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Clark picks up another labor endorsement for congressional bid
State Sen. Tarryl Clark has picked up another endorsement from organized labor for her congressional bid. Yesterday, Teamsters Joint Council 32 officially gave the St. Cloud Democrat the nod in her challenge to 6th district incumbent Rep. Michele Bachmann. Joint Council 32 has 62,000 members, many in Bachmann’s district.
Media Monitor: Funeral-tweet editor responds, and a reversal on Strib Teamster concessions
Two items from yesterday make reappearances in today’s edition: The editor/publisher of the Rocky Mountain News responds to criticism about a reporter who liveblogged a toddler’s funeral on Twitter, and the Star Tribune’s Teamster drivers declare contract concessions “null and void.”
Media Monitor: Strib Teamsters again vote ‘no’, the YouTube Pulitzer, funeral tweeting and more
A round-up of media, new and old: YouTube partners with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to give a $10,000 reporting prize, while the Star Tribune’s Teamsters again vote down contract concessions. Also: Outrage over a newspaper liveblogging a funeral and key context as the Strib’s Katherine Kersten again targets a Muslim school.
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