Mankato Free Press unveils pay wall where print subscribers pay
The Mankato Free Press plan features a slight twist.
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David Brauer authors Braublog and is MinnPost’s local media reporter. He has covered media and politics as a writer and editor since 1983 for City Pages, the Southwest/Downtown Journal, KFAN and KSTP-AM, Mpls.St.Paul, Minnesota Monthly, Law & Politics, the Business Journal, KARE11 and national outlets.
Will scrapping Convention Center domes hurt Minneapolis’ Vikings plan?
Replacement of the copper domes could cost $15 million — and affect plans for a downtown Vikings stadium.
Pioneer Press workers get two more layoff-free months
The Pioneer Press Newspaper Guild approved a no-layoff extension through March 31.
Pioneer Press: Optimizing website for … iPad?
Spending as much time reading online as I do, I get persnickity about what designers call the “user experience.”
Michele Tafoya out as WCCO Radio afternoon host
Michele Tafoya will step down as WCCO-AM’s afternoon host; John Williams will get the 3-6 p.m.
Will MPR’s ‘Daily’ show make news more interesting and fun?
Fourteen years ago, I did an interview with Bill Buzenberg when he took over Minnesota Public Radio’s news operation. The subject of the 9-11 a.m.
Paterno’s premature death report: How the Star Tribune got it wrong
On Saturday night, several media outlets prematurely reported Penn State football coach Joe Paterno had died. It started with an online campus paper, spread to CBSSports.com, then the Huffington Post.
Star Tribune accepts ad from convicted sex-assaulter’s Mormon sect
Would you accept an ad from a religious sect touting a divine revelation given to a convicted sex abuser of two girls under 16?
Gary Eichten and the craft of journalism
Because radio is such an intimate medium, and audiences have been intimate with Eichten for so long, he is the epitome of objectivity — the “no rant, no slant” MPR famously advertises.
Ex-WCCOer Jack Rice returns, on AM950
Fans of Jack Rice, the “journalist, lawyer, former CIA officer” and ex-WCCO radio host, should mark their calendars for Feb. 5, when his new 7-9 a.m. Sunday show debuts on AM950.
Associated Press Minnesota bureau chief Dave Pyle stepping down
Dave Pyle, who leads the Associated Press’s Minnesota/Wisconsin bureau, will leave his position Jan.
Who is MintPress and why are they doing all this hiring?
If 24-year-old Mnar A. Muhawesh’s dreams come to fruition, a low-rise Plymouth bank building could become the headquarters of an international media success story.
How I got that photo: Ben Garvin and the ‘Crashed Ice’ aerial
“The event was so done-up, you couldn’t take a bad picture,” says the overly modest Garvin. “Everything looks better from the air.”
Minneapolis: We’ll throw $6.5 million a year at Vikings stadium
The City of Minneapolis’s response to Gov. Dayton’s Vikings stadium deadline is out. Succinctly, the city pledges to contribute $6.5 million per year beginning in 2016, plus a 3 percent increase per annum, through 2045.
Forum’s Upper Midwest news service: Associated Press competitor?
Forum Communications owns more Minnesota newspapers than anyone else*, so the chain’s freshly-announced Upper Midwest news service could be big news for statewide readers … especially those in Duluth, Bemidji, East Grand Forks, Moorhead, Willmar and
From City Pages to the ‘billionaire beat’
At City Pages, reporter Erin Carlyle covered North Minneapolis Hells Angels. Now, she covers Carlos Slim Helu.
Caryle, who quit her CP gig last year, landed on what she calls the “billionaire beat” for Forbes.
St. Cloud Times to get online pay wall
First the Star Tribune, now the St. Cloud Times will wall off some online content to non-subscribers. Details are sketchy, but News&Tech reports the Times is one of six Gannett Co. newspapers that will debut a pay wall in 2012.
Rosenbaum’s show cancelled; more Davis & Emmer at Twin Cities NewsTalk
Citing finances, Clear Channel-owned NewsTalk 1130 last week cancelled one of the area’s longest-running radio shows, Ron Rosenbaum’s “Holding Court.”
Normally, axing a Saturday afternoon radio show wouldn’t rate a mention, but Rosenbaum’s a pretty
Ailing Pioneer Press political reporter Salisbury plans return
Quick update on St. Paul Pioneer Press political reporter Bill Salisbury, who suffered a serious heart attack December 9.
CBS Radio named Clear Channel vet Morris to run JACK-FM, new country station
It’s radio inside baseball, but former KDWB/KTLK operations director Rob Morris will take over JACK-FM and the new Buz’N 102.9 country station, CBS Minnesota announced Monday.
Morris was considered integral to KDWB’s rise to the top of the Twin Cit