Alternative Newsweekly Award Winners Announced.Business Editors PITTSBURGH, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2003 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 and Cincinnati CityBeat each took two first-place awards in the eighth annual Alternative Newsweekly Awards contest, while LA Weekly and Chicago Reader led the field of large circulation papers with two firsts each. Satirist Neal Pollack presented the awards to an audience of about 200 at the 26th annual 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 . Convention. Tom Robbins (The Village Voice) won first place in Investigative Reporting (circulation more than 50,000) for "The Lush Life of a Rudy Appointee APPOINTEE. A person who is appointed or selected for a particular purpose; as the appointee under a power, is the person who is to receive the benefit of the trust or power. : Russell Harding." Robbins' piece has already been honored by the Investigative Reporters and Editors Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that focuses on the quality of investigative reporting. Formed in 1975, it is best known for the IRE Awards, which, within the journalism industry, are considered to be the highest award that is attainable, short . In the 50,000 and under circulation division, Leslie Blade of Cincinnati CityBeat won first place for her story "Piling On," a gripping deconstruction of a police investigation. CityBeat's other first was for Illustration (Ryan Greis & Sean Hughes for "Does Your Vote Count?"). In News Feature, Metroland's Nancy Guerin (Albany, N.Y.) won first place (50,000 and under) for "Schenectady Calling," a feature on the mayor's attempts to lure Guyanese immigrants to the area. In the large-circulation division, Chicago Reader's Mike Sala took first place for his "Killer on the Loose," a medical mystery story about a flesh-eating bacteria flesh-eating bacteria A variant of Streptococcus group A, which causes toxic shock-like syndrome. See Toxic shock-like syndrome. outbreak at Evanston Hospital. Gambit Weekly's two firsts were in Food Writing (Sara Roahen) and music criticism (Scott Jordan). It's Jordan's third consecutive first-place award -- he won for Music Criticism in 2002 and Sports Writing in 2001. Roahen took an honorable mention in 2001 for Arts Criticism. Among large-circulation papers, LA Weekly took first-place awards in Arts Criticism (John Powers) and Photography (Max S. Gerber). Chicago Reader picked up firsts in Music Criticism (Monica Kendrick) and News Feature (Sala's "Killer on the Loose). Kendrick took a first-place award in music criticism in 2001 and a second in 1998. In its first year as an AAN AAN American Association of Neurology member, Greenville, S.C.'s MetroBEAT won a first place for James Shannon's political commentary. The first-place winners in this year's Wild-Card Category, Business Writing, were Durham, N.C.'s Independent Weekly's Barbara Solow for "Blue Notes" (50,000 and under) and Gayle Reaves of Fort Worth Weekly The Fort Worth Weekly is an alternative weekly newspaper that serves the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. The newspaper has an approximate circulation of 50,000[1]. for "Accounting for Anguish" (more than 50,000). Gambit's Roahen and Dara Moskowitz of City Pages (Twin Cities) were the first-place winners in Food Writing, a new category this year. Heather Swaim of OC Weekly and Thomas Francis of Cleveland Scene were the only AAN members winning two Alternative Newsweekly Awards this year. Swaim took a first in Editorial Layout and a third in Cover Design, while Francis picked up a first place in News Story (under 1,500 words) and an honorable mention in Media Reporting. Walter Coker of Folio Weekly (Jacksonville, Fla.) took first place for Photography, his fifth consecutive award. Judges for the contest include such nationally recognized journalists as Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva. Overholser, Tom Hallman Jr., Alex Kotlowitz, Thomas E. Franklin Thomas E. Franklin (born 1966) is an American photographer for The Bergen Record, best known for his photograph Raising the Flag at Ground Zero, which depicts firefighters raising the American flag at the World Trade Center after the September 11, 2001 attacks. , Anthony Dias Blue, Myron Kandel, Sarah Vowell and Joe Conason. For a complete list of winners and judges, see aan.org. AAN is a not-for-profit organization representing the alternative newsweekly industry, which includes publications such as The Village Voice, Chicago Reader and the 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 116 newsweeklies in the United States and Canada with combined total weekly circulation of more than 7.6 million and a reach of more than 19 million readers. Information about AAN and its member papers can be found at www.aan.org. |
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