Best AltWeekly Writing and Design 2005.

Best AltWeekly Writing And Design 2005

Ruth Hammond & La Shonya McNeil, editors

AAN Press

1250 "I" Street NW, Suite 804, Washington, DC 20005-5982

0977047105 $19.95 1-800-494-3537 www.aan.org/2005awardsbook

Publishing articles that defy conventional expectations by definitively addressing uncomfortable points of view on the social, political, and economic issues of the day is a hallmark of the 126 "alternative newsweeklies" (non-daily free-circulation papers with distinct, local identities distinguishing them from their corporate mainstream press contemporaries) serving their readerships in the United States and Canada. Forty of the best of those published stories are collected and showcased by the collaborative editorial work of Ruth Hammond and La Shonya McNeil in Best AltWeekly Writing And Design 2005. One of these journalism pieces went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Report: Nigel Jaquiss' series in the Willamette Week exposing a decades-old secret about Oregon's former governor Neil Goldschmidt who had sexually abused a teenage babysitter when he was mayor of Portland. The forty stories comprising Best AltWeekly Writing And Design 2005 were winners in nineteen diverse categories but every one of them was a compelling read that ranges from pointed political commentary, as well as art and music criticism, the role of photography, and issues of illustration and layout. Best AltWeekly Writing And Design 2005 is a recommended addition to Journalism School supplemental reading lists and academic library reference collections.