Steve Perry

In its humble return, this edition of the intermittent Media Monitor catalogues: Ed Kohler’s latest analysis of City Pages (charged with rampant photo-swiping), a look at how a local Black History Month supermarket promotion has gone national, an acknowledgment of the power of “Brautweets,” and more.

Doing online journalism on a shoestring budget means borrowing, buying and shooting our own photographs. With high-profile events in the Twin Cities this year, from the September Rage Against the Machine Concert in Minneapolis and RNC events in St. Paul to a particularly exciting election day, we hired some freelancers and fired up our own cameras, capturing some memorable and — dare we say — historic images.

Ode to Nelson: When City Pages’ film editor Rob Nelson’s job was nixed, his editor, Kevin Hoffman, explained the move to staff in an email consisting of about 25 words. When I emailed him for details, Hoffman’s reply was equally as brief, and when I called up Nelson yesterday, he was tight-lipped. So it’s a [...]

Blogging is the new Black. With the official launch of Eric Black Ink, MinMon’s elder statesman, gets props from Minnesota Public Radio’s Bob Collins (who calls him “the high priest of political blogging in Minnesota“) and The Uptake’s Chuck Olsen, who compares Black’s “nicely designed bloggy online newspaper-type-thing” to larger online news competitors Steve Perry [...]