AAN News
How "Do Not Call" Affects AAN Papers
Alice Neff Lucan |
08-08-2003 4:16 pm |
Legal News
Colorado Springs Independent Turns 10new
And they're celebrating with a special issue and a
public birthday bash in a park across the
street from the paper's new office building. In
addition to a rear-view mirror look at the
paper's coverage of educational and environmental
issues, this week's Indy includes features like "Top
Ten Reasons the Independent Must Die" (No. 4:
"They're sex-crazed, amoral sodomists.") and, for
connoisseurs of the publisher's occasionally garbled
syntax, "Top Ten John Weissisms" (No. 1:
"We're growing like hotcakes!").
Colorado Springs Independent |
08-07-2003 3:57 pm |
Industry News
East Bay Express Puts Actor on Ballot in Calif.new
Arnold Schwarzenegger is grabbing all
the headlines, so few may have noticed
that Gary Coleman is also running for the
Golden State's top job. According to CNN.com,
Coleman's candidacy was engineered by New
Times' paper in Berkeley "in protest of the scheduled
vote aimed at recalling Gov. Gray Davis." Editor
Steve Buel, Coleman's campaign treasurer,
says he collected the 65 petition signatures
necessary to place the former child star on
the ballot at a recent Oakland A's game.
Even though he's throwing his own hat in the ring,
Coleman says he's voting for Schwarzenegger and
admits, "I'm
probably the least qualified for the job, but I'll have
some great people around me."
CNN.com |
08-07-2003 2:44 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
A Tale of Two Shootingsnew
After a night of drinking and rock 'n' roll, an
off-duty Orange County cop engages in
random
gun play. No charges are filed. But a Santa
Ana resident accused of randomly firing a gun in
his yard faces a life sentence. OC Weekly's
Nick Schou looks at a case where justice isn’t
so much blind as stupid. "Let’s see: Shooter No. 1
is a gang-unit cop. Shooter No. 2 is a crew-cut
Latino who lives in a gang-infested
neighborhood. You do the math," Shou
writes.
Trashing Spamnew
Spammed if you do, spammed if you don't.
Chickenboners, mainsleazers and spiders
are out to get you. Ben Fogelson of
Eugene Weekly looks at bulk e-mail, "an
increasing
irritant in the folds of international cyber-flesh." He
examines who's doing it, who's trying to stop it,
how you can beat it back and even how
to
speak a little spam.
Medill Writing Workshop Focuses on Ethics, Features Walt Harrington
AAN Staff |
08-06-2003 11:06 am |
Association News
Village Voice Union Protests Layoffsnew
About 75 percent of the members of Local
2110 signed a letter to VVM management declaring
their "profound outrage and disgust" at
last month's cuts, which they chalk up to "greed on
the part of the paper's owners." Sadness and
paranoia now rule at the paper, says Cynthia
Cotts, who also reports that two of the seven
employees originally laid off have been hired back.
More controversy may be just around the corner:
Cotts reports that "many staffers dislike the
redesign that debuts in next week's issue."
The Village Voice |
08-05-2003 4:42 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management
City Paper Parodies Post Co.'s Free Dailynew
When the free weekday tabloid Express
debuted Monday morning, the City Paper and its
band of merry pranksters were prepared,
hawking 10,000 copies of its own Expresso
at subway stops across the nation's capital.
The
City Paper parodists, led by Webmeister Dave
Nuttycombe, "anticipated the journalistic
emptiness of Express," according to Slate's Jack
Shafer, who says the Post's new lite version "ladles
the news out
with an eyedropper into tiny text boxes and then
flattens it with a steamroller." Also revealed: The
editor of Express is none other than Dan
Caccavaro, former editor of AAN-member
Valley Advocate.
Slate |
08-05-2003 10:09 am |
Industry News
Music Industry Steps Up War On Illegal Downloadsnew
Thanks
to a section of 1998's Digital Millennium
Copyright
Act that allows a court clerk to rubber stamp a
subpoena, the Recording
Industry Association of America is
sending out hundreds of subpoenas to ISPs
across America, who are forced to turn over the
names of downloaders. Creative Loafing's
Steve Fennessy talks to college students,
industry watchers and music pirates about the
recording industry's efforts to save itself by
suing its customers.
Huge Birthday Bash to Celebrate Colorado Springs Independent Turning 10!
08-05-2003 6:43 pm |
Press Releases
Living with AIDS in New Orleansnew
In 2002, one-third of New Orleanians newly
diagnosed with HIV were female, most of them
African-American women. That number has been
rising rapidly. Almost no one is talking about it.
Gambit Weekly's Katy Reckdahl talks to
two women who are willing to be open about their
diagnosis. One has a red AIDS ribbon
tattooed on her back. The other has
outlived all the pallbearers she selected
when
she first got the news she was infected and
thought she would die within months.
Jackson Free Press Introduces New Politics "Blog"
Jackson Free Press |
08-04-2003 2:58 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Jackson Free Press
Ex-Voice Writer Admits She Fudged Factsnew
Vivian Gornick told a "stunned"
audience at
a creative nonfiction seminar that she used
"composite" characters for some of her
pieces that ran in the Village Voice, reports Terry
Greene Sterling. Gornick, who wrote for the Voice
from 1969 to 1977, also admitted making
up scenes and conversations in "Fierce Attachments,"
a memoir chronicling her relationship with her
mother. Voice Editor Don Forst says
Gornick "wouldn't do that under my editorship.
If she did it once that would be the end of it."
Salon |
08-01-2003 11:08 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
