Glenn Rice, a reporter for the Kansas City Star, has resigned as treasurer of the National Association of Black Journalists after The Pitch revealed a year-old discipline procedure for plagiarism, the Associated Press reports in a story carried by the Star. Rice had been treasurer of the association for four years and his term was one month from ending. The Pitch last week reported that Rice had been reassigned after he used copy from another daily paper in a concert review.
Dallas Observer won two first place awards in the 2003 Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards, and The Village Voice and Phoenix New Times each took one. East Bay Express won second place in the General Excellence category for papers with circulations 50,001 to 100,000, and New Times papers were finalists in nine other categories.
The Kansas City alternative newsweekly bows to the citizenry and changes its name to The Pitch. "Weekly" had been added in 1993, "but Kansas Citians never really got used to calling it the Pitch Weekly," says Editor C.J. Janovy. Nothing else about The Pitch has changed, she says.
New Times has named Dawson Fercho, former director of e-business for Seventhwave Technology Corporation, as publisher of PitchWeekly in Kansas City.
