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‘Screw the man’: NEED magazine launches campaign to go ad-free

By Paul Schmelzer | 06.02.09 | 8:45 am

picture-4While 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

NEED magazine offices burglarized

By Paul Schmelzer | 01.16.08 | 5:06 pm

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.

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Minneapolis Couple’s Humanitarian Magazine Fills a “Need”

By Paul Schmelzer | 11.27.06 | 8:40 am

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…