The MJC Newsletter: Spring is here | | |
Hey, all —
At the Northern Exposure visual journalism conference earlier this month, we had a chance to sit down and debrief some of what we learned during Operation Metro Surge — and what we would tell journalists heading into a similar situation. Highlights included connecting to communities early, preparing for your physical — and digital — safety (more on that below), knowing your legal rights, using the advantages you have in being local and thinking about how you can use your own particular expertise in this moment.
One comment that resonated with me was that it’s a marathon at a sprint pace, and you need to take time to catch your breath. I know many felt that way!
We’re hoping to hold more reflection sessions and develop recommendations for others, so if you want to share your insights, stay tuned. In the meantime, read on for what’s up with your colleagues; what's coming up in training; what's opening up on the job front and ways to recharge.
— Regina
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Happy day-after-Minnesota-Local-News-Giving Day to all who celebrate. (This year is the first.) The semester’s wrapping up here at MJC's campus headquarters, but the work of the Center remains in full swing. Here’s what’s in the books — and what’s coming up!
Many of the MJC's programming efforts have come from the input of our colleagues around the state. We always want to hear from you. If you want to get involved in the planning, know of a great trainer or resource we should connect with, or have suggestions for topics, approaches or tools, please email Meg at martinme@umn.edu.
Another fabulous Northern Exposure
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Star Tribune photojournalist Carlos Gonzalez offers a portfolio review with University of Minnesota student Atticus Marse at the Northern Exposure visual gathering in April. | Matt Gade for the Minnesota Journalism Center
We had a great time at Northern Exposure, the MJC's visual journalism conference, earlier this month, with about 114 visual journalists and students learning from our keynote speakers, portfolio reviews and hands-on sessions.
Feedback has been great, with many talking about how important the chance to connect with others doing similar work. That’s what we’re here for!
Don't miss the great photography by the winners of our pro photo contest and the college contest.
Congratulations to Owen Ziliak of the Wisconsin State Journal for being named photographer of the year and Matt Gade of 605 Sports for winning sports photographer of the year. And kudos to Maddie Kasper, UW-Eau Claire, for being named college photographer of the year and Cole Pannell, Michigan State University, for winning college sports photographer of the year.
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Coming in May: Digital safety training
We’re partnering again with our friends at MNSPJ and the Committee to Protect Journalists to offer a new series of training sessions on digital safety and security.
Protecting your data and defending against doxing
May 14 at 10 a.m. CT | Register on Zoom
In the first training session, we’ll cover the basics: How to secure your digital life as thoughtfully as possible, and how to better protect yourself from the possibility of online harassment, doxing or other threats. CPJ trainer Ela Stapley (who many Minnesota journalists have already encountered through earlier MJC training) will offer practical guidance on how to protect your personal online data, secure your online accounts — and how to navigate online harassment when it happens.
Securing the story: Protecting sources and materials
May 21 at 10 a.m. CT | Register on Zoom
This second session will build on the first, going into detail on how to keep your sources and reporting materials safe in a digital environment. Whether you’re working on sensitive stories or with vulnerable sources, you are likely collecting a significant amount of data that could put them or others at risk. Ela will teach us practical steps for receiving and storing information — and how best to protect content on all your devices.
Making it happen: Putting digital safety recommendations into practice
Timing TBD: Stay tuned!
These webinars will offer lots of practical, manageable tips for shoring up your digital life— but sometimes there’s a giant chasm between knowing and doing.
To help bridge that gap, we’re planning to host a series of virtual and in-person meetups — where we can take the tips from Ela’s sessions and start to make them happen.
Have you been meaning to take the time to sign up for DeleteMe? To set up Google Alerts on yourself? How about signing up for a password manager, or making sure two-factor authentication is set up on your accounts? Have you updated your Signal settings to safeguard against data leakage?
Let’s make it happen — together. Interested in helping? Email Meg at martinme@umn.edu.
| | Folks from across the Twin Cities popped in to Moona Moono for the first of what we hope will be many Sidebars events. Leslie Bleess | Minnesota Journalism Center |
Sidebars: May at Moona Moono — and more
Our first few Sidebars events — low-key drop-in opportunities for Twin Cities journalists to unwind, chill and gather — have been delightful.
We’ve already spent two Tuesdays at Uptown Minneapolis’ Moona Moono, playing board games, chatting and engaging in fierce Tuesday Crossword competition, all while sipping $1-off crafted lattes and matcha drinks and enjoying free pastries, courtesy of the Moona Moona crew.
