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MN's Latest Newspaper

From Reference Services comes this note:

"Have you checked out Minnesota's latest newspaper? MinnPost is completely online and a non-profit organization. Check out the thoughtful journalism at: http://www.minnpost.com/"

More info about MinnPost:
"MinnPost is a nonprofit journalism enterprise that publishes MinnPost.com and MinnPost in Print.

"Our mission is to provide high-quality journalism for news-intense people who care about Minnesota. We intend to focus sharply on that mission, and not get distracted by trying to be all things or serve all people.

. . .

"Our goal is to create a sustainable business model for this kind of journalism, supported by corporate sponsors, advertisers, and members who make annual donations. High-quality journalism is a community asset that sustains democracy and quality of life, so we are asking people who believe in it to support our work.

"MinnPost?s initial funding of $850,000 came from four families: John and Sage Cowles, Lee Lynch and Terry Saario, Joel and Laurie Kramer, and David and Vicki Cox. The Knight Foundation in Miami then committed $250,000. As of Nov. 7, 2007, MinnPost had raised more than $134,000 in additional support from more than 340 donors.

"The CEO and Editor of MinnPost is Joel Kramer, former editor and then publisher of Star Tribune. Other members of the MinnPost board of directors are founding donors John Cowles, David Cox and Lee Lynch, as well as Kathleen Hansen, director of the Minnesota Journalism Center at the University of Minnesota; Patrick Irestone, CEO of Meritide; and John Satorius, of the law firm Fredrikson & Byron."

From About section on the MinnPost.com site.

Full post as published by LexLibris on December 11, 2007 (boomark / email).