A Charlotte charter school has obtained a gag order against Creative Loafing Charlotte, prohibiting it from publishing individual student grades and test scores. The rift between Creative Loafing and Crossroads Charter School started after the publication published test scores obtained from former teachers showing that grades may have been overlooked or changed to allow students to graduate. Individual student names were not published. "We're talking about the absolute bedrock core of the First Amendment -- the right of the newspaper to print factually truthful information that the newspaper came to lawfully," said Creative Loafing attorney John Hasty, who filed Friday to overturn the temporary restraining order.
Batimore City Paper Editor Andy Markowitz and his wife, Barbara Frye, plan to travel and perhaps work in Europe for the next few years. Markowitz has served on the AAN Editorial Committee since 1999 and is the most prolific contributor to the aan.org editorial discussion group. Arts Editor Lee Gardner will move into the editor’s chair upon Markowitz’ departure.
Thailand has threatened to cut off relations with the United States beause of an ad run in the Philadelphia City Paper. "The ad -- which depicts [Thai King Bhumibol] Adulyadej as a bling-bling hipster with bleached highlights, lines shaved into his hair, stone-encrusted glasses and a shirt that sports an Adidas logo" was run by a suburban housewife for her restaurant, Howard Altman writes.
Boston Phoenix Publisher Stephen Mindich has turned over copies of about 20 personal e-mails to a judicial commission investigating his wife's conduct as a judge, The Boston Globe reports. The commission issued a subpoena for the e-mail in June 2001. The case involves whether Superior Court Judge Maria Lopez acted properly when she issued a lenient sentence in a sexual assault case. A lawyer for Mindich told a judge the publisher was complying with the subpoena "with the greatest reluctance."
New Times has named Dawson Fercho, former director of e-business for Seventhwave Technology Corporation, as publisher of PitchWeekly in Kansas City.
To protest the Boston Phoenix's decision to link to a video of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl's execution, Dreamworks Inc. initially reneged on an invitation for Phoenix film critic Peter Keough to screen their new movie, "Road to Perdition." Keough was later allowed to attend the screening.
“The Family” is taking on new meaning in Spokane, Wash. The Local Planet Weekly reports that the Cowles family, developers of River Park Square mall in downtown Spokane, has filed subpoenas in the long-running legal battle over the public-private partnership established to remodel the mall and adjoining parking garage. The Cowles family also owns Spokane’s daily newspaper, The Spokesman-Review, as well as the local business journal and NBC television affiliate. The subpoenas target political opponents, including The Local Planet Weekly and anyone who helped with its AAN first-place award-winning story, "All in the Family," which details the Cowles family's conflicts of interest.
Jane Dalea-Kahn, former LA advertising director for Vogue magazine, has been named publisher of New Times Los Angeles, New Times announced today. She replaces Jim Rizzi, who "will be leaving New Times after contributing many years of work toward the company's growth in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver and Phoenix," the company says in a news release. Josh Cooperman, formerly a sales executive for Clear Channel radio powerhouses KFI and KLAC, joins the paper as retail sales director.
Annalee Newitz, culture editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian, joins nine other reporters from around the world in the 2003-03 class of Knight Science Journalism Fellows. Newitz is also author of the syndicated column, "Techsploitation," which she describes as "rants about high tech media and everyday life." She founded the online publication Bad Subjects in 1992. In 1997 she co-edited "White Trash: Race and Class in America," a small-press best seller.
Yesse! Communications, in bankruptcy since spring of 2001, is struggling to keep its last two papers alive, but bounced paychecks and unpaid medical claims have sent another flood of employees out the door. Now managers are pointing fingers. Kerry Farley, vice president of operations, blames Michael Stern, Impact’s former business manager. Others blame both Farley and Yesse! President Craig Hitchcock for indifferent management and neglect. Farley and Hitchcock insist the Dayton, Ohio, weekly is still viable.
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