With the Star Tribune possibly within two weeks of filing bankruptcy (according to newsroom Guild sources), we’re seeing yet another wave of big-name departures at the Strib: columnist Katherine Kersten, online managing editor
MinnPost’s David Brauer, who has documented the financial woes at the Star Tribune better than anyone, writes that a memo went out at the paper today revealing that the paper’s conservative and liberal columnists, Katherine Kersten and…
Ninety-seven seconds before midnight on March 10, Star Tribune sportswriter Steve Aschburner e-mailed his managers telling them he wanted to take a voluntary buyout of his contract. He was on the road, covering a…
In a joint email to staff at the Star Tribune, managing editor Scott Gillespie and editor Nancy Barnes revealed that 24 newsroom employees would take voluntary buyouts. Their email read:
We wanted you to know that 24 employees have
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When buyouts are announced next week at the Star Tribune, the list is likely to include names of several long-serving staffers who are approaching retirement (columnist Al Sicherman and reporter Bob Franklin, to name two). But one surprise, confirmed on…
The abrupt sale of the Minneapolis Star Tribune to Avista Capital Partners the day after Christmas left many of the paper’s employees wondering how soon they’d be shown the door. But a…
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