AAN News
Frequently Asked Questions About Contest Web Site
Ruth Hammond |
02-02-2005 4:44 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
Metroland Columnist Was Preparing to Dienew
Tom Nattell, 52, an alt-weekly contributor and lifelong activist, succumbed to cancer on Tuesday. "By day, he worked most of his adulthood as a research scientist," reads an Albany Times Union article that preceded his death. "Nights and weekends, [he] was tear-gassed, arrested and imprisoned" for standing on "the front lines of seemingly every issue of social justice that washed up the Hudson." Given only months to live, he was "keeping a daily journal, practicing yoga, e-mailing friends, railing against President Bush" and finding peace where he could. In his most recent column for Metroland, Nattell wrote: "This column . . . has provided some solace for me during these recent difficulties, and I appreciate having had the opportunity to share my thoughts with you over the years."
Albany Times Union |
02-01-2005 5:32 pm |
Industry News
Cleveland Free Times Writer Defends Story on Soldiernew
Joshua Greene faced a barrage of criticism after his story about an unidentified soldier being shipped off to Iraq appeared. Soldiers and others insinuated "that I or the soldier or both made the whole story up," Greene wrote in a follow-up column. "Nobody, they say, ever jumped out of a plane 4,426 times. Okay. Maybe it was a helicopter." In Greene's favor, a chaplain called to say the story had resonance, even if the number of jumps was incorrect. "And maybe I'm a flawed journalist, 'cause as the man [the soldier identified only as "Babe"] packed up his house, I didn't call him a liar enough as I sat complicit in sending him to war," Greene muses. The Free Times published a number of letters from readers questioning the story.
Cleveland Free Times |
01-31-2005 10:50 am |
Industry News
A Dozen Papers Seek AAN Membership
AAN Staff |
01-25-2005 4:00 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
Masquerading Media Men Manage Maine Music Magnew
The Falmouth Forecaster, a community paper in Portland, Maine, reports that Face -- owned by the publishers of Portland Phoenix, Providence Phoenix and Boston Phoenix -- regularly runs articles by writers using pseudonyms. Among them is Sam Pfeifle, editor of both Face and Portland Phoenix, who has written numerous articles as "Simon Peterson." He explains: "It's meant to be a way to have some fun and allow ourselves creative outlets." The report also notes that Face's "masthead offers few clues to who is real and who is make-believe," with job titles "arranged as if the writers and ad reps are members of a band." (Chris Busby, the author of the piece, is the former editor of the now-defunct Casco Bay Weekly, which competed against Portland Phoenix.)
Falmouth Forecaster |
01-21-2005 11:56 am |
Industry News
Lloyd Brown's Post-Folio Downward Spiral Continuesnew
The most-viewed story on AAN's collaborative news site, AltWeeklies.com, is "Porn, Hypocrisy, Plagiarism: The Dark Side of Jacksonville's Daily," which appeared in the Oct. 12, 2004, edition of Folio Weekly. Written by freelancer Billee Bussard, it accused Florida Times-Union's then-editorial page editor Lloyd Brown of -- among other things -- staring at porn in the workplace and plagiarism. Brown came under fire and stepped down from the daily, only to be hired as a speechwriter by Gov. Jeb Bush (the day after Bush fired a top official over sexual harassment allegations). Now the St. Petersburg Times reports that Brown has stepped down from that post as well.
St. Petersburg Times |
01-20-2005 5:27 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Folio Weekly
Reading Material for Editors and Writers Going to AAN West
01-20-2005 2:25 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Jackson, New Haven Alts Receive Diversity Grants
AAN Staff |
01-13-2005 9:51 am |
Association News
Advocate Faces No Listings Competition
01-12-2005 10:25 am |
Letters to the Editor
Tags: Editorial, Hartford Advocate
UMD Offers Journalism Fellowships in Child and Family Policy
01-10-2005 5:32 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial
Knight Ridder's Miami Faux Alt Goes Undernew
Miami New Times reports that the Miami Herald has closed Street Weekly, which began its run in 1999. According to the report, the free tabloid "was meant to engage young readers and compete directly with Miami New Times."
Miami New Times |
01-06-2005 5:30 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Miami New Times
Metro Times Announces Return of Reader's Choice Music Awards
01-06-2005 11:51 am |
Press Releases
The Listings Calendar: Alts' Mainstay Faces Stiff Competition
Hartford Advocate Editor Alistair Highet calls the listings calendar his paper's "universal point of interest." The calendar is -- and long has been -- indispensable for most alt-weeklies, attracting readers who don't necessarily agree with a paper's perceived political stance. But the marketplace is increasingly crowded with online and print publications listing concerts and theater times. Freelance reporter Charlie Deitch speaks with AAN members to find out what they're doing to fend off competitors' attempts to infringe on the alts' longtime stronghold.
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Charlie Deitch |
01-05-2005 12:29 pm |
Industry News
Another Free Daily to Launch in Washington, D.C.new
Journal Newspapers, Inc. will begin distributing the Examiner on Feb. 1, reports the Washington Post. (The Washington Post Co. publishes Express, the District's other free daily.) Journal Newspapers currently publishes free suburban tabloids in Northern Virginia and Maryland, and is owned by Phil Anschutz's Clarity Media Group Inc., which also owns the San Francisco Examiner. In October 2004, Clarity trademarked variations of the Examiner brand using the names of cities nationwide.
Washington Post |
01-04-2005 4:39 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Westword Wins Utne 2004 Independent Press Awardnew
The Denver-based alt-weekly won the Local/Regional Coverage category of the progressive magazine's competition. According to Utne's Web site, Westword was selected because "the arts coverage is refreshingly unaffected, the columnists routinely surprise, and the award-winning investigative work is as gutsy as it is well written." Nominees for the awards were chosen from among 2,000 alternative media sources.
Utne |
12-29-2004 5:59 pm |
Industry News
