AAN News
City Pulse Responds to Gannett Challenge by Throwing a Party
Berl Schwartz, publisher/editor, City Pulse |
08-19-2002 9:52 am |
Letters to the Editor
Medill Writing Workshop Schedule Announced
A revival meeting for weary writers
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
08-19-2002 4:24 pm |
Association News
Social Worker Seeks Resolution on Age-Discrimination Casenew
After 27 years at Mass General,
social worker Hope Cranska was abruptly
laid off. The hospital calls it a simple
case of downsizing, but evidence points
to another explanation: age
discrimination. Cranska's lawsuit
against the hospital still hasn't been
resolved although a jury awarded her
$631,000 in damages in 1999,
Kristen Lombardi writes in the
Boston Phoenix. Cranska's case
epitomizes "the potential injustices faced
by outspoken older employees in
bottom-line American corporate
culture," Lombardi writes.
Gannett Launching Weeklies in Lansing, Boise
Media giant Gannett Co. is launching its first salvo in a war to win the elusive 25-to-34 year old reader away from alternative newsweeklies. In Lansing, Mich., and Boise, Idaho, Gannett dailies are set to begin publishing "alternative" weeklies this fall. Established alts in those markets are bracing for the ruthless competition described by Richard McCord in his book "Chain Gang." Berl Schwartz, publisher of City Pulse in Lansing, scoffs at the notion the Gannett weekly will be an edgy alternative publication. "What is it an alternative to?" he asks. "Itself?"
(FULL STORY)
Ann Hinch |
08-15-2002 11:13 am |
Industry News
GIs Drowning in Debt on Uncle Sam's Ordersnew
A simple piece of plastic, the
Government Travel Card (GTC),
has plunged
thousands of ordinary servicemen and
servicewomen into
debt so deep that the Pentagon is busy
garnishing the wages
of its own soldiers, Geoffrey Gray
reports in The Village Voice. And the
lone military commander
known to raise hell about the
scheme—an Air Force
colonel based in the Midwest—tells the
Voice that blowing
the whistle on the GTC ruined her
career.
"Wish Us Luck"
Bingo Barnes, publisher/editor, Boise Weekly |
08-15-2002 5:48 pm |
Letters to the Editor
Independent Weekly Buys The Spectator from Creative Loafingnew
Steve Schewel, president of Independent Weekly's parent company, and Ben Eason, president of Creative Loafing, announce the sale of Raleigh's alt-weekly to its Durham rival. By October, the two papers will merge into one, to be called the Independent. "We were able to work out this acquisition because we admire the Creative Loafing
folks and their commitment to great alternative journalism in the South," Schewel said in a news release.
"Instead of knocking heads with us in the Triangle, they can take the cash from this
sale and build even better papers in the cities where they're already very strong."
Creative Loafing/Carolina Independent Publications news release |
08-14-2002 11:06 am |
Industry News
Ron Plotkin Remembered as Consummate Village Voice Editornew
Ron Plotkin, who would have been 62 this December, died Friday,
August 9, from a cerebral hemorrhage that felled him three
weeks ago. He was the kind of editor who could demand accuracy without stifling the voice of writers such as Alexander Cockburn or Jack Newfield. Plotkin, a 24-year veteran of the Voice, "in many ways, embodied the
paper's often irascible spirit and its journalistic commitment," Tom Robbins writes in this week's Village Voice. (Photo by Staci Schwartz)
Village Voice |
08-14-2002 10:13 am |
Industry News
Vows of Silence: Sexual Abuse by Nunsnew
Sexual abuse by nuns is rare, but it does
happen. Even rarer are standards for
nuns to follow in response to
allegations of abuse. Gambit
Weekly's Louis Rom looks at one
case from Louisiana and its broader
implications.
Triangle Weeklies Spectator and Independent Plan Merger
08-14-2002 10:41 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Independent Weekly (NC), CL, Inc.
Pitch Weekly Now "The Pitch"
The Kansas City alternative newsweekly bows to the citizenry and changes its name to The Pitch. "Weekly" had been added in 1993, "but Kansas Citians never really got used to calling it the Pitch Weekly," says Editor C.J. Janovy. Nothing else about The Pitch has changed, she says.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
08-13-2002 11:08 am |
Industry News
Tags: The Pitch
