Mankato Free Press

Shakopee reporter Ruth Anne Maddox (pictured) was murdered this week, and her paper is flooded with stories and notes by her readers and co-workers. The Mankato Free Press shuts down its online forum as a casualty of Election ‘08. And Media Matters takes issue with a local writer’s New York Times account of the Franken/Coleman recount.

Ever since Josh Wolf landed in jail in August 2006, a debate has raged about his job title. Is Wolf — the 24-year-old freelance videographer, blogger, and activist who was jailed for refusing to hand over footage of a 2005 anarchist protest in San Francisco — a “journalist”? Imprisoned for 226 days, longer than any [...]