Here are a few recent stories posted at AltWeeklies.com, the new site showcasing the best work in alternative weeklies. One of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's security officers and a former deputy police chief claim their careers were ruined when it appeared they might reveal the mayor’s "philandering," Curt Guyette reports in Metro Times. And the Long Island Press discovers that Nassau County is illegally using one of its public beaches as a trash dump.
Cleveland Free Times editor-in-chief David Eden is leaving the alt-weekly to become the new managing editor of that city's sister television stations, WOIO Channel 19 and WUAB Channel 43, The Plain Dealer reports. Free Times Publisher Matt Fabyan is seeking a replacement.
AAN launched a new Web site this week providing links and summaries to some of the most interesting stories in its 122 member papers. AltWeeklies.com debuted on Wednesday with a collection of 100 stories on the economy, politics and social issues, as well as movies, music, books and other arts and entertainment. The site's primary goal is to allow AAN editors to exchange articles and ideas. But it's also a place where readers will discover many more of the same type of intriguing and provoking stories they've found featured in AAN.org's This Week in Alternative Weeklies section.
The outgoing editor, Jim Harper, told the St. Petersburg Times that Weekly Planet president and CEO Ben Eason "wants a different kind of editor" and is conducting a nationwide search. Harper will retain his post during the hunt for his replacement. He has been the Planet's editor for 15 months. Before that, he worked for more than 20 years at the Times.
Howard Altman cleaned out his desk on Friday, May 14. He was fired by Publisher Paul Curci after a little over a year in the top editorial job and nearly a decade at the paper. Mike Newall reports in the rival PW-Philadelphia Weekly that some former staffers describe Altman as too disorganized, too wrapped up in his own reporting and weekly column to fulfill his leadership responsibilities, and too much of a news hound to appreciate the work of the arts staff. Others praised him as a hard-boiled reporter and an editor who nurtured reporters by not interfering with their writing voices.
The Louisville, Kentucky, weekly was among four publications banned from Kroger, three of them for having sexually suggestive content (in LEO's case, apparently, its adult ads). But what about the sexual content of Cosmopolitan, which is still on the racks, asks executive editor and founder John Yarmuth. He argues that the selective banning constitutes censorship. In an accompanying article, Tom Peterson interviews public relations professionals about Kroger's strategy.
During the 2000 presidential campaign, longtime Republican dirty-tricks operative Roger Stone pushed an unsubstantiated story that Reform Party candidate Patrick Buchanan had had an illegitimate child while he was a Georgetown undergraduate. The rumor had dogged the candidate in earlier races, but this time the allegation was spiced up with a rumor that Buchanan had made payments to the mother to kill the story, Wayne Barrett writes in a Village Voice article that has special reporting by Jessie Singer.
Since Willamette Week broke the story that former Oregon Governor Neil Goldschmidt had had sex over a three-year period with a girl who was only 14 at the start, Oregonians have been obsessed with the story, Blaine Harden reports on the front page of Monday's Washington Post. One of the questions people are asking, he writes, is why the state's most powerful newspaper, The Oregonian, in its first-day coverage of Goldschmidt's confession, seemed "to go so easy on him, calling his behavior an 'affair' and describing his apology as 'heartfelt.'"
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