San Diego City Council declares "Dave Maass Day" in honor of his journalism work and "endless Public Records Act Requests."
Three alt-weekly reporters will be among 31 participants of a McCormick Specialized Reporting Institute, "Investigating Super PACs," taking place in Washington, D.C. this weekend.
Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder had threatened, "the cost of litigation would presumably quickly outstrip the asset value of the Washington City Paper."
Texas Observer executive editor Dave Mann talks about his extensive legal battle to obtain the strand of hair that led to the AltWeekly Award winning Public Service story, "DNA Tests Undermine Evidence in Texas Execution."
Early in his career as a sports writer for The Winchester Star in Winchester, Va., Dave Mann realized he “wasn’t too into sports journalism” and switched gears toward more long form, investigative reporting.
Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder re-filed his lawsuit against Washington City Paper in a D.C. court today, nearly three months after it was filed in New York.
In concert with Sunshine Week, San Diego CityBeat has collaborated with a local organization to launch Open San Diego Flashlight, an online bookmark collection which makes government records and public databases more accessible.
In an open letter to readers, Washington City Paper publisher Amy Austin says that "more than 600 supporters have given checks, most of them for just $20, to ring up more than $28,000 to a legal defense fund" set up fight a lawsuit brought by Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder.
Kuro Crow is a collection of three short stories that were inspired by Maass' observations of Tokyo at the turn of the 21st Century.
NewLiberian.com, a nonprofit human-rights news site co-founded by San Diego CityBeat's Dave Maass, is partnering with the NGO The Niapele Project in an effort to get American newsrooms to donate spare books and magazines for a "Journalists' Book Drive" to benefit reporters in Liberia. "Books are very expensive in Liberia and some reporters can't even afford a day's meal, let alone buy journalism books," NewLiberian.com editor Sematics King Jr. says. "Therefore, books will really be an added advantage to many Liberian journalists who did not get the opportunity to study journalism at all in college."
