The media landscape in the Twin Cities has changed dramatically over the last year, and that’s exactly why the organizers of the upcoming
Minnesota Monitor, already named as a state-based blog for the Democratic National Convention, will also be part of the event’s general blogger pool. Organizers announced Thursday that an unprecedented number of blogs have…
We’re happy to announce that Paul Demko will be joining the staff of Minnesota Monitor on April 28 as the site’s new senior political writer. A staff writer at City Pages for the past eight years, Demko has…
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…
According to David Brauer, a mysterious listing indicates that the local snark monthly The Rake may be up for sale. Asking price? Less than $400,000.
Minnesota Monitor is sad to be unable to put up the purchase price,…
Who knew that behind closed doors, the conservatives talk about how much they really admire us?
Eyeblast.tv head Daniel Glover outlined some of the potential political uses of his video site. Users could, for instance, record local examples
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Minnesota Monitor and the Center for Independent Media received prominent mention in The Utne Reader’s article “The New Barbarians.”
The Minnesota Monitor, a collaborative state-based blog, is a peek into what the future of local blogging might
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Our sister site, The Washington Independent is featured in The Annenberg Online Journalism Review. Read the full Q&A with Allison Silver, Washington Independent’s news editor, after the break.
A confession: A year ago last week, on December 26, 2006, I knew very little about the inner workings of a metropolitan newspaper, much less the intricacies of union contracts, newsroom politics or voluntary buyouts. But when Avista Capital Partners,…
Iowa Influential: Wired gives props to fellow Center for Independent Media site Iowa Independent in a piece about how “local blogs have now risen to play a pivotal role in the squeaky-close…
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