Richard Connelly was honored in the Humor (under 100,000 circulation) category by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Winners were announced Saturday night.
The worldwide free daily publisher Metro launched this week a new service that automatically puts qualified bloggers on the company's payroll, integrating blog-creation tools with a complete solution for commission payments for the first time, Editor & Publisher reports. So far the arrangement is only up and running in Sweden. When bloggers achieve the requisite numbers of page views per month, a bank account is automatically created and a MasterCard sent to the author. The best blog posts can then be selected for publishing in the nationwide Metro Sweden paper and its corresponding website.
This week's "Big Fat Whale" strip by Brian McFadden shows Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Nancy Pelosi using a meat tenderizer to get rid of "the tenacious stain on the Justice Department," US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, killing him in the process. Writing on Time's Real Clear Politics blog, Tom Bevan gives his short opinion of McFadden's work: "This cartoon ... is not only unfunny, it's sick."
Representing 90 AAN member papers and many non-members as well, 588 alties converged on Portland last weekend for a rousing 30th annual AAN Convention. There were senators, strip club tours, former US attorneys, marching bands, scores of informative sessions, and, of course, parties galore. If you missed it, or if you just want to relive your treasured memories, you can always head over to the first-ever official convention blog, which now features blog posts by convention attendees and AAN staff, as well as links to the many folks who wrote about the confab for their own papers or websites. If you've seen coverage we're missing, you can e-mail editor (at) aan.org.
In the annual Society of Professional Journalists Utah Headliners Awards, reporter Ted McDonough took first in two categories: Best Newspaper Reporter and Government Reporting. Other first place finishes for the Weekly: Katherine Biele in Consumer Reporting; Bill Frost in Headline Writing; Ben Fulton in Personality Profile; and Shane Johnson in Criminal Justice Reporting. Winners were announced last Friday night.
Held at the Medill School of Journalism, AAN's reporter training focuses on alt-weekly-centric issues, including innovative ways to cover news and arts, as well as fresh looks at narrative storytelling. The annual workshop has expanded to include sessions for design and production staff, such as time-saving tricks for Creative Suite 3 and how to design ads for the web. Registration for members is $75 until July 27. Nonmembers can register for $150. The Hotel Orrington will provide accommodations for a special fee of $119 per night.
The OPEN Government Act of 2007, which would put teeth into the Freedom of Information Act, is being blocked by Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ). The only way to overcome Kyl's hold and to get the OPEN Government Act passed is to convince his Senate colleagues to put pressure on the Republican Senate leadership to allow a vote to be scheduled. And they're only going to do that if they hear from their constituents on the matter. AAN is asking member papers to get involved: to contact the office of both of your senators and urge them to tell Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to allow the OPEN Government Act to get to the floor for a vote. Ask your senators to become co-sponsors of the bill. Cover this important issue in your papers, and encourage your readers to call their senators with the same message. Richard Karpel, executive director of AAN, underscores the importance of this issue: "This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to improve FOIA."
Yesterday at the Newspaper Association of America's Mid-Year Review, Matt Ferguson said he doesn't consider Craigslist and other sites with free employment classifieds to be much of a competitive threat. "The problem with free is that you don't invest in the technology, you don't invest in the customer service, you don't invest in the sales people. You don't invest in the things that are the differentiators in this business," he said. "I don't think there's a free model in the future."
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