Next up: Moona Moono Off the Record — Tuesday, May 19 from 5-8 p.m. (Rumor has it the theme will be bookish… stay tuned.)
Sidebars are a collaboration of MNSPJ, AAJA-MN, NABJ-MN and the MJC.
Want to join the planning team of Samantha HoangLong, Sheila Eldred, Scott Winter and Meg Martin? Have an idea for other gatherings or locations? Want to help us plan a single event? Share your thoughts here!
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Still available: Get funding for wellbeing support
The visible presence of this winter’s ramped-up immigration enforcement surge is fading a bit, but the impacts aren’t. We can feel it — in our newsrooms, our neighborhoods and even ourselves.
Navigating the aftermath looks different for every single one of us — and often requires help or resources that exist beyond what health care or EAPs or organizations might offer. If you’re a freelancer, it can be even more difficult.
What does being well look like to you?
The Minnesota Journalist Rapid Response Fund is designed to help you answer that question, and put it into action once you do.
Do you work at — or with, as a freelancer — a news organization that covered (or continues to cover) the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota? Do (or did) you directly cover the surge — or support surge coverage? Is your work behind the scenes? (Or bylined?) Are you a local journalist, anywhere in Minnesota?
If you answer yes to any of those questions, you qualify for the fund. Minnesota journalists can apply for up to $500 to help with whatever you need to support your wellbeing — it’s different for all of us.
→ Apply here — and please share with your colleagues! We could all use a little support.
Thank you to the wonderful teams at the International Women’s Media Foundation and the Committee to Protect Journalists for designing, developing, funding and administering this program.
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Interested in sharing your stories with other news orgs — or running other newsrooms' work?
The MJC team is working with the folks at Plucky Wire to help Minnesota newsrooms more easily share their stories with each other. It’s free for almost everyone to use right now — and will be fully free soon.
This began with the JAM last year— with plans to launch a story-sharing working group this past winter. The news got in the way, as you know, and we had to temporarily shelve those plans.
In the meantime, our friends at Plucky Wire have stepped in to help lay the groundwork for a Minnesota-wide news wire.
Plucky Wire is a small company that works directly with newsrooms to build practical tools for local news. Prompted by coverage sharing needs during Operation Metro Surge, they've begun to build a state newswire, and are looking for local outlets to help shape what it becomes.
You can learn more about Plucky Wire on their website. (If you’re among our Report for Minnesota Legislative Reporting Project partners, you’re already familiar with it.)
If you have recurring coverage gaps in your newsroom or there are topics you wish you could cover more deeply, this could be the answer you're looking for.
→ If this sounds like something your news organization would find interesting, please take a minute to fill out this form to tell the Plucky team what would be most helpful to you.
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Survey: Help journalism trauma experts develop stronger supports for journalists covering immigration enforcement
Our Global Center for Journalism and Trauma colleague, Elana Newman — who you might have met in person during one of our recent workshops with GCJT — has asked us to share a survey that she's working on, as part of her research into the impacts of recent immigration enforcement actions on the journalists covering them.
Here's how the Global Center team describes the work:
Your experience covering immigration enforcement matters, and we want to hear it. If you've reported on raids, protests, or the human toll of U.S. immigration policy in cities like Chicago, Minneapolis and Los Angeles, we need your help.
A new study from the University of Tulsa and The Global Center for Journalism and Trauma is examining how this work affects journalists, including exposure to distressing events, ethical challenges, burnout and coping.
🕒 Takes 20–30 minutes
🔒 Confidential + voluntary
Your input will help inform better support for journalists covering high-impact, high-stress beats.
→ Take the survey here.
| | Other training and events | | |
Sports photographer Elsa Garrison gives a keynote talk at this year's Northern Exposure in April. Matt Gade for the Minnesota Journalism Center
The MJC’s curated training and events calendar has opportunities to hone a skill or take a mental break. Here are a few highlights (all times Central):
Sidebars: Off the Record at Moona Moono
An evening of games, lattes, pastries and catch-ups —part of our ongoing drop-in, low-key series of events for Twin Cities journalists in partnership with MNSPJ, NABJ-MN, AAJA-MN and the MJC.
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When: Tuesday, May 19
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Time: 5-8 p.m.
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Location: Moona Moono, 3048 Hennepin Ave. S, Minneapolis (Uptown)
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Details: Drop in when you can, stay as long as you’re able. Play board games, catch up with other journalists, do crafts — join a crossword contest, win prizes.
