St. Pete Weekly Newspapers will operate the Web portal Ironminds.com under a joint agreement with New York Metropolis, another non-AAN weekly alternative newspaper distributed in New York City's outer boroughs. St. Pete Weekly Newspapers publishes the new alternative newspaper St. Pete Weekly, which will handle Ironminds.com's day-to-day operations and move the Web site from a diarist-style online magazine to a portal and syndicate for alternative journalism.
Jim Nesbitt, a veteran of 23 years at daily newspapers, has been named editor of the Riverfront Times in St. Louis. He replaces Safir Ahmed, who is leaving the paper "to pursue other professional interests," a New Times news release says.
Village Voice Media names Dana Faust associate publisher/sales and marketing at Seattle Weekly. Faust has 18 years experience in display and classified advertising at The New York Times.
A Connecticut man is in jail for what he claims was consensual BDSM sex with his estranged wife. She says she was violently raped. Chris Harris in the Hartford Advocate follows the story as a Connecticut jury weighs the evidence from an explicit videotape and takes an unwilling journey into the strange twists and turns of the human heart.
