When an interview extends over 10 days -- as it did for Melissa Maerz when she went on tour with Minnesota band Friends Like These -- it was important to set up the rules from the start. Whatever wasn't immediately declared off the record was on the record. The resulting account, published in City Pages, was unsparing in its portrayal of the band's disappointments as well as its hopes, offering a dose of on-the-road realism. This is the fourth in a "How I Got That Story" series highlighting the AltWeekly Awards' first-place winners.
The editor of The Stranger publicizes his latest book, "The Commitment," in a new interview with Boulder, Colorado's Dirt. Among other topics, Savage also discusses the process behind his weekly sex column, the kind of people he likes to hire at the Stranger, and why he thinks "newspapers are a graveyard for people who have lost their ambitions and passions."
The National Association of Black Journalists announced the winners of its Salute to Excellence Awards competition this weekend in Washington, D.C. The organization handed out six first-place prizes for newspapers with circulations of 150,000 or less, and every last one of them were awarded to New Times papers. Here's the complete list of NABJ award winners.
David Cohen, formerly a co-owner of Metro Newspapers, sold Silicon Valley Community Newspapers to the parent company of the San Jose Mercury News, according to a press release issued on Friday afternoon. SVCN, which was formed in 2002 when Cohen and former partner Dan Pulcrano split up the Metro Newspaper chain, now publishes eight free-distribution community newspapers with a combined weekly circulation of more than 157,000. The papers are distributed in the South Bay area, where the Knight Ridder-flagship Mercury News is the only daily newspaper. According to the release, Cohen will report to Knight Ridder general manager/targeted publications Greg Goff, previously an executive vice president at Village Voice Media.
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