Betraying the Constitution: The 72 senators who voted to condemn MoveOn.org’s “General Betrayus” ad betray the Constitution’s protection of free speech, writes former Minnesota Monthly and Star Tribune magazine editor Leonard Witt in…
End of story: Wednesday’s offering at the Star Tribune blog, Yesterday’s News, brings back a 1927 Minneapolis Daily Star story about the purchase of the St. Paul paper by the Ridder family, which started a “long and profitable association” that…
Strib to adopt conflict of interest policy? Word on the street, says Charlie Quimby, is that the Star Tribune is working on an ethics policy governing conflicts of interest, but it has nothing to do with Par Ridder. It would…
Kramer hires Effenberger: As former City Pages editor Steve Perry announces plans for his new news-and-conversation website, former Strib publisher Joel Kramer has signed on another key staffer for his online newspaper. According to Brian Lambert, former Pioneer…
MPR questions Strib ethics: In its story about the prostitution arrest on Tuesday of Tim Droogsma, onetime press secretary for former Sen. Rudy Boschwitz and Gov. Arne Carleson, the Star Tribune reported that Droogsma “publicly supported a candidate…
35W among year’s biggest stories: The 35W collapse is 2007′s fourth biggest news stories, dominating all media segments last week, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism. From July 29 through Aug. 3 the story got less coverage…
“The Future of Journalism itself”: Minnesota Public Radio’s Public Insight Journalism got some national recognition last night. MSNBC wrote up the citizen-media project, calling it “the most advanced effort thus far in involving the audience in the news-gathering…
Revolving Door: As the Star Tribune loses CFO Mike Riggs to Des Moines’ Meredith Corp., owner of magazines like Better Homes & Gardens and Family Circle, a former Meredith staffer has been hired as a consultant for Avista…
“Bush like Hitler, says first Muslim in Congress”: Returning to blogging, Noah Kunin points out this misleading headline by the Telegraph (UK), calling it a “masterful rebranding” of Ellison’s recent comments at an Atheists for Human Rights meeting.…
When it comes to harrowing feats, Rex Sorgatz — whose escape from his burning building in a fire that followed the Grand Forks flood was chronicled in a 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning news story…
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