AAN News
Search Engine Optimization Can Also Be Used to Sabotage Websitesnew
Forbes |
07-02-2007 1:06 pm |
Industry News
Shepherd Express Taps Citizen Media Vet to Launch Community Sites
Shepherd Express, Milwaukee's weekly newspaper and website, announced the appointment of Andy Vogel as Vice President of Advertising and Online Products.
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Shepherd Express Press Release |
07-02-2007 8:41 am |
Press Releases
Louisville Eccentric Observer Wins 14 SPJ Awardsnew
The alt-weekly placed first in nine categories in this year's Metro Louisville Journalism Awards: business reporting, minority affairs, editorial writing, column writing, feature photography, sports photography, review/criticism, headline writing, and page design. The winners of the awards, which are sponsored by the Metro Louisville chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, were announced last night.
Louisville Eccentric Observer |
06-29-2007 4:01 pm |
Honors & Achievements
SF Weekly: The Nation 'Call[s] Bullshit on Itself'new
Matt Smith writes that this week's issue of The Nation, which features Jon Wiener's lament about changes that have taken place at LA Weekly since the paper changed hands in 2006, "reads as if were (sic) a schizophrenic-produced theme issue on your host, Village Voice Media." According to Smith, the July 16 issue of the weekly magazine juxtaposes Wiener's criticisms of the "staff cuts, heavy workload and misdirected investigative talent" at VVM with "another 3,000-word-plus story whose central thrust is based largely around Village Voice Media original reporting." In the latter, Liza Featherstone uses documents revealed in April by SF Weekly as a basis for her reporting on labor boss Andy Stern.
SF Weekly |
06-29-2007 8:48 am |
Industry News
Constable Dogged by Dallas Observer Resignsnew
After a judge agreed that his case could move forward, Dallas County Constable Mike Dupree resigned yesterday during a court hearing on a petition seeking to remove him from office, the Observer reports. The suit came on the heels of reports of Dupree's misconduct -- including sexual harassment of subordinates -- that were first revealed in the alt-weekly. In a separate Dupree-related matter, the police officer accepted a plea from the Texas attorney general's office charging him with misdemeanor abuse of power.
Dallas Observer |
06-29-2007 8:26 am |
Industry News
Is it 'The End of an Era' at LA Weekly and OC Weekly?new
That's what Jon Wiener argues in the Nation. Wiener claims the papers' new owners at Village Voice Media no longer cover "the forces trying to make LA a more egalitarian and less polarized city," and he laments what he calls LA Weekly's "editorial shift to the right" and a move towards "hyperlocalism" and "investigative hit pieces that target local bigwigs." UPDATE: On his blog, Matt Welch begs to differ.
The Nation |
06-28-2007 1:56 pm |
Industry News
Seattle Weekly Story Leads to Firing of High School Tennis Coachnew
Earlier this month, Aaron Silverberg, the self-proclaimed "Buddhist tennis coach," was the subject of a Seattle Weekly profile highlighting his flute playing and his reading of sensual poetry to the girls he coached at Ballard High School. Last week, Silverberg was fired, according to the Weekly. He says the school's principal told him that "no matter what, when someone sees something with young girls referring to sex, it puts me in a gray area." For its part, the Weekly wonders why it took them to bring this to the light. "Where was the oversight from Ballard administrators? Why did it take a newspaper story to make them aware of Silverberg's supposed improprieties?"
Seattle Weekly |
06-28-2007 10:59 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Seattle Weekly
East Bay Express Reveals Unnamed Ownersnew
Since being purchased from Village Voice Media by a consortium of investors in May, the newly independent alt-weekly has been called on to name every person with ownership interests in the paper. Originally, the Express named only Pitch Weekly founder Hal Brody, Express editor Stephen Buel, Express co-founder Kelly Vance, and Monterey County Weekly CEO Bradley Zeve. Yesterday, the paper wrote on its blog, "Lest anyone assume that we are hiding anything related to the identity of our other colleagues, we are happy to formally introduce all our investors." The remaining investors: Gary Jenkins, founding partner of Kansas City-based Punch Software; Paul Ung, Oakland resident and spokesman for the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia; Rick Watkins, president of the Kansas City real estate firm Watkins & Company; and Jay Youngdahl, a Cambridge-based managing partner of The Youngdahl Law Firm.
