A 12-member jury ruled earlier this month that the Columbia City Paper libeled a local attorney in a 2007 article, and awarded her $40,000 in damages. The suit named as defendants City Paper's two co-owners, publisher Paul Blake and editor-in-chief Todd Morehead, as well as the publication itself. Blake tells Columbia Free Times they will "definitely" appeal the jury decision. "We're pretty confident the First Amendment will prevail," he says.
The grand jury is asking for the names, phone numbers, IP addresses and other identifying information about every person who commented on a May 26 Las Vegas Review-Journal story on the tax evasion trial of a local resident. The paper's editor, calling the subpoena "tantamount to killing a gnat with an A-bomb," says Review-Journal lawyers are negotiating with the feds to limit the scope of information sought. MORE: Online Media Daily talks to legal experts about the subpoenas.
"New tools or technologies that enable people to report or publish inevitably give birth to new forms of correction," Craig Silverman writes for CJR in a piece looking at how several individuals and news organization handle making corrections on Twitter. "The end result, I think, is that for all of its failings -- and lord knows no one talks about them more than me -- the correction has proven adept at moving from one medium to the next." MORE ON TWITTER: Editor & Publisher's Joe Strupp says many editors are still unsure of how to police staffers' Twitter and Facebook use.
Brian McFadden has self-published Fun Stuff for Dum-Dums, the latest collection of his weekly comic strip, "Big Fat Whale." The comics collected in Fun Stuff "ridicule the politics and pop culture of the last four years; from the end of the Bush years to the first months of the Obama Administration," according to a press release.
The Kansas City alt-weekly's haul in the 2009 Heart of America awards included first-place finishes for Blog and Entertainment writing (The Pitch swept the latter category). In addition, editor C.J. Janovy was named "Member of the Year" for her "several years" of service as chair of the awards committee. The awards were given out by the Kansas City Press Club, a local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
As expected, Village Voice Media and SF Weekly filed an appeal to last year's decision in the Guardian's predatory pricing suit this week in the California Court of Appeal. "With this appeal, judicial error, attorney contrivance, expert witness puffery, juror confusion, and statutory imprecision are now cast in the edifying light of reason and clarity," VVM executive editor Michael Lacey says. The Guardian's Tim Redmond says nothing in VVM's appeal is new to them. "We're confident we'll prevail in the appeal, as we did at the trial court level," he tells AAN News.
Responding to yesterday's blog post by Washington City Paper editor Erik Wemple, Arianna Huffington tells the New York Times' David Carr that someone at HuffPo did contact City Paper to ask that the new blog posts on their HuffPo April Fool's parody be taken down, but that they "never complained" about the page linking back to HuffPo. "Bottom line: We didn't -- and don't -- have a problem with someone having fun at our expense," she says. "Indeed, we loved it and complimented it."
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