Media reporter Christian Vachon reconstructs how male escort Mike Jones pulled the rug out from under the Denver alt-weekly and an NBC affiliate. Before giving his seismic scoop to a local radio station, Jones talked to both Westword Editor Patricia Calhoun and Paula Woodward, an investigative reporter with KUSA-TV, but balked at going public. Vachon calls the episode "a cautionary [tale] for every journalist who has ever wondered when she has enough to go with a story."
Born out of the '60s counterculture ferment and a thriving local small-press environment, Boston Phoenix evolved to become a paragon of what we mean today when we say "alternative newspaper." In their 40th anniversary issue, Phoenix editors and contributors retrace the long, strange trip that got them here. "We're the good guys," writes Senior Managing Editor Clif Garboden. "We never got rich, but we are going to heaven."
Vice detectives arrested nearly 100 men in a prostitution sting using escort-service ads in The Stranger, The Seattle Weekly and craigslist as bait, according to the Seattle Times. About three quarters of the men lured to a downtown hotel responded to craigslist ads. Founder Craig Newmark told the Times that he has heard "prostitution is a significant problem," on the Web site, but he added that "we would prefer that [police] go after violent criminals or crooked congressmen."
A federal judge in Chicago dismissed the suit, which accused the free-classifieds network of running discriminatory housing ads. According to the Associated Press, Judge Amy St. Eve ruled that Craigslist was protected by the Communications Decency Act, which allows users to post unedited messages and communicate freely in forums. The lawyers group that filed the suit claimed the court's decision struck a blow against fair housing practices.
Ronnie Virgets and his loved ones stomped the competition and will return for tomorrow's episode of the TV game show, according to Michael Tisserand, Virget's ex-editor at Gambit. "The whole family wore crawfish beads and the host (John O'Hurley) announced that they were from New Orleans, 'America's most resilient city,'" reports Tisserand, who also touts Virgets latest book, "Lost Bread," which includes his account of being rescued from the top of his house after Katrina. "I think that account is the best descriptive writing about Katrina that's been published anywhere," says Tisserand.
The annual staff-training conferences will be held Jan. 26-27 and Feb. 16-17. The earlier weekend date is reserved for AAN West, which will be held for the first time at the Miyako Hotel in San Francisco's Japantown. Meanwhile, AAN East will return to the Hotel Washington and its remarkable view of the White House. Programming details and registration materials for both conferences will be ready next week.
Those who knew him best are trying to extract some good from the death of independent journalist Brad Will in Mexico last month. Friends and family have established a foundation in Will's name, and petitions for freedom of the press and social justice are making the rounds. His cousin Susan Mitchell, a staffer at The Athens NEWS and wife of the paper's owner, calls Will "the epitome of an alternative journalist" and asks for the support of AAN members.
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