Media Monitor: UpTake on NPR, City Pages on Demko, and the end of an era in Wisconsin

WI progressive daily stops printing: Madison, Wisconsin’s 90-year-old afternoon newspaper is no more — at least not in print. The Capital Times published its last print edition on Saturday; it will continue to report online news as well as put out two free tabloids, which will be inserted into the morning paper, the Wisconsin State Journal, each week. The paper’s circulation has been steadily dropping, and 24 staffers were either laid off or took buyouts. William Evjue, founder of the State Journal, launched the Cap Times in 1917 as a progressive response to those who painted former Sen. “Fighting Bob” LaFollette unpatriotic for opposing World War I.

Do you get a free City Pages t-shirt for that? The UpTake‘s Chuck Olsen appeared on NPR’s Sunday Soapbox yesterday to discuss the citizen journalism organization’s plans for the Republican National Convention. Couldn’t help but notice one bit of product placement: in one shot, blogger Noah Kunin holds the copy of City Pages that features the best-of-the-Twin-Cities honor for top citizen-media outfit. Watch the video.

Quickly, now: Ed Kohler writes on weatherpreneur Paul Douglas’ soon-to-launch online digs, David Brauer chronicles the Strib’s circulation skid, and City Pages’ Jeff Shaw says goodbye to Paul Demko (who starts here today) by recalling his “legacy of great stories, and some really weird shit.”