AAN News
Academy Grad's Real Trial Begins
Pittsburgh City Paper has hired
Brentin Mock, a graduate of the
Academy for Alternative Journalism at
Medill. Each summer 10 minority
journalism students go through the
eight-week residential program, learning
long-form feature writing with the
alt-edge. Mike Lenehan,
executive editor of the Chicago Reader
and one of the founders of the Academy,
says right now he's happy if one or two of
its graduates are snapped up by
alts. In the meantime, the Academy,
which is funded by grants from AAN and
its publishers, is building "a small
army of future writers," Lenehan
says.
(FULL STORY)
Ann Hinch |
08-28-2002 3:53 pm |
Industry News
Tom Tomorrow, Michael Moore Working on Film
Dan Perkins, aka, Tom Tomorrow |
08-28-2002 12:53 pm |
Press Releases
Seattle Weekly Shakes Up Editorial Teamnew
Village Voice CEO David Schneiderman announces that former Seattle Weekly Editor-in-Chief Knute "Skip" Berger will rejoin the paper this week after a two-year "sabbatical," replacing Audrey Van Buskirk. Schneiderman also names 16-year Seattle Times vet Chuck Taylor as managing editor. Van Buskirk had been hired in Nov. 2000 to replace Berger.
Village Voice Media news release |
08-27-2002 9:46 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management
In Baja, a System That Protects the Richnew
It's build a home, go to jail for Julio Sandoval and Beatriz Chavez, who face possible five-year prison terms for helping to house the poor in Baja California. But Mexican officials don't even enforce their own rulings when the culprit is Duro Bag, which illegally fired workers trying to form an independent union. LA Weekly's David Bacon reports that the common thread is a system that looks after Mexico's rich as well as foreign investors. And President Bush wants to expand this free-trade reality across the entire hemisphere.
Seattle Weekly Names New Editorial Leadership Team
Village Voice Media news release |
08-27-2002 10:17 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Management, Seattle Weekly
The Making of a Murderernew
Sometime around two in the morning of Dec. 17, 2001, 27-year- old Christian Longo allegedly killed his wife and three children, dumped their bodies into the river on the outskirts of tiny Waldport, Ore., and headed for the Mexican Riviera for a fun-filled vacation. In the conclusion of his two-part series in Willamette Week, Carlton Smith asks why a young father would deliberately kill his own family, and why law enforcement authorities failed repeatedly to act after Longo's nationwide crime spree gave them plenty of chances to stop him.
From Bhopal to Texas: Hungry for Justicenew
Diane Wilson's hunger strike in protest of Union Carbide Corp.'s legacies of pollution and corporate callousness has been joined by hundreds of people
worldwide. Lisa Sorg, news editor of the San Antonio Current, looks at the Texas woman's protest and how it extends beyond the current
events in Bhopal, India, where more than 8,000 people died in a 1984 chemical leak.
The issues of environmental destruction
and its human toll, corporate influence
and its absence of accountability, ties
Bhopal to Seadrift, Texas, and to every
community that is at the mercy of
contaminating industries.
Reader Critic's Use of Term "Nerve Gas" Causes Uproarnew
Chicago Reader |
08-23-2002 2:34 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Chicago Reader
Does the AAN Convention Need to Change?
That question to be focus of Fall board
meeting
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
08-23-2002 11:53 am |
Association News
Readers React to Arizona Republic Parodynew
In yet more New Times satire, (most) readers give Phoenix New Times big ups for its parody of the Arizona Republic's recent redesign. Even a Republic staffer who asked not to be named applauded the spoof. "As one of the worker bees who's
had to live through it, it was nice to see what most of us in the newsroom have been waiting
for you to do."
Phoenix New Times |
08-22-2002 5:07 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Phoenix New Times
Fugitive Grandmother Back in Prisonnew
An athletic young woman outran her guards to
escape from prison 32
years ago and began a
happy and law-abiding life.
Now she's back behind
bars to serve the remainder of a 99-year sentence. The man who confessed to pulling the trigger during a multistate killing spree that led to her murder conviction has never even been tried for the crimes. Matt Pulle of the Nashville Scene looks at the two lives of Margo Freshwater.
