Julia Goldberg ignited a brushfire on the Editing mailing list earlier this week when she sought advice regarding an angry letter sent by a teacher who was upset by a recent article in the Reporter about her school (which Goldberg felt she had "completely misunderstood"). The letter contained the kind of spelling and grammatical errors that the Reporter would normally correct for publication. What should she do? Most AAN editors advised her to avoid vindictiveness and adhere to the paper's regular letters policy. She took their advice and corrected the mistakes, and saved her revenge for her blog.
This week's issue celebrates "a decade and a half of devilish deeds and die-hard journalism" by looking back at some of the alt-weekly's biggest stories: a federal marshal serenading a former port commissioner convicted of bribery; a series of articles that helped exonerate a man wrongly convicted of rape; and the tragic bonfire collapse at Texas A&M.
In early April, AAN News linked to The Economist's rave review of Chicago Reader staff writer Steve Bogira's book, "Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse." On May 1, both The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times ran glowing reviews of their own. The former calls the book an "intimate portrait of a judge and his work," while the latter says that "Bogira is an inspiring reminder of what investigative reporting can and should do to keep our national institutions cleaner and better than they are."
Finalists for the 2004 Livingston Awards for Young Journalists were announced today, and four of them are from AAN member papers: Aina Hunter from Scene (Cleveland, Ohio); Keven McAlester from Dallas Observer; Michael Serazio from Houston Press; and Christopher Twarowski from Long Island Press. The Livingstons award three $10,000 prizes for local, national, and international reporting to journalists under the age of 35.
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