AAN News
Iraq Memo: Amazingly Unsurprising
04-20-2004 1:13 pm |
Letters to the Editor
Many AAN Papers to Publish Major Iraq Article Tuesdaynew
A story by investigative reporter Jason Vest will be published on scores of AAN newspaper Web sites, beginning at 10 a.m. EDT Tuesday, April 20, Editor & Publisher reports. The 3,000-word article quotes from a "closely held" memo by a U.S. government official that "offers a candid assessment of Iraq's bleak future," reports E&P, which obtained a copy of the story Monday. Vest is senior correspondent for American Prospect. He was honored as an "Unsung Hero of Washington Journalism" by the American Journalism Review in 2002.
Editor & Publisher |
04-19-2004 7:59 pm |
Industry News
Phoenix Buys FACE Magazine in Mainenew
The Phoenix Media/Communications Group has purchased the monthly music magazine founded in 1987 and will begin publishing it again in May, the Portland Press Herald reports. Beginning last year, FACE had been distributed in The Maine Weekly (formerly Casco Bay Weekly). But in February the Weekly's owner, Maine Publishing, filed for bankruptcy. Media holdings of the Phoenix group include three AAN papers, The Boston Phoenix, The Portland Phoenix and The Providence Phoenix.
MaineToday.com |
04-19-2004 11:44 am |
Industry News
Professors Plagiarize Industry-Supplied Op-Edsnew
Plagiarism isn't just for lazy news-writers and uninspired columnists. It also shows up on the op-ed pages. According to William M. Adler's report for The Austin Chronicle, many notable academics from the field of nuclear research have been borrowing from, or copying verbatim, editorials supplied by members of the U.S. energy lobby. These editorials have become a simple way for the industry to give their message credibility, while the professors get a quick and easy byline. Now exposed, these same professors claim to be the real victims of deceit.
Several AAN Board Seats Up for Election
04-19-2004 5:41 pm |
Association News
Communications Assistants for Deaf Used in International Scamnew
The crooks who sent out millions of e-mails appealing for financial help to move money out of Nigeria have moved on to another profitable scheme. Pretending to be deaf, they use telephone companies' communications assistants to help them order products from merchants. The goods are on the way to Africa before the seller discovers the credit card is no good. Edward Ericson Jr. reports for Baltimore City Paper that the vast amount of time consumed by con artists limits deaf people's access to the Internet Protocol Relay system they rely on to communicate by phone.
Washington City Paper Runs Corrections for Dailynew
Noticing that The Washington Times hadn't run a single correction in nine days, City Paper editor Erik Wemple decided to provide that service in his own pages. Wrong name, wrong block, wrong date of crime: Such errors will be duly noted and corrected in the alt-weekly. City Paper will "manage this critical function," Wemple writes, because the Times "lacks the resources to run its own corrections."
Washington City Paper |
04-16-2004 12:36 pm |
Industry News
Zach Mader, Jeff Illes Win "Spring Break" Contest
AAN Staff |
04-16-2004 12:00 pm |
Association News
Foreign-Policy Experts Assess Quagmire in Iraqnew
It's likely that Iraq could devolve into civil war, but there's no assurance that sending in more U.S. troops will solve anything. So where do we go from here? Reporters from The Boston Phoenix interview nine foreign-policy experts. Their advice ranges from calling on Iraqi leaders to quell the violence in return for troop withdrawals to refusing to turn governing authority over to the Iraqis until the situation is brought under control.
Toronto Star Reporter Plagiarized from Village Voicenew
The copying didn't go undetected because The Village Voice Online has too many readers in Canada. A former teaching assistant called the Toronto Star to point out that the narrative structure and phrasing in Prithi Yelaja's story about U.S. Army deserter Brandon Hughey reminded him of what he'd read in the New York City alt-weekly two days earlier. Star ombudsman Don Sellar reports that nearly a third of the Star article was rooted in a Village Voice story by Alisa Solomon. The remorseful Yelaja called Solomon to apologize.
Toronto Star |
04-15-2004 11:45 am |
Industry News
Help Wanted Ads Are Backnew
On the heels of March's surge in job creation, a series of media-company financial reports in recent days indicate that help-wanted pages in newspapers are swelling again, further sign that the labor market has turned the corner.
Washington Post |
04-15-2004 9:16 am |
Industry News
Freelancer Notes Editors Can Also Have Bad Attitudes
04-14-2004 10:50 am |
Letters to the Editor
Tags: Editorial
Former Prostitute Navigates the Road to Normalcynew
Afefe Tyehimba of Baltimore City Paper profiles the ongoing struggles of Danielle, a former prostitute and recovering drug addict. In this second installment of a two-part series, Danielle recalls the circumstances that have led her to relapse on more than one occasion. Despite strong support from family and friends, Danielle, like so many refugees from the world of street hustling, has found maintaining normalcy even more of a painful challenge than attaining it.
Dan Savage Ties Knot with Lesbian Reporternew
Amy Jenniges, a reporter for The Stranger, was denied a marriage license to legalize her relationship with her longtime lesbian partner. To make a point about the so-called sanctity of marriage, Jenniges' gay editor, Dan Savage, asked if he could get a license to marry her. Because the two met the man-woman criterion, the King County Clerk's office granted the license. Savage told Matt Markovich of KOMO 4 News in Seattle that he and the woman he doesn't love planned to stay married just 55 hours and 10 minutes in order to best Britney Spears.
KOMO TV |
04-13-2004 11:04 am |
Industry News
Peabody-Winning Web Director Joins AAN Staff
AAN Staff |
04-13-2004 7:42 pm |
Association News
