The story was percolating for some 20 years. Reporters pursued it but not far enough. And then, Jill Rosen reports in American Journalism Review, a feisty Oregon alt-weekly made a stunning revelation on its Web site May 6. Former governor Neil Goldschmidt, when he was mayor of Portland, had had sexual relations with a girl who was only 14. A lead from a state senator, followed by intensive records searches and interviews, helped Willamette Week's Nigel Jaquiss pull the story together.
Last week, Avalon Equity Partners shut down New York Sports Express. "There was a struggle, and in the end someone in the accounting department reached for a knife," Matt Taibbi writes in New York Press, an AAN-member paper that is also owned by Avalon. The Express dared to take sports not too seriously, Taibbi writes, and Express editor Spike Vrusho recognized "that Karim Garcia, while not a very good baseball player, was a comic gold mine and needed to be in print as much as possible."
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel announced Monday it will start an entertainment- and lifestyle-oriented publication and companion Web site in the fall. The target age group is 25- to 34-year-olds. The still unnamed tabloid "will not be a news publication," Rick Romell reports in the Journal Sentinel. Shepherd Express, an AAN member, is also published in Milwaukee, Wis.
The last issue of The Local Planet, an AAN-member paper in Spokane, Wash., was distributed July 8. A year ago, publisher Matt Spaur's wife, founding editor Connye Miller, died, and Spaur said he no longer had the interest or energy to keep publishing. During the "feisty" paper's four-year run, it "poked at Spokane's conservative establishment and took readers on irreverent romps through the region's political, music and dating scenes," The Spokesman-Review's John Stucke writes. Spokane is home to another AAN member, The Pacific Northwest Inlander.
Clear Channel Radio plans to announce today that it will begin limiting the number of commercials its more than 1,200 stations can play, in a move that analysts say may ripple through the industry even before it takes effect on Jan. 1.
Worried about its potentially crippling effects on tobacco marketers, and what they believe would be a dangerous step toward more widespread regulation of the advertising industry, The Association of National Advertisers on Friday blasted the U.S. Senate's decision to pass major regulations over tobacco advertising.
Jerry Saltz knows it hurts to be criticized, but, he tells ArtsJournal.com, "If all criticism is enthusiastic it sells the art world short." He remembers after he wrote his first piece for the Voice, on Kara Walker's "painful, uneven show" at Wooster Gardens in 1998, he was terrified he'd be fired. A collection of his Village Voice reviews and essays, "Seeing Out Loud," has been published by The Figures press.
Tribune Co. disclosed further circulation misstatements at two of its newspapers Thursday, the latest lapses in a costly scandal that has resulted in heavy claims by advertisers and censure by the group that audits circulation.
Between being an alt-weekly columnist and writing her novel, "The Big Love," Sarah Dunn worked as a Hollywood sitcom writer. Her novel is about an alt-newsweekly columnist who struggles to come to terms with her evangelical Christian background after her boyfriend abandons her. "Dunn stresses that many of the quirky and salacious character details came straight from her imagination, and not from her actual experiences at CP," Philadelphia City Paper's Arts & Books Editor Lori Hill writes.
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