His name is Dan Malone, and he won his Pulitzer in 1992 at the Dallas Morning News, reporting on abuses of power by Texas law enforcement officials. Malone joins an editorial staff headed by another ex-Morning News Pulitzer winner, Gayle Reaves. Meanwhile, ex-Houston Presser Anthony Mariani has accepted a position as the Weekly’s arts and entertainment editor.
The Paper, an alternative weekly out of Grand Rapids, Mich., has ceased publication, although there are indications that it is "retooling to return as a monthly". When it became an AAN member in 1998, the Admissions Committee deemed The Paper, "the most encouraging of the new applicants."
Does the alternative newspaper business have a problem in the back of the book? A lengthy disquisition on the subject in Fort Worth Weekly doesn't draw any conclusions, but reporter Jeff Prince finds an "evolution" in the alt-weekly universe, with many papers "reducing the number of adult ads and restricting their size, display, and content."
Derided as the province of teenaged boys and college stoners, video games have always gotten a bad rap from the press. But last year the industry outgrossed U.S. movie ticket sales, and new and more realistic games are appearing every week. LA Weekly's Alec Bemis makes a convincing case that the new generation of machines and games are creating the first new medium of the 21st Century, offering hyperreality and interactivity rather than traditional media's alienation and passive viewing experiences.
Raised in a broken home by a drug-abusing mother, Edwin Debrow Jr. quickly fell into a life of crime. He was finally arrested for killing a San Antonio cab driver during a botched robbery that won him a 27-year prison sentence. Debrow was 12 when he was shipped off to prison; he'll be middle-aged before he ever leaves. In the latest installment of Dallas Observer's series on juvenile justice, Editor Julie Lyons takes a bleak, chilling look at the violence and despair facing violent children convicted under Texas' new get-tough juvenile justice system.
Scott Hassenflu moves from the San Francisco Bay Guardian to take over the News & Review's flagship Sacramento paper. He replaces Dave Schmall, who returned to Minneapolis as associate publisher of Tom Bartel and Kris Henning's new monthly, the Rake. Meanwhile, Terry Garrett, former publisher of the Weekly Planet in Tampa, is moving to Marin County after being named sales director at Pacific Sun.
