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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

CJ, again: What rhymes with “scoops”?

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.15.08 | 9:49 am

Oops. Strib gossip columnist C.J. finally wrote up part of my email exchange with her over the not-very-consequential — dare I say “minor” — issue of who broke the news that fired meteorologist…

Media Monitor: PiPress owners to withhold financials, City Pages owner withholds self-criticism

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.14.08 | 10:45 am

File under: No news is good news: MediaNews, the Denver-based chain that owns the Pioneer Press, has devised a way to deal with tanking financial figures: stop publicly reporting them. The privately held…

CJ: Her middle name is ‘Scoop’

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.09.08 | 4:54 pm

In retrospect, maybe I should’ve left this alone, but when I saw that the Star Tribune’s gossip columnist C.J. was claiming a scoop on the news that WCCO meteorologist…

Kramer’s Bajillions

By Paul Schmelzer | 10.25.07 | 4:43 pm

Minnpost unveils design: Two biggish announcements at last night’s media get-together at Minnpost: publisher Joel Kramer has hired on 612 Authentic, a local group of videographers, to bring motion to the site; and…

CJ’s Vita.mn Audition?

By Paul Schmelzer | 09.03.07 | 3:02 pm

Perhaps there’s an opening at Vita.mn? Back in June, Star Tribune reader’s representative Kate Parry, responding to complaints about a story on outdoor sex that ran in its freestanding weekly, asked, “Does it really