AAN News
Three Alt-Weekly Arts Writers Selected for NEA Fellowshipnew
Freelancers Sherry Deatrick of Louisville Eccentric Observer and Jennifer Smith of Isthmus, and Byron Woods, theater and dance critic for the Independent Weekly (Durham, N.C.), have each received fellowships to attend the third National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Journalism Institute in Theater and Musical Theater at the USC Annenberg School for Communication in Los Angeles. "All the American arts depend on media coverage and intelligent criticism," says NEA chairman Dana Gioia. "The NEA Arts Journalism Institutes provide professional development to improve both the quantity and quality of this country's arts journalism." The Institute, a $1 million NEA initiative, will be conducted next year from Jan. 30 - Feb. 9.
National Endowment for the Arts via Ascribe Newswire |
12-19-2006 4:12 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Indy Week Gets New Digsnew
After two decades in a ramshackle Durham house on Hillsborough Road, the Independent Weekly is moving up and out. "We've done it all from our drafty old patchwork quilt of a house, where our back-issues archive is a bathtub, our only meeting room is also known as the lobby and no one is that surprised to find mouse droppings in a drawer now and then," writes a slightly wistful Jennifer Strom in this week's paper. The Indy will produce next week's issue during its move to the third floor of the renovated Venable Tobacco Co. warehouse in downtown Durham.
Independent Weekly (Durham, N.C.) |
12-14-2006 12:33 pm |
Industry News
Independent Weekly Adds Daily Reporting Through 'Citizen' Blognew
Independent Weekly (Durham, N.C.) |
08-07-2006 9:33 am |
Industry News
Godfrey Cheshire: Daring to Write for Sophisticated Filmgoers
Writing film criticism for an alt-weekly in an area with a highly educated population allows Godfrey Cheshire to write without dumbing down his work. His three award-winning reviews for The Independent Weekly analyze films created by an American, a Russian and an Iranian. This is the 22nd in a "How I Got That Story" series highlighting the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners.
(FULL STORY)
Erika Beras |
12-05-2005 10:02 am |
Association News
AAN FEMA Disaster Articles Appear in Blogosphere
As the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina continue to unfold, blogs the Web over are turning to the discussion of what exactly went wrong in those crucial early hours. The 2004 AAN-sponsored FEMA disaster story appears often. Most notably, Eschaton and Washington Monthly have linked to the story and the Sept. 7 follow-up published on altweeklies.com, both written by Jon Elliston of the Independent Weekly. In addition, a Louisiana-specific report written by Gambit Weekly staffer Eileen Loh-Harrist shows up on Talking Points Memo.
09-16-2005 10:01 am |
Industry News
AAN Articles Predicted FEMA Disaster
As FEMA stumbles in response to Hurricane Katrina, it's instructive to re-read a couple of articles published in AAN papers eleven months ago. In the first -- a story sponsored by AAN and published in over 20 of its members' papers -- Jon Elliston and the Independent Weekly reported the Bush Administration was shifting FEMA resources from protection from hurricanes and other natural hazards to homeland security. Disaster in the Making was published as FEMA was preparing for Hurricane Frances, only three weeks after their bang-up performance on Hurricane Charley. "They're doing a good job," one former FEMA executive told Elliston. "And the reason ... is because it's so close to the election, and they can't fuck it up, otherwise they lose Florida -- and if they lose Florida, they might lose the election."
In Homeland Insecurity (which was reported and published in conjunction with Disaster in the Making), Eileen Loh Harrist and Gambit Weekly reported that FEMA snubbed Louisiana and violated its own funding standards when it failed to provide the state with badly-needed Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM) funds to protect it from flooding. According to Loh Harrist, "the nearly $60 million pot of federal PDM money went to 31 other states and Puerto Rico. Texas received the biggest share, more than $8.8 million, followed by California ($6.1 million) and Florida ($5.3 million)."
