AAN News
AltWeekly Award Deadline Approaches
Members have just over a week to enter the 2008 contest. Entries must be registered through the contest website by midnight EST on Fri., Jan. 25. Payments and hard copies of entries should be sent to Charles Whitaker, Northwestern University Fisk Hall,1845 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208. Hard copies must be received at Northwestern by 5 p.m. on Mon., Jan. 28. For more information, contact contests (at) aan.org.
AAN |
01-17-2008 9:57 am |
Association News
Miami New Times Turns 20new
In 1987, Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, who started Phoenix New Times in 1970 and bought Denver's Westword in 1983, "bought a South Beach rag named The Wave for $50 and a hot dog with plenty of relish," and Miami New Times was born, managing editor Chuck Strouse writes as the paper celebrates its 20th anniversary. "Miami is a city that reinvents itself every few years," he writes. "Indeed between the time I left town in 2000 to edit New Times Broward-Palm Beach and my return two years ago, the place went from cultural wasteland to visual arts mecca. Miami New Times, though, has become a constant -- brassy, iconoclastic, and, well, sometimes tasteless."
Miami New Times |
01-17-2008 9:12 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Cartoonists Declare Jihad on Comedy Central "Scabs"
Ted Rall and Matt Bors, whose strips appear in many AAN papers, are releasing cartoons this week ridiculing Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert for returning to their TV shows without making a deal with the striking Writers Guild of America. "The stakes are too high, the issues too important, the hypocrisy too hypocritical for us to just put down our pens and tune in to their union-busting, albeit highly amusing, programs," Rall and Bors say in a joint statement. They both say they will not be available to appear on either The Daily Show or The Colbert Report while the strike remains in effect. "We'd rather fight in Bush's wars than cross a picket line," they say. The cartoons go live today at TedRall.com and MattBors.com.
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Ted Rall and Matt Bors Press Release |
01-17-2008 8:51 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Design & Production, Ted Rall
Tribune's Morning Call to Fold Faux-Alt, Replace With Metromixnew
Poynter.org |
01-17-2008 2:56 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management
Wayne Barrett Celebrates 30 Years at The Village Voice
The Village Voice Press Release |
01-17-2008 11:52 am |
Press Releases
C-Ville Weekly Rolls Out Redesign
Editor Cathy Harding explains the paper's new design in this short YouTube video. Among the highlights: C-Ville now has staples, and the content is now divided into three sections: News, Arts, and Living.
C-Ville Weekly Video via YouTube |
01-16-2008 10:38 am |
Industry News
Bay Guardian/VVM Trial Scheduled to Begin Tomorrownew
The predatory pricing suit against SF Weekly and Village Voice Media asserts that the Weekly sold ads below cost to push the Guardian out of business. (The suit also names former VVM property East Bay Express as a defendant.) VVM executive editor Michael Lacey thinks Bay Guardian publisher/editor Bruce Brugmann is using the Weekly as a "scapegoat" for his own problems in dealing with new challenges in print media. "[The lawsuit] is how he's hoping to maintain his business in a really tough media market," Lacey tells The San Francisco Daily Journal, a local legal publication. But Brugmann disputes this notion. "From our point of view, the fact that the economy is not good and there are other problems in this business only makes this problem more acute," he says. Jury selection is set to begin tomorrow in San Francisco County Superior Court. Legal experts tell the Daily Journal that predatory-pricing cases face different odds depending on where they are filed, adding that California superior courts are generally seen as more friendly to plaintiffs than federal courts.
The San Francisco Daily Journal (Subscription Required) |
01-16-2008 8:58 am |
Legal News
The Village Voice First Annual 'Choice Eats' Event Set for March 11
The Village Voice Press Release |
01-16-2008 12:17 pm |
Press Releases
Chicago Reader Joins ChicagoJobs.com Network of Affiliates
ChicagoJobs.com Press Release |
01-16-2008 9:19 am |
Press Releases
Nikki Finke Takes a Breaknew
"I'm exhausted. I'm not feeling well. I'm overwhelmed," the L.A. Weekly columnist writes. She says she will return next Tuesday. Her blog has become the go-to source for news on the writers' strike, and she's reportedly been working nearly around the clock since it started. "I need a week away from the emails and the comments and the phone calls and the rumors. Most of all, I just need to rest since I've been going, going, going, since the strike started."
Deadline Hollywood Daily |
01-15-2008 8:37 am |
Industry News
2008 Casey Medal Applications Now Availablenew
The Journalism Center on Children & Families |
01-15-2008 1:00 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial
Village Voice Media Has 200 Reasons to 'Pucker Up'
Village Voice Media Press Release |
01-15-2008 12:38 pm |
Press Releases
Metro International Seeking Buyer for U.S. Dailiesnew
Boston Phoenix |
01-15-2008 11:40 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management
Nevada County Faces Federal Lawsuit Over Upping Newsrack Feesnew
Las Vegas Business Press |
01-15-2008 11:19 am |
Legal News
9/11 Truth Activists Picket L.A. Weekly Officenew
Some adherents of the 9/11 Truth movement hit the streets in front of the paper's Hollywood office on Friday, handing out flyers, waving upside-down American flags and denouncing longtime columnist Marc Cooper. The activists took umbrage with this turn of phrase included in a recent Cooper column on Cynthia McKinney: "She was one of the first high-profile adherents of the official whack-job '9/11 Truth' movement, directly implicating the U.S. government in the staging of the attack on the Twin Towers." The Weekly has a slideshow of the protests.
MarcCooper.com | L.A. Weekly |
01-14-2008 8:33 am |
Industry News
