AAN News
AAN Convention Photo Gallerynew
AAN |
06-19-2003 9:59 am |
Association News
Daily Editor Attempts to Silence San Diego CityBeatnew
Bob Kittle, editorial page editor of
the San Diego Union-Tribune, claims he
had never seen the 10-month-old AAN
paper when he learned CityBeat Editor
David Rolland would be appearing on a
local NPR "Editor's Roundtable"
alongside him. Directed to
CityBeat’s Web site, Kittle was shocked to
find profanity -- so shocked, in
fact, that he tried unsuccessfully to get
Rolland kicked off the radio program, on
which Kittle is a regular pundit.
"CityBeat is not journalism. It’s
trash," Kittle wrote in a letter to radio
station KPBS. In this week’s CityBeat,
Rolland responds that Kittle’s real intent
was to "limit the range of debate" in San
Diego,
which he says, "has been too narrow ...
for too long."
San Diego CityBeat |
06-18-2003 2:39 pm |
Industry News
Globalization Protests Redux in Sacramentonew
Sacramento rolls out the red carpet for a "global food security" summit, as protesters from around the country are laying plans of their own. Ron Curran looks at the first-ever international Ministerial Conference and Expo on Agricultural Science and Technology, which is expected to back global trade in irradiated and genetically modified food. It's also the first World Trade Organization-related meeting in North America since 1999’s confrontational Seattle Ministerial Conference, where police used tear gas and rubber bullets on protesters, and ultimately a curfew shut down the city.
Seattle Weekly Names Michaelangelo Matos Music Editor
06-18-2003 1:30 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Seattle Weekly
Comment from the High Plains Reader
06-18-2003 11:41 am |
Letters to the Editor
AAN Papers Take Four Firsts in Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awardsnew
Dallas Observer won two first place awards in the 2003 Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards, and The Village Voice and Phoenix New Times each took one. East Bay Express won second place in the General Excellence category for papers with circulations 50,001 to 100,000, and New Times papers were finalists in nine other categories.
Missouri School of Journalism |
06-17-2003 2:04 pm |
Industry News
Confessions of a Retail Whorenew
"It’s the stank of corporate America; everything within those walls designed and engineered for greatest selling power. Even me." The Local Planet Weekly's new staff writer, Melissa Amos, bids a more-bitter-than-sweet farewell to the department store jobs that sustained her through college. After five years, she knows that even the fine crystal has a smell all its own.
Commercializing Karmanew
Yoga, once defined by asceticism, has become big, cushy business in America. Can it survive what some fear is the selling of its soul? Metro Silicon Valley's Russell Wild estimates yoga in America is a $27 billion a year industry, somewhere between the size of Dow Chemical and Microsoft. "What's next for the yoga biz, now that we've already seen the marketing of yogatards, yoga shoes, yogi pillows (stuffed with buckwheat hulls), the $1,200 'tantric bedroom set' (for adults only) and a battery-operated, inflatable 'Chi machine'?"
The Village Voice Names Martin Jorgensen Vice President and General Manager
Village Voice news release |
06-16-2003 5:44 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Management, The Village Voice
LA CityBEAT, ValleyBEAT Debutnew
"You need this," claims the debut editorial
as Southland Publishing
launches two new alternative papers in
the Los Angeles area after buying the
assets of New Times L.A. "In recent years
local readers have experienced their own
pain when two local weeklies -- the Los
Angeles Reader and the New Times L.A.
-- were prematurely shuttered for
no reason other than financial
expediency," the editorial states. "They
mattered, and then they were gone." For
their part, the mantra of LA CityBEAT and
ValleyBEAT is "to explore, to challenge,
and to celebrate the substance and
irreverence of our vast city."
LA City Beat |
06-13-2003 12:44 pm |
Industry News
