AAN News
Web-to-Print London Freebie Set to Launchnew
Newsstand, London's fourth free-circulation daily to launch in 18 months,
will draw half of its content from stories previously published on the Web, reports Media Life Magazine. When the paper debuts in April, Newsstand's managing director expects 80 percent of the content to come from Web sites and 20 percent from blogs, and appears to assume he will get it for free from publishers abd bloggers interested in gaining exposure to a wider audience. Newsstand is also stealing a page from the Web with its "hyperlocal" strategy, in which a quarter of the paper's news hole will be reserved for news about the neighborhoods in which it will be distributed.
Media Life Magazine |
01-25-2007 11:49 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Jackson Free Press Reporting Revived Klansman Casenew
The federal government announced today that reputed Klansman James Ford Seale has been arrested and indicted for the 1964 murder of Charles Moore and Henry Dee, two young black hitchhikers in Meadville, Miss. Following the announcement, AAN issued a press release noting that the Dee-Moore murder case gained new steam when Free Press editor Donna Ladd (pictured) and a team of young Mississippians first reported the news that Seale was still alive -- after the local Gannett daily and other media had previously reported he was dead. Ladd's series about the murders won an investigative-reporting award in last year's AltWeekly Awards contest.
AAN Press Release |
01-24-2007 8:42 pm |
Industry News
Discrimination Case Triggered by Alt-Weekly Finally Sees Trialnew
Four years after the AAN-member paper Illinois Times challenged an official police account of how a black officer responded to an incident involving rape, the case will finally go to court, reports the The State-Journal Register. Dusty Rhodes' series about the case in the Springfield, Ill. alt-weekly sparked public outrage and led a number of African-American cops to step forward in a group lawsuit against the city alleging racial discrimination. The so-called "black officers case" goes back to Halloween night, 2001, when a 35-year-old rookie cop named Renatta Frazier responded to a call at the apartment of the daughter of another police officer. Frazier was originally criticized for not doing enough to stop the assault, but the Illinois Times later showed that she was never in a position to do so.
The State-Journal Register |
01-24-2007 4:29 pm |
Industry News
City Pages Names New Editornew
The Village Voice Media paper announced yesterday that Cleveland Scene managing editor Kevin Hoffman would replace Steve Perry, who resigned earlier this week. Former City Pages co-owner Tom Bartel (the brother of the paper's current publisher, Mark Bartel) tells the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that he thinks Hoffman and present VVM management deserve a chance. "They've produced some terrific editors and stories over the years," Bartel says. "But anybody who comes in from out of town will have a certain learning curve. He needs to know the community he's covering."
Minneapolis Star-Tribune |
01-24-2007 1:00 pm |
Industry News
Mississippi Alt-Weekly Revealed Indicted Klansman Was Still Alive
AAN press release |
01-24-2007 8:05 pm |
Press Releases
MoVoxx Partners with Bay Guardian to Deliver Exclusive Weekly Mobile Offers to its Readers
MoVoxx press release |
01-24-2007 4:50 pm |
Press Releases
Kevin Hoffman to Edit City Pages
Village Voice Media |
01-24-2007 12:36 pm |
Press Releases
Mudede: Internet Makes for Strange Bedfellowsnew
In an interview with GreenCine, screenwriter and associate editor of The Stranger, Charles Mudede, describes the role the Internet played in bringing together the Enumclaw, Washington beastiality circuit that is the subject of his new documentary, Zoo. He also explains that the viral spread of the story via the Internet garnered national attention and eventually brought about a change in state law. "No one knew that bestiality was legal in this state," says Mudede. "That was the first thing everybody learned. No one was breaking the law." Zoo is currently screening at the Sundance Film Festival.
GreenCine |
01-23-2007 11:12 am |
Industry News
Editor Plans to Leave Minneapolis Alt-Weeklynew
Steve Perry announced today that he will resign next month after 13 years as editor of City Pages, reports the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. In a memo circulated to staff, Perry said "philosophical and practical differences" with New Times management prompted his decision to leave the paper.
Minneapolis Star-Tribune |
01-22-2007 11:45 pm |
Industry News
Quadriplegic Willamette Week Cartoonist Turns to Musicnew
John Callahan was scheduled to sing the blues this weekend in Salem, Ore., performing songs from his new album, "Purple Winos in the Rain." Non-ambulatory since he was paralyzed in a car accident at the age of 21, Callahan's lyrics are as dark as his cartoons -- suicide is mentioned in nearly every song, reports the Statesman Journal's Michelle Theriault -- but "there are slivers of a humor as bracing as his cartoon work throughout the album," says Theriault.
Salem Statesman Journal |
01-22-2007 4:49 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Editorial, Willamette Week
'What Happened to Our (Village) Voice?'new
That's the rhetorical question PopMatters asks in an article lamenting the "sad trajectory" of arts coverage at the paper since it was taken over by New Times. In a somewhat less-than-thorough investigation, the Web site turns to two former Voice music critics for answers. Robert Christgau says Michael Lacey is "a philistine who hates New York City” but admits that Village Voice Media's executive editor cares about writing; it's just not the kind of writing that Christgau does. Meanwhile, Eric Weisbard claims the new owners hate "what the Voice stood for," i.e., "the idea that you should write about pop music with the same depth and the same number of cultural references that you would talk about a novelist in the New York Review of Books."
PopMatters |
01-22-2007 3:10 pm |
Industry News
Former Alt-Weekly Arts Editor Juggles Projectsnew
After five years of doing a little bit of everything at Missoula Independent, Andy Smetanka now works as a baker when he's not taking classes toward a Master's degree in creative non-fiction or drafting silhouette animation for the Decemberists. New West profiles Montana's Renaissance man. CORRECTIONS: According to the Independent, Smetanka was the paper's arts editor, not the art director, as New West reports. In addition, Smetanka, who left his full-time position at the Independent almost two years ago, still reviews film for the paper on a regular basis.
New West |
01-22-2007 1:04 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Missoula Independent
Tivo Alert: Advice Goddess on Nightline Friday Nightnew
Syndicated sex columnist Amy Alkon knows how to get her man -- and manners. Recently, when a cafe patron sitting within earshot chatted too loudly on her cell phone, Alkon recorded and published details of the conversation, including the woman's name, telephone number, and plans for the afternoon. When the Wall Street Journal reported the incident but disguised Alkon's identity, Alkon wrote about that, too, taking credit for her coffeeshop intervention. She is scheduled to appear tonight on ABC's Nightline to discuss the "undermannered" and how to deal with them.
Advice Goddess Blog |
01-19-2007 3:43 pm |
Industry News
Congressmen Ask DOJ To Withdraw BALCO Subpoenasnew
In a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee member Tom Davis (R-VA) also criticized the Department of Justice for the agency's efforts to prosecute San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams. The two were ruled in contempt of court in September after ignoring the subpoenas and refusing to reveal their sources to a grand jury in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative steroid case. Currently, their sentences are suspended pending appeal.
San Francisco Chronicle |
01-19-2007 3:25 pm |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial
NUVO Gets a New Look, Revamps Ad Structurenew
The Indianapolis alt-weekly "relaunched" this week with an expanded news section incorporating a "new secondary focus on practical issues that affect readers' everyday lives," and a new A&E section that consolidates the paper's fine arts and pop culture coverage, according to its new advertising newsletter. The paper also is reducing ad rates and applying a full-volume discount to all ads to coincide with the redesign. Other elements of the revamped NUVO include larger font, new featurettes, and a crisper presentation.
NUVO |
01-19-2007 3:08 pm |
Industry News
