AAN News
Third Round of Diversity Grants Awarded
OC Weekly, Gambit Weekly are recipients
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
04-17-2002 1:13 pm |
Association News
New Mass. Media Commits to Green Power
Advocate Weekly newspapers first in U.S. to use renewable energy
(FULL STORY)
04-17-2002 11:25 am |
Press Releases
Advice Goddess Campaigns Against SUVsnew
Syndicated columnist Amy Alkon, Advice Goddess, has some advice for SUV owners: ditch that roadhog and get a life. From her home base in Venice, Calif., she began placing small printed cards on the windsheids of SUVs that read: "Road-hogging, gas-guzzling, air-fouling
vulgarian! Clearly you have an extremely small penis or
you wouldn't drive such a monstrosity. " Since she wrote up the campaign in New Times Los Angeles, along with the responses she's been getting to a telephone number printed on the card, the movement has spread. She's been written up as far away as Britain.
New Times Los Angeles |
04-16-2002 10:09 am |
Industry News
Qwest: Deride the Light!new
For one year, Qwest has refused to pay
the city of Portland, and other Oregon
cities a "franchise fee' in return for the
right to string its telephone poles across
city streets. Yet Qwest sees nothing
wrong with collecting this franchise fee
from consumers, a fee that amounts to
$6 million a year in Portland. Last month
a U.S. magistrate ruled that Qwest owes
the city the money, but the phone
company still won't pay. As a result, this
week Willamette Week is encouraging
Oregonians to engage in civil
disobedience and deduct the portion of
their Qwest bill that represents the
franchise fee. The paper even includes a
handy form letter that readers can cut out.N
AAN Going to SHRM
First booth at recruitment expo
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
04-15-2002 4:28 pm |
Industry News
Will Swaim Becomes OC Weekly Associate Publisher
Will Swaim now oversees all of OC Weekly’s business operations and editorial content in a promotion announced recently by Village Voice Media CEO David Schneiderman. Swaim, who once wanted to be a priest but became a punk rocker instead, is “the spiritual and intellectual leader” of the alt-weekly, Schneiderman says.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
04-12-2002 11:42 am |
Industry News
Phoenix Gets Laurel for Geoghan Coveragenew
Kristen Lombardi of the Boston Phoenix is singled out by CJR for her coverage of the story of pedophile priests being shielded by the Catholic hierarchy. "Her prodigiously
reported pieces documented the sorry history of
Geoghan's career, as well as the still sorrier
protection of that career, and too many others like it,
by the church and by Cardinal Law," CJR writes.
Columbia Journalism Review |
04-12-2002 11:21 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Boston Phoenix
David Eden Named Editor in Chief at Free Times
Cleveland Free Times Publisher Matt Fabyan says he’s “jazzed” that native son David Eden has come on board as editor in chief. Eden has been busy his first weeks on the job, dealing with a redesign and a new job at the same time. Eden has 15 years experience at major dailies such as the Dallas Times Herald, The Minneapolis Star and the Detroit News, as well as TV experience on PBS. “Good stories told well,” sums up his philosophy.
(FULL STORY)
Ann Hinch |
04-12-2002 11:02 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Cleveland Free Times
Pain, Shame, Anger: Sex Abuse in the Catholic Churchnew
So a Catholic deacon, a Benedictine monk, a Greek Orthodox priest and a lawyer all walk into a hotel. No, this isn’t the Santa Fe Reporter's annual bad joke issue. These were the participants who joined the Reporter's editorial staff for a roundtable discussion of the national scandal involving the Catholic Church and pedophilic priests.
Among the participants was the lawyer who brought suit about 10 years ago against New Mexico’s Archdiocese for victims alleging they were sexually abused by New Mexico priests.
Those suits were eventually settled for approximately $50 million.
Because New Mexico dealt with these issues in the early ‘90s, its Archdiocese has already instituted many of the measures other churches will likely now adopt, such as psychological screenings and AIDS tests.
Free Paper Boxes Yanked on Opening Daynew
Another front has opened in the Boston news box war. Still embroiled in a lawsuit over whether free-circulation newspaper boxes can be banned in Boston's Back Bay, plaintiffs say the city took their boxes away from sites near Red Sox stadium on opening day, while the paid daily boxes weren't touched, Seth Gitell of the Boston Phoenix reports.
Boston Phoenix |
04-11-2002 3:02 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation, Boston Phoenix
Voice Looks at the Status of Women's Sportsnew
In a six-article package, three female writers from The Village Voice ask what it's like to throw a punch? Hit the mat? Go long? Take a slap shot? Compete against members of the
less-fair sex? Laura Conaway gets the dirt from women athletes. Plus: Alisa Solomon reports on corruption in
women's collegiate sports, and Candace Rondeaux gives a preview of the upcoming fight over Title IX—a law
that the National Wrestling Coaches Association says discriminates against men.
