AAN News
Creative Loafing Sells Greenville, S.C., Papernew
Ben Eason, president of Creative Loafing Inc., has sold Creative Loafing of Greenville, S.C. , a non-AAN alt pub, to his mother, Debby Eason, founder of the chain; Lori Coon, publisher of the Greenville paper; and Kyle Sims, publisher of the Savannah, Ga., edition of Creative Loafing. Ben Eason says his mother now owns 51 percent of the Greenville paper and that he wants to concentrate on bigger markets. Also, former Loafing writer Greg Land joins Time magazine as an Atlanta correspondent.
Atlanta Business Chronicle |
09-04-2001 6:42 am |
Industry News
Omaha Reader ME Signs Book Deal
Timothy Schaffert’s first novel is to be published by BlueHen, a new literary division of publishing giant Penguin Putnam, in June 2002. The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters is about sisters damaged by abandonment. Schaffert, managing editor of the Omaha Reader says his day job is like a baby squalling in the next room, "a distraction from creativity, certainly, but an important distraction."
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AAN Staff |
08-31-2001 6:59 am |
Industry News
Westword Follows Pedophiles Into Cyberspacenew
Steve Jackson serves up a
compelling expose of what happens
when a sexual
predator enters a teen chat room.
Mike and Cassandra Harris of
Colorado’s Jefferson
County District Attorney's Crimes Against
Children unit were among the
first to set up stings of Internet
predators, with Cassandra as bait,
playing both boys and girls. “The
advantage here, of course, over
dailies is that instead of telling readers
that these men get online and
say bad things to children, I could put
down in black-and-white what
they say and how they say it ... hit the
reader over the head with the
reality of it,” Jackson tells AAN News
in an e-mail.
Westword |
08-30-2001 3:09 pm |
Industry News
Writer Hangs It Up After a Dozennew
"Twelve years is too long for a
writer to stay anywhere, particularly in the
field of alternative journalism," Greg
Land says in his farewell column.
He’s off to different pastures, leaving his
spot at Creative Loafing to "new
blood."
Creative Loafing Atlanta |
08-30-2001 9:56 am |
Industry News
Mailing Lists Back, Better Than Ever [members only]
AAN Staff |
08-30-2001 3:11 pm |
Association News
Tags: DesertNet
Creative Loafing Opens File on Abusive Officernew
Mara Shalhoup got a lead on a story that's all-too-familiar, and nearly always ignored by the dailies. Tim Peck, a freelance computer guy, walked down the street from his home to get a carry-out burger at the Fox & Hounds. He left the premises in an ambulance with two broken legs after an altercation with off-duty Sheriff's Deputy Kelvin Smith. Creative Loafing's exclusive opens Deputy Smith's personnel file, and it's packed with similar incidents. Shalhoup spent a month researching and writing the story after waiting a month before Peck would agree to talk to her.
Creative Loafing Atlanta |
08-29-2001 10:44 am |
Industry News
Gerencser Going to Pasadena Weeklynew
Charles Gerencser, former publisher of New Times Los Angeles, has been named publisher of Pasadena Weekly, one of the seven papers that were admitted to AAN last month. Gerencser comes to the alt pub from NuSign Industries and will help lead Ventura Newspaper Inc.'s efforts in the Los Angeles suburbs, says Group Publisher David Comden.
Pasadena Weekly News Release |
08-27-2001 8:47 am |
Industry News
