In an interview with PR Week, Slate media critic Jack Shafer, who is also the former editor of both Washington City Paper and SF Weekly, names the Boston Phoenix's Mark Jurkowitz and Washington City Paper's Erik Wemple as two of the best media critics in the country. (He also cites former alt-weekly reporters Dan Kennedy and Tom Scocca.) Shafer says that when he edited the City Paper, he considered each issue of the paper an implicit "volume of media criticism," because of CP's emphasis on stories that its mainstream competition ignored.
Rall, whose award-winning cartoons appear in many AAN papers, including the Village Voice and Washington City Paper, has reached another milestone: becoming a clue in the New York Times crossword puzzle. As noted by Editor & Publisher, the Jan. 20 puzzle featured the clue "editorial cartoonist Rall." On his blog, Rall said, "That really is kind of amazing to this boy from the Ohio burbs. On the other hand, it is a pretty damned hard puzzle."
Mara Shalhoup's award-winning feature story is a long-form narrative that often assumes the perspective of a teenage prostitute-turned-killer. It wasn't a hard article to write, Shalhoup says, and the strong response proves that readers want more stories with a human focus. This is the 34th in a "How I Got That Story" series highlighting the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners.
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