AAN News
Another War in Afghanistannew
Tom Walsh, editor of the Sacramento News & Review, remembers his time in Afghanistan, when another war was raging. "I remember looking at the Toyota long-bed truck and
wondering if this would be where I would die," Walsh writes. Obviously he survived, but others did not come back from the war against the Soviets. One of them was Jim Lindelof, who wrote: “I know this trip is crazy, but for the pictures and the story we’re after, it’s worth the risk; that is, as long as we don’t get killed.” Lindelof was killed on his way out of Afghanistan with what he believed was the first-ever film of a CIA-supplied Stinger missile knocking a Soviet fighter jet out of the sky. His film was never found. Now Walsh sees the journalists pouring back into Afghanistan and wonders if that country will ever know peace.
CityBeat Buys a Buildingnew
Cincinnati CityBeat has purchased a six-story downtown building and is now looking for "like-minded" tenants to share the space, the Cincinnati Business Courier reports. CityBeat will pay $790,000 for the building where Hank Williams once recorded. "We just thought it would be better to buy. It was a good deal. It's a really good building, and we wanted to stay downtown," Co-Publisher and Editor John Fox tells the business paper.
Cincinnati Business Courier |
11-09-2001 4:43 pm |
Industry News
Utne Nominates Eight AAN Papers for Alt Press Awardsnew
Utne Reader has nominated eight AAN members in its 13th Annual Alternative Press Awards. Nashville Scene is nominated for Political Reporting. Colorado Springs Independent, LA Weekly, The Local Planet Weekly, Metro Times (Detroit), NOW (Toronto) and The Texas Observer were all nominated for Best Local Coverage. The Village Voice was nominated for Arts and Literature.
Utne Reader |
11-09-2001 1:05 pm |
Industry News
Abbey's Ex-Wife Reviews His Biographynew
Renee Downing, the next to the last of Ed Abbey’s five ex-wives, reviews the new biography of Abbey, author of Desert Solitaire and other novels. “Women who slept with Ed Abbey constitute a sizable, although aging, female sub-population in the Southwestern United States, and [James] Cahalan, a tireless researcher, seems to have talked with most of them,” Downing writes. Cahalan didn’t talk to her, though, for his Edward Abbey: A Life. This is her first word on the subject, published in Tucson Weekly.
Tags: Editorial, Tucson Weekly
Witt Leaving Washington City Paper
Howard Witt has resigned as editor of Washington City Paper, effective Nov. 16. “Please join me in congratulating Howard,” Jane Levine, publisher of City Paper's parent Chicago Reader Inc., says in a memo to staff. "The search will take as long as it takes to find a good editor," Levine says. Meanwhile, Associate Editor Richard Byrne has been named interim editor. MORE: The Washington Post reports Friday morning that Witt is leaving to take a job covering the State Department for the Chicago Tribune.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
11-08-2001 6:13 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Washington City Paper
MGM Mirage Hits Back at CityLifenew
CityLife, a non-AAN weekly in Las Vegas, said nasty things about the MGM Mirage big boys in a story. The giant casino responded by pulling its ads at a particularly bad time for the company, the Las Vegas Sun reports. "They're not worthy of us," an MGM spokesman tells the Sun.
Las Vegas Sun |
11-08-2001 5:07 pm |
Industry News
Cityview Editor Resignsnew
Jon Gaskell has resigned as editor of Cityview, the Des Moines Register reports. Register columnist Marc Hansen says Gaskell had been in the job 18 months, about the same "spin cycle" as several former editors of the paper owned and published by Connie Wimer. "An anti-establishment paper owned and operated by one of the flowers of the Des Moines establishment. Explain that one," Hansen writes.
Des Moines Register |
11-08-2001 11:17 am |
Industry News
Tags: Jon Gaskell
