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City Pages 'Best Of' Winner Puts Award on eBaynew
"I've enjoyed my City Pages award for the past week, and now I'd like to pass it along to someone, anyone, who might really deserve it," writes Dan Lacey. His Faithmouse blog was recently named Best Locally Generated Blog (Right-Wing) in the paper's annual Best Of the Twin Cities issue, and now he's put it up for your bidding pleasure on eBay. Since City Pages doesn't actually issue physical certificates, Lacey will draw one to spec for the auction winner. Alas, the bidding action hasn't been too hot thus far: no bids have yet been placed.
Faithmouse Blog |
05-02-2007 12:59 pm |
Industry News
New Editor Says City Pages Not Destined for Major Makeovernew
But Kevin Hoffman tells the Pioneer Press he wants the paper to be "more adventurous" and less partisan. "I'm probably a bit less ideological than my predecessor was," says Hoffman, who took over when Steve Perry resigned earlier this year. While City Pages co-founder Kris Henning decries "the corporatization" of the paper, staff writer Mike Mosedale says the major difference now is that Hoffman is more hands-on and runs a more disciplined newsroom than Perry.
The Pioneer Press |
04-17-2007 9:37 am |
Industry News
Steve Monaco's Couch Pundit Blog Returns to City Pages
City Pages is proud to announce the return of Steve Monaco and the Couch Pundit blog
(FULL STORY)
City Pages Press Release |
04-16-2007 2:30 pm |
Press Releases
Senior Editor Leaves City Pagesnew
Britt Robson, who will leave March 1, tells the Star-Tribune his chief reasons for quitting were editor Steve Perry's recent resignation and the hiring of an editor from out of town to succeed him. "There was absolutely no pressure on me to leave," Robson says. "I just didn't want to be an unhappy, divisive force on the staff, which I would have been if I had stayed." He had spent over 10 years at the paper and was among Steve Perry's closest confidants, according to the Star-Tribune.
Star-Tribune |
02-13-2007 3:54 pm |
Industry News
More Edit-Staff Departures at Village Voice Media
The latest to leave are OC Weekly feature editor Rebecca Schoenkopf, whose Commie Girl column won last year's big-paper AltWeekly Award for best political column, and City Pages music critic Jim Walsh, who served two stints at the Minneapolis alt-weekly, the latest beginning in 2003. OC Register columnist Frank Mickadeit reports that Schoenkopf has "been ready to leave the Weekly for some time, simply because she needed a change" and that "her dream job would be editor-in-chief of an alternative weekly somewhere."
In her farewell column, Schoenkopf puts the paper's recent ownership change into context: "It could have been worse: Dean Singleton could have bought our newspaper. At least this way, we still get to call people twats." (OC Weekly music editor Chris Ziegler also left the paper, Schoenkopf notes in her column.)
OC Register | OC Weekly | St. Paul Pioneer Press |
02-01-2007 9:23 pm |
Industry News
City Pages Names New Editornew
The Village Voice Media paper announced yesterday that Cleveland Scene managing editor Kevin Hoffman would replace Steve Perry, who resigned earlier this week. Former City Pages co-owner Tom Bartel (the brother of the paper's current publisher, Mark Bartel) tells the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that he thinks Hoffman and present VVM management deserve a chance. "They've produced some terrific editors and stories over the years," Bartel says. "But anybody who comes in from out of town will have a certain learning curve. He needs to know the community he's covering."
Minneapolis Star-Tribune |
01-24-2007 1:00 pm |
Industry News
Kevin Hoffman to Edit City Pages
Village Voice Media |
01-24-2007 12:36 pm |
Press Releases
Editor Plans to Leave Minneapolis Alt-Weeklynew
Steve Perry announced today that he will resign next month after 13 years as editor of City Pages, reports the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. In a memo circulated to staff, Perry said "philosophical and practical differences" with New Times management prompted his decision to leave the paper.
Minneapolis Star-Tribune |
01-22-2007 11:45 pm |
Industry News
Citypages.com Presents Corpus Obscura, an Alternative Twist on Obits
City Pages Press Release |
10-06-2006 11:05 am |
Press Releases
'Couch Pundit' Blogger Parts Ways With City Pagesnew
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
09-11-2006 7:40 am |
Industry News
City Pages Alum Becomes Editor in Chief of Mother Jonesnew
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
08-16-2006 11:45 am |
Industry News
Blogger Bartel Runs Into Trouble at Couric 'Listening Session'
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that Matt Bartel was invited to Katie Couric's town meeting despite a ban on media, because the local CBS affiliate that organized the event "apparently didn't recognize the name Bartel (ubiquitous in Twin Cities publishing circles)." AAN members may be familiar with Matt's uncle, City Pages Publisher Mark Bartel, or his parents Tom Bartel and Kris Henning, who co-founded City Pages as well as its competitor, The Rake. After learning that Matt Bartel had a blog, staffers confiscated his pen, but he reports that he wouldn't have used it anyway. "I didn't get anything out of it, which is exactly what the evening news is," Bartel says.
07-13-2006 10:21 am |
Industry News
Tags: City Pages (Twin Cities)
City Pages Wins Eight Page One Awards
City Pages Press Release |
06-19-2006 8:47 am |
Press Releases
City Pages Takes a Pounding Over Meth Joke
When the Minneapolis alt-weekly selected crystal meth as the "Best Cheap Thrill" in its
annual "Best of the Twin Cities" issue, the usual suspects lined up to express their outrage, including talk-radio hosts, local TV reporters, health officials, politicians, and irate readers. Editor Steve Perry's first instinct was to stand by the blurb, explaining in an editor's note that it was a joke that was intended to make the point "that it's possible to make entirely too much of the drug hype of the hour--unless you're in radio or television, of course." But after being pounded for twelve hours, Perry issued an apology, saying that he was chastened by "a lot of comments and e-mails ... from readers who've seen the lives of loved ones wrecked or ended by meth."
04-27-2006 12:42 pm |
Industry News
Alt-Weeklies Lap Up Nominations in Food-Writing Awards
Foodies at Creative Loafing (Atlanta), Riverfront Times, Westword, L.A. Weekly, East Bay Express, City Pages (Twin Cities), Phoenix New Times, and Houston Press picked up ten of the 21 nominations for which they qualified in the 2006 James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards announced today. The complete list is available as a PDF here. Alt-weeklies were particularly dominant in the "Newspaper Writing on Spirits, Wine or Beer" category, in which all three nominees are AAN members. The awards recognize and honor excellence and achievement in the culinary arts.
03-16-2006 1:26 pm |
Industry News
