AAN News
SF Weekly Responds to Bay Guardian Lawsuitnew
Editor John Mecklin takes aim at a "smelly BS-offensive emanating" from the San Francisco Bay Guardian, which, he says, contains "huge doses of distortion, some outright falsehood, and very little truth." Mecklin says the "capper" to this offensive is the predatory-pricing lawsuit that Bay Guardian filed last week against SF Weekly and its sister publication, East Bay Express. The Bay Guardian has long tried "to convince San Francisco of the dangerous evil that a New Times-owned SF Weekly represents," writes Mecklin. "Over that time, SF Weekly has sailed ahead, and the Bay Guardian has foundered." (Second item on linked page.) Also addressed: SF Weekly's response to Puni-comic controversy. (Main item on linked page.)
SF Weekly |
10-28-2004 5:16 pm |
Industry News
Bay Guardian Sues New Times for Predatory Pricingnew
The San Francisco Bay Guardian filed a lawsuit in the city's Superior Court against SF Weekly, East Bay Express and New Times Media, LLC, which owns the two weeklies. The suit alleges that New Times repeatedly sold ads at less than the cost of producing them and offered secret deals to advertisers to keep them from advertising in the Bay Guardian. Both activities would violate California law. New Times owns 11 alternative papers, all of which, like the Bay Guardian, are members of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
10-20-2004 5:04 pm |
Industry News
Activists Call SF Weekly Cartoon Offensive, Want Apologynew
San Francisco Latino and Mission District activist groups want a public apology from freelance cartoonist Dan Siegler, reports the San Francisco Examiner. Siegler's "Puni" cartoon in the Sept. 15 edition of SF Weekly is a parody of Mayor Gavin Newsom's "Mission Possible" effort to take back the Mission District's "Miracle Mile." The phony message from the mayor asks, "Who exactly are we taking back the Mission from?" and encourages readers to select "the groups that you want removed from the Mission" from a list of 35. Among the choices are "pregnant tweenage Mexicans," "geriatric tamale sellers," and "white dot-com leftovers."
San Francisco Examiner |
09-28-2004 11:29 am |
Industry News
New Times Dominates John Bartlow Martin Awardsnew
Two New Times investigative
series were selected as winners in
the 2002 John Bartlow Martin Awards,
sponsored by Northwestern's Medill
School of Journalism. First place went to
"Fallout," a look at the U.S. Navy's
radioactive legacy in the Bay Area by
SF Weekly's
Lisa Davis. Phoenix New Times staff
writer Amy Silverman captured
third
place for her special series "Slammed,"
which exposed abuses in Arizona's
juvenile justice system.
Sandwiched between them was
Katherine Boo, former managing editor of
Washington City Paper, for her story in
The New Yorker on welfare
mothers.
Medill School of Journalism |
04-25-2002 1:17 pm |
Industry News
"Fallout" Takes Another Awardnew
Lisa Davis' "Fallout" series, which won a George Polk Award a few weeks ago, wins a 2002 IRE Award for investigative journalism. Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. honors Davis and John Mecklin of the SF Weekly for “Fallout,”
which reveals "how a Bayfront property about to be turned
over to the city by the Navy may be far more contaminated
with radioactive waste than current cleanup plans
acknowledge." Other AAN members Phoenix New Times and New Times Los Angeles were the two finalists in the local circulation weekly division, giving New Times a lock on the division.
Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. |
03-15-2002 2:19 pm |
Industry News
Bay Guardian Challenges SF Weekly Over "Anticompetitive Practices"new
In an article penned by Executive Editor
Tim Redmond, the 35-year-old
weekly announces that it has "launched
the first stage of a legal offensive
to stop" its New Times-owned competitor
"from engaging in anticompetitive
business practices that may violate
federal and state (antitrust) laws."
Redmond also details a settled
lawsuit in which the Bay Guardian
charged a sales rep who had decided to
jump ship with secretly
downloading
over 1,000 pages of sales records
and providing them to her then-new
employer, SF Weekly.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
03-11-2002 11:57 pm |
Industry News
SF Weekly Reporter Wins George Polk Awardnew
Lisa Davis joins writers from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Yorker
in winning a prestigious George Polk Award. Her two-part series, "Fallout", which won in the environmental reporting category, exposed mishandled radioactive waste at the San Francisco Naval Shipyard at Hunter's Point.
Associated Press |
02-20-2002 2:31 pm |
Industry News
AAN Papers Dominate CNPA Awards
Six Members Garner 22 Awards.
(FULL STORY)
Patrick Sullivan |
07-13-1999 11:51 am |
Industry News
Newsrack Follies Continue in S.F., Indy
When the going gets weird, the weird get pedmounts?
(FULL STORY)
Patrick Sullivan |
06-29-1999 11:50 am |
Industry News
SF Weekly Pulls 'Yuppie Rights Rally' Hoax
Mainstream Press Buys Contrived Story Hook, Line and Sinker.
(FULL STORY)
Patrick Sullivan |
06-16-1999 11:50 am |
Industry News
S.F. Newsrack Law Challenged
Six Publishers File First Amendment Suit Over Ordinance.
(FULL STORY)
Randall Lyman |
01-13-1999 11:51 am |
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