AAN News
Riordan Delays Launch of LA Examinernew
Former LA Mayor Richard Riordan is looking for additional investors and has pushed the launch of his new weekly from June to September, the LA Times reports. Riordan now plans to put up only $1 million of his own money for the publication, leading some to question his commitment to the project, the Times reports. (Registration required)
LA Times |
05-05-2003 10:51 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management
Guns N' Mosesnew
On April 26, 50,000-plus members of the National
Rifle Association descended on Orlando for their
annual meeting. They came to wave the flag,
salute Charlton Heston, pat themselves on the
back for getting George W. Bush elected, and
check out tons of guns. Orlando Weekly Editor
Bob Whitby spent three days embedded with the
NRA and lived to tell the tale. A message from a woman speaker to the ladies: "I say if you are strong enough to carry a man's
groceries and strong enough to carry a man's baby, you are strong enough to carry a man's
gun."
AAN CAN Revenue Up
AAN Staff |
05-05-2003 2:36 pm |
Industry News
Finalists Announced in Alternative Newsweekly Awards
Washington City Paper leads the
field with six nominations in the eighth
annual awards contest,
followed by the Dallas Observer
with five. Among individual contestants,
Thomas Francis of Cleveland
Scene and Heather Swaim of OC
Weekly are nominated twice. The order of
finish in
the contest will be announced June 6 at
the AAN Convention.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
05-02-2003 2:28 pm |
Industry News
AAN's War: Home Front Coverage
AAN papers pushed against ambivalence about both the Iraq war and how to cover it in recent months, producing the localized, alternative voice on the war that is the industry's hallmark. Yet, many editors tell AAN News' John Dicker that even making the obligatory anti-war protest pieces interesting was a battle. "The challenge for our papers is what a long bridge we have to build to write with any intelligence about Islamic communities, Iraqi refugees and the like without sounding like really distant observers," Willamette Week Editor Mark Zusman says.
(FULL STORY)
John Dicker |
05-02-2003 9:11 am |
Industry News
Starbucks Moves Toward Monopolynew
The specialty coffee giant, which
expects a record $4 billion in sales this
year, has Seattle's Best Coffee and
Torrefazione Italia in the fold now and
sees no end to its growth. Rick
Anderson looks at the java giant's
stranglehold on the world market for latte
in a cardboard cup. Starbuck's goal:
25,000 shops by 2013. "At this rate,
Starbucks likely will challenge ubiquitous
McDonald's (currently 28,000 restaurants
in 118 countries) for Most Annoying
Expansion," he writes.
Executive Editor Leaves Flagpolenew
Brad Aaron has resigned his
position at Flagpole Magazine in Athens,
Ga., due to "issues
with some of our management practices
and decisions," Editor and Publisher
Pete McCommons writes in the
April 23 edition (second item).
Aaron's popular column,
"City Dope," is "in abeyance," but
"may reappear at some future time when
government has run amuck and the bat
signal beams to the sky," McCommons
says.
Flagpole Magazine |
05-01-2003 5:18 pm |
Industry News
Local Planet Editor Runs for Mayor of Spokanenew
Tom Grant, editor of the Local Planet Weekly, announces that he's leaving his job and running for mayor of Spokane, Wash. Grant has been a journalist for 23 years, primarily as an investigative television reporter. His reporting helped free more than a dozen innocent people from jail in the mid-1990s, and he recently helped uncover a secret deal in Spokane by which millions in taxpayer dollars were being diverted to the richest family in town. He has been with The Local Planet for two years.
Local Planet Weekly |
05-01-2003 12:41 pm |
Industry News
Willamette Week Writer Wins Knight-Wallace Fellowshipnew
Assistant News Editor Chris Lydgate has
been chosen by the University of Michigan's Knight-Wallace Fellows program
to be one of 12 journalists who will take a nine-month sabbatical to
study in a field of their choice. Lydgate's specialty is emerging diseases and syndromes.
Knight-Wallace Fellowship news release |
05-01-2003 10:56 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Willamette Week
In This Corner: A Wrestling Upstartnew
Nashville-based NWA/TNA, an upstart wrestling organization, is taking on the giant of the pro wrestling world, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Robert L. Doerschuk looks at this mythic business struggle that's playing out with all the spectacle of the wrestling ring -- complete with "faces" -- the good guys -- and "heels" -- the bad 'uns. "Growing numbers of viewers are burning out on WWE's weekly programming, in which [the] stars are run through skits involving necrophilia, murder, racism, blasphemy and other ponderously provocative angles," he writes. "This weariness, measured by WWE's plummeting ratings, may give NWA/TNA its best chance to bring the giant down."
Columbus Weekly Paper up for Awards
Alive news release |
05-01-2003 10:45 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, Columbus Alive
Creative Loafing Accuses Board Members of Bad Faithnew
Jay Smith and Buddy
Solomon, Cox Newspaper
executives who sit on the Creative Loafing
board as a result of Cox's 25 percent
ownership in the alt-weekly chain, were
apparently taking notes during the board
meetings. The proof? The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, Cox's flagship
daily, last week rolled out
accessAtlanta, a free-circulation weekly
aimed directly at CL's young readers.
John Sugg dubs the new paper
Creative Loafing's Mini-Me and
says CL has taken steps to freeze out
Cox's Trojan Horse board members.
"This action has exposed [Smith and
Solomon] to charges of conflict of interest
and the appearance of bad faith and
ethics," says CL President and CEO
Ben Eason. "We intend to
wage this war with everything we
have."
Creative Loafing Atlanta |
04-30-2003 11:01 am |
Industry News
