Gambit Weekly took four first-place awards today in the seventh annual Alternative Newsweekly Awards, the most of any paper in AAN for the first-place awards.
Speaking at AAN's First Amendment Luncheon, Vanessa Leggett said she learned journalism "the same way an adolescent boy learns about sex -- groping and fumbling my way through, getting rejected and slapped occasionally." Slapping in her case included jail time for refusing to turn over materials from confidential sources to a Texas grand jury. "We must always work to ensure the free flow of information to the public," she said. "When the government gets involved, that can't occur."
Did the FBI and the Oakland Police conspire to ruin two environmentalists? In 1990, Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were arrested for a car bombing in which they were the only victims. A.C. Thompson of the San Francisco Bay Guardian examines the legal battle that has conspiracy theorists nationwide chomping at the bit.
