AAN News
City Pages' Music Blog Organizes Haiti Benefit Concertnew
Gimme Noise has put together a Feb. 6 concert to benefit victims of the Haiti earthquake. The show's co-headliners -- Mark Mallman and Solid Gold -- were both City Pages cover subjects last year. All proceeds from the show will be split evenly between the Red Cross Haiti Relief & Development Fund and Architecture for Humanity.
City Pages |
01-21-2010 11:36 am |
Industry News
The Gambit Teams Up with LimeWire for Compilation Albumnew
LimeWire has revealed its latest free "Ear to the Ground" sampler, which features 19 tracks from New Orleans artists. The album is curated by the staff of the Gambit, and it follows similar comps curated by alt-weekly staffs in Athens, Boston, Detroit, Nashville, Philadelphia and Portland.
LimeWire |
01-21-2010 8:53 am |
Industry News
Colorado Springs Independent Executive Editor Goes to the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver
27-year local sports legend Ralph Routon, Executive Editor of the Colorado Springs Independent, is going to the Vancouver Winter Games!
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Colorado Springs Independent Press Release |
01-21-2010 3:15 pm |
Press Releases
Michael Tomasky: Village Voice Scores 'Headline of the Day'new
The Voice's blog post on the result of yesterday's special election for the Massachusetts Senate seat vacated by Ted Kennedy -- titled "Scott Brown Wins Mass. Race, Giving GOP 41-59 Majority in the Senate" -- was singled out by The Guardian's Michael Tomasky as the headline of the day. "Someone put their witty cap on today over there at the Village Voice," he writes.
The Guardian |
01-20-2010 6:20 pm |
Industry News
Survey: Nearly Half Of Google News Users Don't Go To Sourcenew
paidContent |
01-20-2010 9:55 am |
Industry News
Washington City Paper's Edit Staff: Smaller and Whiter than in '06new
Back in March 2006, City Paper staff writer Huan Hsu reported on the lack of racial diversity in the paper's newsroom: "It's not all that surprising that the Washingtonian is a really white magazine. It would seem a much bigger problem for the City Paper, which purports to write about a predominately black city, yet is produced by a bunch of young white folks who live in Northwest D.C." Current staffer Andrew Beaujon revisits the piece and reports that the paper has not only gotten smaller, but it has gotten whiter as well. "Our full-time editorial staff then: 22, all but two of whom were white," he writes. "Our full-time edit staff now: 10, all of whom are white."
Washington City Paper |
01-19-2010 10:05 am |
Industry News
Pittsburgh City Paper Launches CPtv on its Website
The alt-weekly's new web channel will feature a video feed of "Lynn Cullen Live," a popular local radio talk show it began hosting in August. CPtv will also feature video clips from news stories and promotional videos.
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Pittsburgh City Paper Press Release |
01-19-2010 9:39 am |
Press Releases
Mr. Fish's Contract With L.A. Weekly Expiresnew
The cartoonist's contract expired on Friday; he spent nearly six years as the Weekly's regular cartoonist. Booth tells Neon Tommy he had known for a few months about the contract, so he hired an agent and has been working on new ventures in recent months, including two book proposals, which are currently being pitched to publishing houses in New York City. But the Weekly's editor says that the paper likely hasn't seen the last of Mr. Fish. "We still plan to use him from time to time and may renegotiate contract for regular use," Drex Heikes says. "I have an email from him and plan to talk to him soon." MORE: Mr. Fish sounds off on the state of the Weekly on his blog.
Neon Tommy |
01-19-2010 9:24 am |
Industry News
LEO Weekly Columnist Diesnew
WHAS radio personality and LEO Weekly columnist Francene Cucinello died last week after an apparent heart attack. She was 43. "Those of us at LEO who had the pleasure of working with and getting to know Francene are utterly shocked and deeply saddened by the news of her death," says LEO editor Sarah Kelley. "Her voice, while often controversial, was a mainstay in Louisville and beyond. She will be missed."
LEO Weekly |
01-19-2010 9:02 am |
Industry News
Want to Help Haiti? South Florida Alt-Weeklies Will Match Your Donations
Miami New Times, New Times Broward-Palm Beach and Village Voice Media have already cut one check to the Partners in Health relief organization, and they are now offering to match any other AAN paper's donation, up to a total of $10,000. We caught up with Miami New Times publisher Kevin Thornburg to find out a little more about the project.
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AAN News |
01-15-2010 6:04 pm |
Industry News
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) Names Mara Shalhoup Editor in Chiefnew
Shalhoup, who has been with the paper since 2000, will move into the EIC role from her current position as senior editor. "With Mara's rich history in the community and deep knowledge of journalism and Atlanta, she is the perfect choice to lead our editorial team," Creative Loafing (Atlanta) publisher Luann Labedz says. "Mara is a standout executive who has been a leader in innovation and is a great example of the paper's next generation of leaders."
Atlanta Business Chronicle |
01-15-2010 10:00 am |
Industry News
Ken Doctor Scheduled to Speak at Web Publishing Conference
Leading journalism analyst Ken Doctor will help kick off AAN's Web Publishing conference with a big-picture talk on the future of news as we enter the first truly digital news decade. He will speak on the afternoon of Thursday, Jan. 28 at the San Francisco conference, which you can find out more about here and register for here (early registration discounts have been extended until this Friday). We recently caught up with Doctor via email to find out more about his upcoming book, and how he thinks alt-weeklies are positioned to emerge in the digital future.
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AAN |
01-12-2010 5:20 pm |
Association News
Ex-Chicago Reader Reporter Dramatizes His Work on Police Torturenew
John Conroy has turned to the stage to tell the story of police brutality he spent more than a decade covering at the Reader. The two-act "My Kind of Town," Conroy's first effort as a playwright, fictionalizes some of the stories of police torture he encountered in the city. He tells the New York Times that for the play he tried to create characters with moral ambiguities in order to stimulate conversations about the audience members' own feelings on torture. "I'm not a 'gotcha' reporter, and I wasn't out to paint cops in any simplistic good-and-evil way," Conroy says. "And I didn't want to tell a story that said that the guilty cops have to be punished or the righteous have to win, but rather that these were real human beings who had to make choices that we as a society need to see -- and that those choices had consequences that we as a society and city need to deal with."
The New York Times |
01-12-2010 1:17 pm |
Industry News
Philadelphia Weekly Re-Launches Happy Hour Guide as Free iPhone App
Philadelphia Weekly Press Release |
01-12-2010 4:21 pm |
Press Releases
Las Vegas CityLife Editor Picks Up a TV Gignew
Steve Sebelius will soon have an additional hat to wear. On top of his job as CityLife's editor, he is joining the local TV station Channel 8 as part of its investigative team; he will also appear on-air twice a week to discuss politics, and cover and analyze the 2010 elections. Sebelius says his TV commentary will not be ideological, but it will be contextual. "I'm not going to deny I have an ideological point of view, it would be foolish and intellectually dishonest," Sebelius says. "But when you are a professional journalist, you have the obligation to be fair. My role is not to argue with these newsmakers, but report what they do and put it into context for people."
Las Vegas Review-Journal |
01-11-2010 11:13 am |
Industry News
