AAN News
Breast Cancer Awareness Marketing: Race for the Profits
Breast cancer awareness month and races for cures
gloss over the hidden agendas
and conflicts of interest in the
so-called fight against breast
cancer. Fairfield County Weekly's Mary Ann Swissler looks at the intense marketing of breast cancer awareness and the medical industry it actually benefits.
Shaw: New Times LA Closing Reflects the Timesnew
Erstwhile media critic David Shaw
mourns the passing of New Times
LA, "even if it was often shrill and
sometimes irresponsible," he says.
While admitting that it's "difficult to
generalize about the alternative press
since some of the papers ... are so
idiosyncratic as to defy
categorization," Shaw reflects on how
alternative weeklies have changed.
Los Angeles Times |
10-14-2002 12:28 pm |
Industry News
New Times, Nashville Scene Win Clarion Awardsnew
The Association for Women in
Communications named Sarah
Fenske, Cleveland Scene and
David Holthouse, Phoenix New
Times, feature story winners, while
Willy Stern and Liz
Garrigan of the Nashville Scene, and
the New Times staff won Clarion
awards for
feature series.
The Association of Women In Communications |
10-11-2002 5:58 pm |
Industry News
One-Wheel Roller Mulls Life in the Fast Lanenew
Saint Louisian Leo White, aka the
"One-Wheel Roller," has won more than
54 regional competitions since he began
skating at age six. With his ability to slip
into a low, stealthy, single-skate
glide from a full-throttle roll, White is
the skating equivalent of the
drool-inducing basketball player who can
charge down the court at Formula One
speed, then stop, pop and bury a jumper
from 15 feet in transition, writes Mike Seely of the
Riverfront Times. This week, he's
attending the World Championship of
Performing Arts in Los Angeles. Whether he relocates to LA may
be the million-dollar question for the
One-Wheel Roller, whose niche is
anything but sure-fire bankable, Seely
says.
Missing Urbanview
Anya Sophe Behn |
10-11-2002 1:33 pm |
Letters to the Editor
Weekly Alibi Buys Building
Albuquerque’s alt-weekly will be
moving to new digs downtown
sometime early this winter. The paper
purchased the building for $600,000 from
a local attorney and will now be able to
consolidate offices under one
roof after spending years with
departments scattered in
different buildings.
(FULL STORY)
Josef Sawyer |
10-10-2002 2:23 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Weekly Alibi
AAN Papers Take Three Firsts in NNA Contestnew
The San Francisco Bay Guardian
wins two first place awards in the
National Newspaper Association's 2002
Better Newspaper Contest: Tali
Woodward for Best Health Story, and
Dan Zoll for Best
Education/Literacy Story. Willy
Stern of the Nashville Scene
takes a first in Best Investigative or
In-Depth Story or Series for his five-part
dissection of The Tennessean.
National Newspaper Association |
10-10-2002 1:58 pm |
Industry News
Eco-Tourism Taking the "Wild" out of Wildernessnew
Wilderness tourism in British Columbia
is a $1.5-billion dollar business, but it
puts wildlife at risk. Georgia Straight's
Ben Parfitt looks at the degradation
to the environment caused by
hundreds of thousands of tourists
from all over the world zipping around in
Zodiacs looking at whales or skiing,
hiking, snowmobiling and rafting. Many
people, even some in the tourist industry,
are beginning the see eco-tourism "as
a snake swallowing its own tail,"
he writes.
Survivor Rules Free Times' Death a Suicidenew
Pete Kotz, editor of the surviving
alt-weekly in Cleveland, admits it's
"bad form to dance on the grave
of another. " Honesty,
however, "runs by a less civilized code,"
Kotz writes of the deal between New
Times and Village Voice Media last week
that shuttered VVM's Cleveland Free
Times and New Times Los Angeles. "The
Free Times' death wasn't
unexpected or sudden. It
was long, slow
suicide," Kotz says.
And he charges David Eden, the editor,
with turning the paper into "a barking
poodle
with no house training."
Cleveland Scene |
10-10-2002 10:14 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management
War Speech Sparks Large Protest in Cincinnatinew
President Bush chose Cincinnati for his
saber-rattling Oct. 7 speech because, he
said,
the city represents the "heartland of
America." If
so, then the thousands of protesters who
greeted
him show how
divided the country is over war with
Iraq. For what it's worth, Cincinnati
CityBeat's Gregory Flannery
estimates four times as many people
demonstrated as attended the speech.
