Brent Walth, who shared in a Pulitzer Prize for public service reporting while at The Oregonian, has been named Willamette Week's news editor. He replaces Hank Stern, who is leaving the paper to work for the county.
Jackson Free Press co-founder and editor Donna Ladd was one of "six exceptional individuals" who received a Fannie Lou Hamer Humanitarian Award on Friday. The awards, given out by Jackson State University's Fannie Lou Hamer National Institute on Citizenship and Democracy, go to people who "have been instrumental in modeling a civil society" in Mississippi.
This week: new adventures in copyright law, Photoshop on your tablet, drama at Twitter, and much more.
"On the evening of April 12, I was assaulted by a member of reality star Duane 'Dog the Bounty Hunter' Chapman's security team," Maui Time publisher Tommy Russo writes. "Soon after, I was assaulted again, and had my First Amendment rights violated, by a member of the Maui Police Department."
After being closed down last month by parent company Portico Publications, then sold to a new owner, Augusta alt-weekly Metro Spirit is once again being published.
Detroitblogger John, as he’s known to readers of Metro Times and thousands of his own online readers, was named Journalist of the Year by the Detroit Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists last week.
The Chicago Reader's Mick Dumke this week filed a complaint in Cook County Circuit Court against the city, Mayor Daley and two Freedom of Information officers with the Chicago Police Department after they allegedly rejected his legitimate requests for information.
Seven Days this week released its Green Issue, the cover of which features potted plants wrapped in old issues of the Burlington alt-weekly. And the paper also includes a handy step-by-step guide on how to do the same with your old newspapers.
With taxes on the minds of most Americans, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) member papers are doing what they do best: providing an antidote to the myths that the mainstream media, local television news and politicians perpetuate about tax policy.
AAN's Diversity Committee is continuing its work to make alt-weeklies more diverse as it tries to move the panel's mission beyond editorial and reconfigures the process for applying for Diversity Grants.
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