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Kathy Hansen

Minneapolis, MN
Commenter for
5 years 32 weeks

Recent Comments

Posted on 04/05/12 at 05:45 pm in response to MinnPost's Kevin Schaul wins AP/Google scholarship

Congratulations on being selected for the AP/Google Scholarship. You are in amazing company with your fellow winners. Keep up the terrific work. You are an inspiration.

Posted on 04/19/11 at 04:52 pm in response to When does a journalism awards category fall below critical mass?

Thanks for highlighting the Premack Awards, David. Actually, there were a number of additional Greater MN entrants, including the Mankato Free Press and others. We're sure there was some good work done by MinnPost in 2010 that might have been entered as well. As to Hal's comment, the Premack Award entries are judged by members of the reading/viewing/listening public, not by journalists. It is the only journalism awards program in the state that has that characteristic. So the winning...

Posted on 02/27/09 at 04:42 pm in response to Rush Limbaugh slams Pioneer Press, U Journalism 'Screwl'

With a few important and admirable exceptions, bloggers do not yet do much original reporting, investigative work or content editing. Nor do they yet have the MSM's access to and ability to hold accountable on the public's behalf the captains of industry and politics that control our fates. I have no doubt this is changing and will continue to change. In the meantime, those of us who care about local and state reporting by professionals with the institutional resources to back them up...

Posted on 02/27/09 at 11:20 am in response to Rush Limbaugh slams Pioneer Press, U Journalism 'Screwl'

Just weighing in to bring some facts to the story once again. The state grant comes directly to the University of Minnesota, not the two newspapers. And the staff training was negotiated as part of the Guild contract -- the two news organizations are obligated to pay their staff members while they take advantage of the training we will offer. If Rush is such a defender of the "little guy," I don't see why he would grudge the union members some pay for training rather than having to dig...

Posted on 02/25/09 at 09:56 am in response to Pioneer Press, Duluth paper get government funds

Just a clarification -- the funds from the state do not carry any strings as to the nature of the training or curriculum we develop. The actual grantee is the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication. We will develop the curriculum we think is best suited to the newspaper staffs, we control the expenditure of the funds and the news organizations participate as part of the Guild contract that was negotiated last year. Tom, I don't think "this is the end of...

Posted on 11/06/12 at 12:21 pm in response to MinnPost voters: Share your voting experience

In line @ 9:15 this morning. Much shorter wait and much less diversity in line than in 2008. I was number 500 to vote today. In 2008 at around the same time, my number was in the 700s. Lots of young people registering at the polling place, however.

Posted on 11/09/07 at 01:09 pm in response to Where the jobs are, and aren't

The beta version of a great new "data" tool might be of interest. You can find it at http://www.swivel.com. Another amazing new resource is the US Census Burearu's "DataFerrett" at http://dataferrett.census.gov/

Enjoy!