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The media landscape in the Twin Cities has changed dramatically over the last year, and that’s exactly why the organizers of the upcoming  National Conference for Media Reform chose Minneapolis as the site of its 2008 event.

This past year the Twin Cities media market has perilously held on to its two-newspaper status and seen the [...]

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 been credentialed, including fellow Center for Independent Media sites in Colorado, Iowa and Washington, D.C. MinMon political reporter Paul Demko will cover [...]

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 won numerous awards for his writing — including a Frank Premack Award, an SPJ first place in [...]

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 online age.

The honor for “excellence in opinion journalism,” one of seven prizes awarded this year, recognized the [...]

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, especially after this flattering article that claims we are the fourth most frequently mentioned online news site among [...]

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 of media bias, tape instances of leftist activists harassing conservative speakers on college campuses, or seek to [...]

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 look like. While the bloggers at the Monitor weigh in on the heady national issue du jour, they also [...]

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, a nobody of a company in terms of its news-industry know-how, bought the Star Tribune [...]

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 2008 primary season.” Fresh off a mention of Iowa Indy’s political “power rankings” on Hannity & Colms, the piece quotes Des Moines Register [...]