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Media Monitor: Defunct community paper sued; health care forum goes online

By Paul Schmelzer | 08.12.09 | 11:40 am

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.

Pulse to Cease Web Publishing

By Paul Schmelzer | 06.29.07 | 7:23 am

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…