“At this point,” says Doug McGill, “I can’t NOT be a journalist, i.e. I’ll never be an ex-journalist.” But changes in the profession have a lot of mid-career journalists, including Doug, contemplating their futures and weighing their options…. Read More

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet May 02, 2010 With a bustling birthday bash Friday evening at T’s Place on Lake Street in Minneapolis, the Twin Cities Daily Planet celebrated the fourth anniversary of its official launch on… Read More

The Twin Cities Daily Planet will turn four next month, and we’re going to celebrate a day early – on Friday, April 30. Please join us  for a Happy Hour Birthday Party at T’s Place, 2713 E. Lake… Read More

Curious about Iran? Please join me at noon on Tuesday, April 13 for our Brown Bag Lunch at the East Lake Public Library, 2727 E. Lake St., Minneapolis, with freelance journalist Laura Secor, presented by special arrangement with… Read More

The Twin Cities Media Alliance cordially invites you to join us at two upcoming events with Bob McChesney, founder of FreePress.net, and John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation. On Thursday night, March 25, starting at 8 p.m.,… Read More

NEW YORK – The Challenge Fund for Journalism (CFJ), a consortium of the Ford, McCormick, and Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundations, today announced that 13 nonprofit journalism organizations working in youth media, ethnic media, and investigative reporting… Read More

Please join me at noon on Wednesday, February 24 for our Brown Bag Lunch at the East Lake Public Library, 2727 E. Lake St., Minneapolis, with featured guest security expert Bruce Schneier, speaking on a topic ripped from… Read More

Among the grants: $50,000 to the Twin Cities Media Alliance, “(t)o help Twin Cities’ residents effectively use communications tools and media to share and analyze local news and information. For the full text of the Minneapolis Foundation press release,… Read More

The New York Times ran a story this morning (January 4) about a feature that TC Daily Planet added last week – SeeClickFix.com. SeeClickFix is a national site that gives people a super-simple way to register their requests… Read More

Please join us for our Brown Bag Lunch with featured guest Joel Kramer, founder and publisher of MinnPost. Joel Kramer began his career in newspapers at the age of 12, delivering Newsday in Queens, NY. After working for… Read More