Alternative Newsweekly Award Winners Announced Two Sept. 11 Pieces Take First Place, Gambit Weekly Wins Four Firsts.Entertainment Editors MADISON, Wis.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--May 31, 2002 For the second consecutive year, Gambit Weekly Gambit Weekly is a New Orleans, Louisiana-based alternative weekly newspaper that was established in 1981. Gambit provides residents of the New Orleans area with information about local restaurants, arts, music, and many other topics. of New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded led the pack in the Alternative Newsweekly Awards with four first-place awards, followed by LA Weekly with three firsts, and Independent Weekly, The Local Planet Weekly, and The Village Voice, each with two. A group of Columbia University Columbia University, mainly in New York City; founded 1754 as King's College by grant of King George II; first college in New York City, fifth oldest in the United States; one of the eight Ivy League institutions. journalism students took first place in feature writing among smaller circulation papers with a series of first-person vignettes from near the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 and the days following. "Seven Days at Ground Zero" appeared in The Local Planet Weekly of Spokane, Wash. The Local Planet Weekly was also awarded a first place in media reporting. Larry Shook's "All in the Family" reported on conflicts of interest in the Cowles family's ownership of both downtown Spokane Downtown Spokane is the central business district in Spokane. Downtown Spokane's rough boundaries are I-90 to the south, Division St. to the east, Maple St. to the west, and the Spokane River to the north, although one could argue that downtown has extended north of the river. development and the Spokesman-Review. The Village Voice took a first for photography for Andre Souroujon's photograph of downtown Manhattan overlaid with a pre-Sept. 11 souvenir postcard that replicates the missing trade towers. The judges said the photograph "could have been trite, but the execution was of such a high caliber that it didn't come off that way at all." The Village Voice also won first-place in feature writing for Michael Kamber's series on illegal immigrants, "Crossing to the Other Side." The awards, announced today at the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . annual convention, recognize superior journalism and graphic design among the 120 AAN AAN American Association of Neurology member papers, which include alternative newsweeklies across the United States and Canada. In the small circulation category, Gambit won firsts in column-political commentary (Clancy DuBos), news feature (Katy Reckdahl), health care (Michael Tisserand), and music criticism (Scott Jordan). Overall, Gambit was honored with five Alternative Newsweekly Awards. Last year, Gambit also brought home four first-place awards and nine in all. Melinda Ruley and James Morrison, of Durham, North Carolina's Independent Weekly, were awarded first place for column writing and arts criticism, respectively. In the large-circulation category, three of LA Weekly's five awards were first-place finishers: health care (Sara Catania), illustration (Brian Stauffer), and news feature (Celeste Celeste is a woman's first name. Celeste may also refer to: in Music
In the second annual Alternative Newsweekly Award Cartoon competition, Garret Gaston won first place for his strip "La Petite Camera," among those cartoons that appear in five or fewer AAN papers. Among cartoons that appear in more than five papers, Ken Fisher (Ruben Bolling) took top honors for "Tom the Dancing Bug Tom the Dancing Bug is a weekly comic strip by Ruben Bolling which presents critical commentary on modern life, current events, and conventional wisdom and clichés. (There are no bugs or dancing involved and there are no characters named Tom. ." A complete list of winners is available on aan.org. AAN is a not-for-profit organization representing the alternative newsweekly industry, which includes publications such as Phoenix New Times, Chicago Reader and San Francisco Bay Guardian The San Francisco Bay Guardian (also known as the SF Bay Guardian, Bay Guardian, and the Guardian) is a free alternative newspaper published weekly in San Francisco, California. The paper is owned mostly by its publisher, Bruce B. . Headquartered in Washington, D.C., AAN represents 120 newsweeklies in the United States and Canada with combined total weekly circulation of more than 7.6 million and a reach of more than 20 million readers. Information about AAN and its member papers can be found at aan.org. |
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