The focus of Saturday's panel was the Voice's impact on the theater, as drama critic Jerry Talmer, co-founder Edwin Fancher and cartoonist Jules Feiffer "trigger[ed] each other's memories about the early days of America's first alt-weekly," according to the Villager, a Greenwich Village community newspaper. The discussion ranged from the paper's creation of the Obie Awards -- Off-Broadway's highest honor -- to the merits of today's Voice to the role of World War II in the paper's origins. "There was the feeling in all of us that we have survived this ordeal, and they can't do anything to us," said Fancher, who, like co-founders Norman Mailer and Dan Wolf, served in the war. "We can have an open newspaper, and no one will shoot us."
Creative Loafing Inc.'s former web editor will be responsible for overseeing the development of AAN's websites -- AAN.org and AltWeeklies.com. She will also share editing duties on both sites with Jon Whiten, the organization's senior editor. Fries got her start in journalism at the San Antonio Current, writing news and editing the food section. She also was the food editor of Tampa's Weekly Planet (now called Creative Loafing) for a short time before she was tapped for the web position in Atlanta.
Facing a continually declining readership, Cox Newspapers' Atlanta Journal-Constitution announced last week an overhaul "that's expected to funnel breaking news and youth-oriented content to the Internet, while reserving the print version for investigative news and long-form feature stories for older, more educated readers," Creative Loafing reports.
Prominent Hispanic businessman Robert Chavez has been suspended as president of the Tennessee Hispanic Chamber of Commerce for 90 days as a result of the alt-weekly's cover story detailing his "nefarious business activities and poor chamber leadership," according to NashvillePost.com, a website covering Nashville business and politics. One of the chamber's board members, Miguel Torres, tells the Scene: "You did a good thing for the Hispanic community ... without your article, we would never have known the true Chavez."
For small newspapers operating a website with limited resources, Meredith Artley advocates hiring "somebody who knows the technology extremely well." In an audio interview with OJR, the former digital development director for the International Herald Tribune paraphrases an IHT co-worker to explain why that's important: "At it's core, a website is a technical thing," she says. "And you can't solve any ... problems with being able to get the journalism out and the reader comments and feedback in without going to the core and working on the technology aspect. "
In an intra-company switcheroo, Jim Parker takes over this week as publisher of a collection of publications in Victoria, British Columbia, including Monday Magazine. Meanwhile, the alt-weekly's former publisher, Bill Macadam, will fill Parker's old position at the News Leader & Pictorial, based 40 minutes north of Victoria in the Cowichan Valley. Both papers are owned by Black Press Group, Ltd.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's free weekly will target young readers by focusing on entertainment and short news items, according to the Arkansas Times. Internal memos provided to the Times reportedly reference the alt-weekly repeatedly, and reveal that "Focus" and "Mo" (as in, "More") are possible names for the new publication. Times Publisher Alan Leveritt accuses the D-G of starting the faux-alt "to eliminate a strong dissenting voice ... and to further monopolize the newspaper advertising market." But Leveritt is prepared to fight. "Over the last 30 some odd years any number of competitors have tried to swallow the Arkansas Times," Leveritt says. "We're about as digestible as hickory nuts."
The satirical weekly is looking to expand its U.S. foothold (currently 10 cities) by starting distribution operations in Atlanta, Boston, Columbus, Ohio, Philadelphia, and possibly Seattle and Portland, the Capital Times notes in a report on the Onion's continued growth.
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