Adario Strange has resigned after one year at the alt-weekly, Gawker reports. "My goal was to change the paper into what it could be and I'm happy that we accomplished that," says Strange, who took over for Harry Siegel in the wake of the Muhammad cartoons controversy. "Having accomplished those goals, I am happy to get back to what I had been doing for the prior four years, making independent films."
UPDATE: Arts Editor Jerry Portwood will take over as editor of the New York Press, Gawker is now reporting. In addition, Managing Editor Natalie Dolce was fired resigned last week, according to Gawker. CORRECTION: AAN News has been informed that Dolce was not fired as originally reported by Gawker, but that she resigned from the Press.
Executive editor Matt Coker notified the Weekly's staff yesterday that he's heading to the state capitol to be editor of the News & Review, LA Observed reports. He replaces Nancy Brands Ward, who left the Sacramento alt-weekly earlier this month. Despite the timing of his resignation, Coker says it's unrelated to the recent comings and goings at OC Weekly. "I want to make it clear that my departure has nothing to do with Ted [Kissell]'s arrival nor the shenanigans involving others who have left the Weekly," Coker says in his e-mail to staff. "The timing just happened to work out that way."
The Molly Ivins First Amendment Award will be presented at the AAN convention to a journalist or media figure who has taken a courageous stand challenging the preferred narrative of powerful government or private interests; whose reporting and/or commentary has had a profound impact on the public's understanding of the issue; and whose work embodies the spirit of Ivins' legacy -- speaking truth to power with wit and style. All AAN members are eligible to submit a nomination to web at aan.org. The deadline is Tuesday, April 2.
Worcester Publishing Ltd. is selling its three business magazines to a new company that will be headed by two of its senior managers, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette reported last month. The new Worcester Publishing, whose sole publication will be AAN member Worcester Magazine, will also move offices. "I'm just sort of simplifying my life a little bit," says Allen W. Fletcher, principal owner of the company. "This enables me to focus on a single publication." The sale is due to close on March 31, and the financial terms were not disclosed.
The former columnist for Los Angeles CityBeat and the New York Press passed away yesterday afternoon, the Los Angeles Times reports. Despite being a non-smoker, Seipp was diagnosed five years ago with the lung cancer that ultimately killed her. Although she's probably best known for her National Review column and her Wall Street Journal op-eds, Seipp was a longtime writer for alt-weeklies on both coasts. She wrote the "Letter from L.A." column for the New York Press in the 1990s, and in 2003 she started writing the "Media Circus" column for Los Angeles CityBeat. The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon, a close friend of Seipp's, reports that a public funeral will be held at 10 am Friday, at L.A.'s Mt. Sinai Hollywood Hills (map). On Seipp's blog, her daughter notes that instead of flowers, she had requested that people make donations to the Humane Society or the Lung Cancer Alliance.
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