AAN members were well-represented when the South Florida Chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists announced the winners of the 2007 Sunshine State Awards Saturday night. New Times Broward-Palm Beach took home three first-place awards, and Miami New Times had one first-place finish. Those two papers and Creative Loafing also accounted for 10 second- and third-place awards in the yearly contest.
Career services coordinator Gina Boubion will attend this year's convention to talk to prospective students about mid-career programs at Columbia, and to connect with editors who are looking to hire both entry-level and more experienced journalists. "Every year more and more of our students come to Columbia to advance their investigative and narrative skills, and they've definitely gotten the message from us and their professors that the alt-weeklies are fertile ground for doing the kind of journalism they crave to do," Boubion says.
Stephen Buel, co-owner and editor of the newly independent Express, tells the San Francisco Chronicle that he will aim for a "better mix" of story lengths and more community and government meeting coverage, and will bring back calendar listings and staff-generated movie reviews. The paper will also be redesigned, in print and online. "Readers won't see the changes next week," Buel said. "But in six or so months, they can decide whether they like them or not."
On Wednesday, the New York Police Department released documents relating to what the New York Times calls the department's "extensive and secretive surveillance" leading up to 2004's Republican National Convention. Among the documents was a Nov. 13, 2003 dossier (PDF file) that said "activists are talking, some with barely hidden glee, about the possibility of violence" on the syndicated cartoonist's site. Saying it is a "compliment I don't deserve," Rall takes issue with the NYPD's short bio that calls him "a nationally known activist figure." He writes: "I'm no activist ... many of my friends are activists, and I admire them for it. Next to them, I'm a mere lump on a log who opines on current events from behind my computer and drafting table."
On Trade Secrets, a resource blog for illustrators, Benjamen Purvis talks about his production process, what he looks for in illustrators and how he finds and chooses them. "I know they can be expensive to produce and distribute, but really, the illustrator's work is more likely going to jump out at me when I look at their post card on my wall than it would in an all-text email with a hyperlink," he says.
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