In Homeland Insecurity (which was reported and published in conjunction with Disaster in the Making), Eileen Loh Harrist and Gambit Weekly reported that FEMA snubbed Louisiana and violated its own funding standards when it failed to provide the state with badly-needed Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM) funds to protect it from flooding. According to Loh Harrist, "the nearly $60 million pot of federal PDM money went to 31 other states and Puerto Rico. Texas received the biggest share, more than $8.8 million, followed by California ($6.1 million) and Florida ($5.3 million)."
09-01-2005 10:34 pm |
Industry News
Independent Weekly Wins 17 National, Regional and State Awards
07-01-2005 1:41 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, Independent Weekly (NC)
Alt-Weeklies Dominate Green Eyeshade Nominations
The Society of Professional Journalists announced the 2004 Green Eyeshade Award finalists yesterday, and AAN papers received 17 of the 27 nominations in the weekly/monthly division. According to SPJ, the Green Eyeshades "have honored the best in professional journalism in 11 southeastern states for 55 years." New Times Broward-Palm Beach and its sister paper, Miami New Times, did particularly well, receiving eight and five nominations, respectively. (NTBPB swept the nominations in the sports reporting category.) Independent Weekly's FEMA story, which ran in over 20 AAN papers this fall as part of an editorial joint project, was nominated in the investigative reporting category. Here's SPJ's announcement.
04-15-2005 12:49 pm |
Industry News
AAN Papers Gorge on Food Journalism Awardsnew
On Oct. 9, the Association of Food Journalists named winners in its 2004 AFJ Awards Competition -- and Association of Alternative Newsweeklies member papers came out looking like pigs in the "Under 150,000 Circulation" division. Willamette Week, Independent Weekly, Creative Loafing (Atlanta) and Cleveland Scene each took home an award, while Houston Press garnered a pair. According to the AFJ Web site, the awards "recognize excellence in reporting, writing, and photography in all media, and newspaper food section design and content."
Association of Food Journalists |
10-13-2004 11:32 am |
Industry News
"Bottom-Up" Collaboration Yields FEMA Story for AAN Papers
Ryan Learmouth |
09-23-2004 11:56 am |
Association News
Real Musicians Have Day Jobs
They need to make a living but can't afford to let the conformity demanded by some day jobs sap their creative spirit. Independent Weekly's Leslie Land, Tucson Weekly's Marc Desilets and others explain the migration of musicians to the classified sales departments of alternative newsweeklies. What's the appeal? Good pay, good vibes -- altogether a decent daylight gig for a breed that Cincinnati CityBeat's Chuck Davis has dubbed "rawker-ad-hawkers."
(FULL STORY)
Noel Black |
08-04-2004 11:02 am |
Industry News
Years of Talks Lead to NC Merger
Independent Weekly's acquisition of
Raleigh's alt-weekly the Spectator will
allow the newly merged Independent to
beef up its A&E coverage and
leaves Creative Loafing with more cash
for its four AAN-member papers. "One of
us ultimately had to give in to
create a single financially successful
paper, and we yielded to local
ownership," said Ben Eason,
CEO of Creative Loafing Inc.
(FULL STORY)
08-19-2002 12:24 pm |
Industry News
Triangle Weeklies Spectator and Independent Plan Merger
08-14-2002 10:41 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Independent Weekly (NC), CL, Inc.
Richard Hart Is New Independent Weekly Editor
Richard Hart will jump from the Raleigh News & Observer to become editor of Independent Weekly, Publisher Sioux Watson says. He replaces David Madison, who was named editor in October 2001. Madison has decided to return to Montana to rejoin his wife, Katie.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
05-14-2002 1:14 pm |
Industry News
Erstwhile AANies Elected Mayor in Minneapolis and Raleigh
The path between journalism and
politics is well worn, and now two
pols with alt-press connections have
taken over City Halls. R.T. Rybak,
erstwhile publisher of the defunct
Twin Cities Reader, was elected
mayor of Minneapolis, and Charles
Meeker, brother of Willamette
Week publisher Richard Meeker
and
a former Independent Weekly
shareholder, seized the reins in Raleigh,
N.C. Not since former Pacific Sun
reporter Barbara Boxer was
elected to the
U.S. Senate have AANies made such
political hay.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
11-26-2001 4:30 pm |
Industry News
