AAN News
Newsrack Agreement in San Francisconew
The city and Bay Area newspapers have reached an agreement that allows the city to install uniform modular newsracks. Newspapers, including SF Weekly, had sued in 1999, arguing that the original scheme violated their First Amendment rights. "The settlement, which the publishers
reached with the city attorney last week,
will give the newspaper companies a say in
where the new city-controlled racks are
installed and which newspapers get to use
them," the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
San Francisco Chronicle |
03-20-2002 11:15 am |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation
Shadow-Chasing: An Ethical Dilemmanew
Through a series of e-mails from one Mr. Fantastic, Philadelphia City Paper's Howard Altman gets caught in both a web of espionage and an ethical morass. Mr. Fantastic says he can give Altman national security secrets about the layout of Site R, aka "Harry's Hole," in sleepy Waynesboro, Pa., one of the Bush administration's "shadow government" installations. Pretty soon the FBI is looking over Altman's and photographer Christina Felice's shoulders, and Pultizer Prize winner Seymour Hersch is growling "you are in way over your head on this, aren’t you?" Altman strings Mr. F along in cooperation with the FBI but can't quite agree to work with the men in black to sting him. Stay tuned.
Tempers Still Hot in Portland
A battle of words still rages in Portland, Maine, two weeks after Dodge Morgan fired most of the editorial staff at Casco Bay Weekly. Editor Chris Busby says Morgan was a “philanthropist” who suddenly panicked about the paper’s losing money. Morgan and his ex-wife, Lael Morgan, say Busby and his all-male staff were insubordinate and hostile. Not only that, Lael Morgan says someone peed into a trash bag full of files found after the firings. Not us, insists a furious Busby.
(FULL STORY)
03-18-2002 12:36 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Casco Bay Weekly
Texas Publisher Lands Sequel to "Bridges"new
Author Robert
James Waller went into seclusion after his
book The Bridges of
Madison County
became a runaway
best-seller. He
bought a ranch in
remote Alpine,
Texas, and hunkered down. Then
Waller finished writing the sequel to Bridges
and offered its publishing rights to the owners of
the local bookstore, a husband-and-wife team from
Houston who themselves had escaped the limelight
to find peace of mind in the back country.
Dallas
Observer staff writer Carlton Stowers tells
the story of one of the publishing world's most
unlikely business deals.
"Fallout" Takes Another Awardnew
Lisa Davis' "Fallout" series, which won a George Polk Award a few weeks ago, wins a 2002 IRE Award for investigative journalism. Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. honors Davis and John Mecklin of the SF Weekly for “Fallout,”
which reveals "how a Bayfront property about to be turned
over to the city by the Navy may be far more contaminated
with radioactive waste than current cleanup plans
acknowledge." Other AAN members Phoenix New Times and New Times Los Angeles were the two finalists in the local circulation weekly division, giving New Times a lock on the division.
Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. |
03-15-2002 2:19 pm |
Industry News
Hentoff on Leaked Pulitzer Finalist Listnew
Nat Hentoff, columnist for The Village Voice, is on a leaked list of Pulitzer Prize finalists making the rounds of American newsrooms, E&P's Joe Strupp reports. No one's vouching for the list's authenticity publicly, but it's making for some tense journalists between now and April 8, when the winners are announced.
Editor & Publisher |
03-15-2002 9:18 am |
Industry News
AAN Joins Leggett Supreme Court Appeal
Amicus brief filed last week
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
03-15-2002 11:10 am |
Association News
Soil Under Siege in Chiapasnew
San Antonio Current's News Editor Lisa Sorg recently traveled to Chiapas and found that biopirates are pillaging the region in search of the perfect prescription. "The innocuously named 'life sciences' industry is threatening life
itself. Through biopiracy --
stealing plants to patent and
later manufacture profitable drugs -- corporations such as
Merck are undermining biodiversity," Sorg writes. This is the first installment in an occasional series about issues facing Southern Mexico and its indigenous people.
