City Pages won 12 first-place trophies at the annual Page One awards Friday, in competition against all of Minnesota's major dailies. The alt-weekly says it is the second year in a row in which they've picked up more first-place wins than both local dailies, the Star Tribune and the Pioneer Press.
The Twin Cities alt-weekly is in line for 17 awards this year in the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists' annual Page One Awards. Specific placements will be announced at a May 21 awards banquet.
Schaffer was named the paper's new editor on Monday, replacing Erik Wemple, who departed for a local news website earlier this year. Schaffer, who currently lives in Philadlphia, was a reporter and senior editor at City Paper from 1997 to 2000. He went on to work at U.S. News & World Report and the Philadelphia Inquirer, and is the author of the best-selling book One Nation Under Dog, which examines America's mania for pets. "I'm sort of over the moon right now," Schaffer says. "City Paper was the first job I ever had and the most fun I've ever had at a job. I cherish the place." MORE from Politico.
The San Francisco Bay Guardian's Tim Redmond and Salt Lake City Weekly's John Saltas are joined by Amy Mitchell of the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism for a wide-ranging discussion on the alt-weekly industry on Salt Lake City public radio station KUER. Among the topics covered: how alt-weeklies are faring on the web, the future of the industry and competing with the daily press.
Sullivan, currently the managing editor of Baltimore City Paper, will take over as Orlando Weekly's editor June 1. Sullivan has been at City Paper since 2002, and currently sits on AAN's Board of Directors as chair of the Membership Committee. City Paper and the Weekly are both owned by Times-Shamrock Communications.
The Society of Professional Journalists' Rocky Mountain chapter presented its "Top of the Rockies" Excellence in Journalism Awards Saturday night in Denver. The contest, with participants from the four-state region of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming, attracted more than 500 entries. The Colorado Springs Independent took home nine awards, including first-place wins for Arts and Entertainment Reporting, Science/Environmental/Health Care Reporting, and Education Reporting. Salt Lake City Weekly won five awards, including first-place finishes in the General Reporting - Business and Investigative/Enterprise - Business categories. Boulder Weekly was given one award, a first-place finish in the Legal Affairs category.
An advertisement in this week's City Pages that shows an apparently suicidal man with a gun to his head has upset some readers and advocacy groups. Critics say the ad, for R.F. Moeller Jeweler, treats mental illness as a punch line rather than a serious illness. The ad was created by columnist T.D. Mischke, who puts together a different ad for the jeweler, a column sponsor, each week. "Certainly I'm sorry to the people who were hurt by it," he tells KSTP-TV. "I'm not in the business of going out to hurt people so anytime I hurt somebody I have to apologize for that." MORE from MinnPost.com and the Consumerist.
"Cartoons Covered: The Art of the City Paper," which opened last Friday at the Toonseum, features 25 cover illustrations from the past decade, from 16 cartoonists and illustrators, curated by City Paper art director Lisa Cunningham and the Toonseum's Joe Wos. "This is a chance for people to get a second look at the rich and varied talent we've shamelessly exploited for years," City Paper editor Chris Potter says.
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