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Media Monitor: Defunct community paper sued; health care forum goes online

By Paul Schmelzer | 08.12.09 | 11:40 am

Community papers can’t catch a break: As the Minneapolis paper formerly known at The Bridge shuts down — even, apparently, online — a paper that stopped publishing two years finds itself on the receiving end of a lawsuit. Also, to sidestep mayhem at health care forums, local social media experts are trying a more civil exchange online.

Media Monitor: May 10

By Paul Schmelzer | 05.10.07 | 8:04 am

Strib Websearch to log off: As more than 200 employees plan a 4:30 p.m. Thursday demonstration outside the Star Tribune’s  offices to “protest the dismantling of a once-great newspaper,” news of another column’s demise is reported by a newsroom…