2008 Detroit Press Club Foundation Wheel Awards Newspaper Mike Casey and Rick Montgomery Kansas City Star “Fatal Failures” Product Review Scott Burgess Detroit News “Va-VA Vroom” Audi R8 Wire/News Service Bill Koenig Bloomberg News Advance look at UAW Negotiations Editorial/Column Doron Levin Bloomberg News “Too Much Café Makes Smaller More Expensive” General Interest Magazines/ Special… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Across the Finish Line 06.2008
Beverly Rae Kimes, May 12, 2008. Automotive writer historian, deemed “one of the greatest automotive writers of our time” by the Antique Automobile Club of America, her books and articles earned numerous awards. “An amazing talent and a lady of grace,” said Vintage Sports Car editor Jim Donick.
Lane Changes 06.2008
Andrew Stoy, ex wrench and ad suit but always a hands-on enthusiast is the new senior editor of Jalopnik. . . . Mark Glover, auto editor of The Sacramento Bee from November 2000 until the paper’s two weekly WHEELS sections were turned over to The Bee’s advertising department in April this year, is now reviewing… Continue Reading
Pit Notes 06.2008
There is very little that hasn’t been done before in autodom but Volkswagen may have been the first to stage a new model press launch on a college campus and ask journalism students there to participate in it. Curious as to how an undergraduate might react to a full-blown press launch, AWCom asked the Dean… Continue Reading
Autowriters Spotlight: Sam Moses
Sam Moses, generally, is not as confrontational as his Tom-Tom in the May issue of this Newsletter was. As his recently launched website www.sammoses.com, attests, he prefers to tell stories and let the readers reach their own conclusions. For example, when covering one of Land Rover’s benighted lash-ups with R.J. Reynolds a few years back,… Continue Reading