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Tweeting on the brink of bankruptcy: Strib requires bloggers to use Twitter

By Paul Schmelzer | 01.12.09 | 12:38 pm

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

Brauer: Strib’s Kersten, Coleman to lose columns

By Paul Schmelzer | 12.15.08 | 2:58 pm

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

The Voluntary Buyout That Wasn’t: Strib Denies Sportswriter’s Bid to Keep Working

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.22.07 | 6:01 pm

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…

Breaking: Two dozen to take Star Tribune buyouts

By Paul Schmelzer | 03.14.07 | 9:44 am

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

Mr. Smith Leaves St. Paul: Veteran Politics Writer to Take Strib buyout

By Paul Schmelzer | 03.08.07 | 10:35 am

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…

Guild Members May Take the Strib’s Money and Run

By Paul Schmelzer | 01.04.07 | 11:39 am

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…