AAN News
Impact Weekly to Change Name, Editorial Focusnew
The city of Dayton, Ohio has a new paper
this week: AAN member Impact Weekly
changed its name to Dayton City
Paper and has "abandon(ed) the
bully pulpit," Publisher Kerry
Farley tells the Dayton Daily News.
According to Farley, Dayton wasn't
receptive to the traditional format of an
alternative weekly, so in a bid to reach
new readers he plans to change the
left-leaning paper into a forum for
local opinion that spans the ideological
spectrum.
Dayton Daily News |
03-28-2003 12:30 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Dayton City Paper
America Goes to War to Restore Its Manhoodnew
The post-Vietnam myths of the spitting woman and the heroic POW are part of a strange psychology empowering America's "Support Our Troops" rallies. These myths of emasculated males regaining their manhood, which were even told by defeated German soldiers after World War I, reflect the nation's lost potency. Local Planet Weekly Editor Tom Grant examines how this need to revive America's challenged manhood has become a Freudian underpinning of pro-war politics.
Cleveland Free Times to Publish Againnew
A group of investors, including former Cleveland Free
Times Publisher Matt Fabyan, Editor in Chief David Eden and former Village Voice Media President Art Howe, has purchased the assets of Cleveland Free Times
from VVM and plans to resume publishing in early
May. Most of the former staff has been offered jobs and many plan to return, Fabyan says in a news release. Free Times was shuttered as part of a deal between VVM and New Times that closed papers in Los Angeles and Cleveland, ending head-to-head competition between the two chains.
Cleveland Free Times news release |
03-27-2003 3:36 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Cleveland Free Times
Anti-War Protesters Shut Down SFnew
San Francisco Bay Guardian reporters hit the streets to cover war protests that clogged the city center and ground traffic to a halt. "As I looked around, I realized that the most ambitious, best-organized -- and yet most wonderfully anarchic and free-flowing -- demonstrations I'd ever seen had done exactly what organizers set out to do," one reporter writes. "The core of the city was shut down. It was No Business As Usual in San Francisco."
Cleveland Free Times to Resume Publishing in May
Cleveland Free Times news release |
03-27-2003 10:36 am |
Press Releases
AAN Papers Dominate Green Eyeshade Awardsnew
Six AAN member papers in the Southeast
picked up 61 percent of the awards in
SPJ's Green Eyeshade Awards' print
(weekly/monthly) division. SPJ has
announced the finalists for the awards,
and the order of finish will be announced
at the Green Eyeshade Banquet April 5.
Creative Loafing Atlanta and New Times
Broward-Palm Beach picked up six each,
while Miami New Times snagged four.
Memphis Flyer has two nominations, and
Mountain Xpress and Creative Loafing
Charlotte came in with one each.
SPJ news release |
03-26-2003 12:41 pm |
Industry News
Hollywood Protests War with Pins, Peace Signsnew
How did the Oscars fare in this time of Shock and Awe? J.
Hoberman traces leftist Hollywood history, and decodes this year’s protest squiggle. He concludes that Michael Moore's speech, although booed, was not the evening's moment to remember. "There was no John Wayne on hand to shoot down
the obstreperous Moore," he writes. Nor was it Adrien Brody's Al Gore-like smooch on Halle Barry. Instead the youngest Best Actor's heartfelt anti-war speech put the grace note on the 75th Oscars.
Benjamin Joins Gambit Weeklynew
Eric
Benjamin, a 20-year alternative newsweekly veteran, becomes associate publisher of Gambit Weekly. The Boston native played a
significant role in the growth of the alternative newsweekly industry as board president
and founding board member of Alternative Weekly
Network, which represents more than 120 alternative newsweeklies
nationwide. He comes to Gambit directly from New Mass Media, where he was national sales director.
Gambit Weekly |
03-25-2003 11:49 am |
Industry News
Homeland Insecurity - The Board Gamenew
Grab your die — watch your rights die! This week's Detroit Metro Times features "Homeland Insecurity: The Board Game" by Curt Guyette. Inspired by
reports of Patriot Act II legislation that
was secretly being forged by the Justice
Department, the game takes a playful look at
the Bush Administration's assault on civil
liberties and the Constitution. A
source page documents the administration's attack on our Constitutional
rights. (Requires Flash)
Bad Bishop Gets Place in the Sunnew
In today's Catholic
Church, you can
stick a diocese with
$16 million in debt
and sexually exploit
one of your
employees -- and still
manage to get a gig soaking up sun in Arizona. As
SF Weekly staff writer Ron Russell reports, G.
Patrick Ziemann, the former bishop of Santa Rosa,
Calif., once forced a young priest to wear a
beeper so he could summon him for oral sex. Now,
thanks to friends in high places within the church,
Ziemann's a regular on the Tucson party
circuit -- and isn't ruling out one day heading another
diocese
