The decline and fall of the local newspaper

By Ed Felien, Pulse of the Twin Cities
How I got started in the newspaper business.
  • I remember how it happened.
  • I was standing on the corner of Fourth Street Southeast and 14th Avenue in late November of 1969 trying to hand ou
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    Grassroots support for independent media

    By Tony Nadler, Pulse of the Twin Cities
    Big media corporations have got you by the cables, by the towers, by the satellites.MORE »

    Feds attempt to censor Indymedia

    By Staff, Twin Cities Indymedia
    On January 5th, members of the Twin Cities Indymedia Collective were contacted by an ally at the out-of-state university that hosts the site's server, informing us that "law enforcement" was demandingMORE »

    Listserv sparks debate

    By Karlee Weinmann, Minnesota Daily
    Faculty and students have been subjected to tension spurred by a Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs listserv last week.

    Sally Kenney, a public affairs and law professor, used a Humphrey Institute

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    Think globally, report locally

    By Cyn Collins, The Bridge

    Lauretta Dawolo arrives—via the world—as KFAI’s news director

    KFAI carries on its tradition of in-depth reporting of community and international TB: What appealed to KFAI the most when they decided you were the right person for the news director position?MORE »

    Lecture policy visited again: public officials can request restrictions on media recording

    By Jerry Broeckert, Minnesota Daily
    If members of the University community can't attend a State Department counterterrorism coordinator's presentation on the War on Terror at the University on Wednesday morning, they might still be ableMORE »

    New at the TC Daily Planet

    By TC Daily Planet
    Mary Turck began editing the Twin Cities Daily Planet in January, as Craig Cox moved on to edit Experience Life magazine for Lifetime Fitness.MORE »

    A Strip, A Flip, and a Sinking Ship: The Sale of the Star Tribune

    By Jeff Nygaard, Nygaard Notes
    _News item, December 26th, 2006: “McClatchy Co.MORE »

    The Star Tribune’s demise: another story not told

    By Ron Edwards, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
    One of the seemingly self-serving cardinal rules of too many in journalism is to never write badly about yourself.MORE »

    Latinos in Minnesota media, 2006

    By Lorena Duarte, La Prensa de Minnesota
    What a year it has been. For Latinos in both the United States and in Minnesota, it has been a year of both triumph and devastation.MORE »
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