AAN News
St. Pete Weekly Deep in Red Inknew
After only four months, the St. Petersburg Times reports the upstart St. Pete Weekly has ceased publication. Publisher Dean Capone tells the Times he's not given up and is seeking new financing to start again. Meanwhile, the daily reports staffers haven't been paid and that one has filed a claim for nearly $5,000.
St.Petersburg Times |
02-05-2002 1:32 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management
John Raeside Resigns as East Bay Express Editor
After 24 years with East Bay Express, Editor John Raeside is hanging it up. Raeside has announced his resignation, effective March 1. Managing Editor Stephen Buel will take his place. Raeside says the paper has had some remarkable accomplishments in its first year under New Times ownership and that he feels he's leaving it in good hands.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
02-05-2002 9:54 am |
Industry News
Daniel Pearl Interned at Palo Alto Weeklynew
Palo Alto Weekly |
02-05-2002 6:46 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Palo Alto Weekly
Dissent Livesnew
It’s OK to protest again. The undeclared cooling-off period after Sept. 11 has ended, and the anti-globalization crowd is headed to New York City for a five-day summit of business and trade leaders. This special report from LA Weekly includes John Powers on the re-emergence of protest as a national pastime, Dean Kuipers on the protesters’ six-point manifesto, and Judith Lewis on why she deplores the humorless life of an activist.
Lisa Chamberlain Leaves Free Times
Lisa Chamberlain has been let go as editor-in-chief of the Cleveland Free Times and has gone to work for an Ohio congressman. Publisher Matt Fabyan says the decision was his. The Free Times is conducting a national search for a replacement. In the meantime, Don Forst, editor-in-chief, of The Village Voice will be spending three days a week in Cleveland to help put out the paper.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
02-01-2002 11:39 am |
Industry News
"Shackled:" Baltimore's Lost Generationnew
In the first of a series, Baltimore City Paper's Molly Rath goes into the juvenile justice system -- deep in -- and finds a lost and angry generation of the young and the poor. "They are loud, because they want to be heard.
They are angry, because nobody listens to them. This generation is in pain," Judge David Young tells Rath. Nevertheless, amid the pervasive despair, Rath finds glimmers of hope.
Executive Committee to Manage Eugene Weekly
Eugene Weekly is planning to publish by committee for the time being after letting go Publisher Sonja Snyder early this month. “We just had insurmountable differences as to the direction of the paper, and you can’t run a paper that way,” says Snyder, who helped found the weekly 19 years ago.
(FULL STORY)
John Ferri |
01-31-2002 10:54 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Eugene Weekly
Reader Staff Rallies Behind Fired Editornew
Chicago Magazine reports that 75 Chicago Reader staffers and freelancers have signed a letter in support of Patrick Arden, the newspaper's managing editor who was fired Jan. 15. However, the letter does not ask for Arden's reinstatement, the magazine reports. Jane Levine, publisher of the Reader, tells Chicago Magazine the firing was partly the result of tensions between Arden and Reader Editor Alison True, "but that's not all that it was."
Chicago Magazine |
01-31-2002 10:02 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management
Marketing Materials Rolled out at NADA
More marketing materials in the pipeline
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
01-31-2002 6:00 pm |
Association News
Jury Rejects "Repressed Memory" Assault Claimnew
Last year
the Arizona
Supreme Court
opened the door to a
new round of
sex-abuse claims
based on "repressed
memories." But in a
just-concluded test
case, a Phoenix jury wasn't buying the claims of a
woman who "remembered" an attack that allegedly
took place in the 1970s--not even a little bit. In "Expert Tease," Phoenix
New Times staff writer Paul Rubin takes an in-depth look at the case.
