AAN News
Village Voice Wins SPJ's Deadline Club Awardnew
Erik Baard and Rebecca Cooney win for
their piece "China's Execution Inc."
Society of Professional Journalists |
05-29-2002 12:50 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Village Voice
Village Voice Wins Berger Award
Michael Kamber Wins Columbia J-School
Award
(FULL STORY)
05-29-2002 12:34 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, The Village Voice
You Can Lead Consumers to Music, But Can You Make Them Pay?new
An estimated 40 million Americans use
peer-to-peer networks to share
often unauthorized audio and video files.
Judith Lewis of LA Weekly
reports that the record and film
industries, anxious for a solution to
their copyright woes, look to
"distributed networks" for a new model
that will allow users to compensate
artists, labels and studios for their
downloads.
Public Employee Salaries Exposednew
Q: Which employee on the eastern
Washington state public payroll
makes the most money? A:
Washington State Cougar football coach
Mike Price. With a salary of almost
$440,000 in 2001, Price is far and away
the highest-paid public worker in the
region. How do we know? Tom Grant
of The Local Planet Weekly compiled
60,000 public employee wages from
eastern Washington and northern Idaho
into a simple database small enough to
fit on a floppy. Readers can e-mail the
newspaper to receive a copy of the
database. Requests began arriving
before copies of the accompanying article
even hit the racks.
Out of Africa: A Liberian Waits For His Refugee Familynew
There are new victims of Sept.11. After escaping terror in a brutal civil war, a refugee family booked on a flight to Sacramento were stopped in their tracks by new restrictions. No one told their son. This Liberian immigrant has waited 15 long years to be reunited with his refugee children and parents. He thought that was long enough, but he was wrong. Tom Walsh of the Sacramento News & Review talks to Amos Gbeintor.
J-School Intern Joins AAN News Staff
Howard University junior Ryan Fox is summer intern
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
05-24-2002 11:55 am |
Association News
Publisher’s Roundtables To Swap Ideas
New format for business-stream sessions
(FULL STORY)
Ryan Fox |
05-24-2002 11:02 am |
Association News
Hartmann Hangs It Upnew
"I think we've all had enough of me," Riverfront Times founder Ray Hartmann says as he bids adieu to the paper after 25 years and one million words. "Through the years, we have fought a lot of fights, told a lot of stories. We challenged the elitist, closed Father-knows-best decision-making process of Civic Progress," Hartmann writes in his valedictory column. "We challenged their siphoning of millions of dollars in tourism funds to something called the VP Fair. There were environmental issues, race issues, social issues. Most recently, there was a five-year battle against the late, great stadium scam, arguably my favorite issue ever." Hartmann says the RFT flourished because it reflected "the real St. Louis."
Riverfront Times |
05-23-2002 10:24 am |
Industry News
Mindich Plans Supreme Court Appeal of Contempt Chargenew
Boston Phoenix Publisher Stephen Mindich faces a June 4 contempt hearing for his refusal to turn over his e-mails in a case involving his wife, Superior Court Judge Maria I. Lopez, the Boston Herald reports. A Massachusettes judicial commission investigating Lopez' handling of an attempted rape case issued the subpoena for Mindich's e-mails. Mindich's lawyer, Harvey Silvergate, says he has advised his client not to comply with the subpoena. ``When a court order is unconstitutional, one has a right to appeal it to the U.S. Supreme
Court,'' Silvergate tells the Herald.
Boston Herald |
05-23-2002 10:08 am |
Industry News
Tags: Stephen Mindich
Hard Times for Young Girlsnew
John Sewell of Metro Pulse interviews two authors who have recently published books about sluts. Sounds juicy, doesn't it? But these two works -- by Emily White, former editor of The Stranger, and Leora Tanenbaum -- deconstruct the myth of the "slut," a tag aimed to alienate any girl outside the mainstream teenage girl tribe. They also expose the double standard that expects young men to experiment with sex at an early age, yet demonizes any young woman who does the same.
AAN Joins Amicus in Maryland Weekly Case
Sheriffs rounded up copies to squelch negative story
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
05-21-2002 2:51 pm |
Association News
Gibson, Lenehan Appointed to Board
Six others announce candidacies
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
05-20-2002 11:41 am |
Association News
