Howie: Star Tribune banks on local legends to write its next chapter
The Star Tribune’s PR boilerplate now reads like a campaign stump speech — seven Pulitzers, 158-year legacy, “the heart and voice of the north.” But if these hires are any indication, they might actually believe it.
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The Minnesota Star Tribune offers employees buyouts
“Every media company in the country is going through tremendous transformation right now in the face of unprecedented challenges and new opportunities. We’re no different.” -- Publisher Steve Grove
Expanded coverage of student-athlete recruiting coming to Minnesota
The Minnesota Star Tribune and Prep Network, a national leader in high school recruiting rankings and coverage based in Plymouth, Minn., are teaming up to co-produce expanded coverage of recruiting topics, rankings and news in Minnesota. As the Midwest’s largest news organization, the Minnesota Star Tribune is extending its
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Howie: Independent. Unbought. Unafraid.
I started building what I call Howie 5.0 long before the world ever heard of ChatGPT or Jasper or any of these so-called AI writing assistants. Long before the tech world decided to disrupt writing, I was quietly building something to restore it.
Howie: We’ve seen this movie before. Same script, different salesman.
The old fellas at the café won’t need a study to understand it. They’ve seen this dance too many times before. They’ll sip their burnt coffee, shake their heads, and say what they always say when the next “big thing” blows through town: “Should’ve just built another rink.”
Bulldogs hammer Bemidji State 7-3
Minnesota Duluth turned an early two-goal deficit into a rout Friday night, exploding for seven unanswered goals to roll past Bemidji State 7-3 in a nonconference men’s college hockey game in Bemidji. The Beavers jumped out fast when Noah Quinn and Vincent Labelle scored less than five minutes apart,
Howie: The 20 Greatest Bulldogs Ever
From Brett Hull’s cannon to Bill Watson’s Hobey, from Hunter Shepard’s iron-man streak to Mark Pavelich’s Miracle, these 20 players are the spine of a program that turned a scrappy hilltop school into a national power.