AAN News
AAN Joins Amici in Tribune Co. Case
AAN, along with more than two
dozen other media companies and
organizations, has joined an Amicus
Curiae brief, filed Jan. 23 in federal
court in Virginia. The case involves news
coverage of the housing of Connecticut
inmates in Virginia prisons and whether a
newspaper’s Web site opens it
to jurisdiction in distant states.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
01-24-2002 6:08 pm |
Association News
Is This the Demise of Open Government?
AAN Attorney Alice Neff Lucan looks at efforts by many state legislatures to roll back Sunshine Laws. Her conclusion is that these laws and legislative efforts are troubling but not yet the end of Freedom of Information as we know it. Her advice: ask who's been requesting government information and being denied, then publish that information. "If you don't tell them about access, how is anyone to know or care?" she asks.
(FULL STORY)
Alice Neff Lucan |
01-23-2002 11:29 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Alice Neff Lucan
Woman Fights to Keep Her Landnew
Rose Farley of the Dallas Observer tells the riveting story of
Murdine "Baby Ruth" Berry, who fought a years-long legal battle to get back the bulk of the 100 acres her great-grandfather, a freed slave, paid a couple of bales of cotton to possess. Farley details not only Berry's long struggle to keep
possession of the family farm, but the emotional
scars it left on her. "If they think I'm going anywhere,
I'm not going anywhere," Berry tells the Observer. "I'll stay here. I don't intend to give
it up. I'm a fighting monster."
Martineau Launches New Company
Russ Martineau, who was let go last week by City of Roses Newspapers, announces today the formation of a new sales and marketing consulting company, Ad Director.com. Martineau had managed the revenue departments for Willamette Week for the past 10 years. He resigned his position as president of the AAN board last week and is replaced by Bill Towler, publisher of City Newspaper in Rochester, N.Y.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
01-22-2002 3:16 pm |
Industry News
Changes in AAN Board
Towler becomes president
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
01-22-2002 3:32 pm |
Association News
Bergman Named First Amendment Speaker
“Insider” model speaks at Madison convention
(FULL STORY)
Keith Pandolfi |
01-22-2002 10:32 am |
Association News
Former Alt-Weekly Columnist Faces Runoff in Mayoral Racenew
Populist firebrand and former Dallas
Observer columnist Laura Miller
received 48.8 percent of the vote in
yesterday's mayoral election in Dallas,
and now faces a runoff against Tom
Dunning, a well-connected
businessman. Miller's campaign
stressed a return to basics: fixing
potholes, building parks and improving
the police department.
Associated Press |
01-20-2002 2:39 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Dallas Observer, Laura Miller
Sigman Asked to Resign at LA Weekly
Michael Sigman, president and publisher of LA Weekly/OC Weekly, has been asked to leave by Village Voice Media. His last day is Jan. 25. In other developments, three other AAN member papers have asked top managers to leave, including Eugene Weekly, Willamette Week and C-Ville Weekly.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
01-18-2002 3:27 pm |
Industry News
New York Press For Sale?new
Keith Kelly reports in today's New York
Post that Russ Smith discussed
selling his paper to Taki
Theodoracopulos, one of its well-heeled
columnists, for $5 million. (In a
letter to Jim Romanesko's Media News,
Smith said Kelly's story is "wrong.")
New York Post |
01-18-2002 9:42 am |
Industry News
