Egomelting: Minneapolis-based ad giant Fallon, as a reaction to the ad industry’s awards fetish, is asking staffers to donate their coveted Gold Lions, Silver Pencils and Clios to be melted down and made into a sign bearing…
Strib newsroom “decimated”: The Star Tribune newsroom, which has already lost around 100 staffers in the past year, must cut its budget by ten percent — and layoffs aren’t off the table. As MinnPost’s David…
bombshell about the Star Tribune “failing to meet its debt obligations” and teetering “on the brink of bankruptcy,” has brought a quick
Let me be the first to admit: Media stories about other folks in the media tend to be self-aggrandizing, self-referential, and just plain self-absorbed. This isn’t to say that I don’t think there are important media stories to…
Print news is in such famously bad shape that Advertising Age is running “The Newspaper Death Watch,” which quotes an expert who gives an industry in “terminal decline” 20 to 25 years to live. In this…
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…
After a technical glitch kept City Pages’ “Best of” edition offline awhile, one of its winners, the blog Mediation, offered a quick tweet: “I think it takes…
We’re happy to announce that Paul Demko will be joining the staff of Minnesota Monitor on April 28 as the site’s new senior political writer. A staff writer at City Pages for the past eight years, Demko has…
Reached by email Thursday afternoon, former City Pages music editor Sarah Askari confirmed that she was axed from the position. Referring to the Pioneer Press writer who broke the story of her exit, she…
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