I ran into a Star Tribune friend this morning, who mentioned something interesting about the paper’s staffing. Local media-watchers are aware of the recent major cutbacks in copy editors at the paper; David Brauer has covered it ably for MinnPost. The strategy is to do everything possible to protect the jobs of reporters and other [...]

An insightful piece by our own Jorg Pierach led the Star Tribune’s op-ed section on Sunday. For those of you who may have missed it, here’s an intro and a link.
SO, a hydra-headed task force headed by a couple of noted economists — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers — will try to [...]

We were verging on going paperless at our house. Our Star Tribune subscription ran out, and we dawdled about renewing it.
You have to understand how surprising that was. I’m 51 (today! thankyewverymuch), and I started reading the Minneapolis Tribune in Fergus Falls when I was 6 years old. You could get it delivered every day [...]

Now this is a fascinating look at the birth of old-media doom: a 1981 report by a San Francisco TV station about people getting newspapers over their home computer!
It runs about 2 minutes. At 50 seconds in, you’ll see that among the first 8 newspapers available over CompuServe was the “Star and Tribune.” So, far [...]

The McClatchy Co., former owner of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, always prided itself on not using layoffs as a financial management tool.
No more.
McClatchy is cutting 10% of its employees companywide, or about 1,400 people in all, which the company says will save it about $70 million a year. Not all of its 30 daily newspapers are [...]