AAN News
Creative Loafing Bids Farewell to Food Critic Bill Addisonnew
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
04-12-2006 7:47 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weeklies Lap Up Nominations in Food-Writing Awards
Foodies at Creative Loafing (Atlanta), Riverfront Times, Westword, L.A. Weekly, East Bay Express, City Pages (Twin Cities), Phoenix New Times, and Houston Press picked up ten of the 21 nominations for which they qualified in the 2006 James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards announced today. The complete list is available as a PDF here. Alt-weeklies were particularly dominant in the "Newspaper Writing on Spirits, Wine or Beer" category, in which all three nominees are AAN members. The awards recognize and honor excellence and achievement in the culinary arts.
03-16-2006 1:26 pm |
Industry News
Mara Shalhoup: Depicting the Life of a Teenage Killer
Mara Shalhoup's award-winning feature story is a long-form narrative that often assumes the perspective of a teenage prostitute-turned-killer. It wasn't a hard article to write, Shalhoup says, and the strong response proves that readers want more stories with a human focus. This is the 34th in a "How I Got That Story" series highlighting the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners.
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Erika Beras |
01-20-2006 8:21 pm |
Association News
Creative Loafing and East Bay Express Pick Up Clarion Awards
The two papers swept the Newspaper Feature Story category in this year's contest, which is administered by the Association for Women in Communications. The Loaf's Mara Shalhoup won in the circulation above 100,000 category, for
Learning to Hit a Lick, which also won the Feature Story category in this year's AltWeekly Awards. And the Express' Kara Platoni won in the under 100,000 category, for The Ten Million Dollar Woman. The awards were presented this weekend in Lubbock, Texas.
10-26-2005 4:50 pm |
Industry News
Creative Loafing Moving to Fancier Digsnew
CoStar Group |
10-06-2005 12:26 pm |
Industry News
CL Group Senior Editor Weighs In on Publisher Defectionsnew
JohnSugg.com |
05-12-2005 3:20 pm |
Industry News
Creative Loafing's New Publisher Quits After 10 Daysnew
According to CL senior writer Steve Fennessy, Mike Sigman (pictured) and CEO Ben Eason "couldn't agree on a timetable for improvements." Eason will step in as interim publisher for the rest of the year.
Creative Loafing Atlanta |
05-11-2005 5:50 pm |
Industry News
Creative Loafing Names New Publishernew
Creative Loafing |
05-02-2005 5:38 pm |
Industry News
Sigman Named President and Publisher of Creative Loafing Atlanta
Creative Loafing Inc. CEO Ben Eason informs us that he has named Michael Sigman to head the chain's flagship paper in Atlanta. Sigman worked at LA Weekly for 18 years, first as general manager, then later as president and publisher of both LA and OC Weekly, before leaving parent company Village Voice Media in Jan. 2002. Following his departure from VVM, Sigman took over as president of MajorSongs, the publishing house of his late father, the songwriter Carl Sigman, and issued a limited-edition box set of recordings of some of his father's songs.
04-25-2005 6:17 pm |
Industry News
Kick Off 2005 With CL's Political Party!
01-06-2005 11:41 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
Lineup Set for Creative Loafing's Dec. 8 Political Party
12-06-2004 11:31 am |
Press Releases
Creative Loafing Publisher Stepping Downnew
Scott Walsey, publisher of Creative Loafing (Atlanta), will leave the paper at the end of the year, reports CL editor-in-chief Ken Edelstein. Walsey has been at the paper for 26 years, and has served as its publisher since the 2000 merger between Weekly Planet and Creative Loafing, Inc. "He's provided employees with leadership, stability and a great sense of humor," writes Edelstein. "[Walsey is] a wise and decent person who did things like remind folks to place family and friends above work." CL's next publisher will be Scott Patterson, an experienced newspaperman who has published dailies, community papers and shoppers.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
11-23-2004 12:20 pm |
Industry News
Creative Loafing to Hold Political Party Nov. 10
11-08-2004 2:26 pm |
Press Releases
AAN Papers Gorge on Food Journalism Awardsnew
On Oct. 9, the Association of Food Journalists named winners in its 2004 AFJ Awards Competition -- and Association of Alternative Newsweeklies member papers came out looking like pigs in the "Under 150,000 Circulation" division. Willamette Week, Independent Weekly, Creative Loafing (Atlanta) and Cleveland Scene each took home an award, while Houston Press garnered a pair. According to the AFJ Web site, the awards "recognize excellence in reporting, writing, and photography in all media, and newspaper food section design and content."
Association of Food Journalists |
10-13-2004 11:32 am |
Industry News
