AltWeeklies Wire
The New News Economynew
As newspapers struggle, nonprofit news is being touted as the key to the future. Is it?
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan and Ellen Cushing |
05-30-2012 |
Media
Tags: Nonprofit News, Media
Civic Planning—A Vanishing Beat?new
The American Planning Association's annual journalism awards for "outstanding coverage of city and regional planning issues" haven't been given out since 2009.
Chicago Reader |
Michael Miner |
05-30-2012 |
Media
The Great Obamacare Scarenew
10 (untrue) reasons people fear the Affordable Care Act.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Jason Stevenson |
05-30-2012 |
Policy Issues
The Murderer on Music Rownew
A true tale of homicide, madness and attempted mass destruction from Nashville's sordid past.
Nashville Scene |
Wayne Wood |
05-30-2012 |
Features
Anatomy of a Wrongful Texas Executionnew
Until the day Texas executed him in 1989, Carlos DeLuna insisted another Carlos stabbed and killed 24-year-old Wanda Lopez at a Corpus Christi gas station in February 1983. At trial, prosecutors dismissed the idea, calling the other Carlos "a phantom" that didn't exist.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
05-28-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: execution, Carlos DeLuna
After the Newsnew
When the word came down that The Times-Picayune would no longer be a daily newspaper, it wasn't from the paper's owners, Advance Publications. Nor was it from senior management or newsroom officials. It came as a brief item on The New York Times' "Media Decoder" blog, written by David Carr, and sent out over Twitter at 10:33 p.m., when the newsroom was largely empty.
Tags: Times-Picayune
Gilbert's Kidsnew
Gilbert Olivares, a popular counselor at Salinas High School, faces dozens of sex-related charges, including manufacturing child pornography and molestation. The case is built on an astounding number of what-ifs.
Monterey County Weekly |
Sara Rubin, Nic Coury and Mary Duan |
05-25-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Bedside Bankrollnew
With no licensing or certification, anyone can practice in-home elder care in California—and in wealthy Marin County, opportunity for fraud abounds.
North Bay Bohemian |
Rachel Dovey |
05-24-2012 |
Health
The Only Thing Gayer Than Gay Marriagenew
Conservative black pastors need to come out of the proverbial closet.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Rodney Carmichael |
05-24-2012 |
LGBT
Pradaxa Patients Can't Stop the Bleedingnew
There's only one really bad thing about the anti-clotting pill Pradaxa. You can't fall or get cut while taking it because once you start bleeding, there's almost no way to stop it. There's no reversal agent, no antidote.
Houston Press |
Craig Malisow |
05-24-2012 |
Health
Young Stroke Victim Fights Her Way Backnew
While Sarah Kucharski focused on a looming deadline as special projects editor for Waynesville’s Smoky Mountain News, a blood clot in her brain stem was about to change her life forever.
Mountain Xpress |
Caitlin Byrd |
05-24-2012 |
Health
Times-Picayune Employees in Shock as Extent of Cuts Emergesnew
Employees of The Times-Picayune gathered to collectively absorb the shock of a New York Times report that the paper is about to undergo a massive restructuring that will leave New Orleans without a daily published newspaper.
A Smattering of NATO Protest Missed Connectionsnew
"You were the hot cop who put me in flexcuffs.....maybe we can do it privately?"
Chicago Reader |
Sam Worley |
05-21-2012 |
Sex
'The Saddest Aquarium on Earth'new
'I was a tourist in Seal Guantanamo,' and other tales of the Morro Bay Aquarium.
San Luis Obispo New Times |
Colin Rigley |
05-18-2012 |
Animal Issues
Another Cops-Beating-Homeless-Man Storynew
It isn't just the Kelly Thomas killing in which cops believe they have the right to execute a citizen during a scuffle.
OC Weekly |
R. Scott Moxley |
05-18-2012 |
Crime & Justice
