MetroPulse Stories: From the Editor

Our 'YUMMM!' Haiku Contest Winners

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:00:00 -0000

Drum roll, please. Announcing the winners of our second Metro Pulse YUMMM! haiku contest, 17 delicious syllables per entry on the theme of “brunch."

Metropulse.com’s 10 Most Viewed Stories in 2012

coury@metropulse.com (Coury Turczyn) — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 22:00:00 -0000

There are many ways to gauge the popularity of stories we publish: Percentage of issues picked up, number of Facebook “likes,” how many people call or email or comment with complaints. On our website, however, there’s the highly scientific Page Views Report, which neatly ranks our pages according to how many views each one has earned. Thus, here are the top-10 most-viewed stories we posted in 2012.

Metro Pulse's Endorsements for the Nov. 6, 2012 Election

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:05:00 -0000

Here's our 2 cents on the candidates running for office in the Nov. 6, 2012 election, along with recommendations on Knoxville and Knox County charter amendments.

MP Contributor David Doyle Awarded Penny Arcade Scholarship

coury@metropulse.com (Coury Turczyn) — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:37:00 -0000

We are proud to report that our video game/digital media critic, David Doyle (who also writes under the pen name Dave Prince), has been awarded the 2012 Penny Arcade Scholarship.

Beware of Companies Selling "Best of Knoxville" Awards

coury@metropulse.com (Coury Turczyn) — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:37:00 -0000

We’ve been getting press releases lately from local businesses proudly announcing their Best of Knoxville awards. But they're not the real ones.

Ed. Note: New Knox Arrival

coury@metropulse.com (Coury Turczyn) — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 21:45:00 -0000

We welcome a new staff writer to our ranks.

Metro Pulse Wins Some Golden Press Card Awards

coury@metropulse.com (Coury Turczyn) — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:16:00 -0000

At the Golden Press Card Awards, conducted by the East Tennessee Society of Professional Journalists, Metro Pulse squeezed out a few wins in competition with “large” circulation (over 25,000) daily newspapers for stories published in 2011.

2011's Most Popular Stories at Metropulse.com

coury@metropulse.com (Coury Turczyn) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:00:00 -0000

What do our readers feel are our most interesting stories? Well, that’s easy enough to determine at our website by generating a most-popular pages report for the past year. Here are the individual articles that got the most page views at metropulse.com in 2011.

Fare Thee Well

coury@metropulse.com (Coury Turczyn) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:51:00 -0000

Some notable departures from our staff.

Metro Pulse Endorsements Redux: 2011 Elections

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:07:00 -0000

As the Nov. 8 election draws near, we’d like to reacquaint you with our candidate endorsements. But rather than just repost last September’s write-up, we thought it might be helpful for voters to consider the resumes of both our mayoral candidates. Therefore, we’ve listed the career highlights of Mark Padgett and Madeline Rogero side by side. Just to put them in perspective for you.

Knoxville Elections '11: Metro Pulse's Endorsements

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:18:00 -0000

Metro Pulse's candidate endorsements for the 2011 primary elections.

A High Point for Midpoint

coury@metropulse.com (Coury Turczyn) — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:00:00 -0000

Stephanie Piper's Midpoint column earned a second-place showing in the 2011 Alt Weekly Awards.

Talent Show: Introducing Our New Columnists

coury@metropulse.com (Coury Turczyn) — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:42:00 -0000

For the past few months we’ve been running an open call for new contributors. This has resulted in an onslaught of submissions that has left my inbox dazed and sometimes confused. Although I’m still working my way through them all (I swear), we’ve started running several of the stand-outs.

Metro Pulse Wins 11 SPJ Awards Competing Against Large Daily Papers

coury@metropulse.com (Coury Turczyn) — Wed, 04 May 2011 17:08:00 -0000

Last Friday night, Knoxville’s media elite gathered at the Crowne Plaza Hotel for the East Tennessee Society of Professional Journalists’ Golden Press Card Awards. Which is to say, awards were doled out for the best regional reporting of 2010 among newspapers, television and radio stations, and assorted freelancers.

Readers' Picks: The Year’s Most Popular Stories at Metropulse.com

coury@metropulse.com (Coury Turczyn) — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:00:00 -0000

In our Year In Review issue, we excerpted stories that we either liked a lot or that we felt reflected some of the big issues Knoxville faced in 2010. But what did our readers feel were our most interesting stories? Well, that’s easy enough to determine at our website by generating a most-popular pages report for the past year. Here are the individual articles that got the most page views at metropulse.com in 2010.

In-House Kudos: Some Scripps Awards

coury@metropulse.com (Coury Turczyn) — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:48:00 -0000

Last week, the E.W. Scripps Company (our corporate overlord) announced the winners in the third-quarter Best of Scripps contest, and we picked up couple of awards in the small paper category.

From the Editor: Good-bye and Hello

coury@metropulse.com (Coury Turczyn) — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:45:00 -0000

We're sad to see a valued colleague depart, but happy to announce a new hire.

Alan Sherrod Recognized by National Endowment for the Arts

coury@metropulse.com (Coury Turczyn) — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:38:00 -0000

Alan Sherrod, our fine-arts writer, has been awarded a fellowship by the National Endowment of the Arts to enter their Arts Journalism Institute in Classical Music and Opera.

Three is the Magic Number

coury@metropulse.com (Coury Turczyn) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:11:00 -0000

Last weekend, at the annual convention of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, Metro Pulse picked up three 2010 AltWeekly Awards. These awards are especially important to us because they honor the best writing and reporting from alt weeklies across the U.S. and Canada—and the 2010 contest fielded over 1,000 entries from nearly 100 papers.

From the Editor: Comings and Goings

coury@metropulse.com (Coury Turczyn) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:51:00 -0000

It is with no small displeasure that we must announce the departure of staff writer Chris Barrett. But we're also happy to announce that Jesse Fox Mayshark is returning to the fold.