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MinnPost, Minnesota's fresh-faced news source, may make it to the Mac stands
By: Tressa Versteeg, Staff Writer
Issue date: 12/7/07 Section: News
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Recently, Macalester College Student Government president Franz Meyer '09 and vice president Brian Stephenson '10 met with Dean of Students Jim Hoppe to discuss joining MinnPost's program Partners in Print. The topic was also raised as a subject for discussion at the weekly MCSG meeting on Tuesday.
"If students seem to like the addition of this news source, and MCSG thinks so as well, then the partnership will be made official," Stephenson said.
Partners in Print is an initiative on part of MinnPost in which participating organizations commit to printing ten or more copies of the MinnPost PDF edition themselves and distribute it for free to their customers or employees. Organizations that print more than 250 copies are allowed to feature their own message at the bottom of the front page. Eight locations in the Twin Cities currently participate in the program, including several downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul businesses, the Minneapolis Public Library, the Minneapolis Club and the University of Minnesota.
MinnPost officially debuted online and in PDF format Nov. 8, but the idea to bring the publication to campus came earlier. Joel Kramer, former editor, president and publisher for the Star Tribune and current MinnPost Editor and CEO, founded MinnPost in response to a wave of Minnesota journalists being laid off because of a general decline of profits in the print news industry.
"[I had] a lot of concern that there isn't such a commitment to quality journalism that there used to be," Kramer said. "Our goal is to provide high quality journalism to the Twin Cities that is sustainable and takes advantage of the potential of the web but committed to traditional values of quality journalism of accuracy and fairness, and a commitment to the power journalism has to democracy, community and quality of life."
According to Kramer, MinnPost tries to take on a newsmagazine feel. The publication isn't meant to be a substitute for other newspapers. Instead, stories and blogs work to supplement local dailies. The site takes on a more casual tone than print dailies because MinnPost tries to grant its writers the freedom to express their own views, he said.
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