Twin Cities Daily Planet (https://www.tcdailyplanet.net/category/special-sections/page/13/)
In honor of Kerry Ashmore, co-publisher of the Northeaster and NorthNews Newspapers, a memorial fund has been set up at the non-profit arm of the Minnesota Newspaper Association, the Minnesota News Media Institute (MNI).
In case I don’t say it enough, I just want to make sure I have expressed how grateful I am for the many readers who have emailed me over the years with tips for stories, thoughts on subjects we’ve covered in TC Daily Planet, their own experiences and perspectives, and suggestions for further inquiry. Really, sometime I don’t know what I would do with out that essential engagement.A little over a week ago, I covered a walk-in organized by the Saint Paul Teacher’s Federation in Saint Paul schools. I didn’t receive a press release about it. A teacher reached out to my editor to make sure we knew about the walk-in and the reasons behind it. I spoke to the teacher at some length about a few different issues and in the end, she didn’t feel comfortable using her name in an article because she felt there might be retaliation. She told me it was actually her union steward who advised her not to use her name. It’s certainly frustrating for me, because it’s difficult to put a story together when you don’t have any quotable sources, and Lord knows I get in trouble when I try to pass off a story with anonymous sources.Still, I am happy to hear from individuals even if it’s just background information. Continue Reading
Kerry Ashmore, co-owner and co-publisher of the Northeaster and NorthNews newspapers, died Monday, Jan. 27 of cancer. He was 59. His ashes will be scattered privately, and celebrations of his life will be announced in the newspapers and on www.NENorthNews.com.A full obituary will appear in the Feb. 19 Northeaster and Feb. Continue Reading
This past December, Global Synergy Group brought together a delegation of local government leaders from Boryspil, Ukraine and a group of journalists from the Twin Cities.
There’s a persistent lie making its way through popular media- and often twisted through social media. Like any good lie it starts with a kernel of truth but gradually becomes a clear and open lie. Continue Reading
Tiffany Vang is the blog star of the Media Skills Fellows! Her post on the Hmong 18 Clan Council and bride price policies got an all-time high of more than 67,000 page views and more than 700 comments, as well as responses posted as blogs and articles.
Ladonna Redmond moved to Minnesota from Chicago in 2010, and has been very active in food, environmental, and social justice groups in the Twin Cities, ranging from Neighborhoods Organizing for Change to Homegrown Minneapolis to urban farm projects. She also hosts a radio show — “It’s Your Health” — on KMOJ.
Jamie Keith grew up on Navajo and Hopi Reservations in Arizona, and works for the Minnesota Youth Council. She’s an active volunteer, working with the Ginew/Golden Eagles program at the Minneapolis American Indian Center, and volunteering in other youth-related programs in St. Paul.
Born and raised in Chicago, Lisa Deputie moved to Minnesota in the 1990s. She works as a parent mentor in the Child Protection Clinic at William Mitchell College of Law, and with Prevent Child Abuse-Minnesota.
Born and raised in Texas, Oscar Del Sébastien came to Minnesota at the age of 15, “as a migrant worker in a migrant family.” After completing high school, he “majored in confusion” at Moorhead State, but graduated from the University of Vermont with a degree in art and literature. After a decade in New England, he came home to Minnesota and became a teacher during the day and a musician after school hours.