AAN News
On Going From Alt-Weekly to Dailynew
According to Harris Meyer, Jim
DeFede is learning what it means to
make the "transition from kicking
powerful butts in the pages of the
freewheeling (Miami) New Times to doing
the same at the more sedate (Miami)
Herald." Meyer reports that DeFede,
speaking at a local SPJ meeting, said
that when he wrote a tough column
criticizing two local businessmen, the
Herald was "flooded with angry
responses" and "the paper essentially
repudiated his column in an editorial the
next day lavishing praise" on the targets
of DeFede's ire. On the other hand,
DeFede said, Miami-Dade Mayor Alex
Penelas now returns his calls.
Daily Business Review |
11-15-2002 4:32 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Oakland Black Muslim Family's Violent Historynew
Yusuf Bey and his
"family" are a
group
of
entrepreneurs and
reformed
ex-cons
who operate a
patchwork of
businesses
and
non-profits
throughout the
city
of Oakland.
They're
also that city's
most
prominent
Black
Muslims,
treated with noted deference by the East
Bay's political
and media elite--in part because they
claim to be
positive role models for
African-American youth. East Bay Express
staff writer
Chris Thompson rips off that
mask in part one of his
special report
"Blood & Money," showing that Bey and
some of his
followers have
left a trail of violence, brutality and
fraud that
stretches back nearly a decade.
Omaha Reader Publisher Alan Baer Rememberednew
Alan Baer's "love for the obscure and the
nontraditional led him to the
alternative
news weekly," Omaha Reader writes of
its eccentric owner, who died of cancer
Nov. 5. The paper remembers Baer as
"the philanthropist and the gentle
man
with a
quirky sense of humor, who
never lost
faith in those around him
and in the
city he loved."
Omaha Reader |
11-14-2002 1:53 pm |
Industry News
Tags: The Reader, Alan Baer
The Real Goal of the Dogs of Warnew
The U.S. objective in Iraq is not to strike
against terrorism and a rogue regime.
It's not even to secure the smooth flow of
oil from the region, Roger Trilling
writes in The Village Voice. Based on a
report by the Institute for National
Strategic Studies, the true objective in
removing Saddam Hussein from power
is that a more friendly government in Iraq
"would drastically reduce the
requirement for U.S. military forces to
deal with the problems that remained."
The report argues for a less visible U.S.
military presence, while remaking the region in our own political image.
John Yewell Named Editor at Salt Lake City Weekly
Salt Lake City Weekly news release |
11-14-2002 10:47 am |
Press Releases
Sniper School in the West Virginia Highlandsnew
San Antonio Current's David
Wallis goes inside Storm Mountain
Training Center, the "Andover" of private
sniper schools. In the rural 208-acre
compound military sniper program
washouts
and other wannabe killers can learn
the same long-range shooting
techniques the Beltway snipers
used. "In a country where the right to
bear arms is enshrined in the
Constitution, where the National Rifle
Association intimidates legislators into
voting against common-sense gun
control laws designed to keep children
from accidentally shooting other children,
learning to kill with long-range rifles is
considered not only a useful skill for law
enforcement officers but a legitimate
leisure time activity," Wallis writes.
Crackdown on Escort Adsnew
The Montreal police's organized-crime
division urges local papers to reconsider
running escort agency ads or face
charges for
solicitation, the Globe and Mail
reports. In Canada, prostitution itself is
not illegal, but solicitation for sex is. AAN
member NOW Magazine in
Toronto has been through this kind of
crackdown before, the newspaper
reports. In 1990, 14 counts of
"communicating for the purpose of
prostitution" were brought against it,
but the Crown
later dropped the case.
The Globe and Mail |
11-12-2002 2:32 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Classified Advertising
Phoenix Writer Limns Didionnew
Camille Dodero interviews a
flu-stricken Joan Didion in a Boston hotel
room and mines the author's
opus for the structural framework of
the writer's life. She's struck by the
dissonance between Didion's literary
stature and her "miniature" real person.
"Barely five feet tall, she doesn’t even fill a
chair ... she looks like she could slip
between the seat cushions at any
moment," Dodero writes. And the
legendary writer giggles, girlishly.
Chicago's Alt-Weeklies Seeing Rednew
Chicago's new weekday tabloids RedEye
and Red Streak are pulling the same
display advertisers as AAN members
Chicago Reader and Chicago Newcity,
Jeremy Mullman reports in Crain's
Chicago Business. "This will have some
short-term impact on the Reader,"
newspaper consultant Scott Stawski tells
Mullman. "I believe it'll put Newcity
out."
Crain's Chicago Business |
11-12-2002 9:42 am |
Industry News
Breast Cancer Advice: Don't Do Anythingnew
Breaking down the whys and wherefores
behind the Bay Area's breast cancer
rates, among the highest in the
world, is a fearsome feat. For North Bay
Bohemian writer Allie Gottlieb,
it's personal -- she's got all the Bay Area
risk factors -- her mother died at 48 of the
disease, she's white, educated and
affluent. No one knows why breast cancer
rates are higher among such women.
And treatment? "I think it's a
crapshoot whether you make it or
not," one expert tells Gottlieb.
AAN Forms Advertising/Marketing Professional Development Resource Center
AAN Staff |
11-11-2002 11:37 am |
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