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What's She Doing in the Men's Jail?new
Marched around half-naked. Raped. Kept in isolation. The life of a transgender prisoner in the Sacramento County Jail is basically hell, Sacramento News & Review's Cosmo Garvin writes.
Russ Smith's College Daysnew
Johns Hopkins Magazine says Smith led a university newspaper staff "fueled by coffee,
beer, and drugs." Several former fellow underclassmen express shock that the devotee of Hunter Thompson has morphed into an acerbic conservative columnist. The alumni magazine calls the The New York Press, which Smith founded in 1988, "a gadfly: loud, vulgar, self-indulgent, disrespectful, and bracing." Smith's "Mugger" column "can veer from political
diatribe to vitriolic media critique to accounts of Smith's domestic
life, all in one week," Dale Keiger writes. Smith recently sold the paper and has plans to move from New York City to Baltimore.
Johns Hopkins Magazine |
02-14-2003 8:39 am |
Industry News
Tags: New York Press, Russ Smith
SheBron's the Truthnew
Twelve-year-old Sheila Bronson can dunk like Kobe Bryant, board like Tim Duncan, shoot like Ray Allen, and handle the rock like Jason Kidd. She thinks Lisa Leslie is a chump, is set to get her driver's license next year, and vows to skip high school for the riches of the WNBA to avenge the criticism leveled against her oft-beleaguered uncle, ex-NBA center Alton Lister (aka "Alton Listless"). If you thought LeBron James was enough, he wasn't, Riverfront Times' Mike Seely tells us.
Investigative Techniques Should Not Break the law
Neville Johnson |
02-14-2003 2:12 pm |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial
Board Addresses Membership, Budget Issues
02-14-2003 10:30 am |
Industry News
LA Weekly Columnist Bites VVMnew
There is a "philosophical disconnect" between LA Weekly's corporate owner, Village Voice Media, and its own avowedly liberal publications, Erin Aubry Kaplan writes. "There are other things writers cannot say about the places they work that I am going to say here, too, because the Weekly is still a place where you can say them." She writes that the company has "been sharpening its nose into that of a corporate shark," with its controversial deal with New Times to close papers in competing markets and its opposition to unionization attempts in L.A. "I wish VVM had
taken the ironies of its position more seriously," she concludes.
LA Weekly |
02-13-2003 10:22 am |
Industry News
Peace Marchers Prepare to Defy Bloombergnew
Despite the Bloomberg administration's unprecedented refusal to allow war protesters to march in New York City, peace activists insist that hundreds of thousands of people will assemble within sight of the United Nations on Saturday, urging the Security Council to pursue further weapons inspections in Iraq, not war. The U.N. protest is only one of hundreds around the world set for this weekend, which organizers estimate will drawn more than a million people in "a global uprising against President Bush's push for war." In a Village Voice exclusive, Sarah Ferguson looks at New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's "Orwellian logic" in labeling the protests a security risk.
Judgment Day on MLK Daynew
A battle is brewing in Greenville, S.C., over creating a county holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. In one corner, those opposed to granting "another government holiday to celebrate civil
rights," in the words of one City Council member. In the other, Greenville native Jesse Jackson, who held one of his signature peaceful protests after a recent council meeting to urge city leaders to join the rest of the United States in honoring the slain civil rights leader. Will the hometown boy make good, or merely drive the community farther apart? MetroBEAT looks at the controversy from both sides in two articles: "Judgment Day" by James Shannon and "Who's the Boss" by Chris Haire.
AAN West Attendance Triples
AAN Staff |
02-12-2003 4:40 pm |
Association News
Political Columnist Jill Stewart Targeting Sacramento for Southland Pubs
Southland Publishing news release |
02-12-2003 3:13 pm |
Press Releases
The Heroic Media Attorney: An Endangered Species
Award-winning investigative reporter Willy Stern drops his usual expletive-laced style in favor of a cap and gown in this 8,500-word essay on the role of lawyers in investigative journalism. Stern concludes that corporate ownership of the media has resulted in timid editors, tepid reporting and lawyers who play it safe at all cost. "In the eyes of many investigative reporters, these changes have weakened the historic, watchdog role of the press in American society, and present a new and substantive threat to the press freedoms embedded in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution," Stern writes in an essay originally intended for inclusion in an academic collection.
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Willy Stern |
02-11-2003 3:25 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Willy Stern