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Just for journalists: Show your press pass for $1 off drinks + a free pastry
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More info on Moona Moono's Instagram account
Virtual training opportunities:
In-person journalism events
Upcoming application deadline
Vertical Video for Creators and Journalists program — Poynter is offering a three-session live course this summer, focused on creating engaging vertical videos built on your reporting. | Applications now open. (Space is limited.)
Mark your calendar: Conferences coming to town
Find more on our curated calendar — which you can subscribe to or share. And let us know what else to add by responding to this email.
Photos: More from our first Sidebars event at Moona Moono. Leslie Bleess | Minnesota Journalism Center
| | Jobs, internships and short-term gigs | | |
The Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota has an opening for a technology manager.
The Aitkin Independent is looking for a part-time reporter.
The Star Tribune is looking for an investigative reporter and Moore Fellowship video journalist (Columbia students only).
The Caledonia Argus is hiring an associate editor.
MPR News has an opening for a chief meteorologist.
KARE also needs a new chief meteorologist, plus a morning show producer and a photojournalist/editor.
KAAL in Rochester is looking for a multimedia journalist.
KSTP has openings for a meteorologist and a TV producer, a digital producer, a writer/producer, and a TV reporter.
Fargo Forum is looking for a news reporter.
KBJR needs a morning news anchor.
KTTC is hiring a morning multimedia journalist, a digital content producer/news anchor and an intern for the Gray media summer training program.
WDIO is looking for a Good Morning Northland producer and a weekend meteorologist/ multimedia journalist.
The Owatonna People’s Press is looking for a managing editor.
Fox 9 is hiring for a reporter, a digital content lead and a streaming host producer.
WCCO Radio has an opening for a digital content producer.
The Morrison County Record in Little Falls needs a community editor.
KAXE/KBXE is looking for a development director — and, as part of Report for America, a beat reporter covering the Mississippi River headwaters region.
WDAY in Fargo is looking for a videographer, a reporter/multimedia journalist and multimedia intern.
MinnPost is looking for a beat reporter covering drinking water in Minnesota via Report for America.
Axios has an opening for an editor in the Midwest for Axios Local.
The Associated Press, through Report for America, has an opening for a photojournalist.
AMPERS is looking for a contract reporter/producer/anchor and contract news producers for North Star Stories and a contract executive producer for Minnesota Native News.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is searching for a Minnesota local legal initiative attorney.
Access Press is seeking a community-minded assistant editor.
Interesting remote jobs
ProPublica has a remote opening for a local reporting network fellow.
The Examination is looking for a reporter for their food team and an investigative reporter.
Grist is hiring a climate reporter.
The Root is looking for a contract senior social producer.
Open Campus is hiring an engagement reporter focused on rural communities and their workforces.
Tangle has created a full-time, fully remote video editor position as part of their continued growth in YouTube videos and podcasts.
The Civic News Company is looking for a senior national reporter for its VoteBeat initiative.
CatchLight needs a part-time local visual editor and a part time content writer.
The War Horse is hiring a managing editor.
The 19th* is seeking a full-time contract climate reporter.
Radio Ambulante Studios is looking for a bilingual, analytical, and technically skilled senior YouTube & social content producer.
Freelance opportunities
Paris Review Online’s Tarpley Hitt is looking for “smart, funny pitches” for the literary quarterly’s website.
The Disabled Journalists Association is looking for five writers to work on stories about climate change and the disability community in rural areas.
Rest of World is looking for freelance writers for tech stories.
The Greater Good Science Center is looking for a contract video producer to create five short video packages on the science and practice of love, with a budget of $35,000, as part of its Spreading Love Through the Media initiative.
Fellowships, grants other opportunities
The ProPublica Local News Reporting Fellowship “helps produce vital, investigative journalism in communities where such stories would otherwise not be done.” Applications accepted on a rolling basis four times in the year. Summer cohort deadline: May 1, 2026
The Journalism Fellowship for Stories for Change in American Religion Initiative at the University of Southern California is taking applications for funding to cover stories “that capture the changing nature of American religion.” Deadline: May 4
MNSPJ has opened its college scholarship application. Each year, MNSPJ distributes a $2,000 scholarship to a college student pursuing a career in journalism. Applicants must either be enrolled in a post-secondary institution in Minnesota or have graduated from a high school in Minnesota and be enrolled in college elsewhere. Deadline: May 15
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Dan Eggen, a former Minnesota Daily editor-in-chief and longtime Washington Post reporter and editor, died April 21 at his home in Washington. He was 60.
