Americans love a winner and for those who bought a 2008 new car, there is a good chance they have one. Autowriters.com has identified 274 possible winners crowned by 26 different press groups, print or digital magazines, web sites, research firms or independent panels. Of course, it may be “mud buster of the year” cold… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Lane Changes 07.2008
Keith Naughton has been named Midwest Bureau Chief for Newsweek Magazine, adding responsibility for the publication’s Chicago Bureau as well as its Detroit bureau where he has been bureau chief since 1999. . . . Steve Levy and Jonny Lieberman, erstwhile Jalopnik commentator, have launched a new website: www.AutoFiends.com. Lieberman continues as West Coast Bureau… Continue Reading
Road Signs 07.2008
Wooden Horse News reports Car And Driver publisher Hachette Filipacchi Media is revamping all their websites, beginning with the biggest, www.womansday.com. Mediaweek reported that “a source familiar with the strategy said the emphasis seemed to be on creating community features and aggregating content from elsewhere rather than original journalism. ‘They’re trying to figure out what… Continue Reading
Pit Notes 07.2008
Coventry University in England offers an MA in Automotive Journalism. Is there anything similar in the U.S? Or a scholarship like the 1500 pounds, trophy and internship presented annually by that country’s Guild of Motoring Writers? The Consumer Federation of America contends there are serious specific and analytical errors in the recently mandated new fuel… Continue Reading
Autowriters Spotlight: Ezra Dyer
At the risk of enjoying it too much, or being caught in a Little Orphan Annie Mug kind of infinite regression with Ezra Dyer writing about Ezra Dyer writing about Ezra Dyer, ad infinitum, he gave AWCom the facts to do with as we might. Salient among them is his uncommon coupling of humor and… Continue Reading