Miami New Times reporter Gus Garcia-Roberts discusses his 2011 AltWeekly Award winning feature story, "Blow Hard," a harrowing account of hip-hop producer Scott Storch's drug-induced downfall, told mostly through the eyes of his mother and grandfather.
Early in his career as a sports writer for The Winchester Star in Winchester, Va., Dave Mann realized he “wasn’t too into sports journalism” and switched gears toward more long form, investigative reporting.
Coming from a liberal arts education and working with publications such as The New Yorker, Rolling Stone and Newsweek, Alan Prendergast acknowledges his background is “a little different” from other reporters within the alternative press.
Founder of The Onion, publisher of The Stranger, and the head of on online empire that includes an iPhone app, a CMS, and a daily deal service, Tim Keck has earned himself a 2,300+ word profile — and a 17-image photo gallery — in The Seattle Times.
Miami New Times, Nashville Scene, and The Village Voice led the pack of winners with three awards each.
L.A. Weekly took home several L.A. Press Club Awards for its editorial, design and social media work. OC Weekly and Pasadena Weekly also came away as winners.
Miami New Times, The Memphis Flyer and Jackson Free Press took several awards during the recent Green Eyeshade Awards.
The final rankings of the winners will be revealed on July 22 at a reception in New Orleans during AAN's 34th Annual Convention.
The Stranger posted a picture of a Seattle cop car driving around with an unsecured AR-15 semiautomatic rifle on the trunk.
Craig Malisow of the Houston Press and Jeff Prince of Fort Worth Weekly were honored as Journalist of the Year in their respective divisions.
