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Hot, Off the Presses: Former City Pages Editor to Launch Hybrid Web Daily

By Paul Schmelzer | 08.21.07 | 1:46 pm

When he resigned from his job at City Pages in January, editor Steve Perry cited “philosophical and practical differences” with the paper’s new owner, Village Voice Media. Since then, City Pages has taken one path,…

Media Monitor: May 17

By Paul Schmelzer | 05.17.07 | 12:31 pm

MNSpank: MNSpeak “was better when Rex was here.” Or so goes an oft-repeated (and now jokingly rehashed) comment about the good old days when MNSpeak creator Rex Sorgatz, who sold the site when he took a job…

Media Monitor: April 26 — The Rot and Beyond

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.25.07 | 9:10 pm

Losing Pulse: The Twin Cities is losing another alternative newspaper: the decade-old weekly Pulse, founded in the same year the Twin Cities Reader was shut down, will cease publishing, the Star Tribune reports. Publisher Ed Felein informed staff…