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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
By Bob Collins
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
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The leadership of the Minnesota Daily, the newspaper of the University of Minnesota, today responded to an “open letter” from two of its editors yesterday that criticized the awarding of some bonuses at the paper. The OP bonuses are part of the established compensation package for the president, editor-in-chief and business manager – an agreed-upon Read more →
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