AAN News
Heterosexuals and Gays Share Passion for Gunsnew
The Pink Pistols is the first national gun club for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community, but it doesn't discriminate on the basis of sexual preference. About 20 percent of the members of the club's Northeast Ohio chapter are straight. Jimi Izrael reports on the national group that took its name from a 2000 Salon.com essay calling on gays and lesbians to arm themselves against hate crimes.
Tags: Scene
New Times Dominates NABJ Awardsnew
Newspapers in the Phoenix-based alt-weekly chain
picked up seven of the 11 awards handed
out last month in the under 150,000 circulation
category of the National Association of Black
Journalists' annual contest. Dallas Observer's Jim
Schutze and Julie Lyons, Cleveland
Scene's Thomas Francis and Riverfront
Times' Jeannette Batz all were named
first-place winners.
National Association of Black Journalists |
09-24-2003 1:05 pm |
Industry News
Two Cleveland Scene Employees Charged With Threatening Competitornew
Editor Pete Kotz says the two ad department
employees had been out drinking and
were just "trash-talking over the phone."
Cleveland Free Times
Editor David Eden claims they threatened to murder
a Free Times employee and rape his wife.
Whatever it was, it's now in the courts. Adam
Simon and Brian LeBlanc face charges of
aggravated menacing, telecommunications
harassment and making threats over the
telephone, The Plain Dealer reports.
The Plain Dealer |
08-27-2003 9:16 am |
Industry News
Tags: Scene, Cleveland Free Times
New Times Papers Win Two Clarion Awardsnew
The Association for Women in Communications
grants Martin Kuz of Cleveland Scene a
Clarion Award for his story, "The Wal-Mart
Menace" in the Newspaper Hard News Story
category. Geri Dreiling of Riverfront
Times also picks up a Clarion Award in the
Newspaper Feature Story category for "Nasty
Boys."
The Association for Women in Communications |
08-26-2003 10:06 am |
Industry News
AAN Papers Take Four Firsts in Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awardsnew
Dallas Observer won two first place awards in the 2003 Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards, and The Village Voice and Phoenix New Times each took one. East Bay Express won second place in the General Excellence category for papers with circulations 50,001 to 100,000, and New Times papers were finalists in nine other categories.
Missouri School of Journalism |
06-17-2003 2:04 pm |
Industry News
Lacey Fires Back at Free Timesnew
New Times Executive Editor Mike
Lacey calls Cleveland Free Times'
recent attacks on New Times and
Cleveland Scene "an explosion of
bluster." Lacey accuses Free Times'
Editor David Eden and Publisher
Matt Fabyan of concocting
"conspiracies wrapped in an ad
hominem attack" and of publishing
"organ
discharge." He cites sales and profit
figures that starkly contradict Free Times'
assertion that it was winning the
alternative
newsweekly battle in Cleveland.
Cleveland Scene |
06-05-2003 12:37 pm |
Industry News
Free Times vs. New Times
06-02-2003 4:43 pm |
Letters to the Editor
Tags: Cleveland Free Times, Scene
Free Times Takes Aim at Scenenew
In its second issue since reopening after a seven-month closure, Cleveland Free Times writes a snarling cover story on the finances of its rival Cleveland Scene and its parent, New Times. The story by Editor David Eden charges that the Scene "is living on life support and is awaiting its day of reckoning."
Cleveland Free Times |
05-29-2003 4:05 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Scene, Cleveland Free Times
Two AAN Writers Win Education Writers Association Awardsnew
Nigel Jaquiss of Willamette Week and Pete Kotz of the Cleveland Scene win special citations in the 2002 National Awards for Education Reporting. Kotz' citation was for opinion writing in the 100,000 and above division for "Welcome to Cheaptown." Jaquiss was recognized for feature writing in the under 100,000 division for his story “Anywhere, U.S.A.: Portland is in Danger of Losing the One Thing That Makes It Unique." He won a first place in this contest last year in investigative reporting.
Education Writers Association news release |
05-07-2003 9:54 am |
Industry News
Ohio Columnist Declines Scene's "Worst Columnist" Awardnew
Akron Beacon Journal Columnist David Giffel declines the title of "worst columnist" because he claims an archenemy, Dave "Coondog" O'Karma, stuffed the ballot box. "When I asked Scene editor Pete Kotz how many votes I'd received, he
admitted, `We never counted the votes.''' Giffel writes. The winner was selected on the basis of the staff's favorite nominating letter, which termed Giffel's writing "unoriginal, unimaginative and
shallow."
Akron Beacon Journal |
04-07-2003 11:15 am |
Industry News
Tags: Scene
Alt-Weekly Writers Win Education Awardsnew
Nigel Jaquiss of Willamette
Week and Pete Kotz of Cleveland Scene are awarded special citations by the Education Writers Association.
Education Writers Association |
02-26-2003 7:20 pm |
Industry News
Cleveland Scene Names New Classified Ad Directornew
Ida Ford comes to Cleveland
Scene as classified advertising director
from the Plain Dealer, where she
directed inside and outside sales
units for both
real
estate and recruitment advertising.
Scene Publisher Ramon Larkin
says her experience in these two vital
areas, as well as her community and
professional contacts, will be "a great
contribution."
New Times news release |
12-10-2002 4:23 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Scene
New Times, VVM Cut Deal, Close Papersnew
Village Voice Media paid NT Media
more than $1 million to close New
Times Los Angeles, sources tell the
Los Angeles Times. New
Times paid VVM a lesser amount to
shutter
Cleveland Free Times, the daily
reports.
An anti-trust lawyer says the
transaction, negotiated quietly over the
past three months, "could raise rather
interesting antitrust issues."
Los Angeles Times |
10-03-2002 10:43 am |
Industry News
Union Label on the Cleveland Free Times?new
The Cleveland Scene reports that a union movement is afoot at cross-town rival, Cleveland Free Times. The Cleveland Scene says Free Times employees have even contacted members of Congress to intervene with the parent company, New York-based Village Voice Media, on their behalf.
Cleveland Scene |
09-27-2001 8:33 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Scene
