Former Gambit Weekly Editor Michael Tisserand won first place in the Individual Feature Writing Category of the 2005 Louisiana Press Association journalism competition, the LPA announced this weekend. Tisserand won for an entry from his "Submerged" series that also ran as a cover story for Lafayette's Independent Weekly, which competes in the Free Circulation/Special Interest Publication category against other weeklies in the state. Tisserand's ten-part series chronicling the Katrina-evacuee experience was commissioned by AAN and ran in dozens of AAN member papers and Web sites. The Independent, a three-year old publication applying for AAN membership this year, earned 50 awards in the competition, including 21 first-place honors. Gannett's competing weekly in Lafayette, the Times of Acadiana, picked up 27 awards.
In an article published May 9, Jackson Free Press Publisher Todd Stauffer describes how Lee Warmouth, circulation director of the Gannett-owned Clarion-Ledger, asked him to sign a contract in order to continue distributing at some of the Free Press' already-existing spots. Ostensibly designed to reduce rack "clutter," the contract gives Gannett exclusive control of the display, and merchants are asked to sign a contract that forbids racks or boxes other than Gannett's. "In the meeting with Warmouth, it became clear to me that this 'service' was, in fact, not really aimed at the needs of local publications, but more about promoting The Clarion-Ledger's own growing stable of free publications while punishing anyone who dares to compete with them," Stauffer writes. He also discovered that merchants were being misled that Jackson Free Press had already signed on for the service.
According to a Variety article (reposted on Arkansas Times' blog), Contributing Editor Mara Leveritt's 2002 book Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three will be adapted into a film by Scott Derrickson and Paul Harris Boardman, the makers of The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Leveritt told radio station KUAR she wasn't worried that the filmmakers' horror-movie background would result in a sensationalized version of her investigation into three teens who were convicted of murder with little hard evidence. "The documentation that's in the book will serve to allow a lot of very accurate representation of the story and of the facts of the story that I reported, so I think it's going to be pretty much a journalistic effort transferred to film," she said.
Pulitzer-winning journalist Nigel Jaquiss is in the running for a 2006 Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, it was announced today. Jaquiss' investigation into the planned sale of Portland General Electric is a finalist in the "Small Newspapers" category (for newspapers with circulation of less than 150,000). Winners will be announced June 26.
The case of Marty Dwyer, a gay man who was discharged from the Air National Guard under questionable circumstances, was first reported in Illinois Times' April 13 cover story. Other media outlets later picked it up, and Gov. Rod Blagojevich last week told the Associated Press that he had asked the state attorney general to investigate Dwyer's discharge. However, the attorney general's office denied receiving the request. Dwyer told the AP, "I think the governor’s office is paying lip service to me."
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