AAN News
SE AAN Conference Brings on Editorial This Year
Ann Hinch |
03-24-2003 3:32 pm |
Association News
AAN CAN Spring "Ka-Ching" Sales Special
AAN Staff |
03-24-2003 2:52 pm |
Industry News
Alternatives Not Diverse, Says Cleveland's New Urban Monthlynew
A "disturbing trend of alt-weeklies' [is their]
inaccessibility in inner
cities -- particularly in black inner city areas," Former Cleveland Free Times writer Daniel Gray-Kontar, now editor of Urban Dialect, writes in an e-mail to AAN News. "It's been
a point of
contention for myself and other black writers for many moons as
we question
exactly who we are really writing for." This week Urban Dialect publishes an essay by contributor
Mark Reynolds about the distribution pattern of alt-weeklies as well as "the phenomenon of being an alternative weekly 'Designated Black Writer.'"
Urban Dialect |
03-21-2003 11:43 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Management
Pro Ball, Pro-Lifenew
Rare indeed is the pro jock whose activism extends beyond the United Way -- rarer still that professional athletes venture into politically charged territory. Well, so much for the status quo. Last month at Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix, Diamondbacks owner Jerry Colangelo hosted a press conference to kick off Battin' 1000, a campaign that aims to raise at least $1 million to construct a pro-life education center for the American Life League near the anti-abortion organization's Stafford, Va., headquarters. Battin' 1000's chairman, former Oakland A's third baseman Sal Bando, says the cause has been endorsed by 90 current and former players, managers and owners, Mike Seely writes in Riverfront Times.
Robbins' Story Wins IRE Recognitionnew
The IRE has awarded a certificate to
Tom Robbins of The Village
Voice for "Lush Life of Rudy Appointee,"
which proved the virtual, nonstop
spending spree of tax dollars by an
aide of former New York Mayor Giuliani on
items for himself and his friends. The
Voice's request for documents and
subsequent reporting led to a
17-count indictment this week
against Russell Harding, former
president of the New York Housing
Development Corporation.
Investigative Reporters and Editors news release |
03-20-2003 10:00 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Village Voice
Setting This War to Musicnew
As American bombs fall on Iraq, songwriters across the county feel compelled to put their thoughts to music. Whether they be kick-ass country anthems or anti-war folk songs, they follow in a long tradition of American songs about war, from the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to the "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag." Local Planet Weekly writer Jeremy Hadley asks songwriters around the country about the deep emotions driving them to lay a bed of music beneath our debate about the war.
Air Force Cadet Airs Deep Problems at Academynew
As the nation's armed forces prepare for
war in Iraq, an internal battle rages at the
Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.
Westword staff writer Julie
Jargon reveals in a series of articles
that a growing number of female
cadets say they have been sexually
assaulted by their male counterparts
at the Academy. Air Force cadets
theoretically are subject to the strictest
discipline and the highest moral
standards. But as Jargon reveals, the Air
Force's response typically has been to
pay more attention to its own
interests than to the rights of the
victims. As more and more women
come forward -- with the support of at
least two Colorado Congressmen -- it's
becoming evident that, whatever messy
jobs it may be asked to do in the Middle
East, the Air Force already has plenty of
work to do at home.
