AAN News
Boston Phoenix Controversy Intensifies Over Pearl Photosnew
The paper is already drawing heat for its Web site link to videos of reporter Daniel Pearl's gruesome murder in Pakistan. Now Publisher Stephen Mindich has told reporters he intends to publish photos of the slaying this week, if the grainy photos will reproduce, the Hartford Courant reports. "It has to be seen," Mindich told the Courant. "This is not a movie. It's not Hollywood. This is a human being [that] went through this thing. While I understand the pain felt by the Pearl family, the pain is as great for all of us in a different way. I think this brings the pain to everybody."
The Hartford Courant |
06-05-2002 11:07 am |
Industry News
Tags: Boston Phoenix
Bay Guardian Buys Its Own Building
The San Francisco Bay Guardian expects to move into its own $4.7 million building sometime this month – where they will "never have to worry about an eviction … never have to worry about a bad landlord," says Executive Editor Tim Redmond. A 1950s era law banning SBA loans to media companies was repealed in 1994. Milwaukee’s Shepherd Express took advantage of the program in 1995. Now the Bay Guardian has swung a deal for a 30,000-square-foot building with a rooftop view of the Bay Bridge thanks to an SBA loan guarantee package.
(FULL STORY)
John Ferri |
06-05-2002 10:55 am |
Industry News
Phil Jackson for Presidentnew
The timing may have raised eyebrows
and hackles in Sacramento, coming as it
did during the playoffs, but SN&R
News Editor Steven T. Jones
used an exclusive interview with Lakers
coach Phil Jackson to try to talk him into
running for president of the United
States. Jackson took the bait and
discussed the idea publicly for the first
time. He's intelligent, confident, cool
under fire, and he meditates every
day. Says Jackson, "The challenge is
what is good for corporations may not be
good for the world itself as a harmonic
organism." He brought the Bulls and
Lakers together to win championships,
says Jones. "It’s time to move on to the
more challenging
job of running this country as smoothly as
a triangle offense."
Boston Phoenix Links to Video Footage of Daniel Pearl's Murdernew
"This is the the single most gruesome,
horrible, despicable, and horrifying thing
I've ever seen,'' Boston Phoenix
Publisher Stephen Mindich says in an
editorial accompanying his paper's
link to the unedited video showing Pearl's
decapitation. In an interview with the
Boston Globe, Mindich decried the fact
that
the tape had not been more widely
viewed and discussed.
Boston Globe |
06-04-2002 11:32 pm |
Industry News
Dan Savage Sets Awards Lunch on Fire
In one of the
most memorable events ever at an
AAN convention, Dan Savage
electrified the seventh annual Alternative
Newsweekly Awards affair with a
high-voltage performance that included
nearly naked waiters and publishers
shedding trousers. One attendee
called it "the best hour of
comedy I've ever seen." Savage's
fatwah: every first-place winner had to
drink a shot and shed an article of
clothing. Two-thirds of the way in,
he admitted, "I can't believe you are
all playing along. The power of one
pushy fag in AAN -- it's amazing."
(FULL STORY)
06-04-2002 4:18 pm |
Industry News
Ventura Newspaper Inc. Buys San Diego's SLAMM
Owner of Ventura County Reporter and
Pasadena Weekly also changes it's
name to Southland Publishing, Inc.
(FULL STORY)
06-04-2002 4:46 pm |
Press Releases
AAN Accepts MetroBeat
Members approve budget, foundation,
new board members and
member-services committee
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
06-03-2002 11:04 am |
Association News
Alternative Newsweekly Award Winners Announced
Gambit Weekly took four first-place awards today in the seventh annual Alternative Newsweekly Awards, the most of any paper in AAN for the first-place awards.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
05-31-2002 7:31 pm |
Industry News
Admissions Committee Blesses Only One
Also questions three and passes on 10
(FULL STORY)
AAN Admissions Committee |
05-31-2002 5:16 pm |
Association News
Vanessa Leggett Describes Her Crash Course in Journalism
Speaking at AAN's First Amendment Luncheon, Vanessa Leggett said she learned journalism "the same way an adolescent boy learns about sex -- groping and fumbling my way through, getting rejected and slapped occasionally." Slapping in her case included jail time for refusing to turn over materials from confidential sources to a Texas grand jury. "We must always work to ensure the free flow of information to the public," she said. "When the government gets involved, that can't occur."
(FULL STORY)
Matt Olson |
05-30-2002 2:58 pm |
Industry News
The Judi Bari Bombshellnew
Did the FBI and the Oakland Police
conspire to ruin two
environmentalists? In 1990, Judi Bari
and Darryl Cherney were arrested for a
car bombing in which they were the only
victims. A.C. Thompson of the
San Francisco Bay Guardian
examines the legal battle that has
conspiracy theorists nationwide
chomping at the bit.
Sestanovich Named Publisher of LA Weekly and OC Weekly
05-30-2002 4:15 pm |
Press Releases
Siren Music Festival
The Village Voice Presents 2nd Annual
SIREN MUSIC FESTIVAL
at Coney Island on Saturday, July 20,
2002
(FULL STORY)
05-29-2002 12:54 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Marketing, The Village Voice
