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Questions linger at KFAI annual meeting

By Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet

There were more questions than answers at KFAI’s Annual Meeting, held December 14.

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'No Black talent on the air': White perspectives dominate local mainstream media

By Charles Hallman, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

Black voices are barely heard on local mainstream radio. It’s even worse in local sports radio. “There is no Black talent on the air in the Twin Cities except at KMOJ,” claims KTWN-FM’s Brandon Wright, a nine-year veteran.

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Tragedy in the age of social media

By Sheila Regan, Behind the Story

I don’t know when I cried so much as I did on Friday.

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Who's honing Twin Cities' media focus? Blacks in management still a rarity in local television, radio news

By Charles Hallman, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

WCCO News Director Mike Caputa

Blacks are barely represented on the air and in management at Twin Cities television and radio stations. The MSR recently examined four local station websites — WCCO (Channel 4), KSTP (Channel 5), KMSP (Channel 9), and KARE (Channel 11) and found:

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Photos, ethics and what we should be talking about

By Mary Turck, News Day

Today, a lot of national attention focused on a front-page photograph of a man trapped in the path of an oncoming subway train. Was publishing that photograph good journalism, ethical journalism?

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Unframing Strib's envy narrative: Sand mining creates wealth and friction and convenient fiction

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

In Sunday's Star Tribune, general assignment reporter Curt Brown weaves a colorful narrative of envy in Sand mining creates wealth and friction (what appears to be his first frac sand mining story), while failing to note that neighbors of a farm couple who collected $550,000 for their place might have more powerful reasons not to wave when they pass by.

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Bluestem Prairie

Searching for clues in a curious, imperfect record

By Sheila Regan, Behind the Story

Well, maybe I’m just a nerd, but I find board meeting minutes fascinating.

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Janis Lane-Ewart leaves KFAI

By Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet

As if to complete the trifecta, this week Janis Lane-Ewart became the third female executive director of a Twin Cities community media institution to leave her position, following Pam Colby from MTN and Jane Minton from IFP. Lane-Ewart, who had been the executive director of KFAI since 2001 (and host of the jazz program The Collective Eye before that) oversaw the organization during a transformative time for community radio stations, during which the station has become not just about transmitting over the airwaves, but also about connecting to people through the web and social media as well.

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