AAN News
Westword Pot Critic Helps Change Colorado Driving-While-Stoned Bill
A Colorado Senate committee this week amended a proposed bill that would have set THC driving limits, saying the limit needed further study, thanks to an assist from Westword's pot critic.
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AAN |
04-20-2011 2:40 pm |
Industry News
Mountain Xpress Director of Business Development Departs
Longtime advertising leader James Fisher is leaving the Mountain Xpress. Since joining the paper in 1995, he has been an ad rep, sales manager, ad director and most recently, director of business development.
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AAN |
04-20-2011 11:29 am |
Industry News
Boise Weekly Distributes Free Condoms in Latest Issue
In what publisher Sally Freeman is calling the "largest distribution of condoms ever" in Idaho's history, Boise Weekly is including a free condom in each copy of this week's issue.
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AAN |
04-20-2011 9:07 am |
Industry News
AAN-Commissioned 'Tax Myths' Piece Crashes Willamette Week's Website
Traffic to David Cay Johnston's piece on tax myths, which ran in 40 alt-weeklies last week, caused Willamette Week's website to crash for about three hours Monday.
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AAN |
04-20-2011 8:23 am |
Industry News
Five AAN Members Pick Up Regional SPJ Awards
Five alt-weeklies were among the recent winners of The Society of Professional Journalists 2011 Top of the Rockies Excellence in Journalism Awards, covering Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming.
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AAN |
04-20-2011 7:51 am |
Honors & Achievements
Top Dogs of the Rockiesnew
Salt Lake City Weekly writers held sway at the Top of the Rockies competition, a regional contest sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists. Competing against papers from Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming in the 10,000 to 75,000 circulation range, the paper garnered a dozen awards, four of them first place.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
04-19-2011 9:27 pm |
Press Releases
NOW Files Integrity Complaint Against Toronto Mayor
The publishers of NOW Magazine have filed a complaint with Toronto's integrity commissioner in response to Mayor Rob Ford's alleged attempt to have all copies of the March 31 edition of the magazine removed from city facilities.
(FULL STORY)
AAN |
04-19-2011 10:03 am |
Industry News
Miami New Times Columnist Running for Mayor
Miami New Times' most famous columnist -- former 2 Live Crew frontman Luther Campbell -- is running for mayor of Miami-Dade County.
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AAN |
04-19-2011 9:06 am |
Industry News
LA Weekly's Jonathan Gold is a 2011 Pulitzer Prize Finalist
When the Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists were announced today, there was a familiar alt-weekly name on the list: LA Weekly's Jonathan Gold was one of two finalists for criticism, a category Gold won in 2007.
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AAN |
04-18-2011 6:11 pm |
Industry News
Former Arkansas Official: I Resigned After Being Told to Dodge Alt-Weekly's FOIA Request
Teresa Belew, the former executive assistant to Arkansas Secretary of State Mark Martin, says she quit after being told to delete a sensitive email rather than release it to the Arkansas Times under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
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AAN |
04-18-2011 10:05 am |
Industry News
Willamette Week Brings On Award-Winning Investigative Reporter as News Editor
Brent Walth, who shared in a Pulitzer Prize for public service reporting while at The Oregonian, has been named Willamette Week's news editor. He replaces Hank Stern, who is leaving the paper to work for the county.
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AAN |
04-18-2011 8:30 am |
Industry News
Jackson Free Press Editor Donna Ladd Receives Fannie Lou Hamer Award
Jackson Free Press co-founder and editor Donna Ladd was one of "six exceptional individuals" who received a Fannie Lou Hamer Humanitarian Award on Friday. The awards, given out by Jackson State University's Fannie Lou Hamer National Institute on Citizenship and Democracy, go to people who "have been instrumental in modeling a civil society" in Mississippi.
(FULL STORY)
Fannie Lou Hamer National Institute on Citizenship and Democracy |
04-18-2011 8:12 am |
Press Releases
The Media Oxpecker: Copyright Wrong Turns
This week: new adventures in copyright law, Photoshop on your tablet, drama at Twitter, and much more.
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AAN |
04-15-2011 12:16 pm |
Media Roundup
Maui Time Publisher Videotapes His Own Assault by Police
"On the evening of April 12, I was assaulted by a member of reality star Duane 'Dog the Bounty Hunter' Chapman's security team," Maui Time publisher Tommy Russo writes. "Soon after, I was assaulted again, and had my First Amendment rights violated, by a member of the Maui Police Department."
(FULL STORY)
AAN |
04-15-2011 11:54 am |
Industry News
Metro Spirit Returns
After being closed down last month by parent company Portico Publications, then sold to a new owner, Augusta alt-weekly Metro Spirit is once again being published.
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AAN |
04-15-2011 10:58 am |
Industry News
