AAN News
Boulder Weekly Editor Up for Prestigious Fiction Award
Pamela Clare's 2006 novel Surrender is a finalist for the Romance Writers of America's RITA Award in the Long Historical Romance category. Clare, better known to AAN members as Pamela White, has published six romance novels since she started writing them three years ago. Surrender is part of a historical trilogy set in pre-Revolutionary Colonial upstate New York during the French and Indian War. Final RITA winners will be announced in July.
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Romance Writers of America Press Release |
04-04-2007 8:20 am |
Honors & Achievements
Boulder Weekly's Fake Expert Due for Sentencing
David Race Bannon, the man who claimed to have been an assassin for Interpol as well as an expert on child sex-trafficking, has pleaded guilty to one count of criminal impersonation and will likely face fines, not jail time, at his sentencing on Thursday, The Charlotte Observer reports. Back in February, Boulder Weekly Editor Pamela White published an apology to her readers for featuring Bannon in a 2004 cover story.
06-26-2006 10:52 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Boulder Weekly
Boulder Weekly Duped by Fraudulent Author
Editor Pamela White penned a 5,175-word article for the Feb. 2 issue of Boulder Weekly, detailing how an "expert" she had used was actually a fraud. David Race Bannon is the author of Race Against Evil, a supposed former Interpol assassin, and a source for the Weekly's Sept. 9, 2004 story "Suffer the Children" on the international child sex trade. On Jan. 27, Bannon was arrested by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation on suspicion of criminal impersonation, computer crime and criminal attempt to commit theft. White writes, "one quickly realizes that journalism, most especially alternative journalism, entails taking some risks. I don't say that to defend any lack of judgment on my part; it is quite simply a fact." Westword also included a short take on Boulder Weekly and Bannon in its Feb. 2 issue (here, second item).
02-02-2006 9:13 pm |
Industry News
Boulder Weekly Columnist Plans Catholic Podcasts
Wayne Laugesen has drawn attention for his inflammatory Boulder Weekly columns (and, once, for smashing some windows). Now, the former Weekly editor hopes to draw listeners. According to a feature in Longmont, Colorado's Daily Times-Call, Laugesen "is building a sound studio in his Boulder County home at a cost of $10,000 to $15,000," in the hopes of launching money-making Catholic podcasts. Specifically, Laugesen is planning a talk show on which he'll debate "liberal journalist Pamela White"--the current editor of Boulder Weekly.
12-12-2005 3:46 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Boulder Weekly
Boulder Weekly Columnist Hammers Home a Pointnew
Wayne Laugesen of Colorado's Boulder Weekly believes there are times when a member of the media must cease being a spectator and take action. As such, he traded his usual pen for a sledgehammer and smashed a bunch of windows, reports Westword media critic Michael Roberts. Laugesen felt that an order directing homeowner Paul Wenig to reinstall antiquated windows he'd removed from his historic residence needlessly endangered two children who lived there. To Laugesen, destroying the windows was the obvious solution. Of the incident, he wrote in his Sept. 9 column: "Every broken window was a score for fatherhood, husbandry, and God-given liberty."
Westword |
09-24-2004 6:43 pm |
Industry News
"Bottom-Up" Collaboration Yields FEMA Story for AAN Papers
Ryan Learmouth |
09-23-2004 11:56 am |
Association News
AAN's Karpel Predicts Faux Alternatives Will Failnew
In an opinion piece published in Boulder Weekly, AAN executive director Richard Karpel recounts a phone interview he gave to The Daily Camera. The Boulder, Colo., daily is launching Dirt, a free weekday paper targeting 18- to 24-year-olds, and its reporter wanted a comment. Karpel obliged, explaining why Dirt, like any number of similar tabloids, would ultimately fail to reach young people: Daily papers tiptoe around potentially offensive language and subject matter; they're too "objective" for passion or point of view; and they're institutions far removed from the world most young people inhabit. The Camera chose to publish his one comment that tended to make the opposite point, so he lays out his full argument here.
Boulder Weekly |
08-27-2004 12:17 pm |
Industry News
Publisher Says 'Passion' Resurrects Libels against Jewsnew
There's no shortage of evidence that Mel Gibson has an anti-Semitic agenda in his film, "The Passion of the Christ," Stewart Sallo writes. The Boulder Weekly publisher says Jews historically have been most vulnerable to Christians' acts of "revenge" during the Holy Week before Easter, when passion plays were staged. Adolph Hitler praised one such performance in Germany as a convincing portrayal of "the menace of Jewry," Sallo writes. He raises concern about the potential of Gibson's film "to generate hatred and divisiveness."
Tags: Boulder Weekly, Stewart Sallo
