AAN News
Two AAN Members Take 11 NNA Awards
The Nashville Scene and the San Francisco Bay Guardian snag nearly a dozen awards in the National Newspaper Association's Better Newspaper Contest. NNA will recognize the winners in all 125 categories at its 116th annual convention in September.
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AAN Staff |
08-14-2001 11:49 am |
Industry News
Festival Participant Asks: "Where's the Teamwork From Editorial?"new
After playing the Village Voice's Siren Music Festival with his band, Jazz Beard Jr., R. James Bagget says he was shocked at Amy Phillips' "sarcastic tone and lack of genuine enthusiasm" in her preview of the event that was published in the Voice. "(I)t is profoundly ironic that one of the Voice's main competitors (Time Out) ran a much larger and more laudatory preview," he writes in his letter-to-the-editor.
The Village Voice |
08-13-2001 11:51 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Village Voice
New Times LA Breaks Mafia Informant Murder Storynew
In a New Times LA exclusive, Susan Goldsmith obtains chilling court-sealed FBI documents that have never seen the light of day until this week’s edition of the alternative newsweekly. Using internal FBI reports and transcribed recordings made by FBI informants and agents in meetings with members of the Mexican Mafia, Goldsmith’s 6500-word story of mob violence questions why the FBI failed to make arrests with such ample evidence of conspiracy to commit murder.
New Times Los Angeles |
08-10-2001 11:51 am |
Industry News
Chicago Reader Wins Release of Files in Police Rape Casenew
Stay tuned this fall for a good read in the Chicago Reader. A federal judge ordered the city to release "five banker's boxes" of confidential police documents to the alternative newsweekly by August 30. The materials were sealed after the city settled a lawsuit filed by a woman who accused a police officer of rape. In an e-mail to AAN News, Reader Editor Alison True reports that in his written opinion (Download PDF Here), U.S. District Court Judge Ruben Castillo "commended" the Reader and reporter Tori Marlan "for their thorough investigative reporting and ongoing pursuit of truth in these types of misconduct cases."
Chicago Tribune |
08-10-2001 11:50 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Chicago Reader
Creative Loafing's Jerry Klein Says Farewellnew
Jerry Klein, a columnist for Creative Loafing Charlotte, writes his last column, laying bare his search for spiritual solace after having been "basically leveled, flattened" by fate. He’s moving on after exactly 365 columns and hopes it will be a Great Adventure.
Creative Loafing Charlotte |
08-10-2001 11:49 am |
Industry News
Missoula Independent Takes Shot at Former Ownernew
Missoula Independent Publisher Matt Gibson
writes a compelling story about the legal
maneuvering that allowed Jeffrey M. Smith
Jr. to obtain a concealed weapon permit in
Montana, despite arrests for violent crimes and a
diagnosis of manic depression. But this is Montana;
what else is new? What makes this story unusual is
that Smith formerly owned the Missoula
Independent before he sold it to Gibson, who
later sued him for breach of contract and trademark
dilution.
Missoula Independent |
08-09-2001 11:49 am |
Industry News
Tags: Missoula Independent
A Prayer for Dennis Freelandnew
Dennis Freeland, the sports writer — and former editor — of the Memphis Flyer has been diagnosed with brain cancer, but this grim news has not robbed him of his wit or his friends, just his future, writes Geoff Calkins, a sports columnist for The Commercial Appeal.
The Commercial Appeal |
08-09-2001 11:49 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Memphis Flyer
Web Site User Tools Now Operational
Site gives users more independence
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AAN Staff |
08-08-2001 11:50 am |
Association News
Bingo Barnes Buys Boise Weekly
Husband-and-wife team Bingo and Sally Barnes are the new owner/operators of Boise Weekly. The sale by City of Roses Newspaper Company was official on August 1 and formally inked on August 2. Present and former owners all agree the paper needs the kind of local stewardship the Barnes say they’ll provide.
• Read the Idaho Statesman's story on the sale.
(FULL STORY)
• Read the Idaho Statesman's story on the sale.
(FULL STORY)
John Ferri |
08-07-2001 11:52 am |
Industry News
CJR Extends Laurels to Three AAN Membersnew
In its summer issue, Columbia Journalism Review tenders "laurels" to three AAN members – The Village Voice, the Nashville Scene, and Tampa’s Weekly Planet – for “good old-fashioned criticism of the big boys in town.” The journalism-mag crowns the beneficiaries with a left-handed compliment: “Who says the alternative press has sold its birthright for a mess of personal ads and restaurant reviews?”
CJR |
08-07-2001 11:50 am |
Industry News
