A quick hat-tip and redirect to other good media reporting ...

The Austin Daily Herald's Mike Rose picked up my story on Gov. Pawlenty's budgetary wipe-out of public broadcasting and localized it, showing what would happen to Minnesota's smallest public TV station, KSMQ. Austin would lose "weeknight series such as 'Garden Connections', 'Health Connections', 'Cities on the Move', 'Farm Connections', 'Diversity Connections' and 'Entre Amigos'," Rose writes.

There's a good chart of the hits each of the state's six public TV stations would take — everyone's amount is roughly equal; Twin Cities TPT would be dunned for $226,000.

Meanwhile, MPR's Elizabeth Baier checks in with small-town newspapers following a year of cutbacks. Key data points: the Red Wing Republican Eagle says it's been able to preserve its 14-person staff after dropping from five to two publication days last August, and the Hibbing Daily Tribune claims 1,600 online subscriptions after erecting a paywall in September. That's pretty great for a paper that claimed 4,500 print subs as recently as 2007.