The Lark Street Business Improvement District's annual Champagne on the Park ball honored the Albany alt-weekly -- along with Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood -- because their "contributions to the neighborhood have been critical to the growth of the district," the Albany Times-Union reports. Metroland is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.
As pressure mounts on Craigslist to tighten its erotic advertising policies in the wake of masseuse Julissa Brisman's death, Rhode Island's attorney general has expanded his focus to include thephoenix.com. But publisher and chairman Stephen Mindich isn't backing down. "I'm not apologizing for carrying adult advertising," he tells the Boston Herald. “What are you going to do? Take down the entire Internet?” ... (Brisman) wasn’t killed by an ad, but by a person."
California's capital city is weighing an ordinance to replace news boxes on the K Street mall area and replace them with city-owned and operated modular racks, the News & Review reports. The city's proposed rule would allow dailies first pick of space in the modular racks, followed by weeklies, then semi weeklies and monthlies.
Brad Tyer, the Observer's managing editor, is one of 19 journalists selected for the prestigious Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan for the upcoming academic year. He will focus on environmental justice issues. Each fellow receives a stipend of $70,000, supported by gifts from foundations, news organizations and individuals.
Las Vegas Weekly has the best entertainment website with fewer than one million unique monthly visitors, and Baltimore City Paper is the best weekly newspaper-affiliated website, according to the 2009 EPpy Awards, which "honor the best websites in the media world." This is City Paper's second EPpy -- it won the Editor & Publisher and Mediaweek sponsored contest in 2006 as well.
Confirming rumors that rippled through the blogosphere earlier this week, The Onion has announced it is discontinuing its distribution in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The company claims readership had actually increased in the two markets, according to SF Weekly, but bowed out due to an "abysmal" advertising climate.
A report by the Department of Homeland Security analyzing extremist ideologies in the U.S. was released in March and recalled within hours amid a firestorm of criticism. In a glossary included with the report, DHS defined "alternative media" as "a term used to describe various information sources that provide a forum for interpretations of events and issues that differ radically from those presented in mass media products and outlets." Fox News notes the description is pejorative despite the fact that "the term is commonly used to describe blogs and popular publications like New York's Village Voice." MORE: The Voice weighs in on being defended by Fox News.
The Weekly took home "an armload of awards" from the Idaho Press Club's Best of 2008 competition, including five first-place awards, for arts/entertainment reporting, business reporting, health/medical reporting, political reporting and watchdog/investigative reporting. Weekly staff writer Tara Morgan was also named Rookie of the Year for her work in 2008. Meanwhile, the Hispanic Cultural Center of Idaho awarded the alt-weekly an Animo award in the Outstanding Newspaper category for non-biased coverage of not only the Latino community, but of all minority communities in the area.
Reader media critic Michael Miner points out the striking similarity between a cover RedEye ran yesterday and one the Reader ran less than a month ago. But RedEye's editor claims no one from his paper ever saw the alt-weekly's April 9 issue. "As for the design, I had not seen that issue of The Reader, nor had my staff," Tran Ha says. "I mean, it was a story about parking meters - and some parking meters say 'fail' when they don't work."
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