AAN News
Chicago Reader Invests in The Stranger
Tim Keck, publisher of The Stranger in Seattle, has a cash infusion from the Chicago Reader to turn up the heat on his competition. The Reader is now a minority shareholder in Index Newspapers LLC, a company formed early yesterday that now owns and operates The Stranger and The Portland Mercury in Portland, Ore. Keck’s first goal: increase circulation in both markets. “We’ve been bootstrapping it for 10 years,” Keck tells AAN News. “Now we are going to be aggressively growing the business.”
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AAN Staff |
05-02-2002 2:07 pm |
Industry News
Bush Administration on Roll Against Living in Sinnew
With President Bush's proposed marriage initiative, Uncle Sam turns matchmaker. But does
government-sponsored marriage support actually work? Chisun Lee reports in The Village Voice on the politics behind the
programs, and Sharon Lerner shows how they fall short of reducing poverty. Plus: profiles of five unmarried
women -- potential "targets." The plan is the brainchild of the Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector, "who derides 'the underclass' as criminal,
oversexed, and lazy, makes a feint at remedying such 'dysfunctional
behavior,'" Lee writes.
Maine Times Publishes Last Issuenew
Started as a hell-raising environmental, liberal weekly in 1968, the venerable Maine Times published its last issue last week. Christopher Hutchins, the weekly's latest owner (a conservative), told the staff he was no longer willing to cover the paper's losses, Editor Jay Davis tells the Portland Press Herald. "The Maine Times that folded yesterday isn't the Maine
Times that we started in 1968," said [John] Cole, who lives in
Brunswick. "Readers no longer were absolutely sure what
the Maine Times stood for," the Press Herald reports. The Maine Times, formerly an AAN-member paper, hosted
the
1987 AAN convention.
Portland Phoenix |
05-01-2002 10:57 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management
Marketing CD-ROMs Mailed to Members
Customizable for local focus
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AAN Staff |
05-01-2002 10:16 am |
Association News
Punk Rocker Becomes Reader MEnew
Kiki Yablon, who plays guitar in a punk rock band, has been promoted to managing editor of the Chicago Reader. She has been on the Reader's staff since 1996, directing the alt-weekly's music coverage, the Chicago Sun Times reports. Editor Alison True says Yablon is "perfect" for the job and won the position over a host of outside applicants. True has also promoted three Reader associate editors to senior editor: Holly Greenhagen, Kitry Krause and Laura Molzahn.
Chicago Sun Times |
04-30-2002 10:21 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Chicago Reader
Transformed Manson Family Killer Seeks Parolenew
Susan Atkins, a Manson Family disciple, is seeking parole after 33 years behind bars. OC Weekly's R. Scott Moxley reviews her parole hearing file and finds testimonies to Atkin's prison redemption. A devout Christian, a married woman who needs a hearing aid, a mentor to other prisoners, a favorite of her jailers, an accomplished artist. Quite a trip from the woman who once testified that she'd stabbed pregnant actress Sharon Tate because the sound of Tate's voice pleading for her life was irritating.
Veteran Reporter Resigns From Miami New Timesnew
Award-winning political writer and
columnist Jim DeFede has
resigned from Miami New
Times, the Daily Business Review
reports. DeFede, who has been at the
paper for more than 10 years and says
"(i)t was a great place to work," plans to
write a book about the diversion of
commercial air traffic to
Newfoundland on Sept. 11. Local
journalist Ed
Wasserman says, “[DeFede] electrified
municipal coverage in this town. He
was simply the best I’ve seen in my
20-some years here.”
Daily Business Review |
04-26-2002 5:11 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management
Chris Rohland Injured in Fatal Car Accidentnew
Chris Rohland, publisher of the non-AAN member alternative Las Vegas Weekly, is recovering from surgery to repair broken bones suffered in the April 14 accident that killed two people. Rohland's SUV was struck when a Ford Mustang crossed the center line into on-coming traffic. The two occupants of the Mustang were killed. Rohland had been scheduled to moderate a session at the AAN Convention on "How and Why To Do a Readership Study."
Las Vegas Sun |
04-26-2002 11:40 am |
Industry News
Is It Worth $3 Million to Execute a Killer?new
There's no question serial killer Cary Stayner is a monster. Currently serving life without parole for a homicide during which he kidnapped and raped 26-year-old Yosemite National Park environmentalist Joie Armstrong before decapitating her with a knife, Stayner faces new charges this June for the similarly misogynistic, brutal murders of Carole Sund, her 15-year-old daughter Juli, and Silvina Pelosso, a 16-year-old Argentine exchange student. Few people are likely to shed a tear should Stayner be put to death for his crimes. But this week the San Francisco Bay Guardian asks whether the satisfaction of revenge is worth the price tag. With the costs of capital punishment cases superceding those of incarcerating people for life by millions in taxpayer funds, even Armstrong's mother doesn't think so.
AAN Papers Bat .625 in SPJ-Southeast Contestnew
Bob Norman of New Times
Broward/Palm Beach was the big winner
in
this year's Green Eyeshade
competition, picking up three awards,
including two first-places. Norman wasn't
alone; AAN members captured 15
of the 24 awards handed out in the
weekly/monthly category of SPJ's
Southeast region contest: Miami New
Times picked up six, New Times
Broward/Palm Beach won five,
Creative Loafing Atlanta took
home three, and the Nashville
Scene received one.
Society of Professional Journalists |
04-25-2002 4:28 pm |
Industry News
New Times Dominates John Bartlow Martin Awardsnew
Two New Times investigative
series were selected as winners in
the 2002 John Bartlow Martin Awards,
sponsored by Northwestern's Medill
School of Journalism. First place went to
"Fallout," a look at the U.S. Navy's
radioactive legacy in the Bay Area by
SF Weekly's
Lisa Davis. Phoenix New Times staff
writer Amy Silverman captured
third
place for her special series "Slammed,"
which exposed abuses in Arizona's
juvenile justice system.
Sandwiched between them was
Katherine Boo, former managing editor of
Washington City Paper, for her story in
The New Yorker on welfare
mothers.
Medill School of Journalism |
04-25-2002 1:17 pm |
Industry News
