Community papers can’t catch a break: As the Minneapolis paper formerly known at The Bridge shuts down — even, apparently, online — a paper that stopped publishing two years finds itself on the receiving end of a lawsuit. Also, to sidestep mayhem at health care forums, local social media experts are trying a more civil exchange online.
After its weekly print publication shut down more than a month ago, the last vital sign of Pulse of the Twin Cities — its daily news website — is fading away. “Pulse is dead,” music editor Dwight Hobbes confirmed…
Strib, then and now: “Then: national news. Now: guns and babies.” That’s how Tim Girhing summed up a comparison of five days’ worth of Star Tribune front pages with those printed on the same…
MNSpank: MNSpeak “was better when Rex was here.” Or so goes an oft-repeated (and now jokingly rehashed) comment about the good old days when MNSpeak creator Rex Sorgatz, who sold the site when he took a job…
Irregular Pulse: A week before its final issue is scheduled to hit newsstands, Pulse of the Twin Cities fired music editor Steve McPherson and writer Max Sparber, MNSpeak is reporting. McPherson says he was cut “ostensibly for converting this…
Losing Pulse: The Twin Cities is losing another alternative newspaper: the decade-old weekly Pulse, founded in the same year the Twin Cities Reader was shut down, will cease publishing, the Star Tribune reports. Publisher Ed Felein informed staff…
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