AAN News
Catholics Protest Reader's Cartoonnew
About 120 religious activists turned out
last week to protest a "blasphemous"
cartoon published in the Chicago
Reader, reports The Illinois Leader,
which bills itself "Illinois' Conservative
News Source." The cartoon in question
implied
immoral behavior by the Virgin Mary,
the pope and Jesus, the newspaper
says.
Illinois Leader |
09-30-2002 11:41 am |
Industry News
900-Number Funds Should Flow Again Soonnew
Tele-Publishing International
has reassured clients that money
collected for online personals by bankrupt
MCI should be distributed soon, Editor &
Publisher reports. Many alternative
newsweeklies use 900 numbers for voice
personal ads. MCI will soon be the
sole national carrier billing and
collecting for these services.
Editor & Publisher |
09-30-2002 11:26 am |
Industry News
Tags: Classified Advertising
Miami Achieves Poorest City Statusnew
According to no less an authority than the 2000 census, Miami
is now the poorest big city in America. In
a two-part series of stories that begins this week,
Miami New Times' writers and editors explore Miami's fascinating shadow economy, a thriving black-market system that makes it possible
to live one's life entirely off the books. They explain how
public-housing fiascos have turned neighborhoods into ghost
towns, with a crippling effect on the small businesses that
depended on the residents -- even if those residents happened to
be drug dealers.
Mrs. Congeniality Pukes in Mercury's Kitchennew
Mrs. Portland Mercury contestant Bethany Miller filled her stomach with "colorful, smelly and chunky" food items, chased with ipecac, then visited The Mercury's office in time to hurl in the kitchenette. Her beef: the mocking tone the alt-weekly took about its own contest. "People were really mean, and they didn't
encourage an atmosphere of fun," Miller tells Willamette Week. [Illustration by Carson Ellis.]
Willamette Week |
09-30-2002 1:26 pm |
Industry News
Tags: The Portland Mercury
Turning in a "Terrorist " Taxi Drivernew
Sarah Goodyear writes in The
Village Voice about her short career
as an FBI informant. She turned in a
talkative Brooklyn cabbie, an Egyptian,
who'd warned her in July 2001 that
something bad was going to happen
to America, even mentioning Osama
bin Laden. The friendly accused doesn't
hold his interrogation against her, and he
wasn't detained, but Goodyear still feels
the taint of her brush with TIPS.
Board Meets in Pittsburgh
Agrees to shorten convention
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
09-27-2002 2:23 pm |
Association News
Anft Bids Farewell to City Papernew
Media critic Michael Anft announces
he is ending his 20-year on-and-off
relationship with Baltimore City
Paper and retiring "to flip through
heretofore-unread copies of The New
Yorker and Harper's." Anft takes a parting
shot at "the mostly uninspired local
product we unfortunate
viewers/readers/listeners have spewed at
us."
Baltimore City Paper |
09-26-2002 9:59 am |
Industry News
Cleveland Free Times Turns 10new
Eric Broder, managing editor at
the Cleveland Free Times, which
turns 10 this week, remembers a
time when the paper could hardly fill ad
space. "The issue is 24 pages,
consisting mainly of editorial. You don't
want that. You want ads in there, and
plenty of 'em. But this was the first issue.
It's tough enough to sell ad space for a
publication, and tougher yet for one that
doesn't exist." Broder reflects on the last
decade of a paper that was one
business deal away from never
happening.
Cleveland Free Times |
09-26-2002 2:51 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Cleveland Free Times, Eric Broder
Back to Iraq: A Special Reportnew
How big a danger to our planet does Saddam Hussein really pose? Or George Bush? Various
perspectives on what could be America’s latest battleground are explored in L.A. Weekly's report on Iraq. Two former weapons inspectors give their wildly different views on Saddam: Greg Goldin interviews Terence Taylor, chief
U.N. weapons inspector in 1997,who sees a grave threat. Jon Wiener hears opposite views from Scott Ritter, a senior inspector from 1991 to 1997. Richard Falk makes the argument against the war; Ian Williams takes on the
anti-war movement. Marc B. Haefele attends an L.A. gathering of World Federalists who
preach a unified world theory. And Christine Pelisek shares the scant military records of those who want a war.
New Editor at Illinois Times
Illinois Times has hired Patrick
Arden, former managing editor of the
Chicago Reader, as editor. The paper
has also moved to a new address,
redesigned its cover, consolidated
entertainment listings, and changed its
tag line. “The capital city’s newsweekly”
expects fourth-quarter performance to be
strong, says Associate Publisher
Sharon Whalen.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
09-25-2002 1:52 pm |
Industry News
LA Weekly Ad Staff Consider Unionizingnew
Advertising staff at LA Weekly are to vote Friday on whether to join the union that already represents editorial employees at the alt-weekly. Editorial staff are shocked that management is resisting extending union representation to ad staff because the paper has always had an ardently pro-union editorial stance, reports the Los Angeles Times. Publisher Beth Sestanovich, however, tells the Times she pushed for a vote rather than the more pro-forma card check organizing because "while
our editorial policy is pro-union, it also is
pro-democracy."
Los Angeles Times |
09-25-2002 10:01 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, L.A. Weekly
The Oil Motive Behind the Afghan Warnew
The mainstream media in the United
States has ignored wire service and
European newspaper coverage of
long-standing plans to run an oil
pipeline from Central Asia to the Indian
Ocean through Afghanistan, Ted
Rall reports in an exclusive article on
Philadelphia City Paper's Web site. "The
'war on terrorism' was less about fighting
terrorism, or finding the perpetrators of
9-11, than about bombing Afghanistan" to
secure a stable route for the pipeline, Rall
writes.
Featurewell.com Syndicate Turns Twonew
AAN Associate Member
Featurewell.com
celebrates its second birthday having
built its reputation on
solid relationships with both writers and
some 900 publishers, Tech Central
Station reports. The online mag says
Featurewell.com's sales are about
$200,000 a year, and CEO David
Wallis projects they will hit $1 million by
the syndicate's fifth year.
Tech Central Station |
09-24-2002 1:35 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Featurewell.com