Monika Bauerlein, CEO at the Center for Investigative Reporting, remembers Eggen from their days at the Daily as “a generous colleague, brilliant editor, sharp writer, and all around decent human being.”
Eggen was born Feb. 1, 1966, in Iowa City and grew up in La Crescent, Minn. After his graduation from the University of Minnesota with a political science degree in 1988, he worked as a reporter at the Des Moines Register before joining the Washington Post in 1997.
He remained at the Post for nearly three decades, and shaped some of the newspaper’s most consequential reporting, including its Pulitzer-winning investigations of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Russian interference in the 2016 election. In February of this year, he was laid off by the paper in a major restructuring that cut at least 30% of its staff.
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Longtime AP statehouse reporter Steve Karnowski announced his retirement this week.
Steve has covered Minnesota for The Associated Press since 1994. Before his three-plus decades at AP, Steve was an editor at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Munich; an editor in Washington and reporter in Minneapolis for United Press International; and a producer for the Conus All News Channel in St. Paul.
He started his journalism career here at the University of Minnesota —and covered politics for The Minnesota Daily in the early 1980s. His byline has been a steady companion for generations of Minnesota news readers. (We’ll miss it!) Here’s to the next adventure, Steve. Photo courtesy of Mark Vancleave (AP).
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We love to be able to note who actually got some of the jobs we’ve shared in the newsletter!
KSTP news director Mike Garber posts that three folks were promoted to new roles within KSTP: Eric Chaloux moves from reporter to managing editor, Josh Skluzacek will be their first digital EP and Morgan Reddekopp switches from the content desk to investigative producer. He also announced Ray Steele as the new senior producer in the morning.
Mike also shared the hiring of their new meteorologist, Molly Rosenblatt, who also gets a mention in this Bring Me The News profile, along with Erika Mrazik, who is the new meteorologist at FOX 9.
Sara Boden, formerly of MPR News, started as an investigative reporter for CIDRAP News at the University of Minnesota, covering infectious disease policy and research.
We mentioned this in an earlier edition, but this week it's official: MPR News chief meteorologist Paul Huttner has retired after four decades — half of which he spent at MPR.
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At this year's Minnesota Journalism Conference in St Paul, Scott Libin was installed as president of the Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association. Libin is a longtime member of the MBJA board of directors and faculty at Hubbard.
(At left: Scott and the rest of the MBJA board stand with Mitchell V. Charnley Award winner Dan Shelley. Photo courtesy of Scott Libin)
We’re a little brokenhearted to report that Jane Kirtley, director of the Hubbard School’s Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law, is retiring. Jane graduated from Medill, then worked as a reporter in Oak Ridge, Tenn., covering atomic energy there. Frustration at lack of access to information drove her to law school at Vanderbilt. After a stint in corporate media law, she joined the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and has been a voice for freedom of information ever since. She joined the U faculty and went on to grow the Silha Center into what it is today. She plans to write, travel and keep talking about press freedoms in her retirement. We’ll miss her wisdom — and her sharp wit — in faculty meetings.
On the plus side, we’re excited to share that Jeff Kossoff will join us this fall as the new director of the Silha Center. Jeff is currently an associate professor of cybersecurity law at the United States Naval Academy, with a focus on free speech, internet law and cybersecurity law (he’s written four books on the topics). Before becoming an attorney, he was a technology and political journalist at The Oregonian, where he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and recipient of the George Polk Award for national reporting. He went on to get his law degree at Georgetown and practice privacy and communications law in D.C.
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Kudos
The Sahan Journal team was awarded this year’s prestigious Columbia Journalism Award for its coverage of Minnesota immigrants and the local response to Operation Metro Surge. In announcing the award, journalism school dean Jelani Cobb said, “Sahan Journal shows what is possible when journalism is grounded in service and accountability. Their work sets a powerful example for our graduates as they enter a profession that urgently needs this kind of clarity, courage and commitment.” Editorial director Chao Xiong will be a featured speaker at the Columbia Journalism School's commencement, where he'll accept the award on the newsroom's behalf.
Minneapolis journalist Katie Thornton was named a finalist in the Wallace House Center for Journalists' Livingston Awards, honoring the best reporting and storytelling by journalists under 35. Check out her nominated series, The Divided Dial.
