Journalism

Don Gillmor, U of M media law professor, dies at 86

Very few people bear the qualities necessary to be regarded as one of the world's leading experts in media law and be listed among the nation's sexiest professors by Esquire, but Donald Gillmor achieved both of those honors. Gillmor, a professor of journalism at the University of Minnesota for 35 y ... More >>

Pioneer Press editor blasts Star Tribune writer for suggesting PiPress boycott

In the wake of Pioneer Press editors publishing a Vote Yes editorial on Saturday -- a move that prompted Vikings punter and outspoken gay marriage advocate Chris Kluwe to immediately quit blogging for the paper -- Star Tribune film critic Colin Covert took to Twitter and told his followers, "If you ... More >>

Chris Kluwe betrayed: Punter quits writing for PiPress following paper's Vote Yes editorial

In recent weeks, Vikings punter Chris Kluwe toned himself down and had been blogging for the Pioneer Press, but that relationship abruptly came to an end Saturday when the Twin Cities' right-leaning daily published a Vote Yes editorial.SEE ALSO: Vikings considering replacing Chris Kluwe as punter Th ... More >>

Marilyn Hagerty wins journalism award, plans to review another Olive Garden soon

Marilyn Hagerty, the Grand Forks Herald restaurant reviewer whose writeup of a local Olive Garden went viral last spring, won the prestigious Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media for lifetime achievement last week."It was just overwhelming because other winners of the award were Walter ... More >>

Star Tribune stands by Bachmann coverage, reporter's "butthurt" response to criticism

The Star Tribune recently created a stir with coverage of Michele Bachmann's swing through the 6th Congressional District that read more like P.R. than political reporting.SEE ALSO: Star Tribune blasted for "puff" Michele Bachmann coverageOne of the most outspoken critics of Strib reporter Jennifer ... More >>

Legs McNeil on Joey Ramone, punk in 2012, and not trusting music critics

Legs McNeil is a legendary rock music historian, author and journalist. He co-founded and wrote for Punk Magazine back in the mid-'70s, is a former senior editor for Spin, and founder/editor of Nerve magazine in 1992. He is renowned as co-author of Please Kill Me: the Uncensored Oral History of Pu ... More >>

Grand Forks Olive Garden reviewer, internet sensation Marilyn Hagerty to receive major journalism award

See also: Olive Garden review: the greatest restaurant review ever written The Grand Forks Herald restaurant writer whose homey review of a new Olive Garden created a weeks-long internet sensation will receive a prestigious national journalism award that has previously gone to such luminaries as Wa ... More >>

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Duluth News Tribune runs correction to St. Luke's coverage

Last year, the Duluth News Tribune ran several investigative stories about a former neurosurgeon at St. Luke's hospital, Dr. Stefan Konasiewicz, with the gist being that St. Luke's "was aware of the harm Konasiewicz was alleged to have caused [patients] and yet continued to let him practice," accord ... More >>

VIDEO: Was peaceful Occupy activist arrested in downtown Mpls just for filming police?

On May 11, 56-year-old Minneapolis resident David Cummer was calmly using his iPhone to film police during the 1% Against Democracy rally in downtown Minneapolis when a group of officers approached him and suddenly placed him under arrest."You decide to leave, if not, you're going to be arrested," o ... More >>

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Reed Fischer named new music editor of City Pages

Photo by Ian WitlenIncoming City Pages music editor Reed Fischer​As we near the end of 2011, big changes are in the air for Gimme Noise and the City Pages music section. After holding down the position of music editor for almost four years, I've decided to pursue an opportunity outside the company ... More >>

WCCO Duck Dog footage surfaces on YouTube [VIDEO]

​Despite WCCO-TV's attempts to scrub all evidence of the Duck/Dog debacle from the internet, a video of the original report has surfaced on YouTube.The video was posted yesterday evening by TVSpyShopTalk, which is part of MediaBistro. Previously, we posted the transcript of the errant report, but ... More >>

