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Tag: Newspapers

This or That

Rochester Post Bulletin sold

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 16, 2019, 11:08 AM May 16, 2019
4

The future of southeast Minnesota’s largest media operation has seemed obvious for the last few years: the Rochester Post Bulletin was likely to be a casualty of the newspaper depression. Read more →

Economy

With the death of newspapers, a golden age of ignorance is born

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 8, 2019, 9:59 AM May 8, 2019
105

News media from as far away from Tokyo showed up to document the Warroad Pioneer’s demise because, apparently, even the people of Tokyo care more about Warroad than the people of Warroad. Read more →

Politics

When it comes to election results, newspapers are dead

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 2, 2018, 11:45 AM Nov 2, 2018
5

If you want election results next Wednesday morning, you apparently won’t find them in the newspapers of one of the biggest chains in the country, and that’s just the way Gannett wants it. Read more →

Newspaper employees wonder who will cover their plight

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 9, 2018, 9:35 AM May 9, 2018
18

Journalists at newspapers are fighting a losing battle against the hedge fund that owns their papers because their point is being proven. It takes a strong local newspaper to effect change and shine a light on community evil. Read more →

This or That

A newspaperman calls it a career

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 23, 2018, 7:15 AM Apr 23, 2018
3

We may be in the final days of seeing anyone spend 40 years in the newspaper business at one paper, or any paper at all.
Read more →

Arts & Culture

Newspaper owners are coming for your democracy

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 16, 2018, 12:09 PM Mar 16, 2018
27

These are tough times for the newspaper industry, tougher times for people who make their living as ink-stained wretches, and it’s no picnic for readers either when the newspaper owners talk to us as if we’re stupid on those occasions when they talk to their customers at all. Read more →

This or That

Newspaper apologizes for editorial cartoon

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 8, 2018, 2:33 PM Feb 8, 2018
26

Editorial cartoonists usually get pretty wide latitude.

This was too wide. Read more →

Economy · The jobs we do

Gannett’s newsroom cuts slash at St. Cloud’s heart

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 26, 2016, 7:21 AM Oct 26, 2016
51

The people who work at newspapers drive the local news agenda. What they can’t do — as the St. Cloud Times’ story today proved again — is provide coverage of the execution of a community’s soul. Read more →

Save journalism, buy a newspaper

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 9, 2016, 6:36 AM Aug 9, 2016
51

Subscribe to a newspaper if you want to save the business of journalism.

No matter what you may think, the internet isn’t going to do it.
Read more →

Crime and Justice · Politics

When legislators don’t know what they’re doing

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 9, 2014, 6:35 AM Sep 9, 2014
6

If we ever needed a reminder about the value of a newspaper, we need only look at the reporting in the last few week of Brandon Stahl of the Star Tribune, who uncovered a combination of apparent incompetence and faulty legislation in the state’s child abuse reporting system that left Eric Dean, 4, dead. Read more →

Is there still room for two newspapers in the Twin Cities?

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 20, 2013, 3:59 PM Nov 20, 2013
0

Execs at the Pioneer Press newspaper insisted today that the decision to cut 170 jobs at its printing plant near Holman Field and contracting with the rival Star Tribune does not indicate a sale of the paper itself despite ongoing rumors that it’s only a matter of time before the Twin Cities become a one-newspaper Read more →

The best front page you’ll see today

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 4, 2013, 6:11 PM Jul 4, 2013
1

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