While covering the Roosevelt Island Tramway breakdown that left passengers trapped in the air for 12 hours, New York Daily News interviewed several rescuees, including "Alex Gamburg, 74, an illustrator for New York Press." AAN News called the Press and was able to confirm Gamburg's connection. No other details about his ordeal were available, but he told the Daily News, "I was extremely impressed with how the police were extremely careful with all of us."
AAN members in the Southeast took home 16 of the 26 awards presented in the print (weekly/monthly) category of this year's Green Eyeshade awards. New Times Broward-Palm Beach was the biggest winner, with six awards, including two for Wyatt Olsen's story "The Bad-Hands People." Creative Loafing, The Independent Weekly, The Memphis Flyer, and Miami New Times were also among the winners announced yesterday by the Society of Professional Journalists. The Green Eyeshade Awards honor the best in professional journalism in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia.
The New York Observer reports that Village Voice Music Editor Chuck Eddy was fired yesterday; he is the 17th employee to leave the paper since the merger with New Times. In a phone interview with the Observer, Village Voice Media Executive Editor Michael Lacey confirms that commentary will no longer appear on the Voice's pages. "I want our reporters to start reporting," Lacey says, adding that employees who aren't comfortable with the new dynamic should find employment elsewhere. "You want to sit in your room and ruminate? Not on my nickel," Lacey says. The Observer also notes that veteran Voice reporter James Ridgeway, who was fired on March 31, has retained an attorney to consider his legal options.
"The 100 Unsexiest Men in the World," published in the April 18 issue of the Boston Phoenix, was the number-one story on MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" yesterday. (Transcript available here; scroll way down.) Associate Editor Bill Jensen was on hand to defend his choices, from Gilbert Gottfried at #1 to Brad Pitt at #100. Of course, Olbermann was most interested in #58, Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, with whom he has been feuding. Jensen explained that O'Reilly made the list because of his "splotchiness" and "bullying," and the falafel affair: "I think, any time you are going to, you know, talk to a woman on the phone and say you want to rub her with a sandwich full of chickpeas in the shower is -- is not going to help your sexual quotient."
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