AAN News
Boise Weekly to be Sold to Owner-Operators (third item)new
The folks at Willamette Week have agreed to sell the paper to Mark "Bingo" Barnes, and his wife Sally Gay Barnes, according to a report in today's Boise Weekly. Bingo, director of creative services for the Greenspun Media Group’s newspaper division (which includes the non-AAN alternative Las Vegas Weekly), is a familiar face to those who have attended the last few AAN conventions.
Boise Weekly |
07-26-2001 11:51 am |
Industry News
Weekly Planet Editor Going To Creative Loafing
John Sugg will leave Tampa in late August to become senior editor at the company’s flagship paper, Atlanta’s Creative Loafing. Senior editor “in our lexicon means that I’ll be the lead writer and that I’ll be building and leading the writing team,” says Sugg, who is "second on the masthead" under the paper's editor, Ken Edelstein.
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Seth Wharton |
07-26-2001 11:50 am |
Industry News
Philadelphia City Paper Tells Inquirer Hows It's Donenew
Philadelphia City Paper's Howard Altman lets The Inquirer's Tony Ridder have it right between the eyes.
the daily is laying off editorial staff due to financial woes. Altman gives Ridder some advice on surviving a downturn –– ditch the focus groups, concentrate on the city not the 'burbs, bring the reporters back when times improve and don't abandon foreign reporting.
Philadelphia City Paper at 20 Yearsnew
Philadelphia City Paper celebrates its 20th anniversary this week with a big paper and a big party. In those two decades, the paper has had only two owners. Editor David Warner says one spent "15 years squeezing a nickel until the buffalo turned blue," and both preserved the integrity of the news against incursions from the advertising side.
Philadelphia City Paper |
07-20-2001 11:51 am |
Industry News
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A Good Show, by Any Measure
The AAN Convention in New Orleans featured 521 attendees, 44 exhibits, seven new AAN members and one great party. Not to mention Hazel Reinhardt, Leslye Geller, Rick Bragg, Andrei Codrescu and Oliver Stone. Plus a jazz funeral and some amazing beds. Who could ask for anything more?
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AAN Staff |
07-18-2001 11:50 am |
Industry News
Barrett, Schmall Named News & Review Publishers
"They've been doing these jobs for a while now," says Jeff vonKaenel, explaining why he recently named Kathy Barrett and Dave Schmall publisher at their respective weeklies, Chico News & Review and Sacramento News & Review. Both had been serving as general manager.
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Rebekah Gleaves |
07-17-2001 11:50 am |
Industry News
Libel Suit Against Weekly Planet Spreads its Tentaclesnew
The Village Voice reports that a libel suit originally filed by anti-terrorism expert Steven Emerson against Tampa, Fla.'s Weekly Planet, its editor, John Sugg, and former Associated Press reporter Richard Cole, has reached New York in an assault on that state's media shield law. Sugg wrote stories in 1998 and 1999 calling Emerson a fanatic who had, among other things, tried to link respectable Muslim scholars in Florida to the World Trade Center bombing. Emerson claims these and other media stories have damaged his credibility.
The Village Voice |
07-17-2001 11:50 am |
Industry News
Seven New Members Admitted at Annual Meeting
New Board members elected and $1.23 million budget approved
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AAN Staff |
07-15-2001 11:51 am |
Association News