WCCO Duck Dog: Asian American Journalists Association demands apology from CBS Chief Diversity Officer Josie Thomas

James Schugel is under the microscope.​The Asian American Journalists Association is demanding an apology from CBS corporate in the wake of affiliate WCCO's admission that it botched the October 31 story that has become popularly known as "Duck/Dog." "We were disturbed by an Oct. 31 broadcast by ... More >>

Minnesota Independent editors talk site shutdown

Minnesota Independent editor Jon Collins was laid off yesterday.​The Minnesota Independent is shutting down, according to its editor and the company's CEO. Jon Collins took the job as site editor earlier this summer but was laid off yesterday around noon, Collins confirmed to City Pages. The move ... More >>

WCCO Duck Dog Story

TV station screws the pooch on Sweeps story

Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists blasts WCCO over "dog meat" story

The Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists won't let James Schugel duck the controversy.​The Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists released a statement yesterday blasting WCCO-TV for refusing to address errors in its crazy report alleging a local puppy mill was selling dogs to a mea ... More >>

WCCO "dog meat" story gets the NMA TV treatment [VIDEO]

Schugel in real life and in CG (wearing a dunce cap).​WCCO reporter James Schugel is having one hell of a week. First, he breaks a story about a butcher shop in Chinatown selling dog meat that turns out to be super false. Then, the mistake goes viral. Next the Asian American Journalists Associati ... More >>

Michael Brodkorb steps down from Minnesota Republican Party to volunteer on Mike Parry's campaign

​Michael Brodkorb is resigning as deputy chairman of the Republican Party in Minnesota to volunteer on state Sen. Mike Parry's run for U.S. Congress. Parry announced Friday that he would run against Congressman Tim Walz in the First Congressional District, a major move on the part of Republicans ... More >>

Democracy Now! reporters win settlement for arrests during 2008 Republican convention

​That Nicole Salazar videotaped her arrest is both fortunate and unfortunate.It's fortunate because that same tape just helped Salazar, a producer for the Democracy Now! news show, and two other journalists win a settlement in their lawsuit against the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul for bad po ... More >>

Engineering students learning how to be less awkward at U of M

​Engineering is not one of the social sciences -- at times, it's more like anti-social. But the University of Minnesota is setting about to change that, thanks to a series of new classes offered to engineering students that are meant to help them be a little less Isaac Newton, science weirdo, and ... More >>

Anna Prasomphol speaks out about local media coverage of Amy Senser hit-and-run

Anna Prasomphol, owner of True Thai restaurant, says Phanthavong was her best friend.​Amy Senser's hit-and-run accident has been ruled "accidental" by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner. But Anna Prasomphol, owner of True Thai restaurant where Anousone Phanthavong was the head chef, doesn't thin ... More >>

G.R. Anderson on Rolling Stone's Bachmann piece: "I do want credit where credit is due"

G.R. Anderson (left) says Matt Taibbi (right) lifted his reporting on Michele Bachmann.​Matt Taibbi's piece on Michele Bachmann in Rolling Stone this week borrows liberally from a 2006 cover story by former City Pages reporter G.R. Anderson Jr. So much so that Abe Sauer of the Awl called them out ... More >>

Minnesota Public Radio Somali series wins national SPJ award

MPRYuen's three-part series details the struggles of Somali immigrants in the Twin Cities.​Minnesota Public Radio just picked up a prestigious award for its in-depth coverage on the Somali community in Minneapolis. The Society of Professional Journalists announced yesterday that MPR's three-p ... More >>

MinnRoast hurts MinnPost's journalistic credibility, Nick Coleman argues

MinnPost advertises Governor Mark Dayton's appearance at MinnRoast​Tomorrow night is the fourth annual MinnRoast, a fundraiser for MinnPost's "non-partisan, nonprofit" brand of journalism. And former Star Tribune columnist Nick Coleman argues convincingly today that the whole event compromises ... More >>

