Steven Emerson, who promotes himself as an investigative reporter with special knowledge of radical Islamic terrorists, has abandoned his four-year-old libel suit against the Weekly Planet and former Editor John Sugg. In a 1998 article, Sugg, now a senior editor at Creative Loafing (Atlanta), questioned Emerson's assertions about terrorist plots against him. Emerson sued, saying the articles defamed him. "Emerson never had a case," Planet Publisher Ben Eason says.
The "wacko, ultra-paranoid neurotics" at Spokane's newer, smaller alt-weekly admit that "they whine more than anyone in town." But that doesn't stop the folks at Local Planet Weekly from issuing a warning: "(W)hen you fuck with our ideas, we're going to go psycho on your ass." And psycho they went when they picked up last week's issue of Pacific Northwest Inlander and found that the cover story, "The State of Radio," employed the same title that LPW had previously used for an award-winning series.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach columnist Bob Norman ignited the Internet last week when he revealed what is already common knowledge among "political and media types": That Palm Beach County Republican Congressman Mark Foley (see photo) is gay. The column was immediately posted on at least 20 Web sites, and the story was then picked up by gay newspapers and received a mention in Hotline, a popular inside-the-beltway political fixation. Now even mainstream local papers like the Sun-Sentinel appear to be closing in.
In a column on both mainstream and alternative media's tangles with plagiarism, Westword's Michael Roberts reveals a couple of AAN member papers' own most embarrassing moments. One is a case where Boulder Weekly had to apologize to Salt Lake City Weekly about publishing a barely rewritten story, and a couple of times Westword's writers deviated from the truth.
AAN member papers report that once again classified advertising sales, especially real estate and rental, are keeping overall revenues steady. At the two alternative newsweekly industry national ad sales networks, AWN and Ruxton, sales are running well ahead of last year’s first quarter, but that was one of the worst quarters on record for the industry. “Normally I’d be excited about 20 percent growth,†Michele Laven, president and COO of New Times’ Ruxton Group tells AAN News. “We have a long way to go.â€
Caryn Brooks, arts and culture editor at Willamette Week, has been named one of seven 2003-04 fellows of the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University. "In addition to pursuing coursework and other activities at Columbia, the fellows will participate jointly in a research project designed to inform news organizations, arts institutions and philanthropic organizations about important trends in the current U.S. artistic and journalistic environment," the program's release states.
Jann Wenner and Mortimer Zuckerman want it. So do the Tribune Co. and the New York Times. "It" is New York magazine, which is perhaps coveted less for potential profits than for its media-historical cachet. Founded in 1968 by Clay Felker, who also owned and edited The Village Voice, New York's sharp take on the cultural and political life of the city and its hip version of service journalism invented the city magazine and had a profound influence on the development of the alternative newspaper. "For five or six years, Clay Felker's version of New York magazine did something revolutionary," New York Observer Editor Peter Kaplan tells The New York Times' David Carr. "It not only invented the city magazine, it restated the city around it. And that is a great thing."
Marnye Oppenheim, who wrote the "Bite Me" restaurant column for New Times Los Angeles for two years and continued it at Phoenix New Times, has died, the LA Times reports. She was 32.
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