East Bay Express |
06-28-2007 8:51 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, East Bay Express
FOIA Backlog Keeps Drug and Food Risks Secretnew
Bloomberg News |
06-28-2007 9:11 am |
Legal News
The Riverfront Times 'Should Not Be in a Public Place,' Man Saysnew
"My son is almost an Eagle Scout and I took him to the library so he could do some research on birds," 60-year-old Richard Greathouse says. While at the library, he picked up a copy of the St. Louis alt-weekly, and didn't like what he saw. "They use the 'F' word in there ... They have a gal here who is naked with two hearts on the front advertising DVDs for $2.95," he says. "I'm trying to raise my children as Christians and they've got a lot of Christian people that go to that library." But despite Greathouse's complaint to the library's director, the Riverfront Times isn't going anywhere. "If we took everything out of the library that was not suitable for children or teenagers we would have a very small collection and we would have a lot of patrons very upset," library director Pam Klipsch says. The paper's editor, Tom Finkel, says he respects Greathouse's freedom of speech to criticize the paper, and wishes he'd respect theirs. "It's kind of ironic that in a country where we can say what we want, someone would want to muzzle a voice because he thinks it doesn't conform to what he thinks a proper publication is," Finkel says.
Jefferson County Journal |
06-27-2007 8:54 am |
Industry News
Metro Times Takes Home Eight SPJ Awardsnew
In the Detroit Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists' annual awards, the alt-weekly finished first in three categories (criticism; cover design; spread design). The paper also took home two second-place (cover design; editorial page design) and three third-place (investigative reporting; feature news reporting; news columnist) awards in the competition.
Metro Times |
06-27-2007 8:32 am |
Honors & Achievements
¡Ask a Mexican! Author Talks Books, Mexicansnew
Gustavo Arellano tells the New York Times that his dream is to host an hour-long radio program about The Simpsons. The Times also reports that OC Weekly writer's second book, which will be part memoir and part Orange County history, is forthcoming. (His first was a collection of ¡Ask a Mexican! columns.) For the two-book deal, he received an advance in "the mid-six figures," which he used to buy a decidedly un-Mexican automobile, a 1974 Cadillac convertible. "The Mexican thing would be to buy a humongous truck," he says.
The New York Times |
06-26-2007 12:25 pm |
Industry News
One Senator Stands in Way of FOIA Reform Billnew
Readers of this site know that the senator in question is Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), who has become a one-man roadblock to the passage of the OPEN Government Act of 2007. "With just one objection, the bill went from 'hot line' status to a legislative black hole," Cox News reports. "It is a shocking story that goes far beyond this particular bill," says Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists. "It really illustrates how Congress has become dysfunctional." Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has not responded to a request to allow two hours of debate on the measure. Without McConnell's blessing, the bill will not see debate -- or a vote -- in the Senate. AAN encourages you to contact your senators' offices and urge them to tell McConnell to allow the OPEN Government Act to get to the floor for debate and a vote. For other ways to help get these important FOIA reforms passed, click here.
Cox News Service via Austin American-Statesman |
06-26-2007 9:19 am |
Legal News
Tags: Management
Alt-Weeklies Win Four Ohio Journalism Awardsnew
In the 2007 Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards, Cleveland's Scene won in the Best Non-Daily Newspaper: Alternatives category, with Cincinnati CityBeat coming in second. Other first place finishes: Cleveland Free Times' Michael Gill in Essays; The Other Paper's Karen E. Graves in Reviews/Criticism; and
the Scene's Pete Kotz in Column Writing. The awards, sponsored by the Press Club of Cleveland, were presented at a reception on Friday.
Press Club of Cleveland Press Release |
06-26-2007 8:24 am |
Honors & Achievements
Study: Social Networking Sites Reflect U.S. Class Dividenew
BBC News |
06-26-2007 2:21 pm |
Industry News
