AAN News
Truesdell Fired as Orlando Weekly Editor
Jeff Truesdell, who had been with Orlando Weekly since its birth in 1990, was abruptly fired this week after a spat with Publisher Mike Johnson. Truesdell says he and Johnson had a tense relationship, but says the publisher never interfered with the editorial side of the paper. Johnson says he respects Truesdell but won't talk about the argument that led to the termination.
(FULL STORY)
Ann Hinch |
05-10-2002 3:57 pm |
Industry News
Nuns "Brainwashed" Teens to Give Up Babies
Thirty years ago, the nuns at St. Agnes Home for Unwed Mothers in Connecticut "brainwashed" pregnant teens shipped there to purge the shame of their premarital mistake by giving up their babies for adoption. The nuns insisted that God would approve. That's the claim of the women who contacted the Hartford Advocate to tell their stories. They also charge that the adoption of their babies was a money-maker for St. Agnes.
Vice Mayor Threatens Alt-Weekly Writernew
Cincinnati Vice Mayor Alicia Reece (pictured here) has threatened to call out the firefighters to intimidate a political rival and a Cincinnati CityBeat staff writer, the paper's Gregory Flannery reports. "Your Negro Tour Guide" columnist Kathy Y. Wilson has filed a complaint with police about the alleged threat. Editor John Fox says Reece visited him to complain about Wilson's coverage. "She said, 'If you can't control her, I will ... I have 150 firefighters who are willing to do anything I ask them.'"
Cincinnati CityBeat |
05-09-2002 12:51 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Cincinnati CityBeat
Finalists Announced in Alternative Newsweekly Awards
AAN announces the results of the
seventh annual Alternative
Newsweekly Awards. Five AAN
papers picked up five nominations each:
Gambit Weekly, Independent Weekly,
Creative Loafing Atlanta, LA Weekly
and Willamette Week. Some of
AAN's best writers and artists picked up
nominations for the second, third, fourth,
fifth and even sixth year. And a tough
bunch of judges awarded only a
first-place in several categories. So
congratulations to first-place winners
Clancy DuBos and Katy
Reckdahl of Gambit Weekly
and cartoonists Garrett Gaston
and Ken Fisher (Ruben Bolling).
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
05-09-2002 10:44 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Baltimore City Paper Bitten on 25th Birthdaynew
Originally Baltimore's alt-weekly was known as the City Squeeze and edited by "recent Johns Hopkins grad and inveterate pain-in-the-ass Russ Smith," Michael Anft writes. Anft takes a page from Smith's book and offers some biting suggestions for the Baltimore City Paper at the quarter-century mark, including spending more money on younger staff, instead of "aging hippies."
Baltimore City Paper |
05-08-2002 5:48 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Baltimore City Paper, Michael Anft
Santa Barbara Channel's Toxic Time Bombnew
The Santa Barbara Independent breaks a major environmental story about a potentially catastrophic environmental disaster. The problem? A 15-year-old shipwreck of a single-hull tanker loaded with diesel fuel and copper ore. Ecosystems are dying downstream of the wreck. The story is "investigative and intriguing and has global implications as the state and federal governments work toward establishing a large network of marine reserves in the Santa Barbara Channel, a network that will likely be a model for similar reserves around the world," writer Matt Kettmann tells AAN News.
Christgau of Voice Gets NAJP Senior Fellowshipnew
Robert Christgau, senior editor for The Village Voice, will use his National Arts Journalism Program senior fellowship to write a world history of popular music. The fellowships at Columbia's School of Journalism are funded by the Pew Charitable Trust. Two freelance arts writers, Douglas Wolk and Sarah Frere-Jones, are named research fellows under the program. Both have written for AAN papers.
National Arts Journalism Program |
05-07-2002 11:37 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Village Voice
Stocker New Publisher at Riverfront Times
Ken Stocker comes from Denver's Westword to the Riverfront Times, on a mission to raise public awareness of the alt-weekly and thereby boost sales. The 12-year New Times veteran has a green sales staff, but he's convinced the paper is "poised and ready to make a big push." He replaces Terry Coe, who resigned from the Riverfront Times after 17 years.
(FULL STORY)
Seth Wharton |
05-06-2002 10:43 am |
Industry News
Forbidden Medicinenew
Cancer patients from California and around the world are seeking an alternative, holistic approach to building up the body and beating cancer. Dr. Douglas Brodie has a thriving practice in Reno -- the new destination of choice for many thousands of cancer patients, from around the world, who seek alternative therapies for cancer and other diseases. Too bad it’s outlawed in California. Melinda Welsh looks at the reasons in Sacramento News & Review.
