Skip to Content

Braublog

Braublog

The Huffington Patch?

By David Brauer | 02/07/11
By design, Minnesota's 18 Patch.com city sites are unpretentiously local, but late Sunday night, they got a jet-setter boss who once shared a bed with Al Franken. Arianna Huffington, an impresario of the digital left, will take over Patch and all o
Braublog

Mayo Clinic: 'no position' on bill allowing Lou Gehrig medical records release

By David Brauer | 02/04/11
I don't sense they're planning any ticker-tape parades in Rochester for Phyllis Kahn's bill, but here's the Mayo Clinic's statement on potential Minnesota consent law changes for medical records: "Mayo Clinic values the privacy of its patients and
Braublog

'Gehrig bill' would free Yankee star's medical data for ALS-concussion probe

By David Brauer | 02/04/11
State Rep. Phyllis Kahn makes no bones about it: She wants the Mayo Clinic to release New York Yankees legend Lou Gehrig’s medical records. Monday, she will introduce a bill permitting just that.
Braublog

Chris Baker update: hints about life after KTLK

By David Brauer | 02/04/11
Wednesday's story about Chris Baker quitting conservative talker KTLK-FM proved surprisingly popular, so here's an update from blogger Al Peterson, who talked to the enigmatic host about what's next: “Resigning my position at KTLK-FM had nothing to
Braublog

Not everyone sad to see the Minnesota News Council go

By David Brauer | 02/03/11
Note: Correction on the Star Tribune Foundation appended. Also see end of story. Last week, the Minnesota News Council closed up shop.
Braublog

Murder rate reporting that deserves to be killed

By David Brauer | 02/03/11
Headline from WCCO.com: Violent Crime Down Across The Board In Mpls.
Braublog

Chris Baker quits as KTLK-FM morning host

By David Brauer | 02/02/11
Controversial KTLK-FM morning host Chris Baker quit Wednesday, and will be replaced, at least temporarily, by former KSTP-AM host Bob Davis. Clear Channel operations manager Gregg Swedberg confirms that "Chris Baker is not with us anymore." Baker h
Braublog

Who has the second-most print readers in the Twin Cities?

By David Brauer | 02/02/11
Ah metrics, I just can't quit you. Today's data point comes from The Media Audit, put out by Houston-based International Demographics.
Braublog

Wendy Paulson out as WCCO program director

By David Brauer | 02/02/11
WCCO Radio Program Director Wendy Paulson has been let go, a station executive confirms.
Braublog

Comcast Minneapolis adds Al Jazeera English (for a few minutes)

By David Brauer | 02/02/11
Not precisely sure when this happened, or whether it has happened on other regional cable systems, but if you want to check out Al Jazeera English's Egypt coverage on your TV, Comcast Minneapolis has put the network on Channel 76. Not sure how perm
Braublog

Renovate Target Center? Who designed it in the first place?

By David Brauer | 02/01/11
Target Center and I go way back. My first paying journalism job was roughly where Section 240 was today.
Braublog

After nearly 30 years, Soucheray leaving Saturday 'SportsTalk'

By David Brauer | 02/01/11
As part of Joe Soucheray's new 1500 ESPN contract, he will no longer co-host Saturday Morning "SportsTalk," and work one less hour on weekdays, station officials confirm. The Pioneer Press columnist has paired with the Star Tribune's Patrick Reusse
Braublog

Bemidji newspaper shot at -- again

By David Brauer | 02/01/11
Scary stuff in northern Minnesota, where the Bemidji Pioneer offices were shot at ...
Braublog

For just a month, WLTE is top-rated Twin Cities station

By David Brauer | 01/31/11
Like the Babylonian Zodiac, the Arbitron radio-ratings calendar has 13 months. Why the extra? To segregate the eggnog-fortified stations who boost their ratings with Christmas music. Arbitron's "holiday book" shows WLTE winning the month (Dec.
Braublog

With ad, Pioneer Press signals next editor may be outsider

By David Brauer | 01/31/11
With editor Thom Fladung leaving for the number-two job in Cleveland, Pioneer Press officials are looking beyond their own shop for his successor, according to an help-wanted ad management recently placed in Editor & Publisher.
Braublog

After 41 years, Minnesota News Council to fold

By David Brauer | 01/28/11
The Minnesota News Council, which has provided public/professional adjudication of journalism disputes since 1970, is closing, the Associated Press reports. Not every news org agreed to be hauled before the Council, but the half-journo/half-laypers
Braublog

Legislative leaders on repealing newspaper public-notice mandates: two maybe, two no

By David Brauer | 01/27/11
About the time my story on repealing Minnesota's newspaper public-notice mandates went live, state legislative leaders were in the lion's den, answering questions about the issue at the Minnesota Newspaper Association convention in Bloomington. Sho
Braublog

Star Tribune covers the Medicaid-cuts story that KSTP broke

By David Brauer | 01/27/11
Monday, I asked if any Minnesota media outlet would follow up on KSTP's Jan.
Braublog

Time for Minnesota governments to stop paid public-notice ads in newspapers?

By David Brauer | 01/27/11
You’re reading this story online. So shouldn’t Minnesota’s local governments be able to put their public notices on their websites and ditch the state mandate to pay newspapers for printing them, too?
Braublog

Who will bid for Dayton's radio show (and who bid for TPaw's in 2006)?

By David Brauer | 01/26/11
Following the trail blazed by Gov. Jesse Ventura in 1999, Gov. Mark Dayton announced plans for a radio show. Stations have until Feb. 7 to bid for the one-to-two-hour show.