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Minnesota Monitor’s Black to Moderate Congressional Candidates’ Debate

By Paul Schmelzer | 12.10.07 | 11:08 am

eb.jpgHow do candidates seeking the DFL endorsement in the 3rd Congressional District differ on their approaches to the war in Iraq?

Minnesota Monitor’s Eric Black will be moderating a candidates’ forum…

New Minnesota Monitor Fellows Broaden Local Coverage

By Paul Schmelzer | 11.02.07 | 11:34 am

Two prominent Twin Cities blogger-reporters have joined Minnesota Monitor as journalistic fellows, broadening and deeping the site’s coverage of state news: Sky Blue Waters‘ Tom Elko and Dan Haugen, publisher and editor of Northeast Beat, began reporting here…

Can Nonprofit News Rescue a ‘Pillar of Democracy’?

By Paul Schmelzer | 10.31.07 | 9:25 am

Nonprofit news organizations aren’t exactly new — think National Public Radio, The St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, and Mother Jones — but according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy, a movement is building to use this model…

Veteran Washington Post Journalist Morley Joins Center for Independent Media as Editorial Director

By Paul Schmelzer | 10.16.07 | 2:43 pm

Jefferson Morley, a 15-year veteran at the Washington Post, has joined the Center for Independent Media as its National Editorial Director, with overall responsibility for guiding the Center’s fast-growing network of 40 journalists, and…

Minnesota Monitor Makes ‘The Metro 100′

By Paul Schmelzer | 10.16.07 | 2:17 pm

Metro Magazine’s October issue features a “list of all the people, places and things that make the Twin Cities our favorite conjoined metropolitan area on the whole gosh darn planet.” Minnesota Monitor appears on the…

Washington Post, Star Tribune Credit Black on Paulose Scoop

By Paul Schmelzer | 09.23.07 | 11:07 pm

Minnesota Monitor reporter Eric Black’s scoop about a federal investigation into US Attorney Rachel Paulose spread across the blogosphere and the mainstream media last week. The Sunday edition of the Washington Post covered the investigation, crediting Black…

The Power of Strong Opinions: Star Tribune’s Jim Boyd Joins Minnesota Monitor

By Paul Schmelzer | 09.18.07 | 3:35 pm

When Jim Boyd, then deputy editor of the Star Tribune’s editorial page, decided to leave the paper this spring after a quarter century of service, he told Minnesota Monitor about the “codpiece,” the term…

MinnMon’s Birkey a Finalist in the 2007 Online Journalism Awards

By Paul Schmelzer | 09.12.07 | 6:57 pm


Of 712 English-language entries submitted from around the world, Andy Birkey‘s reporting for Minnesota Monitor has been selected among the 70 finalists of the 2007 Online Journalism Awards. In the running for best beat…

Eric Black on the Dan Barreiro Show

By Robin Marty | 08.13.07 | 2:36 pm

Minnesota Monitor’s Eric Black will be a guest on this evening’s Dan Barreiro show to discuss the departure of Karl Rove.  Be sure to tune in to KFAN on 1130 AM at 6 pm tonight, and catch more…