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Woodbury attorney Bill Harper is about to get his 15 minutes of fame. Well, OK, it’s actually more like an hour of TV network prime time devoted to a case which he is handling. Harper is representing the family of Teri Lee, who was murdered when her ex-boyfriend broke into her home and shot both [...]

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We at Minnesota Lawyer try not to be prima donnas when we participate in panel discussions or other events in the legal community. However, that apparently cannot be said of every legal journalist. Gale Beckerman over at the Columbia Journalism Review has an amusing piece today about New York Times Courts reporter Linda Greenhouse, whom [...]

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We do not talk about our parent company much — since, frankly, it would be a little self-serving to do so — but Dolan Media, the Minneapolis-based company that owns locally Minnesota Lawyer, the St. Paul Legal Ledger and Finance and Commerce, is about to go public. Dolan Media was started right here in Minnesota [...]

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The following is the text of a resolution that the Star Tribune’s Newspaper Guild/Typographical Union passed overwhelmingly today (of about 110 voting, only two voted against it): “We, the journalists of the Star Tribune, call on Par Ridder to resign as publisher. We believe the unethical actions to which he admitted in court have damaged [...]

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The Strib’s Kate Parry has an interesting column this week: “Is anyone going into journalism anymore?” It’s an upbeat piece about how the influx of a group of summer interns has brought revitalizing energy into the (so recently decimated) Strib newsroom. It is difficult to give cheery advice to folks thinking about journalism as a [...]

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I have been following with some bemusement the court battle between the state’s two largest dailies. Par Ridder’s testimony can be summed up as follows: “Yes, I took confidential information from the Pioneer Press and spread it around the corporate offices of the Star Tribune. Oops! But, gosh, I really didn’t mean to harm anybody.” [...]

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Everyone in the local media knows that the place to go to get news on what’s happening with at the Star Tribune is not the Strib’s website, but on the Rake blog. Media watchdog Brian Lambert has been tenaciously covering the buyouts — to the point where I’d be willing to bet that the Strib [...]

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Everyone in the local media knows that the place to go to get news on what’s happening with at the Star Tribune is not the Strib’s website, but on the Rake blog. Media watchdog Brian Lambert has been tenaciously covering the buyouts — to the point where I’d be willing to bet that the Strib [...]

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The Star Tribune has another article about how it will be retooling its coverage to make it more local. For those not in the the know, those trying to save the general media on Wall Street (or at least those trying to squeeze larger margins out of it) have determined that the magic formula is [...]

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A few weeks ago, I posited in a post (“A double standard?“) whether their was any significance to the fact that the general media had intensely scrutinized issues involving Republican U.S. Attorney Rachel Paulose’s Office, but had virtually ignored issues at DFL Attorney General Lori Swanson’s Office. I provocatively threw it out for comment whether [...]

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