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• Shaking the Foundations, in Search of Journalism

  Published: October 2, 2007, 9:23 am

  Tags: Community Citizen User Gen Participatory Conversational Content, Daily Newspaper Companies, Innovation, News Democracy, Eli Broad, Joel Kramer, Knight Foundation, L Times, Minnpost, Nelson Poynter, Sam Zell, St Petersburg Times, Tribune

  like MinnPost, the Joel Kramer-led online-only journalism site soon to launch in the Twin Cities, and we see the emergence of, well, new business models. In the Twin Cities, Kramer tells me that, ahead of launch, "We have 186 annual donors totaling more than $63,000 right now, on top of the 4 founders who gave $850,000 and the Knight

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• MinnPost: A Broadside of Next Wave Journalism?

  Published: August 28, 2007, 1:13 am

  Tags: Advertising, Community Citizen User Gen Participatory Conversational Content, Daily Newspaper Companies, Innovation, News Democracy, Crosscut, Dave Beal, David Cox, Doug Grow, Greg Patterson, Joel Kramer, John Camp, John Cowles, Kay Harvey, Kijiji, Knight Foundation, Lee

  guy who is CEO and Editor: Joel Kramer was my competition when I worked at the Pioneer Press (1986-1997), and it was a great journalism war. The way journalism ought to be committed, with  competing resources and an eye to doing a better job for the readers than the other guy. Kramer ( a young 59) is old journalism, and that's a departure

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• Pro Publica, MinnPost Burst Out of the Box

  Published: October 17, 2007, 11:34 pm

  Tags: Community Citizen User Gen Participatory Conversational Content, Daily Newspaper Companies, Innovation, City Pages, Crosscut, Family Foundations, Joel Kramer, Martin Brown Foundation, Minnpost, Paul Steiger, Pegasus News, Pioneer Press, Pro Publica, Star Tribune, The P

  also brought us a date for Joel Kramer's MinnPost start-up in the Twin Cities: Nov. 8. On that day, the once-proud Twin Cities journalism scene, bastion of competitive, above-average (located near Lake Wobegon after all) press work becomes another key exhibit in the emerging case being made for a new journalism. Kramer says he is ahead on

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• Shaking the Foundations, in Search of Journalism

  Published: October 24, 2007, 4:58 pm

  Tags: Community Citizen User Gen Participatory Conversational Content, Daily Newspaper Companies, Innovation, News Democracy, Eli Broad, Joel Kramer, Knight Foundation, L Times, Minnpost, Nelson Poynter, Sam Zell, St Petersburg Times, Tribune

  like MinnPost, the Joel Kramer-led online-only journalism site soon to launch in the Twin Cities, and we see the emergence of, well, new business models. In the Twin Cities, Kramer tells me that, ahead of launch, "We have 186 annual donors totaling more than $63,000 right now, on top of the 4 founders who gave $850,000 and the Knight

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• ProPublica, MinnPost Burst Out of the Box

  Published: October 24, 2007, 4:58 pm

  Tags: Community Citizen User Gen Participatory Conversational Content, Daily Newspaper Companies, Innovation, City Pages, Crosscut, Family Foundations, Joel Kramer, Martin Brown Foundation, Minnpost, Paul Steiger, Pegasus News, Pioneer Press, Pro Publica, Star Tribune, The P

  also brought us a date for Joel Kramer's MinnPost start-up in the Twin Cities: Nov. 8. On that day, the once-proud Twin Cities journalism scene, bastion of competitive, above-average (located near Lake Wobegon after all) press work becomes another key exhibit in the emerging case being made for a new journalism. Kramer says he is ahead on

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• What Journalists Can Learn From Screenwriters Strike

  Published: December 17, 2007, 11:48 pm

  Tags: Daily Newspaper Companies, Innovation, News And Democracy, Free Agent Nation, Joel Kramer, Joseph Menn, Knight Foundation, Minnpost, New Haven Independent, Paul Bass, Paul Steiger, Propublica, Screenwriters Stirke, The Politico

  newest entrant is MinnPost, Joel Kramer's fledging regional effort in the Twin Cities. It has corralled a few dozen bought-out and/or enterprising veteran journalists and gone direct to a new audience ("20,000+ monthly uniques, 20,000 daily page views, 600 paying members," he told me today).  Paul Bass's New Haven Independent

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