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Newspapers’ decline hurts city’s bottom line

By Chris Steller | 06.11.09 | 7:49 pm

The rapid devolution of print journalism gets regularly lamented for all the right reasons — among them the losses of investigative voices, institutional memories and checks on the powerful. A less-noted side-effect is cities’ loss of revenue from recycling newsprint.

Serendipity factor in newspaper-reading is sometimes bewildering

By Chris Steller | 04.16.09 | 12:39 pm

buzz-collageNewspaper stalwarts like to tout the delight print readers feel when their eyes fall upon interesting juxtapositions of stories they’d never see online. But sometimes such paper-copy serendipity can be bewildering. Look at today’s Star Tribune B section (emphasis…

The Back Pages: Papers call for open government

By Tom Elko | 03.19.08 | 9:56 am

Sunshine Week, as we noted yesterday, is an annual event led by the American Society of Newspaper Editors and conceived to…