Need Magazine

While they’re facing the same economic challenges as every other print media outlet, staffers at Minneapolis-based NEED magazine have a unique message: “Screw the man!” The award-winning humanitarian publication launches a campaign today that, if successful, will do away with corporate advertising (”The Man”) for a year and use the freed-up pages to tell “stories [...]

While a perfect descriptor of its mission of highlighting humanitarian aid efforts worldwide, NEED magazine’s name is unfortunately more appropriate than ever after a weekend break-in at the publication’s northeast Minneapolis office.

Stephanie Kinnunen, who founded the magazine with her husband, Kelly, in November 2006, says she got a call from her security company at 3:42 [...]

Flip through the premiere issue of NEED, an international magazine produced in northeast Minneapolis, and you’ll be confronted: with horrifying before-and-after photos of  Marthaline, a Liberian woman, whose tumor growing in her mouth the past three years was beginning to suffocate her, prompting her to buy poison to end her suffering. With a quote by [...]