The 1999 City Paper cover by the then-relatively-unknown Shepard Fairey had made Mediate's list of the "Top 20 Christmas Magazine Covers of All Time."
Instead of bringing Going Rogue to be signed, an attendee at a recent Palin appearance at the Mall of America brought a copy of the Nov. 18 City Pages issue that parodied Palin's book cover, featuring U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann in place of Palin, with the title Going Crazy. The former vice presidential candidate "smiled vapidly at everyone and started to sign it, apparently not noticing it wasn't her face on the cover image," City Pages reports. "Unfortunately one of her handlers yanked the paper away at the last second and tossed it in the corner."
Washington City Paper's Jeffry Cudlin, who won the 2008 AltWeekly Award for Arts Criticism, discussed his work in a live chat with Tuscon Weekly's Jimmy Boegle.
Washington City Paper's Jeffry Cudlin will discuss his award-winning arts criticism with Tucson Weekly editor Jimmy Boegle this Friday, Dec. 4, in the latest installment of AAN's live chat series with 2009 AltWeekly Award winners. The chat will take place on AAN.org at 3 pm EST.
AAN's executive director and Washington City Paper's editor joined the Project for Excellence in Journalism's Mark Jurkowitz and former Washington Blade editor Kevin Naff on a D.C. public-radio show yesterday for a wide-ranging discussion about how the digital transformation, changing demographics and the recession are affecting alternative media.
Editor Kevin Hoffman and art director Nick Vlcek talk to the Society of Publication Designers about this week's cover design, which uses Sarah Palin's Going Rogue as source material for a cover story (titled "Going Crazy") on Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. As we noted yesterday, Hoffman had said it was the first time in 30 years the paper had gone out without a logo on the cover; a decision that he and Vlcek say was a pretty easy one to come by. "We realized very quickly that in order to make the cover look as much like the book as possible, that we would have to forgo our logo," Hoffman says. "But it was worth it for the impact it would have on our readers."
The Minnesota alt-weekly has a big story this week on Michele Bachmann, the conservative Congresswoman who "has distinguished herself by saying crazy things in a very sweet voice tinged with folksy charm ... not unlike Sarah Palin," editor Kevin Hoffman writes. "The coincidence of Palin's book release this week couldn't be ignored, so art director Nick Vlcek decided to do a mash-up. It's the first time in 30 years that we're shipping a City Pages without our logo on the front, but we think it's worth it."
The paper will relocate its offices over the Thanksgiving holiday to the Metropolitan Arts building in downtown Dayton, "putting the City Paper in the middle of the scene it covers," Dayton Business Journal reports.
Washington City Paper editor Erik Wemple will discuss his award-winning media reporting with Tucson Weekly editor Jimmy Boegle on AAN.org this Friday, Oct. 30. Wemple took home first place for "One Mission, Two Newsrooms," his examination of the divide between the digital and print staffs at the Washington Post. Friday's chat will begin at 3 pm EDT.
This week's release of Leonard Downie Jr. and Michael Schudson's report "The Reconstruction of American Journalism" has the journalism world buzzing. "The report takes a particular interest in local accountability and enterprise reporting," Washington City Paper editor Erik Wemple notes, "which is the commodity most at stake as newspapers pare down their editorial staffs." After searching the report for any mention of the alt-weekly's role in journalism's future and finding none, Wemple says he understands. "After all, alt-weeklies ... only channel all of their editorial resources toward local reporting; only conduct long-form investigations of key local agencies and authorities all the time; only monitor city halls like no one's business; only do all kinds of arts reporting that no other outlets care to do; and have been at it only for about half a century now," he writes. "Why mention those news organizations?"
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