Tag: journalism

Brain Food: Lost in the Details

Cristina Cordova — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:23:51 -0500

If you missed Barak Obama's speech earlier today, see it here, and get back to this post when you're done. I'm not backing any presidential candidates, but the speech can't be missed. Besides, then you can take part in the fun — brain food fun, that is.

All the News That Fits—and Then Some

Lisa Pahl — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:24:23 -0600

There’s an awful lot of talk about the news lately, but not, unfortunately, the sort of constructive conversation that promotes critical thinking and engages people with their neighborhoods, their country, or their world. No, what people are talking about is the media, or, more specifically, and more onerously, the business of media. The Star Tribune is losing readers, pages, and staff.

If I were king of the fore-e-e-est

Tom Bartel — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:44:54 -0600

I hope you all noticed the bold initiative of the Star Tribune, as expressed on their editorial page on Sunday. Yup, they put their heads together, snorted and wheezed with the Herculean effort, pressed hard on their temples to concentrate the intellect, and made their endorsement regarding tomorrow's "Super Tuesday" nationwide primaries and caucuses.

And you thought they were too timid to actually make an endorsement without doing a focus group first of what they could get away with without offending their ever shrinking base of readers and advertisers.

Another Death Sentence for Journalism

Tom Bartel — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:59:05 -0600

NY Times media columnist David Carr told a sad tale today. It started out with him telling how the city of Chicago had just paid out $20 million to settle lawsuits by four former condemned men who had been tortured by police.

Tripping the Road Fantastic

Chris Birt — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:40:57 -0600

Soon you may be heading off on a thanksgiving vacation. The trip may be short or it may be long. Unless your relations live next door, however, you will have to make that journey in an automobile. These days that will likely mean a minivan or small European "touring wagon" (which Chrysler attempted to call its Pacifica with no luck).

MinnPost Debut: A "Thoughtful" Approach to News

Deborah Rybak — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0600

RYBAK: Sigh.

Of Burrows and Bergs

Tom Bartel — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:50:54 -0500

I like the rodent.

News Hole

admin — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0500

photo by Raffy Abasolo
(Cover photo by Brian Hayes)

If a Newspaper Falls in the Forest

admin — Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Lost in the loud wailing heard in our little journalistic glade over the clear-cutting of staff at the Star Tribune and Pioneer Press is any serious discussion about what’s being severed: Is it actually worth the efforts of the journalistic tree huggers? To some, the answer is a stentorian “No.”

Purple Prose

admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0500

A few weeks ago the new owners of the Star Tribune threatened to send the jobs of thirty-two of their advertising production employees to India, unless the employees agreed to find “expense reductions” of half a million dollars—or about $15,600 per employee. This business came hot on the heels of the Strib’s announcement that Pioneer Press publisher Par Ridder would be moving across the river.