AAN News
Cop Resigns, but Why, Exactly?new
Renatta Frazier, a rookie Springfield police officer, left the force under a cloud because of her alleged failure to prevent the rape of the daughter of a fellow officer. Dusty Rhodes looks into the resignation and finds more questions than answers. Only the third black female ever to join the Springfield, Ill., police force, Frazier admits she never tried to "be invisible," as she was advised. Instead, Rhodes describes her as alternately "frank, funny and tenderhearted," or, if you were inclined against her, "abrasive, irreverent and lacking in military bearing." Associate Publisher Sharon Whalen tells AAN News the story "made the city shake" and revealed that the alleged rape had happened before the call to police was even made.
Mortgage Fraud Sweeps Atlantanew
Creative Loafing Atlanta's Mara
Shalhoup talks to six women
victimized by one shady real-estate
operator, who allegedly falsified their
mortgage applications and helped
them buy homes they couldn't afford.
These six cases are only the tip of the
iceberg of mortgage fraud and identity
theft across America. "Nationwide, the FBI
estimates that mortgage fraud has
increased by 25 percent in the past
year alone -- and that up to 15 percent of
loan applications contain false
information," she reports.
Dailies Youth Tabs Doomed?new
"The RedEye will be the newspaper equivalent of the middle-aged bald guy with a ponytail," Richard Karpel, executive director of AAN, tells Shirley Leung, a Wall Street Journal reporter. Leung looks at the precipitous flight of younger readers from daily newspapers and the checkered history of their attempts to recapture them. Chicago Reader Editor Alison True questions the entire strategy of the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times, which both launched youth-oriented weekday tabloids this week, RedEye and Red Streak, respectively. "Younger readers don't pick up a daily, so let's give them a daily?" True asks.
The Wall Street Journal |
10-31-2002 9:58 am |
Industry News
Paul Wellstone Rememberednew
"When the news came, we threw out everything we'd planned for this week's issue and spent an hour or so sitting around a conference table watching the grim details accrue on TV," Steve Perry, editor of City Pages (Twin Cities) writes in an introduction to an entire issue devoted to the memory of Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minnesota. "We talked about people we might interview, stories we might write; we talked about our own memories and impressions of Paul Wellstone. And in the end we decided the worthiest thing we could do was simply to find some of the many folks whose paths had crossed his during a life devoted to fighting other people's battles, and let them tell their stories."
Sun-Times' Youth Tab Debutsnew
The Chicago Sun Times' new
youth-oriented tabloid Red Streak hit the
streets today opposite the Chicago
Tribune's RedEye. "Both papers featured
slick designs and a paucity of original
content," Jeremy Mullman writes in
Crain's Chicago Business. Both tabloids
launched Web sites today as well.
Crain's Chicago Business (registration required) |
10-30-2002 1:23 pm |
Industry News
Queen for a Daynew
"Sometimes, dressing like a woman can
make a guy feel even more like a man."
Chris Wright speaks from
experience, having enlisted the services
of Veronica Vera, the best
cross-dressing coach in the
business. Wright describes his night
on the town in the Boston Phoenix. "In the
space of an hour or so, I had my breasts
prodded, twiddled, tweaked,
squeezed, cupped, and, finally,
patted."
Annual Convention Schedule Condensed
AAN Staff |
10-30-2002 4:51 pm |
Association News
Warhol Movie Star Facing Evictionnew
Taylor Mead, an writer, artist and actor with more than 100 movie credits, lives in a two-room, tub in kitchen apartment piled with stuff and crawling with roaches. The 77-year-old artist's eviction date has come and gone, and the "hardcore boho" is a little worried, C. Carr writes in The Village Voice. "This is not just
someone with a total disregard for ordinary comfort, but someone with a complete inability to make a life
outside of impulse and the aesthetic that springs from impulse," Carr writes.
Riverfront Times' Writer Honored for Environmental Reporting
Jeannette Batz's story, “The Right
to
Answers,” was a finalist in the inaugural
Awards for Reporting on the Environment
by the Society of Environmental
Journalists. Batz’s feature examined
whether toxic pollution caused the death
of infants in the St. Louis suburbs.
(FULL STORY)
Josef Sawyer |
10-29-2002 2:57 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Riverfront Times
Brugmann Wins Two FOI Awards
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
10-29-2002 2:55 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, Bruce Brugmann
Columbus Alive Shifts Focus, Changes Namenew
The Ohio weekly has changed its
name to simply Alive and is now
"the music, art and culture paper of
Columbus," Publisher Sally
Crane writes in an Oct. 17 editorial.
Saying the paper was "stuck in a rut,"
Crane says Alive will quench those who
"were thirsting for more of what they
find relevant to their lives" -- and
that's more on the arts, music and culture
scenes "with tips and top picks
in
each category." Crane says it's hard for
her, a former investigative reporter, to
admit, but the paper was taking itself "a
little too seriously."
Columbus Alive |
10-28-2002 3:44 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Columbus Alive
