Tucson Weekly goes on the prowl with the Shadow Wolves, the last Native American unit of the U.S. Customs Border Patrol. The 19-man unit is responsible for a third of all the dope seized by the 400 Customs agents in Arizona.
New Fort Worth Weekly owner Lee Newquist loses no time making changes at the top. He announces today that former editor John Forsythe has been let go and that Gayle Reaves has been promoted from managing editor to editor,
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Replaces Founding Editor John Forsyth.
Declining ad revenues have hit New Times, forcing layoffs at several papers, including five at Miami New Times. “This year has been a dizzying year for all of us,” Editor Jim Mullin tells the Daily Business Review. The local business journal also reports that the Miami paper has rehired former publisher Michael Cohen, who recently resigned his post at New York Press.
"I feel horrible about this, really," says Scott Mervis, who joined In Pittsburgh in its early days and now edits the weekly "Mag" pull-out at the local daily. "In Pittsburgh was an institution that got built up over 17 years and for it to disappear overnight is an incredible loss, I think." Several other former IP staffers agree, including Pittsburgh City Paper Editor Andy Newman, who pays his respects to the paper that introduced alternative journalism to Pittsburgh.
