Nonprofit news points north? Business North chronicles the challenges facing newspapers in northeast Minnesota, where debt loads are high and daily papers, in some instances, are being reduced to two issues per week — with staffing levels dropping to match. The piece leads off with Maryland Sen. Benjamin Cardin’s proposed Newspaper Revitalization Act, which would give news enterprises the option of tax-exempt status. Referencing nonprofits like MinnPost (but not the older Minnesota Independent and Twin Cities Daily Planet), the piece states that legislators aren’t jumping on that measure; yet one publisher, Duluth-Superior magazine’s Marti Buscaglia, states,“Nonprofit status could be the saving grace for community newspapers.”

Post-Bulletin writer wins health fellowship: The Association of Health Care Journalists has announced its first six fellows, who’ll get training on how to access government health databases to improve their reporting on health issues. The fellowships are in conjunction with the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. In the mix is reporter Jeff Hansel, who writes the Rochester Post-Bulletin’s Pulse on Health blog. (Via journalist Maryn McKenna on Twitter.)

Free Food (Inc.): It may seem like an unlikely pair, given the restaurant chain’s former ties to McDonald’s, but Chipotle is teaming up with Magnolia Pictures to present 32 free screenings of the documentary Food, Inc., across the country. Minneapolis is on the tour, with a screening tonight at The Lagoon in Uptown. Here’s the film’s trailer. (Minneapolis’ River Road Entertainment and Participant Media collaborated with Magnolia on the film.) Read Chipotle’s “Food With Integrity” manifesto.

Hubbard named SPJ Fellow: The late Stanley E. Hubbard will be posthumously named one of three Fellows of the Society of Professional Journalists, Editor & Publisher reports. Hubbard, who died in 1992 at age 95, founded the company that now runs KSTP-TV and other broadcast outlets. E&P writes that Hubbard bought the first television camera RCA ever sold in 1938, and his “KSTP-TV eventually became the nation’s first NBC TV affiliate and the nation’s first all-color TV station.”

New news at KSTC: Hubbard-owned KSTC-TV — Channel 45 in the Twin Cities — is resuming the 9 p.m. local newscast that it halted six years ago.