The Creative Loafing chain is consolidating its entire layout, design and production operation in Atlanta. The move assures consistency of appearance and quality of design, and also will save the chain’s five papers as much as $22 per page, says CL’s CEO Ben Eason. Eight or nine jobs were eliminated but all affected employees were offered jobs in Atlanta, where the production staff will number about 24.
His name is Dan Malone, and he won his Pulitzer in 1992 at the Dallas Morning News, reporting on abuses of power by Texas law enforcement officials. Malone joins an editorial staff headed by another ex-Morning News Pulitzer winner, Gayle Reaves. Meanwhile, ex-Houston Presser Anthony Mariani has accepted a position as the Weekly’s arts and entertainment editor.
Does the alternative newspaper business have a problem in the back of the book? A lengthy disquisition on the subject in Fort Worth Weekly doesn't draw any conclusions, but reporter Jeff Prince finds an "evolution" in the alt-weekly universe, with many papers "reducing the number of adult ads and restricting their size, display, and content."
Derided as the province of teenaged boys and college stoners, video games have always gotten a bad rap from the press. But last year the industry outgrossed U.S. movie ticket sales, and new and more realistic games are appearing every week. LA Weekly's Alec Bemis makes a convincing case that the new generation of machines and games are creating the first new medium of the 21st Century, offering hyperreality and interactivity rather than traditional media's alienation and passive viewing experiences.
Raised in a broken home by a drug-abusing mother, Edwin Debrow Jr. quickly fell into a life of crime. He was finally arrested for killing a San Antonio cab driver during a botched robbery that won him a 27-year prison sentence. Debrow was 12 when he was shipped off to prison; he'll be middle-aged before he ever leaves. In the latest installment of Dallas Observer's series on juvenile justice, Editor Julie Lyons takes a bleak, chilling look at the violence and despair facing violent children convicted under Texas' new get-tough juvenile justice system.
Los Angeles Magazine reporter R.J. Smith says the city's dominant alternative "has improved" since "smart and low-key" Laurie Ochoa took over as editor a year ago. Smith calls the paper Ochoa inherited "lucrative but dull, a cash cow in need of a prod" and says Village Voice Media CEO David Schneiderman -- who argues that "anxiety is healthy" -- is doing the prodding. "The pressure I'm putting on them is not because of investors," Schneiderman says. "It's so we don't become dinosaurs."
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