Can Joel Kramer’s Caring Spirit Save Quality Journalism?
Okay, I lived in Minnesota for 18 years and I am used to Minnesota generosity, the caring spirit, but what Joel Kramer, former editor and publisher of the Star Tribune, is doing is quite extraordinary....
View ArticleFuture of Journalism Embedded in Six Stories
Today at Romenesko the future of journalism can be seen in six separate stories: Story 1: McClatchy Co., one of the nation’s biggest newspaper companies, reported sharply lower profit and revenue for...
View ArticleMeet Representative Journalism’s Advisory Board
Now that we have our Northfield, Minnesota Community Reporting Fellowship posted at JournalismJobs.com, I am sure more people will be interested in knowing more about us. There are really three five...
View ArticleLivestream: Changing Roles in Emerging News Ecology
Joel Kramer is talking live at the Journalism that Matters discussion with Mike Tippet and Michelle Ferrier. He says if his MinnPost project is a example for funding journalism enterprises then it is...
View ArticleJoel Kramer Optimistic about Nonprofit News Models
Yesterday I blogged that Joel Kramer, MinnPost publisher, spoke in a broad sense about the grim outlook for news business models. He said that’s not what he meant — if that’s how it was interpreted....
View ArticleChristian Science Monitor: A Change Worth Watching, Or Is It?
The Christian Science Monitor announced today that it is going to shut down the paper edition in April 2009 and just publish online. With a paper that does fairly pure high quality journalism that...
View ArticleKnight Injects $390,000 into Four Community News Sites
This from a Knight Foundation news release: MIAMI – Four online community news sites will expand their local reporting staffs and bring their communities more content, with a combined $390,000...
View ArticleMatching Grant Helps MinnPost Try Micro Sponsor Plan
Thanks to a $10,000 matching grant from the Harnisch Foundation, MinnPost is trying a micro sponsorship plan to underwrite the work of David Brauer, who reports about Minnesota media. Just click on a...
View ArticleNew York Times Maps USA Newspapers’ Financial Crisis
A map with a related article entitled: As Cities Go From Two Papers to One, Talk of Zero gives a graphic overview of the state of the newspaper crisis in the USA. The article and the graphic are a grim...
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