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MnIndy editor in pecha-kucha panel tonight: ‘What is news now?’

By admin | 09.17.09 | 10:43 am

Picture 7“What is news now?” The topic, complicated enough on its own, is one Minnesota Independent editor Paul Schmelzer will be addressing tonight at 7 p.m. at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis — but with some limitations.…

MnIndy’s Best: Top 10 photos of 2008

By Paul Schmelzer | 12.24.08 | 8:30 am

Doing online journalism on a shoestring budget means borrowing, buying and shooting our own photographs. With high-profile events in the Twin Cities this year, from the September Rage Against the Machine Concert in Minneapolis and RNC events in St. Paul to a particularly exciting election day, we hired some freelancers and fired up our own cameras, capturing some memorable and — dare we say — historic images.

Minnesota Monitor’s Schmelzer wins a 2007 Premack Public Affairs Journalism Award

By Robin Marty | 03.11.08 | 12:06 pm

In the first year the prestigious awards were open to all media types, Minnesota Monitor managing editor Paul Schmelzer won a 2007 Frank Premack Public Affairs Journalism Award, fittingly, for an essay on journalism and ethics in an…