Former Star Tribune reporter Bruce Benidt is circulating this call for action: Hello friends of journalism in Minnesota, We’re looking for creative solutions from an innovative, public-spirited community to keep a great daily newspaper viable in the electronic… Read More

Please join the Twin Cities Media Alliance and Twin Cities Daily Planet for two events this Friday – both being held at the Bedlam Theatre, 1501 S. 6th St., Minneapolis. First, at 3:30 p.m., The Somali community and… Read More

Sharon Schmickle, one of the Twin Cities’ most distinguished journalists, will be the featured guest at our next Brown Bag Lunch With A Journalist, noon, Wednesday, March 25 at the East Lake Public Library, 2727 E. Lake St.,… Read More

by Mary Turck, editor, Twin Cities Daily Planet Who is a journalist? And does the government get to answer this question? Minnesota restrictions on freedom of the press surfaced early in the 2009 legislative session, as the MN… Read More

Please join us for our next Brown Bag Lunch with A Journalist, Wednesday, February 25 at noon, at the East Lake Public Library, 2727 E. Lake St., Minneapolis: Brian Lambert, media blogger for Mpls-St.Paul magazine and former media… Read More

Brown Bag Lunch with Chuck Olson – Wednesday, January 21 at noon, at the East Lake Public Library, 2727 E. Lake St., Minneapolis: Chuck Olsen is a cofounder of The UpTake, a non-profit dedicated to training and distriibuting… Read More

The first annual Ethnic and Community Media Awards packed the Black Forest Inn banquet room December 5, in an event co-sponsored by New America Media and the Twin Cities Media Alliance. Matthew Little, Lauretta Dawolo Towns, Anne Holzman, David Zander, and Anna Pratt took top honors. The Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder was the leading publication of the evening, with top articles in three categories, but overall the entries and winners represented the diversity of Minnesota media.

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Chris Ison will be the featured guest at this month’s Brown Bag Lunch With A Journalist, Wednesday, November 26.  Chris worked at the Minneapolis Star Tribune from 1986 to 2004, and is now an… Read More

Please save the date: the Twin Cities Media Alliance is hosting a celebration of local ethnic and community media Friday, December 5 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in the Black Forest Inn’s banquet room, next door to the… Read More

Jeremy Iggers speaks at noon Thursday, September 25 at the Weisman Art Museum: Citizens Making News and News Making Democracy: The media landscape has changed dramatically since the 2004 U.S. Presidential election. Opportunities for citizens and alternative media… Read More