KARE 11 reporter A.J. Lagoe and producer/photojournalist Gary Knox’s investigation of Medicaid fraud in Minnesota, part of their Recovery Inc. series, has won the Collier Prize for State Government Accountability. It’s the first time a local broadcast newsroom has won the recognition.
Lots of Minnesota representation in the prestigious National Headliner Awards this year: The Star Tribune’s Reid Forgrave for a piece on the impacts of opioid addiction; the cross-platform work of the Strib Varsity team; the KARE 11 investigative team of A.J. Lagoe, Kelly Dietz, Gary Knox and David Peterlinz for their “Housing Hustle” reporting; the KARE team of A.J. Lagoe, Kelly Dietz, Gary Knox and Steve Eckert for another installment of their Recovery, Inc. reporting; KARE’s Boyd Huppert, Chad Nelson and Rieta Buttaro for “The Heart of Hudson”; the MPR News team for live coverage of the Annunciation shooting; and MPR’s Dan Kraker and David Schaper for their story marking the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
The 2026 MBJA Eric Sevareid Awards ceremony was held at the Minnesota Journalism Conference in St Paul, and there were too many Minnesota winners to list! But multiple award winners in radio categories include MPR News, WTIP, KAXE/KBXE and WCCO Radio; in television categories, CCX Media/Northwest Community Television, Lakeland Public TV and KSTP-TV; and in student categories Minnesota State University Moorhead, The Crest (University of St. Thomas), UTVS (St. Cloud State) and KQAL (Winona State University). Forgive us if we missed any! Check out the complete list of the 2026 Eric Severeid Award Winners. Congrats to all.
Congratulations to the Star Tribune for their 43(!) wins in the Society for News Design annual competition, by far the most of any regional publication. The recognition includes individual awards for Anna Boone, Josh Jones and Madalyne Bird for their Multiple Topics Story Page Design Portfolios and C.J. Sinner for her Visual Editing Portfolio. The other local winner: Peter DiCampo won multiple awards for his work at ProPublica.
Rachel Hoppe, GA reporter at Eden Prairie Local News, was named one of E&P 2026 Tomorrow’s News Trailblazer.
And EPLN is a finalist in the Non-Profit News Awards for visual journalism: 2026 INNYs finalists reflect ‘heroic work’ of nonprofit news
The Star Tribune’s Jennifer Brooks was a finalist for Poynter’s Roy Peter Clark Prize for Excellence in Short Writing. Here is the complete list of winners of the 2026 Poynter Journalism Prizes.
KAXE/KBXE Northern Community Radio marked the station’s 50th anniversary — and announced this week a $4.2 million grant from the Bush Foundation, which will help the station expand its news team, launch a community ambassador program and strengthen its partnerships with local newsrooms and regional nonprofits.
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And more
MinnPost launches Twin Cities Documenters program, hub for civic engagement, MinnPost
Minnesota Star Tribune retirees catered dinner for staff to mark the newsroom's coverage of Operation Metro Surge, LinkedIn.
(Minnesota) Journalist’s lawsuit prompts FAA to abandon no fly zone near DHS vehicles, The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Maria Reeve, the Star Tribune’s executive director of culture and careers — and '92 Maryland grad — will be the commencement speaker at Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.
Twin Cities PBS takes over operations of KSMQ, Current
Newspapers, against the tide, keep student journalism alive on Minnesota campuses, MinnPost
Michael Olson, deputy managing editor of MPR News, talks with Adweek about how his team covered Minnesota communities during Operation Metro Surge.
In a recent publisher’s note, there’s an interesting list of ways the Star Tribune is using AI.
Three Individuals Federally Charged with Assault and Intimidating Turning Point USA Journalist by Force, USDOJ
Fargo Forum lets go of liberal columnists, sparking protest, MPR News
| | Our Students in Communities | | |
Photos: The Report for Minnesota statehouse team works out of the Minnesota State Capitol. Hannah Reynolds | MJC
As our students finish their spring semesters, we have lots of exciting news to share.
Our Report for Minnesota summer program in greater Minnesota is expanding! We’ve added two new sites: Greta Foss will report to the jointly owned Frazee-Vergas Forum, New York Mills Dispatch and Citizens Advocate in Henning, all located in the western part of the state; and Trevor Dunning will be assigned to the Albert Lea Tribune and the Austin Daily Herald. Welcome to those new partners.
