After a week off, AAN's "How I Got That Story" live chat series returns this Friday, Oct. 23, at 3 pm EDT. Patrick Michels will join us to discuss his award-winning Texas Observer feature "Private Trauma," which tells the story of a former KBR contractor struggling with PTSD after working for the company in Iraq. Michels will be joined by Jake Bernstein, who was his editor for the story, and the chat will be moderated by North Coast Journal editor Hank Sims.
A new report from the online ad network Chitika says that, among clients in its network, news websites get the most referral traffic from Twitter, outpacing movies, tech and medical (and tying the all-encompassing "Other" category). "Given Twitter's unique ability to bring information instantly to large numbers of people, it's not surprising that news leads the way," Chitika notes. "Twitter's instantaneous and collaborative nature has made it out to be the bleeding edge of all news."
In this week's Santa Cruz Weekly, Stephen Kessler goes back 20 years in time to revisit the Loma Prieta earthquake, which destroyed downtown Santa Cruz -- and ended his alt-weekly, the Santa Cruz Sun. After surveying the quake's damage to not only his home but the city's downtown core (home to so many of the Sun's advertisers), Kessler "broke the news to the staff that we would put out one last issue and call it quits." That staff included sales manager Bradley Zeve, who went on to start the Monterey County Weekly, and many writers who would later contribute to Metro Santa Cruz (now Santa Cruz Weekly). Kessler says that final issue was the paper's best ever -- "a true-to-life account of the city's most apocalyptic event since the 1955 flood."
That's what the Yale Daily News finds in a report on how three local news organizations are faring in the downturn. While the Advocate's "circulation is steady," as managing editor John Stoehr points out, publisher Joshua Mamis admits that the paper's page count has decreased. Mamis also notes that although the paper has lost some national advertisers, many local advertisers have remained loyal.
The Independent's senior editor Matt Kettmann is a co-founder of New Noise Santa Barbara, a music conference and festival that debuted Oct. 8-10 at venues throughout downtown Santa Barbara. "We're telling locals that it's like the wildly popular Santa Barbara International Film Fest, but with music," says Kettmann, the paper's former pop culture editor who more recently directed the editorial development of Independent.com. "And we're telling everyone else that it's like South By Southwest, but much smaller and on the coast." The Independent served as an official media sponsor and published the conference's program guide.
"If you are wondering why I am so quiet lately its because I have been quarantined with N1H1," Robb Walsh tweeted last week. But being stuck in his house under doctor's orders didn't stop him from doing his job, he tells Washington City Paper. "There was no change in diet at all. I didn’t even have to stop writing," he says of his quarantine, which ended this Tuesday. "I just reviewed take out food." (Walsh further explains the process in a blog post titled "How to Review a Restaurant When You're Quarantined.")
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