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Kramer’s Bajillions

By Paul Schmelzer | 10.25.07 | 4:43 pm

Minnpost unveils design: Two biggish announcements at last night’s media get-together at Minnpost: publisher Joel Kramer has hired on 612 Authentic, a local group of videographers, to bring motion to the site; and…

Pret-a-Reporter: WCCO Given UpTake Tees

By Paul Schmelzer | 10.04.07 | 1:05 pm

Tees for two: WCCO’s recent coverage of citizen-videobloggers at The UpTake — which included a blog followup by reporter Jason DeRusha  — featured site co-founder Chuck Olsen in a yellow “I am…

Post-Par(tum) Ethics and More

By Paul Schmelzer | 09.20.07 | 9:40 am

Strib to adopt conflict of interest policy? Word on the street, says Charlie Quimby, is that the Star Tribune is working on an ethics policy governing conflicts of interest, but it has nothing to do with Par Ridder. It would…