Meanwhile, our four anchor news outlets will continue to host students. Vivian Wilson will report for the Brainerd Dispatch; Erin Bowman will work at KAXE public radio news in Grand Rapids; Nolan Baker will be at the West Central Tribune in Willmar; and Abbey Mulcahy will join the Mankato Free Press. We wish them well and thank the editors and staff for their generous support of the students. Special thanks to the donors who make this possible.
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Maybe you’ve seen some of the coverage coming out of our Report for Minnesota Legislative Reporting Project. Five student journalists — four reporters and one photojournalist — are covering the legislative session under the guidance of former MPR political editor Mike Mulcahy and former Star Tribune political photographer Glen Stubbe. Stories publish each Friday.
If your organization wants to receive them, please reach out to G.G. or Meg, and they’ll make it happen. Thanks to Hubbard School graduate student George Bagrov for his work as digital producer, and Meg for her next-level work on all things technical around this project.
In addition, student Maddie Mullikin has been doing splendid work as part of our Report for Minnesota connection with Forum Communications. Thank you to Forum News Service legislative correspondent Mary Murphy and to editors J.J. Perry and Meredith Williams. And, of course, a big thank you to Kirsten Stromsodt, executive editor at Forum, for her grace in helping this along.
A quiet success for MJC this year has been student micro-internships, where 21 of our less-experienced students have freelanced a story to one of four outlets: the Roseville Reporter, the Park Bugle, TMC Publications or Minnesota Trails Magazine. We want to thank the editors who helped these students get some of their first professional clips and a dose of real-world experience: Sommer Wagen, Scott Carlson, Tesha Christensen and Jan Laser. A special thank you to Sheila Eldred, who served as a fellow and mentor to the participants. We hope to offer this next year to our budding journalists.
Finally, the 2026 Hubbard Reporting Experience is gearing up for a July 23 start. Students will gather for 10 days of reporting on neighborhoods around the university. We’re excited to see what they will do. In addition to digital news and a live TV newscast, they’ll have a chance to do some sports reporting, too. Faculty for HRE include G.G., Regina, Scott Libin, Sara Quinn, Matt Cikovic, Scott Winter and Chris Worthington.
We appreciate your strong support and interest in our students. Reach out with an idea or a question or… maybe a suggestion about where our RFM intern can live on a student’s budget in Mankato from June 1 through Aug. 7. It takes a village. Be well.
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With MJC director Ben Toff on sabbatical for 2026, we'll use this space to highlight new research on journalism from other places.
This month, we want to call attention to a new report from Oxford University's Reuters Institute on Understanding Young News Audiences at a Time of Rapid Change.
Bringing together years of research by the institute, this is an invaluable read for journalists and news executives trying to make sense of how younger audiences think about and use news. A key finding is that while younger news audiences have of course been digital for years, how they access news has shifted largely to social media.
What does this mean for news? On the one hand, there is reason to be optimistic, because young people encounter so much information in the course of being connected all day long — two-thirds of 18-24 year olds see news each day. Yet what this news consumption looks like has shifted from dedicated news sites to news being interspersed with a torrent of other content. As a result, the kind of habitual news use that long propped up the news industry is going away.
The key will be finding these audiences where they are.
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From our own Ben Toff, during his fellowship at Pew: Types of news Americans seek out or come across by chance, Pew Research Center
Who’s Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter? ProPublica
News Diaries: How a Minnesota mom and minister “blew past” her screen time limits when ICE came to her city, Nieman Journalism Lab
Social traffic kinda stinks for news publishers now, in 3 charts, Nieman Journalism Lab
A local TV newsroom disappeared overnight. It’s a warning sign for what’s next. Poynter
Independent journalists are mission-driven, but financially strained, a new report says, Nieman Journalism Lab
FBI pulls deleted Signal texts from iPhone notifications, Freedom of the Press
84-year-old publisher seeking new owner for North Dakota newspaper, InForum (paywall)
Two related stories from Poynter: An AI company set out to fix news deserts. Instead, it copied local journalists’ work and What we learned from a failed Nota News experiment.
From Iowa: TV weatherman saves newspapers, forecasts fair winds and growth, The Seattle Times
For the copy editors in the crowd: AP Stylebook on Threads announces it’s now healthcare, childcare and daycare
ICYMI from Minnesota’s Tom Friedman: Opinion | Why Minnesota Matters More Than Iran for America’s Future, The New York Times
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Spring is here, summer is coming (no matter what this week has felt like) and we seem to be in a moment of calm. In true Minnesota style, I worry that just saying that will curse us! (Sometimes it snows in … May!) But take the time to recharge and enjoy.
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