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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

The First Art Exhibit Inspired by Classified Advertising?

We don't know enough about art or classified advertising to answer that question definitively, but the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's upcoming "I Saw You" exhibition certainly qualifies as rare and unusual. The exhibition, which opens Nov. 4, features work by SAIC students "inspired by the Chicago Reader's I Saw You classifieds," according to the school's Web site.
10-26-2005  4:16 pm  |  Industry News

The Voice Turns 50new

The short history of alternative newspapers began fifty years ago today, when Norman Mailer, Dan Wolf and Ed Fancher published the first issue of the Village Voice. To celebrate its golden anniversary, the world's best-known alt-weekly published a special issue that provides a taste of "the notorious fractiousness, the intensely personal journalism, and all the other quirks that make the Voice the Voice." Among other things, the issue includes a mix of original essays, including Nat Hentoff on the history and spirit of the Voice, Jarrett Murphy on the history of Voice ownership, and Robert Christgau on how the Voice invented rock criticism.
The Village Voice  |  10-26-2005  3:37 pm  |  Industry News

Nigel Jaquiss: Bringing Down an Esteemed Political Figure

The scoop Nigel Jaquiss got about political leader Neil Goldschmidt was one that would create a terrible stir in Oregon, if only he could nail it down. If he couldn't lay out sufficient proof, he risked destroying his paper, Willamette Week. Jaquiss describes the twists and turns that led to the publication of the stories that won him the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting, along with an AltWeekly Award. This is the seventh in a "How I Got That Story" series highlighting the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners. (FULL STORY)
Wells Dunbar  |  10-26-2005  1:44 pm  |  Association News

Village Voice Celebrates 50 Years

Nation's Largest Alternative Weekly to Publish Special Issue Commemorating 50 Years of Award-Winning, Independent Journalism (FULL STORY)
10-26-2005  2:47 pm  |  Press Releases

Google Base to Impact Newspapersnew

Editor & Publisher  |  10-26-2005  10:15 am  |  Industry News

Study: Free Metro Dailies Have Negligible Impactnew

Media Daily News (reg. req.)  |  10-26-2005  7:28 am  |  Industry News

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