Minnesota Public Radio seems to be beefing up its newsroom — with two new employees coming from the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Today, reporter Tim Nelson emailed friends to say he’s becoming the K-12 education reporter for 91.1 FM. Last…
Stats in perspective: Newspaper online numbers are up! But, says Alan Mutter, the industry has a long way to go. The former San Francisco Chronicle and Chicago Daily News editor compares time spent on newspaper websites — around…
The Daily Mole’s Steve Perry makes a good point about media memes, pointing out that newsrooms have hyped the Craigslist connection in the recent murder of 24-year-old Savage resident Katherine Olson, who was…
Franken goes green? [Updated] “Homage, blasphemy, or clever marketing?” So asks Buzz.mn’s James Lileks of this positively Wellstonian bumpersticker design touting Al Franken. Clever marketing, as it turns out, but not from the Franken…
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…
Surprised? What was most surprising about the Par Ridder ruling — the Strib publisher was banned from working at the paper for a year, the length of his non-compete clause — was how long it took for the judge to…
Tough questions for Kramer: Leonard Witt, former editor of Minnesota Monthly and the Strib’s Sunday magazine, conducted an IM interview with MinnPost’s Joel Kramer and asked a question on many minds these days: “When I think of the…
“Your loss, our gain” might be an apt tagline for the daily online news site former Star Tribune publisher Joel Kramer is planning. As a press release Monday reported, the site has signed on 25…
Polarity and the Press: A new Pew study finds that people who use the internet as their sole news source are both highly critical of the mainstream media and highly educated. More Democrats than…
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