Citing economic reasons, the general manager of Indiana Printing and Publishing Co. Inc. told Pittsburgh Business Times that the last issue of the arts and entertainment paper is on the streets this week. The two-year-old Pulp was unable to compete successfully for advertising with the larger and more established Pittsburgh City Paper, an AAN member owned by Steel City Media.
Fathers Day is not an easy time for children who've lost their dads, but it is especially difficult for dads who have lost their children, as hundreds of fathers have during the conflict in Iraq. Paul Rockwell reports on some of those bereaved men in San Luis Obispo New Times this week. He tells of Bill Mitchell, who was carrying a protest sign reading "Bring my son home now" a week before his son, Sgt. Michael Mitchell, was killed attempting a rescue in Iraq. Find Rockwell's stories and more at AltWeeklies.com.
The newspaper industry is starting to feel the effects of a rebound as overall spending on equipment and technology is expected to go up 74.1%, according to the Newspaper Association of America's annual Capital Equipment Expenditures Survey. The total amount projected for 2004 is $623.8 million, up from $358.3 million of actual spending in 2003. A total of 179 newspapers responded to the survey.
These days, advertisers brand interactive games to promote their wares, the U.S. Army uses them for recruitment, and police departments employ them to run virtual drills. Now, some groups are educating with Web games to promote social and policy issues. Serious Games themes range from HIV/AIDS and poverty to public policy and New York City's budget.
The Denver alt-weekly writer won a 2004 medal in the nondaily newspaper category for her story “Nowhere Boy,” which chronicles the struggle of an adoptive family to obtain mental health services for their severely emotionally troubled son. The article "touches on funding of the mental-health system, high-risk adoption and the various mental disorders and conditions linked to fetal alcohol syndrome. It’s a compelling subject done nicely," the judges commented. The awards are sponsored by the Casey Journalism Center on Children and Families.
The opinion pieces about the late president are missing the sentimentality found in much of the media this week. Recalled not so fondly are the Iran-contra affair, appointments of right-wingers to the bench, attacks on welfare mothers, soaring deficits and trickle-down economics. Political commentaries can be found in the Opinion section of AltWeeklies.com.
The Denver alt-weekly's Julie Jargon, 29, tied for first in the national reporting category for "The War Within," a series on rape of female cadets at the United States Air Force Academy. The Livingston Awards are given only to journalists under the age of 35. The $10,000 awards are the largest all-media, general-reporting prizes in the country.
Someone's got to keep an eye on the Fourth Estate. Media columnists at AAN papers, like The Village Voice's Cynthia Cotts and Westword's Michael Roberts, tackle the challenge of covering the local journalism scene without coming across as too tedious or self-absorbed. John Dicker reports for AAN News on several columnists who make meaty stories of plagiarism scandals, stiffed freelancers and toppled editors.
Judges have chosen finalists in the Cover Design category for the 2004 Alternative Newsweekly Awards. For newspapers with circulation under 50,000, finalists are Tak Toyoshima, Boston’s Weekly Dig; Gregory Dickens, MetroBEAT; and Julie Barnett, San Antonio Current. For papers with circulation of more than 50,000, finalists are Joe MacLeod, Baltimore City Paper; Andrea Diaz-Vaughn, Larry Dalton and James McHughes, Sacramento News and Review; and Tim Silbaugh and Johanna Goodman, Seattle Weekly. The AAN News article about the contest has been updated to reflect the announcement.
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