AAN News
Applicants Brace for Admissions Committee's Report
The AAN Admissions Committee's often barbed recommendation report to the members will be released during the June 5-8 AAN Convention, giving thumbs up or down to the 12 papers applying for admission this year. Last year's report, which included such memorable digs as "this paper should be taken out back and shot," is still causing a stir a year later. Several members tell AAN News they plan to temper their written remarks this year.
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Marty Levine |
05-08-2003 2:24 pm |
Industry News
A VFW/American Legion Bar Crawlnew
Hold on to your liver! Riverfront Times salutes the coolest watering holes you've never heard of. Randall Roberts and Mike Seely pull the hard duty of checking out the VFW and American Legion bars of St. Louis, where no one recalls how it became law that "no beer shall cost more than a buck and a quarter or that a majority of bartenders be named Rita." Seely tells AAN News, "This is the real cheese when it comes to getting to the nit-grit of the current military state."
Baltimore City Paper Razzes the Sunnew
A few weeks ago the Baltimore Sun launched "LiVE!" its version of the ubiquitous daily paper sop to "young readers." Baltimore City Paper wasted no time in starting its own new weekly "Advice Column for Journalists Looking to Get in on the Lucrative Alt-Weekly Market." Here's a sample: "After more than two years with virtually no homegrown pop-music coverage ... three LiVE! covers in a row devoted to the hot musical acts of today. Ga-zinga! You surely are giving us a run for our money, pop-music-wise, which, of course, as everyone knows, is a big reason people pick up a publication like ours. And that's the idea, right? A publication like ours? Except folks gotta pay for yours."
Baltimore City Paper |
05-07-2003 3:07 pm |
Industry News
Brilliant Debater Clashes with State Education Bureaucratsnew
Marcus Leach is a poor kid from one of Kansas City's worst neighborhoods, but his gangsta debate brilliance has universities across the country clamoring for him. Unfortunately, Leach's achievement is lost on state education activities bureaucrats, offended that his coach would try to break their rules to take her team to the most prestigious debate event in the country. Staff writer Joe Miller tells how Central High school's debate squad is losing its "War of Words." (First in a series)
Two AAN Writers Win Education Writers Association Awardsnew
Nigel Jaquiss of Willamette Week and Pete Kotz of the Cleveland Scene win special citations in the 2002 National Awards for Education Reporting. Kotz' citation was for opinion writing in the 100,000 and above division for "Welcome to Cheaptown." Jaquiss was recognized for feature writing in the under 100,000 division for his story “Anywhere, U.S.A.: Portland is in Danger of Losing the One Thing That Makes It Unique." He won a first place in this contest last year in investigative reporting.
Education Writers Association news release |
05-07-2003 9:54 am |
Industry News
Dixie Chicks and Those That Hate Themnew
It's a tale of two cities, tale of two concerts, as one reporter covers the Dixie Chicks' first stateside concert since singer Natalie Maines, well, you know, while the other heads one county over to cover rightwing radio host Mike Gallagher's anti-Dixie Chicks show. "From the saber-rattling, baby-with-a-rattler antics of talk show host Mike Gallagher and his fellow Goebbeldygook-spouting rightwing radio rip-and-readers to the bait-and-tackle interrogations of Diane Sawyer, discussing and dismissing the Dixie Chicks has become an industry unto itself."
New Weekly Launches in Omaha
Publisher Al Johnson, a media
sales veteran, launches Omaha
Pulp this week, with the help of three
former staffers from Omaha Reader --
editors Timothy Schaffert and
Leslie Prisbell and Production
Manager Justin Wolta. Johnson
says he hopes to be profitable by August.
John Heaston, publisher of the
Omaha Weekly Reader, says he
welcomes competition that will keep
Omaha's media scene lively.
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AAN Staff |
05-06-2003 1:35 pm |
Industry News
The Village Voice 3rd Annual SIREN MUSIC FESTIVAL at Coney Island on Saturday, July 19, 2003
Modest Mouse, Hot Hot Heat, Sahara Hotnights, !!!, The Kills, Radio 4, Ted Leo/Pharmacists, Northern State, The Pattern and more scheduled to perform
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05-06-2003 4:36 pm |
Press Releases
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NUVO Brings Home the Gold
NUVO news release |
05-06-2003 11:17 am |
Press Releases
