Press Gallery. Freelance photographers should apply through the Standing Committee of Press Photographers, and bloggers can register with the DNCC Press Gallery. Be sure to double-check the rules before applying, as there are many different types of credentials available. Hotels are sure to fill up fast, so book one soon if you're making the trip to Denver.
Democratic National Convention Committee |
04-07-2008 4:08 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Lowery Out at CityBeat; Schoenkopf Named Acting Editornew
Steve Lowery, who reported as the new editor of Los Angeles CityBeat last Monday, resigned late last week. Publisher Charles Gerencser accepted his resignation today and named Rebecca Schoenkopf acting editor. "It's purely personal," Lowery tells LA Observed. "When I got there, it became immediately apparent that I just didn't have it in me ... my body and my soul were telling me, hey bud, maybe it's time." In an email to AAN News, Gerencser says Schoenkopf, who had just begun her tenure as the paper's arts editor last week, "is very passionate about creating a must-have; must-read newsweekly. I am looking forward to working with her on our effort to re-launch CityBeat with the June 12th edition." LA Observed is reporting the retooled paper will have "more of a magazine sensibility."
LA Observed |
04-07-2008 2:27 pm |
Industry News
NOW Magazine Co-Founder in Hospital After Hockey Accidentnew
Michael Hollett was hurt in the Juno Cup Friday night, and will likely be in the hospital for several more days, the Calgary Herald reports. The Juno Cup is a hockey game where rockers take on NHL old-timers. "He fractured his leg in three places and it's a pretty bad situation," team captain Jim Cuddy tells the Calgary Sun. "He's in pretty rough shape. They'll operate on him, they'll put a rod in his leg, they'll put some screws in. I think it'll be quite a long recovery."
The Calgary Herald | The Calgary Sun |
04-07-2008 8:37 am |
Industry News
Bush Administration Mounts Campaign Against Federal Shield Lawnew
Four top Bush administration officials are weighing in against The Free Flow of Information Act, which would allow reporters to protect the identities of confidential sources, the Associated Press reports. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff all expressed concerns about the bill via letters to senators which were made public this week. The bill was passed by the House and the Senate Judiciary Committee last October, but has since languished, waiting to be called to the Senate floor for a vote.
The Associated Press via Editor & Publisher |
04-04-2008 10:34 am |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial
Think of it as Kinda Like AAN East
A new twist this year: The final day of the convention will feature sales training seminars for beginning- and intermediate-level sales staff that will be accessible under a separate, less-expensive registration schedule. The idea is to provide regional training for papers in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions who would have sent sales staff to AAN East, which was canceled this year. We've lined up two highly regarded professional speakers -- Rita Bailey and Dianne Ciotta -- to provide the training. This special program is $125 for AAN members and $200 for non-members (until May 16) and the separate registration includes access to the Bailey and Ciotta sessions, as well as the convention parties on Friday and Saturday. Fully registered convention registrants will also be allowed to attend these special sales-training seminars.
AAN |
04-03-2008 7:03 pm |
Association News
L.A. Weekly Quickly Wins Legal Fight with Clear Channelnew
Reporter Christine Pelisek recently asked the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety for a list of all legal and illegal billboards in the city, which activists have been trying to get for months. When she did, the department gave a head's up to billboard giants Clear Channel and CBS, who then took the city to Superior Court to stop it "from even thinking about giving the Weekly the list," the paper reports. But the media conglomerates were quickly shot down in court by Judge James Chalfant, who ruled the list is public information, not proprietary information, as Clear Channel lawyers argued. The department must release the list by April 4.
L.A. Weekly |
04-03-2008 11:30 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, L.A. Weekly
OC Weekly Scribe's Book is the Basis for Upcoming Gary Webb Filmnew
Kill the Messenger will tell the story of Webb, the San Jose Mercury News reporter who "committed suicide after being the target of a smear campaign when he linked the CIA to a scheme to arm Contra rebels in Nicaragua and import cocaine into California," Variety reports. The Universal film will be based on two books: Webb's own Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion, and Weekly staff writer Nick Schou's Kill the Messenger: How the CIA's Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb. The screenplay is being written by former New York Times Magazine correspondent Peter Landesman.
Variety |
04-03-2008 8:23 am |
Industry News
Seven Days Hires Shay Totten As New Political Columnistnew
Seven Days Press Release |
04-03-2008 11:35 am |
Press Releases
Study: 28 Million Subscribers Responded To At Least One Mobile Adnew
The Nielsen Company has announced the results of its bi-annual Mobile Advertising Report, which found that 23 percent (58 million) of all U.S. mobile subscribers have been exposed to advertising on their phones in the past 30 days, and about half of those (28 million) say they responded to a mobile ad in some way. In addition, the study found that 13 percent of users are "open to mobile advertising if it improves the media and content currently available," and 14 percent is "already open to mobile advertising so long as it is relevant to their interests."
Nielsen Company |
04-02-2008 8:50 am |
Industry News
¡Ask a Mexican! As Extinct as Kudzunew
"To paraphrase a paraphrase of Mark Twain, reports of my deportation have been greatly exaggerated," writes Gustavo Arellano in a blog entry. "I know I announced last Thursday that I was ending my ¡Ask a Mexican! column, but few people seemingly bothered to read the line where I stated my self-deportation was 'effective the feast day of St. Melito,' which happens to fall today. April Fools'!"
OC Weekly |
04-01-2008 12:05 pm |
Industry News
Arizona ACLU Names VVM Execs 'Civil Libertarians of the Year'new
Village Voice Media executive editor Mike Lacey and chairman/CEO Jim Larkin received the honor at the AZ ACLU's annual Bill of Rights dinner this weekend. They were being honored for publishing the county's illegal grand jury subpoenas against the Phoenix New Times and its readers last fall, for which the pair was ultimately arrested. But in presenting the award to the New Times founders, AZ ACLU past president John Hay explained that the well-publicized dust-up was only the tip of the iceberg. "The excuse we're using is what happened this fall when they faced down the Sheriff and the County Attorney. But they have in fact been defending civil liberties now for at least 38 years," Hay said. "So it is my pleasure to present these awards, which I think are slightly wrong. This says Civil Libertarian of the Year. I present these awards to Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin for being Civil Libertarians of the past four decades."
Phoenix New Times |
04-01-2008 9:04 am |
Honors & Achievements
The Village Voice Has Three 'Deadline Club Award' Finalistsnew
The Voice has finalists in three categories in the annual awards handed out by the Society for Professional Journalists' New York City chapter: Tom Robbins in beat reporting, Rob Harvilla in arts reporting, and Chloe A. Hillard in minority focus, which includes "coverage of a particular minority community, or of an issue with particular impact on such a community, that has import to the community at large." Winners will be announced May 15.
Society for Professional Journalists |
04-01-2008 8:53 am |
Honors & Achievements