Michele Bachmann blames reporters for her American Revolution gaffe

​Just the other day, Rep. Michele Bachmann single-handedly relocated the opening battle of the American Revolution from Massachusetts to New Hampshire. Journalists took note. Embarrassing headlines were written. Now Bachmann, who has previously funked the history of slavery, the Founding Fat ... More >>

City Pages has a new theater critic

​City Pages is pleased to announce that arts and entertainment writer Ed Huyck has joined our cast in the role of theater critic. He is charged with the enviable but daunting task of covering one of the most vibrant theater cultures in America, a scene that includes more than 100 performing ar ... More >>

Gawker's Nick Denton claims moral high ground on Brett Favre penis post

Nick Denton, founder and owner of Gawker, says Deadspin had to reveal the existence of Brett Favre penis photos because "so-called sports journalists" didn't have the stones.​Deadspin, the sports gossip site run by Gawker Media, last week published a controversial post claiming the existence of ph ... More >>

Deadspin defends Brett Favre naked in crocs story [UPDATED x5]

Brett Favre penis photo revelations: Were they ethical?​Last week, as Brett Favre was considering whether to return to play for the Vikings this year or retire, sports gossip site Deadspin.com dropped a bombshell: Live Nude Favre.The website, part of Gawker Media, didn't actually publish the croc ... More >>

Robyne Robinson turns Fox 9 into campaign commercial

Lieutenant governor candidate denies conflict of interest

Fox 9 endorses Robyne Robinson for Lieutenant Governor [VIDEO]

A sad sendoff to Robyne Robinson's career as a journalist​Going into last night's 9 p.m. broadcast--Robyne Robinson's signoff before leaving the pursue politics as Matt Entenza running mate--Fox 9 had ample warning of the potential for conflicts of interest.The day after Robinson admitted that she ... More >>

MPR interviews Robyne Robinson: "a good reporter goes all the way till deadline"

Robyne Robinson is weighing whether she wants to "take it beyond the news desk and become active in the community I love"​Robyne Robinson skipped out on the Fox 9 news at 5 p.m. tonight, allegedly because she was caught in traffic on the way back from a radio interview.We believe she was talking a ... More >>

UpTake uproar: Citizen journalists get the cold shoulder

Blog loses battle with group who says they are "compromising media"

Amy Goodman sues local cops, cities over RNC arrest

​Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now,  filed a lawsuit against city and state officials Wednesday, accusing police of wrongfully arresting her during the Republican National Convention two years ago.Goodman and two of her staffers were arrested during the first day of the convention while cove ... More >>

Minnesota Daily is the best U.S. college newspaper

​Congratulations to the staff at the University of Minnesota's campus newspaper, The Minnesota Daily, for taking home this year's Best All-Around Daily Student Newspaper award from the Society of Professional Journalists. Daily staffers also took home two individual awards. Jules Ameel won fi ... More >>

Jim DeRogatis talks about leaving the Chicago Sun-Times

​Jim DeRogatis began his writing career in high school in 1982, completing an assignment by interviewing another young-blooming music thinker: the brightly burned out, young, and probably canon Lester Bangs. Twenty-eight years later DeRogatis is a widely and justifiably respected critic and journa ... More >>

Amy Klobuchar divulges secret comedy tips

Why is this woman smiling?​We've said it before, we'll say it again: Amy Klobuchar is funny. Her reputation is such that Politico went to her the other day seeking unsolicited advice for Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), who face the unenviable task of trying to make ... More >>

Julie "Jitterbug" Pearce sounds changed by Haiti

Photo courtesy Julie PearceJulie Pearce comforts an earthquake victim in Hait​Remember Julie "Jitterbug" Pearce, the former reporter at KBJR-TV in Duluth who quit her job to put her nursing skills to work with relief efforts in Haiti after the massive earthquake there in January? She says sh ... More >>

KSTP, WCCO sought access to taped rapes of Mary Stauffer

Local stations put victim's privacy at stake

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