AAN News
Savage Buys Ann Landers' Typewriter, Desknew
Dan Savage, editor of The
Stranger and author of the syndicated sex
advice column "Savage Love," paid
$200 for advice icon Ann Landers'
typewriter and $175 for her desk. "I
want that desk and that typewriter,"
Savage told a Northwest Herald reporter
at an auction of the late Eppie Lederer's
belongings. "That's what I came
for."
Northwest Herald |
11-26-2002 10:05 am |
Industry News
Student Filmmakers Make Documentary of Their Sony Studios Pranknew
University of Texas film student Rhys
Southan and a prankster partner decided
to break into Sony Studios, steal the
worst script they could find, rewrite it,
and then put it back. The 17-minute
documentary they made of themselves
doing so is one of the year's hottest
documentaries, but it also put the
studio on their trail. The Houston
Press' Tony Ortega talks to the
fugitive filmmaker.
Reporter Ordered to Surrender His Notebook
John Dicker, staff writer for the
Colorado Springs Independent,
describes how he physically
defended the First Amendment
against the combined might of the
Colorado Springs human resources
department after a rookie staffer turned
over a police detective unexpurgated file.
"I did consider bowling her over, but
this woman was big, more
linebacker than power forward," Dicker
writes for AAN News. "Call me an effete
East Coast twit, but I just couldn't manage
it."
(FULL STORY)
John Dicker |
11-25-2002 10:51 am |
Industry News
Saving the Santa Clara Rivernew
The Center for Biological Diversity cares
as much about the unarmored threespine
stickleback as it does a cathedral forest
of trees, which is why it is reinventing
the environmental movement and
could be saving Southern California in the
process. LA Weekly's Susan
Zakin follows the center's unlikely
warriors on their daily rounds as they try
to stop developers from turning one of
Southern California's last natural rivers
into a concrete-lined dump.
Thompson Retiring as New Haven Advocate Publishernew
Gail Thompson transformed the New Haven Advocate "from a scruffy
low-budget weekly into a community
powerhouse," Carole and Paul Bass write in a story announcing her departure after 11 years as publisher. "Under her stewardship, the paper
nearly tripled its sales, broadened its
readership, broke major investigative
stories and helped spawn such
community events as City-Wide Open
Studios and Film Fest New Haven," they write.
New Haven Advocate |
11-22-2002 2:33 pm |
Industry News
Casco Bay Weekly Shuttered After 14 Yearsnew
"I don't want to get in the Guinness Book of World Records for money buried in a small-market weekly newspaper," explains CBW owner Dodge Morgan after closing the paper he bought in 1990. "The losses continue and the actuarial tables plod on," the 71-year-old Morgan tells the Portland Press Herald.
According to Morgan, CBW's ad revenue dropped 20 percent after the Portland Phoenix arrived in 1999, and the paper continued to lose $5,000 a week even after he cut the editorial budget earlier this year. Staff writer Theresa Flaherty says that Morgan -- who lost over $2 million publishing CBW -- provided the paper's 14 employees with a "generous" severance package.
Portland Press Herald |
11-22-2002 10:27 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management
Reporter's Identity Stolennew
Steve Fennessy received a
notice that his license had been
suspended for a DUI in Sarasota, Fla.
He'd never been to Sarasota. This was
the door that led the reporter into "a
strange netherworld of law
enforcement,
where the
normal rules of American jurisprudence
are suspended." After about 100 hours
of hassling with bureaucrats, Fennessy
is no longer linked to a con with an
arrest record miles long. "I was me again.
Not him. "
Casco Bay Weekly Suspends Publication
11-22-2002 2:07 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Management, Casco Bay Weekly
The Faces of Homelessnessnew
The face of homelessness in cities
around the country is changing. Families
now represent the largest growing
segment of our homeless population,
and in South Carolina, each night one
in five children falls asleep hungry.
Homelessness does not
discriminate. Several photographers
and artists from the Lowcountry
responded to an invitation from Crisis
Ministries to use their cameras and their
talents to provide a visual essay
on just who are the women, men, and
children caught in the web of
homelessness. Charleston City
Paper reprints some of these
images.
