AAN News
Nesbitt New Editor at Riverfront Timesnew
Jim Nesbitt, a veteran of 23 years at daily newspapers, has been named editor of the Riverfront Times in St. Louis. He replaces Safir Ahmed, who is leaving the paper "to pursue other professional interests," a New Times news release says.
New Times Newspapers news release |
01-11-2002 3:59 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Riverfront Times
Dana Faust Joins Seattle Weeklynew
Village Voice Media names Dana Faust associate publisher/sales and marketing at Seattle Weekly. Faust has 18 years experience in display and classified advertising at The New York Times.
Village Voice Media news release |
01-11-2002 3:55 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Seattle Weekly
When Does Bondage Become Rape?
A Connecticut man is in jail for what he claims was consensual BDSM sex with his estranged wife. She says she was violently raped. Chris Harris in the Hartford Advocate follows the story as a Connecticut jury weighs the evidence from an explicit videotape and takes an unwilling journey into the strange twists and turns of the human heart.
Dana Faust Named Associate Publisher/Sales and Marketing at Seattle Weekly
01-11-2002 1:33 pm |
Press Releases
Bloomington Independent’s Future Iffy
Publisher Craig Hitchcock tells AAN News he is talking to an East Coast media chain about a sale of the struggling alt-weekly. The Independent’s reopening in the spring depends on a number of factors, among them hanging on to existing advertisers and attracting new investors, Hitchcock says. Parent company Yesse! Communications, in Chapter 11 reorganization since April 2001, is now operating only two papers – Impact Weekly in Dayton, Ohio, and Illinois Times, in Champaign, Ill., down from five at the beginning of 2001.
(FULL STORY)
Seth Wharton |
01-10-2002 5:05 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management
Utah Media Challenge Governor Over Deleted E-mailsnew
Four Utah media organizations, including Salt Lake City Weekly, have threatened to sue Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt for his policy of routinely deleting official e-mails, The Salt Lake Tribune reports. Media attorneys argue Leavitt is destroying records of "the governmental present and historical past." Managing Editor Chris Smart tells the Tribune, "Those e- mails belong
to the taxpayers and the voters. The fact that he has not recognized this is of
great concern."
The Salt Lake Tribune |
01-10-2002 4:04 pm |
Industry News
Pacific Northwest Inlander Launches Redesign
The Pacific Northwest Inlander unveils its redesign today. Seattle designer Mark Evans, a familiar name among AAN papers, began the makeover last spring. Inlander Publisher Ted S. McGregor Jr. says the redesign is a signal the weekly is “not content to stand still.”
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
01-10-2002 12:03 pm |
Industry News
Riverfront Times Questions Confinement of Female "Sexual Predator"new
Angela Coffel is the first woman ever jailed in Missouri as a violent sexual predator. Riverfront Times' Geri L. Dreiling looks at the story and concludes that evidence of Coffel's sexual violence is virtually non-existent. One expert concluded "because of her childhood sexual abuse, as well as her highly chaotic and abusive home life, Angel uses sex as a way to gain
acceptance and affection." In a court "war of experts" that cost state taxpayers $20,000, another witness said, "There appears to be one piece of data that is driving this, which is the fact that Ms. Coffel has a positive HIV status." Coffel has one shot, at a hearing this August, to win a second chance. If she loses, she could spend the rest of her life in solitary confinement in a state mental facility for sexual predators.
