Chris Nicholson's Writing Weblog
June 03, 2007 • Sunday
I've been too busy to blog, but not too busy to have ideas for blogging topics. I'm looking at another few busy weeks in front of me (covering an ice-skating tournament in Connecticut and a junior tennis tournament in New York, plus three magazine deadlines), so I'll just blast out my weblog backlog:
The Orange County Register ran an interesting piece by music critic Ben Wener about how pop artist Gwen Stefani has blacklisted him. There's a bit of triteness of both sides of the dispute, but Stefani and her management are clearly a little PR-unsavy. You don't ban news writers you disagree with, and you respect the credo that any news coverage is good as long as (as Harry Houdini used to say) your name is spelled right. Either way, the article is a fascinating look at the inner workings of covering the music scene. See "Pop Life: A Critic Gets Locked Out."
The New York Times ran a story about Jahangir Razmi, an Iranian photographer who won the Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography in 1979, but didn't collect his award until last month. Why? His identity had remained concealed for almost three decades because having made that photo could have had life-threatening consequences in the political climate of Iran. See "27 Years After It Was Awarded, a Pulitzer Prize Is Acknowledged."
The New Era features a unique news team. Read the Editor & Publisher article "Deaf Photog and Blind Editor Overcome the Odds Together."
Enough for now? I'll check back in — I have a few new magazine clips scheduled for newsstands soon.
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