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Media Monitor: UpTake on NPR, City Pages on Demko, and the end of an era in Wisconsin

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.28.08 | 12:05 pm

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…

Media Monitor: The n-word and a punk’d Pulitzer shot?

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.10.08 | 9:36 am

Words that begin with F and N: Michael Lacey, co-owner of Village Voice Media (City Pages’ parent company), apologized this week for using the “n-word” in his acceptance speech at an awards banquet on Friday, stating that it…