AAN News
New Voices in Cleveland, L.A.
Urban Dialect in Cleveland and Los Angeles Alternative Press in California are filling the holes left by the closure of New Times Los Angeles and Cleveland Free Times. The two young publishers – Daniel Gray-Kontar in Cleveland and Martin Albornoz in L.A. – see a place for a new generation's "alternative" alternative weeklies.
(FULL STORY)
Ann Hinch |
02-04-2003 1:00 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management
Grief along the Columbia Debris Trailnew
As the nation
weathers another
space-shuttle
tragedy, Dallas Observer columnist Jim
Schutze
traveled the debris
trail this weekend,
tracing not only the doomed spacecraft's final
trajectory, but the many "Last Rites" offered by the
people of east Texas. "There's chunks of it on my dad's ranch," an excited man announces in a diner. Schutze follows them and others to look at debris from outer space, a chase first exciting and then grim when body parts are found along the Louisiana border.
In Search of the Kinsey Institutenew
Despite its undisputed status as one of the world’s
preeminent centers for sex research, the Kinsey
Institute is not an easy place to find. NUVO's Summer Wood became lost
on Indiana University’s sprawling Bloomington
campus on her way to visit the institute,
and few of the students admitted to knowing of the institute’s existence, let
alone its location. Several young men mumbled
red-faced excuses of “I don’t know anything about
that place” before a biology student proved willing
to drop her off outside the institute’s unsigned
entrance. The student did say, however, that she didn’t really agree with “the kind of work
that goes on there.”
AAN Exec: Alt-Weeklies Rarely Speak With One Voicenew
"It's absurd to ascribe a monolithic set of attitudes and beliefs to all 116 papers that are members of our group," AAN Executive Director Richard Karpel writes in the letters section of Jim Romenesko's Web site. To make his point, Karpel contrasts the Chicago Reader's "cerebral, mostly apolitical" journalism with the "unabashedly
liberal" sledgehammer approach of the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
Media News Letters |
01-31-2003 5:07 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Riordan's Weekly Prototype Aims at Affluentnew
Still on the alternative weekly beat, Tim Rutten of the Los Angeles Times critiques former mayor Richard Riordan's new weekly prototype and finds the LA Examiner aimed at the people who elected him -- affluent, educated and mostly white. Rutten, who reported on the antitrust investigation of Village Voice Media and New Times, takes a last slap at the two chains for "a sad and venal chapter in an otherwise vigorous -- often courageous --
history" of the alternative press in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Times |
01-31-2003 1:59 pm |
Industry News
State Plays Both Sides in Psychiatric Rape Casenew
The case involves
the alleged rape of
one mental patient
by another mental
patient on a
Phoenix-area psych
ward, but it's taken
the government
to really
make things crazy.
Phoenix New Times staff writer Paul Rubin
reports that Maricopa County prosecutors are
charging a man with the rape - - while private
attorneys hired to defend the county in a civil case
are arguing that, in fact, the rape never happened.
And taxpayers are paying for both sides. All quite
schizophrenic.
Finkel Heading to St. Louisnew
Tom Finkel, editor of City Pages (Twin Cities) until mid-2002, returns to his hometown of St. Louis and to New Times as the new editor of Riverfront Times. He replaces Jim Nesbitt. Before taking the position to Minneapolis, Finkel was managing editor of Miami New Times. "I'm thrilled to be able to move back to my hometown and be a part of the Riverfront
Times," Finkel says. He starts March 3.
New Times news release |
01-30-2003 5:45 pm |
Industry News
LA Weekly Blasts LA Times' Antitrust Coveragenew
John Powers calls Tim Rutten's coverage of the federal antitrust investigation of Village Voice Media and New Times a host of bad words, including "maladroit," "inflammatory," and "bumbling." He is delighted that Rutten was scooped on what he had considered his own story by David Carr of The New York Times. Then, in the unkindest cut of all, Powers concludes, "I actually found myself feeling sorry for the poor bastard."
LA Weekly |
01-30-2003 9:32 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management
Vlade Divac's Three-Finger Salutenew
The Sacramento Kings’ popular center is using the same sign language Serbs used to terrorize Muslims. And the NBA star is OK with that, even if some basketball fans aren't. To many its meaning is obvious: three points. But not to all. "Muslims and Croats in America and Europe, will read it as a symbol of hate, intimidation and terrorism - -as
recognizable and despicable to them as the strong-arm salute of the Nazis," Cosmo Garvin writes in the Sacramento News & Review.
Tom Finkel Hired as Editor of Riverfront Times
New Times news release |
01-30-2003 11:20 am |
Press Releases
New Weekly Launching in Albanynew
Two entrepreneurs are printing the first issue of The City Voice today, a weekly aimed at the city of Albany, N.Y., although they plan to distribute it in surrounding towns and even send 500 copies to Manhattan. "Whether there's room for this particular paper
depends on what they do and how well they do it," says Stephen Leon, editor and publisher of AAN-member Metroland.
The Business Review |
01-29-2003 12:37 pm |
Industry News
The Annual American Imperialist Wallownew
More than a thousand top U.S. military and government leaders and their guests are scheduled to
gather this weekend in Washington, D.C., for a secretive tribal rite called the 103rd Annual Wallow of the Military Order of the Carabao, Ian Urbina writes in The Village Voice. The Wallow commemorates one of America's imperialistic triumphs -- "the bloody conquest of the nascent Philippine Republic a century ago in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War." Celebrating an ethos that concludes "peace is hell," the Carabaos may be looking forward this year to a new burst of American empire-building.
NT-VVM Investigation: Does It Strike You as Fishy?new
That's what The Village Voice's Cynthia Cotts asks when she looks at the consent decree signed by Village Voice Media and New Times that settled an antitrust investigation of their agreement to close competing papers in Los Angeles and Cleveland. She suggests the settlement, which requires the companies to resell assets to groups attempting to start new weeklies, "might represent a violation of the First Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, and/or the prohibition on selective prosecution."
Village Voice |
01-29-2003 9:24 am |
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