Daily Mole

The Daily Mole thinks Star Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten needs professional help.

So editor Steve Perry first ran a recent Kersten column through Juicy Studios’ readability tester (her writing was judged to be on a sixth-grade reading level) and then sent it to a high school English teacher in Alaska, asking her  to “assign a letter [...]

MinnSpeak: Congrats to MinnPost on yesterday’s launch. Shortly after Thursday’s 11 a.m. debut, bloggers started weighing in. Steve Yelvington, the founding editor of the Star Tribune’s online operations, said it’s “a mid-20th century product in a strange 21st century world, and I found it needlessly dull.” Dan Gilmor at the Center for Citizen Media says [...]

Stats in perspective: Newspaper online numbers are up! But, says Alan Mutter, the industry has a long way to go. The former San Francisco Chronicle and Chicago Daily News editor compares time spent on newspaper websites — around 12 minutes a month — with those of the top 10 big-media, non-news counterparts: well over  an [...]

The Daily Mole’s Steve Perry makes a good point about media memes, pointing out that newsrooms have hyped the Craigslist connection in the recent murder of 24-year-old Savage resident Katherine Olson, who was killed when responding to an ad for a nannying job.

“Craigslist killer” has been worked into many headlines, says Perry, including at least [...]

The doors have been flung open — or the topsoil turned, to stick with the metaphor — at The Daily Mole, Steve Perry’s new online venture. While technically in beta mode for a few more days — which means design and functions are continuing to get tweaks — the site is now accessible to all. [...]

Everyone’s announcing high-profile hires for their startup news websites, and Steve Perry wants in on the action.

So count him as the first to offer Par Ridder a new job. Barred by a judge from reporting for duty at 425 Portland Avenue for a year, the Star Tribune publisher’s schedule should be wide open to become [...]

Molespotting: Ed Kohler at The Deets gives an exclusive sneak peek at Steve Perry’s soon-to-launch site The Daily Mole. Screengrabs show a sidebar of “partner sites,” which include the new music site Reveille and Overheard in Minneapolis, a navigation bar with tabs like “Multimedia Lounge” and — gulp — “Media Mole,” and a gallery of [...]

Perry digs deep for site name: When asked about the name of his soon-to-launch community and news website a few weeks back, former City Pages editor Steve Perry joked about calling it The Hoe, as a garden-themed companion site to The Rake. But on TPT’s Almanac Friday, he revealed the name to be something deeper [...]