AAN News
AAN West Draws More Than 100
Abbreviated program well-received
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
02-12-2002 3:34 pm |
Association News
Virginia's "Long-Arm" Reaching to Connecticutnew
In a case against two Connecticut Tribune Co. papers, The Hartford Courant and AAN-member New Haven Advocate, knotty issues of jurisdiction and Web pages are at stake. Editor & Publisher examines the "long-arm statute" case involving coverage of housing Connecticut prisoners in Virginia jails and whether the two papers libeled a Virginia prison warden. AAN is one of more than two dozen newspapers and trade associations signing onto an amicus curiae brief in the case.
Editor & Publisher |
02-11-2002 2:54 pm |
Industry News
Houston Press Unravels Enron Implosionnew
In just a few months, Enron, the darling of Wall Street, became the dog's ass. Houston Press writers Brian Wallstin and Tim Fleck take the implosion apart piece by piece.
"Enron used political ties to rid itself of regulators. But in the end, its supposed
free-market trailblazing only burned investors," they write.
City Paper Yanks Series After Fox Threatens to Suenew
With a terse note, Philadelphia City Paper kills its serialized novel, Transit of Venus by Anonymous D, because the local Fox affiliate threatened a lawsuit. The novel about a young woman's experiences as a TV news neophyte apparently cut too close to the Fox bone. The chapters published to date have been removed from the newspapers' Web site.
Philadelphia City Paper |
02-08-2002 11:15 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Philadelphia City Paper
Laurie Anderson: Truth and Daringnew
Laurie Anderson was once called a sellout for signing with Warner Bros. and bringing her art world aesthetic to the mainstream. Twenty years later, Brian Eno creates sounds for Microsoft, Mario Cuomo hawks Doritos, and it's Anderson who is refusing the Absolut ads. As she gets set to introduce her new performance work, Happiness, to Los Angeles audiences, Anderson talks with LA Weekly's Judith Lewis about pop culture, fast food, Sept. 11 and the virtues of useless art.
Alt Wars in Seattlenew
The bare-knuckled battle between Seattle Weekly and The Stranger in the land of Starbucks is laid bare by Seattle Post-Intelligencer writer John Marshall. He looks into whether two alt-weeklies can survive in a city the size of Seattle and whether the Stranger's "performance-art" journalistic style can knock out the more upscale, serious Weekly.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
02-07-2002 3:52 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Seattle Weekly, The Stranger
Passing the Torch of Mardi Grasnew
The "flambeau carriers" of New Orleans' Mardi Gras provide one of the most intriguing symbols of Carnival in the Big Easy. Groups of bandana-masked men carry torches in the night parades, dancing and twirling these sticks of flame as onlookers toss money. Gambit Weekly's Katy Reckdahl wanted to know more about these revelers under fire, and she walked alongside the parade route one night to find out about a craft steeped in tradition.
