AAN News
Nannies of the World Unitenew
Nannies in New York, often overworked, underpaid, ignored and invisible, are beginning to wake up and rattle their chains. The Village Voice this week examines efforts by Domestic Workers United to organize and lobby for their rights. "It will be
the first time in history that the city acknowledges the special burdens of
domestic workers and considers reforms to relieve them," reporter Chisun Lee writes.
AAN Attends NARM for First Time
Music business shows interest in alt-weeklies
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AAN Staff |
03-13-2002 4:01 pm |
Association News
The Strip Breaks Away from Magnolia Media
The Strip and its publisher Brooks Cloud have broken away from Magnolia Media, a partnership that brought together Birmingham Weekly, the Creative Loafing chain, and The Strip of Tuscaloosa, Ala. Cloud moves back to Tuscaloosa, resigning as general manager and ad director of the Weekly. Cloud’s new company, Monkey Media, also published Tuscaloosa Business Ink. “The Strip really needed the attention of an on-site publisher,” Chuck Leishman, publisher of Birmingham Weekly, tells AAN News.
(FULL STORY)
Ann Hinch |
03-11-2002 9:52 am |
Industry News
Two Who Revealed Plagarism Fired, but Not Culpritnew
An editor at the Daily Oklahoman and another at AAN-member Oklahoma Gazette lose their jobs after revealing that the daily's weather writer was lifting material from the Internet without attribution, Jim Romenesko writes in Media News Extra! Gazette media columnist Carol Cole exposed the plagiarism after getting tipped by someone at the Oklahoman. She "says she was fired from the Gazette after an argument with her editor over the
editing of her column," Romenesko writes. And at the Oklahoman, "fired editor and reporter, Scott Cooper, denies he gave the item to
Cole, but he admits he told others he was the source" to make himself feel important. Meanwhile weather writer Gary England says he'll start crediting NASA and others when he uses their material in his stories.
Media News Extra! |
03-11-2002 9:23 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Oklahoma Gazette
Bay Guardian Challenges SF Weekly Over "Anticompetitive Practices"new
In an article penned by Executive Editor
Tim Redmond, the 35-year-old
weekly announces that it has "launched
the first stage of a legal offensive
to stop" its New Times-owned competitor
"from engaging in anticompetitive
business practices that may violate
federal and state (antitrust) laws."
Redmond also details a settled
lawsuit in which the Bay Guardian
charged a sales rep who had decided to
jump ship with secretly
downloading
over 1,000 pages of sales records
and providing them to her then-new
employer, SF Weekly.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
03-11-2002 11:57 pm |
Industry News
AAN Writers Win Education Reporting Awardsnew
Four writers at AAN newspapers have
won awards in the 2001 National
Awards for Education Reporting from
the Education Writers Association. They
are: Nigel Jaquiss, Willamette
Week, first prize in investigative
reporting for "The
Poisoning of Whitaker";
Margaret Downing, Houston
Press, first prize in opinion writing for
"But Who's Counting"; Emily
Bliss,
New Times Broward-Palm Beach,
second prize in feature writing for "
A Scout for Life"; Mike Mosedale,
City Pages (Minneapolis/St. Paul),
special citation for "Take Till It
Hurts."
Education Writers Association |
03-08-2002 4:59 pm |
Industry News
Just Desserts? Dinner Circle Pyramidsnew
Women recruit their sisters in the name
of empowerment, but "dinner circle"
pyramids often collapse into criminal
charges. Chico News & Review
writer Devanie Angel attends one
of these psychobabble-soaked "gifting
circles" that abound across the country,
where those at the "appetizer"
level pay $5,000 so that the woman in a
"yummy dessert" position gets
the $40,000 tax-free payout. "In about 30
cycles, the population of the Earth would
be exhausted," Angel writes.
