AAN News
CNPA Honors Nine AAN Publications
Palo Alto Weekly picked up the coveted general excellence award from the California Newspaper Publishers Association.
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CNPA |
05-06-2013 1:35 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Six Alt-Weekly Stories Named IRE Finalists
Stories from five AAN-member papers and one series that ran in several papers have been named finalists in this year's Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) journalism contest.
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AAN |
04-11-2011 9:06 am |
Honors & Achievements
North Bay Bohemian Uses QR Codes For Editorial Content
North Bay Bohemian published its annual "Best Of" issue using QR codes—which are typically hyped as an advertising tool—and used them to supplement the issue's editorial content.
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North Bay Bohemian |
03-30-2011 7:00 pm |
Industry News
North Bay Bohemian Editor Tapped for NEA Program
Gretchen Giles is one of 12 U.S. journalists to win a place in the first International Arts Journalism Institute in the Visual Arts. The program, which provides mid-career art critics and writers the opportunity to participate in a two-week intensive training, is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. State Department.
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North Bay Bohemian Press Release |
05-12-2009 8:39 am |
Press Releases
Alt-Weekly Parts Ways with Writer After His Credentials Are Questionednew
Last year, John Sakowicz began writing "smartly prescient" pieces on the impending financial collapse for the North Bay Bohemian, editor Gretchen Giles writes, so she kept publishing him and even dubbed him contributing editor on the paper's masthead. However, as Sakowicz's work at the Bohemian landed him a local radio show and "expert" status at the Institute for Public Accuracy, some people started digging into his background. Ultimately, Giles found that she couldn't confirm some details of Sakowicz's biography, and the paper has cut ties with him. "It appears that Sakowicz, while talented at understanding and predicting the economic moonscape, does not have the exact background he claims to have, one that we underscored by repeatedly printing it at the end of his articles," Giles writes in a mea culpa. "A credible publication cannot publish the works of writers whose credentials cannot withstand scrutiny."
North Bay Bohemian |
05-11-2009 10:18 am |
Industry News
Alt-Weekly Reporter Gets $35,000 Grant for Book Projectnew
Peter Byrne is on leave from the North Bay Bohemian to write The Devil's Pitchfork: Multiple Universes, Mutually Assured Destruction, and the Meltdown of a Nuclear Family, a book he tells AAN News is about "quantum mechanics and multiple universes." Byrne recently learned that the project received a $35,000 grant from The Foundational Questions Institute, a group with a mission to "catalyze, support, and disseminate research on questions at the foundations of physics and cosmology."
The Foundational Questions Institute |
08-18-2008 8:27 am |
Honors & Achievements
Alt-Weekly Projects Win IRE Awardsnew
Miami New Times' Isaiah Thompson was awarded a IRE certificate in the local circulation weeklies category for his stories on how residency restrictions forced sex offenders to live under a Miami bridge. In the same category, the AAN-commissioned "Who Killed Brad Will?" was a finalist, along with Peter Byrne's series on Sen. Dianne Feinstein in the North Bay Bohemian and Wayne Barrett's reporting on Rudy Giuliani in the Village Voice. The Texas Observer's reporting on sexual abuse at a state-run youth prison and the cover-up that followed it was also a finalist, in the Magazine/specialty publication category. The Chauncey Bailey Project, which the San Francisco Bay Guardian took part in, was awarded this year's Tom Renner Award, which honors "outstanding reporting covering organized crime or other criminal acts."
Investigative Reporters and Editors |
03-26-2008 8:57 am |
Honors & Achievements
Alt-Weeklies Reveal Sen. Feinstein in Conflict on Military Contractsnew
Metro Silicon Valley and North Bay Bohemian report this week that Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s husband was a major beneficiary of military appropriations blessed by a subcommittee that she headed, parent company Metro Newspapers announced today in a press release. Feinstein (D-Calif.) approved billions of dollars in military construction expenditures awarded to two firms that were controlled by an investment group headed by the senator’s spouse, financier Richard C. Blum, according to the investigative story by Metro's Peter Byrne. The story "examines the many ways in which Sen. Feinstein committed repeated breaches of ethics as (the subcommittee) chairwoman or ranking member from 2001-2005," according to the release.
Metro Newspapers Press Release |
01-25-2007 7:17 pm |
Industry News
Feinstein Caught in Conflict of Interest on Military Contracts
Billions in military construction projects to husband’s firms were
approved by Sen. Feinstein’s committee, Metro Newspapers
investigation reveals
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Metro Newspapers press release |
01-25-2007 2:15 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: North Bay Bohemian
Metro Newspapers Join the Ruxton Group
10-02-2002 10:13 am |
Press Releases
Sonoma County Independent Adopts New Identity
Redesigned paper has new name, bigger circulation and more arts coverage.
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Christine Iwan |
10-05-2000 11:51 am |
Industry News
