Tonight's birthday party for the Athens, Ga., weekly will feature a variety show modeled after a gong show, a contest for costumes made with flagpoles, and local bands, according to Red and Black, an independent student newspaper. "You'll see everything from people eating fire to singing," Flagpole editor and publisher Pete McCommons says. In the paper's own 20th anniversary special issue, McCommons reflects on Flagpole's history and its ongoing mission: "We have fought a 20-year battle against those who would exploit local resources for gain regardless of the impact on our community," he writes. "And we have continued to be the Colorbearer of Athens alternative music, along with other music and arts and entertainment."
The AAN member bi-weekly has been named the recipient of this year's Molly Ivins "Give 'Em Hell" Award from the Project, which promotes racial, social, and economic justice through education and litigation. "[The Observer] covers stories crucial to the public interest and provokes dialog that promotes democratic participation and open government, in pursuit of a vision of Texas where education, justice, and material progress are available to all," the Project says in a statement.
In this year's New Mexico Press Association contest, the alt-weekly took home a first place award for business writing; a second place award for investigative reporting; and honorable mentions for reviews and design & typography.
The alt-weekly was named the 2007 Non-Daily Newspaper of the Year by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association. City Paper also took home first place awards in General & Departmental News Coverage and Diversity, where it finished in a tie with Philadelphia Weekly.
Utne Reader has announced the finalists for its 2007 Independent Press Awards, which honor the very best in independent media from the pool of more than 1,300 sources Utne uses to cull its content. Louisiana's Independent Weekly and Denver's Westword are nominated for Local/Regional Coverage; The Texas Observer and The Village Voice are nominated for In-Depth/Investigative Coverage; and L.A. Weekly is nominated for Best Writing. Winners will be announced in early 2008.
"It's a testament to the unending dedication of [founding publisher] Amy Singmaster that she continued to take on such tasks as delivery and small-time sales some seven years into the paper's existence," writes editor Dan Cook. "But it also speaks to how long it actually took for Free Times to reach a solid footing." Like many AAN papers, the Columbia, S.C., alt-weekly began its life as a biweekly in 1987, and has only grown since then. In 2004, the paper was bought by Portico Publications, which also owns C-Ville Weekly and Metro Spirit. "Twenty years into its history, Free Times is stronger than it’s ever been, now publishing larger issues and more of them -- 40,000 copies -- than it ever has," Cook writes.
Josh Schonwald took home a first-place award in the Florida Press Club Excellence In Journalism Contest's "light feature writing" category. Winners will be honored at an Oct. 20 reception.
The San Francisco Bay Guardian's G.W. Schulz won "the coveted Public Service award" for his coverage of MediaNews Group's purchase of nearly all Bay Area daily newspapers. SPJ's panel of judges noted that the Bay Guardian "demonstrated by example the value of diversity in news media ownership." Eliza Strickland's examination of questionable practices at an expensive cooking school and how California has failed to regulate for-profit schools for SF Weekly won for investigative reporting, while East Bay Express' Kara Platoni took home the award for feature writing for her piece on gun violence and gun availability. The Society of Professional Journalists' Northern California Chapter will honor the winners at a Nov. 8 dinner.
"Patty Calhoun is the co-founder and editor of Westword and probably has a greater knowledge of metro Denver than any other living journalist," the Denver Post writes. She was inducted into the Hall with four others on Friday evening. Calhoun, who was a founding member of AAN and served as its president in 1999-2000, currently chairs the association's editorial committee.
The Vermont Press Association awarded the alt-weekly first place in its General Excellence (non-daily newspapers) category, The Barre Montepelier Times-Argus reports. Seven Days won five additional awards, with a one-two-three sweep of the Arts Criticism (daily and non-daily) category, and a second place finish in both the Feature Writing (non-daily) and Photo Feature (non daily) categories. Winners were announced at a luncheon yesterday.
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