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The Incident at Pershing Parknew
Hundreds of people wandered into D.C.'s Pershing Park on the morning of Sept.
27 — activists looking for a protest, nurses in town for a conference, lawyers
headed to work, and a cyclist training for a race. And there was District of Columbia Police Chief
Charles Ramsey with his troops, ready to arrest them all. Washington City Paper's Jason Cherkis looks at the mass arrests during a peaceful protest and their aftermath. "As video footage and first-person accounts show, the park events
constitute one of the most serious collective violations of civil rights in
this city since the Vietnam War era," he writes.
Former LA Mayor May Launch Weeklynew
Richard Riordan is preparing a
prototype of a new weekly
newspaper, The Los Angeles
Examiner.
The prototype, a 50-page tabloid, should
be complete
next week and "will be shopped
around to prospective advertisers and
investors," the Los Angeles Business
Journal reports. Ken Layne, a
member of the Examiner’s editorial staff
and co-founder of
the LAExaminer.com Web site, says the
weekly would be a politically oriented,
L.A.-centric paper aimed at affluent
readers featuring commentary from
well-known political writers and
Hollywood insiders, but no sex ads.
Former New Times Los Angeles writer
Jill Stewart is a contributor to the
prototype.
Los Angeles Business Journal |
01-21-2003 11:18 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management
CU Cityview Seeking a Buyernew
Champaign, Ill.'s, alternative newsweekly, formerly called The Octopus, ceased publication earlier this month. Saga Communications, which bought the financially strapped paper from Yesse! Cmmunications in 2001, was never able to make it self-sustaining, The News-Gazette reports. Publisher Kristine Foate says she and General Manager Kathy Schuren will continue to work for Saga in its Illini Radio
Group. The other five full-time staffers will lose their jobs unless a new buyer takes them on.
The News-Gazette |
01-21-2003 10:25 am |
Industry News
Hitchens on the U.S. Role in the Worldnew
Saddam's crimes, al Qaeda massacres, Kurdish freedom, oil worth
fighting for... and a few other things "potluck peaceniks"
might want to think about when they gather to protest the imminent war with Iraq, courtesy of columnist Christopher Hitchens. "The government and people of these United States are
now at war with the forces of reaction," Hitchens writes in The Stranger. Even when faced with the the genocidal record of Saddam Hussein's regime, "nothing
seems to disturb the contented air of moral superiority that
surrounds those who intone the 'peace movement.,'" he says.
Newcity Revives Campus Newspapernew
University of Chicago alumni Brian
and Jan Hieggelke have agreed to
print and distribute a
campus paper, the Chicago Weekly
News, with copies of Newcity included as
an arts and culture
supplement, Crain's Chicago Business
reports. The arrangement boosts
Newcity's circulation to 55,000,
Co-Publisher Brian Hieggelke tells
Crain's.
Crain's Chicago Business (registration required) |
01-21-2003 9:59 am |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation, Management
Former Cleveland Free Times Staffers Launch Monthlynew
Columnist Daniel Gray-Kontar and cohorts are aiming Urban Dialects, a new monthly magazine, at young city and inner-ring suburban dwellers. "There is always a new paper popping up. You don't get too excited about one or the other," Pete Kotz, editor of New Times' Cleveland Scene, tells The Plain Dealer. Village Voice Media closed Cleveland Free Times in October under an agreement with New Times to close its competing paper in Los Angeles.
The Plain Dealer |
01-17-2003 1:07 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management
Mugger Returning to Baltimorenew
Russ Smith tells Baltimore City Paper, which he co-founded in 1988, that he plans to return to the city and write full-time. Smith recently sold New York Press and tells City Paper he's tired of the "high-octane" Big Apple, where his TriBeCa apartment was uninhabitable for weeks after Sept. 11. "I'd like my boys
to have a real backyard and house, Melissa [his wife] to have a
garden, all that stuff. Also, I'm 47 now, and it's not like I go out to
clubs at midnight anymore," Smith says.
Baltimore City Paper |
01-17-2003 9:19 am |
Industry News
Tags: Russ Smith
Divers Alert Executives Helping Themselvesnew
Divers Alert Network is a Durham, N.C.-based
nonprofit that's internationally respected for
its mission of "divers helping divers." But a
four-month investigation by The Independent's Jennifer Strom
found that behind the $14 million-a-year
enterprise, directors were accusing their
longtime CEO and corporate counsel of also
helping themselves.
Media Stars Remember Their Early Days
Gail Collins, editorial page editor of The New York Times; best-selling author and New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean; NPR commentator Sarah Vowell; satirist Neal Pollack; and Alan Webber, co-founder of Fast Company, all share one thing -- stints at alternative newsweeklies early in their careers. These former alt-weekly staffers talk with AAN News about success in the big leagues and reflect on their roots and the state of the alt-weekly industry. And for good measure, musician-turned-alt-weekly-art-director Victor Krummenacher also shares his experiences with fame and the alternative newsweeklies that covered him.
(FULL STORY)
Sharon Bass |
01-16-2003 3:43 pm |
Industry News
Weekly Planet Fires Threenew
Weekly Planet (Tampa) has laid off three editorial staffers -- News Editor Francis X. Gilpin and staff writers Trevor
Aaronson and Rochelle Renford -- citing flat revenue and a desire to shift focus from political to cultural coverage, the St. Petersburgh Times reports. Neil Skene, senior vice president, group publisher, of the Planet's parent company, Creative Loafing, says the weekly will now use freelance writers for political coverage.
St. Petersburg Times |
01-16-2003 1:35 pm |
Industry News
Are Noose Ties Appropriate Attire in Death Penalty Cases?new
This is not just a sartorial question in Jefferson Parish, La., where two prosecutors have been wearing their hand-painted neckties showing a hangman's noose and a grim reaper during capital punishment trials. After helping The New York Times break the story of the dubious prosecutorial neckwear, Katy Reckdahl goes deep into issues of lingering racism and the scars of history in Louisiana.
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AAN Staff |
01-16-2003 4:47 pm |
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