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LA Weekly Task: "Reinvent Alternative Journalism"new
Los Angeles Magazine reporter R.J. Smith says the city's dominant alternative "has improved" since "smart and low-key" Laurie Ochoa took over as editor a year ago. Smith calls the paper Ochoa inherited "lucrative but dull, a cash cow in need of a prod" and says Village Voice Media CEO David Schneiderman -- who argues that "anxiety is healthy" -- is doing the prodding. "The pressure I'm putting on them is not because of investors," Schneiderman says. "It's so we don't become dinosaurs."
Los Angeles Magazine |
04-01-2002 12:08 pm |
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New Publisher Named at Sacramento News & Review
Scott Hassenflu moves from the San Francisco Bay Guardian to take over the News & Review's flagship Sacramento paper. He replaces Dave Schmall, who returned to Minneapolis as associate publisher of Tom Bartel and Kris Henning's new monthly, the Rake. Meanwhile, Terry Garrett, former publisher of the Weekly Planet in Tampa, is moving to Marin County after being named sales director at Pacific Sun.
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John Ferri |
04-01-2002 1:10 pm |
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Political Punks Take Dissent on the Roadnew
In the world of political punk, Anti-Flag is almost alone in raising the banner of dissent these days. After the terrorist attacks last September galvanized a new patriotism in America, many rock musicians and fans alike have taken a closer look at their rebelliousness. Justin Hopper of Pittsburgh City Paper goes on the road with Anti-Flag, looking at left-wing rhetoric from the last unapologetic punk dissidents left standing.
Vermont Legislators Investigate Columnist's Chargesnew
Leaders of the Vermont Senate are looking into charges by Seven Days columnist Peter Freyne that the Legislature pulled funding from Vermont Public Television in order to get him off the air, the Rutland Herald reports. Freyne's "Inside Track" column blisters legislators with great regularity. He has also been a regular guest and moderator on VPT's "This Week in Vermont" for some 20 years.
Rutland Herald |
03-28-2002 3:14 pm |
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Willamette Week Explains Fiction Contest Judgingnew
After a mini-firestorm of protest over the judging in Willamette Week's inaugural writing contest, Arts and Culture Editor Caryn B. Brooks explains it all. A mea culpa for not having told the three judges that their picks were merely advisory, not binding. And she says putting "Floozy" third rather than first was because the author hadn't been particularly inventive in plot and characterization launched from the required first line, "At 4 a.m. she found herself under the Broadway Bridge."
Willamette Week |
03-28-2002 1:30 pm |
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How IBM Helped Create the Hitler Death Machinenew
During Hitler's reign, Germany became IBM's premier foreign customer. What role did the company play in automating the Nazi
death machine? "IBM and the Nazis jointly designed, and IBM
exclusively produced, technological solutions that enabled Hitler to
accelerate and in many ways automate key aspects of his persecution of
Jews, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and others the Nazis considered
enemies," Edwin Black reports in The Village Voice. "Custom-designed, IBM-produced punch cards, sorted by IBM
machines leased to the Nazis, helped organize and manage the initial
identification and social expulsion of Jews and others, the confiscation of
their property, their ghettoization, their deportation, and, ultimately, even
their extermination."
New Paper Enters Crowded SF Marketnew
A new fortnightly arts and entertainment paper, the Wave, is ready to cross swords with the already warring San Francisco Bay Guardian and SF Weekly, Dan Fost of the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Both Bay Guardian Editor/Publisher Bruce Brugmann and SF Weekly Editor John Mecklin are dubious about the Wave's chances, Fost says. Also, Featurewell syndicate signs Mother Jones.
San Francisco Chronicle |
03-27-2002 9:27 am |
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