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Media Monitor: Tragedy in Shakopee — and more media news

By Paul Schmelzer | 11.14.08 | 1:54 pm

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.

Who Owns the J-Word? Videoblogger’s Jailing Raises Questions for Journalists

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.08.07 | 1:28 pm

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…