AAN News
Folio Weekly Editor Leaves to Fight Fires
Many alt-weekly editors feel they spend most of their time putting out fires, but Bob Snell is leaving Folio Weekly to do it full-time, literally. Anne Schindler moves from associate editor to editor and says she already misses Snell, a former Peace Corps volunteer who has "a real sensibility about hands-on helping people".
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AAN Staff |
08-06-2002 3:59 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Folio Weekly
Deseret News on SLCW's 10th Birthdaynew
"Raffish," "lurid," "biting," "anti-establishment" -- these are some of the adjectives used in conservative Salt Lake City to describe its scrappy alt-weekly, according to Deseret News. Salt Lake City Weekly Publisher John Saltas takes understandable pride in this description as the paper celebrates its 10th anniversary. "It's unprecedented," Saltas tells the daily. "It merely validates just how important it is to continue telling those stories" that touch sensitive nerves. "We ought to be fair," Managing Editor Christopher Smart says, "but we
certainly don't profess to be objective."
Deseret News |
08-05-2002 10:12 am |
Industry News
Muslim Man Faces Deportationnew
He's committed no crime, owns a business, has kids and an American wife, and yet Corning, Calif., resident Ali Mubarak, a native of Pakistan, faces deportation because he once roomed with a man with Al-Qaeda ties. "I don't have anything back there. Everything, my family, is all here," Mubarak tells Josh Indar of the Chico News & Review. "I've been here so long. I just want to run my business and take care of my kids."
Oakland's Urbanview Reveals New Evidence in Auto-Death Case
08-05-2002 10:23 am |
Press Releases
P-D Editor Fires Back at Edennew
Doug Clifton, editor of
the Cleveland Plain Dealer, says a recent Cleveland Free Times column "can charitably be called a total
fabrication." David Eden, editor in chief of the Free Times, had written that Plain Dealer "Publisher Alex Machaskee offered up [Auxiliary Bishop James] Quinn's head
on a platter to Clevelanders as a smokescreen to save the neck of Bishop
Anthony Pilla, a man he favors." Not so, Clifton says.
Media News Letters |
08-02-2002 9:56 am |
Industry News
Tags: Cleveland Free Times
Quark 5 Gets Thumbs Down from AAN Designers
Alt-weekly designers discussed the value of new software upgrades during a recent design and production listserv exchange on aan.org. The conclusion? "To put it bluntly -- InDesign just spanks Quark's little bottom," says Mike Spain, advertising art director of Arkansas Times.
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Ryan Fox |
08-01-2002 10:08 am |
Industry News
Tags: Design & Production
World Domination at Bohemian Grovenew
Every year since early in the 20th century some of the wealthiest men in the world retreat to the lavish Bohemian Grove in California for a secret weekend of what? Fun and frolic? Human sacrifice? Illuminati meditations? Romping in their true reptilian alien forms? No one knows, but theories abound. R.V. Scheide of Sacramento News & Review looks into both the tin-foil hat conspiracy theories and more down-to-earth protests.
