While McGahan thought that the wolf would soon be howling about the door of Editor Smith, he was really waxing fat and laying by a good many sheckles for a rainy day. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Ruthlessly Funny Local[...]
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On This Day | Getting a Handle on Snake Oil Sensationalism
Minot’s Daily Booze Booster still continues to give the breweries and the distillers all the space in its columns that they care to pay. Other interesting advertisements found in the same issue with the [...]Read More... from On This Day | Getting[...]
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Trust in the news is crumbling. One city has a plan to fix it
Trust is the lifeblood of journalism, and it’s draining fast. Once, most Americans believed the press played fair. Today, barely a quarter still do — and among Republicans, that faith has nearly vanished. In Indianapolis, one experiment hopes to change that. A[...]
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On This Day | Speaking up for Free Press
There is probably not another single medium of communications so inextricably entwined with the maintenance and perpetuation of our American ideal and idea of a free people in a free society, as the medium [...]Read More... from On This Day | Speaking[...]
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On This Day | What Newspapers Stand For
The Canons define the practices and the aspirations of American journalism, as involving: — “The right of a newspaper to attract and hold readers is restricted by nothing but consideration of public welfare . [...]Read More... from On This Day | What[...]
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On This Day | Newspapers Matter the Most
WHEREAS, one of our Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, was so concerned about the people’s right to know all the facts that he wrote: “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have [...]Read More... from On This Day | Newspapers[...]
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On This Day | Here is Good Advice
An informed people can still save this country but the system of creating minorities . . . and offering them something . . . is clouding the view so that folks are informed only [...]Read More... from On This Day | Here[...]
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Herald Opinion: Appreciate newspapers for what they mean to a community
When the Crookston Times printed its last issue earlier this year, it marked the quiet end of nearly 140 years of local storytelling — and a warning for towns everywhere. As National Newspaper Week arrives, it’s a reminder that communities without local[...]
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Conservative distrust of journalism threatens to spread among liberals
During office hours last week, one of my University of Kansas journalism students asked a great question. I am paraphrasing: “What do we do with all of these journalism companies bending to the Trump administration? It seems like it’s time to discard[...]
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Community Foundation of Grand Forks, Knight Foundation partner for $30,000 matching gift to Prairie Public
At a time when local journalism and public media face deep cuts, a new partnership in Grand Forks is stepping up to help. The Community Foundation and the Knight Foundation have launched a $30,000 matching grant to support Prairie Public, doubling every[...]
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Rebuilding civic life requires truthful, independent journalism
The steady collapse of local journalism isn’t just a story about newspapers — it’s a story about democracy itself. In a Constitution Day address, Wisconsin Watch CEO George Stanley traced how the digital marketplace hollowed out the business model that once sustained[...]
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Keeping local news strong because of you
Every month, Sabrina Halvorson of the North Dakota News Cooperative pauses to take stock of what community support makes possible — and this time, her reflection carries extra weight. As nonprofit newsrooms across the country cut staff or close their doors, NDNC[...]
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On This Day | Radio’s Power is Rising
A vertical antenna between 180 and 200 feet high will be erected on the Peter Holbach farm three miles southeast of Minot, as soon as possible and a change in the transmitter will then [...]Read More... from On This Day | Radio’s[...]
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In small-town Minnesota, 2 women keep a newspaper alive
In a small brick building in Warren, Minnesota, two women are keeping a 144-year-old tradition alive. When longtime owners of the Warren Sheaf retired, Kayla Kroll and her friend Mallory Craik stepped in—not as media moguls, but as neighbors determined to preserve[...]
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On This Day | Pulling Each Other Up By the Bootstraps
The relationship between better newspapers and better citizenship has in it much of mutuality. It is easy to say that an improvement in the ethical and political character of the newspaper press will lead [...]Read More... from On This Day | Pulling[...]
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Prairie Public eliminates 12 staff positions due to federal, state funding cuts
Prairie Public, North Dakota’s longtime public broadcaster, is facing its toughest test yet. This week the organization announced a nearly 20% staff reduction after losing both federal funding and a large portion of its state support. Leaders warn that some programming and[...]