Paul Brown has been named news director at Northern News Now, the umbrella organization for the NBC, CBS, CW and My Network local television affiliates. “Paul’s resume reads like the perfect news leader and the perfect news director," Northern News Now General Manager Todd Wentworth said in a press release. "He’s done everything there is to do in a newsroom. And on top of that I just think that he is the epitome of a coach, and a teacher, and a professor.”
No single institution controls the public conversation anymore. The region now operates inside a decentralized information economy where television owns immediacy, newspapers own documentation, Facebook owns emotional momentum and independent publishers increasingly own personality-driven loyalty.
The Pulitzer validated more than excellent reporting. It validated the strategic vision behind what the Minnesota Star Tribune has been becoming. Not simply a city newspaper with statewide aspirations. But a statewide institution capable of helping Minnesota understand itself in real time.
Lake Superior Publishing assets have been sold to Linda Nervick of e-lynx, LLC. Nervick has worked in the publishing industry for 32 years. She previously spent five years with Lake Superior Magazine, helped launch Cabin Life Magazine with Fladmark Publishing from 2000 to 2010, and later self-published Winter Fun 101,
Partnership with News Literacy Project and ThreeSixty Journalism aims to combat misinformation among Minnesota students
Ness convinced Duluth to stop speaking about itself like a city waiting for the next economic funeral and start speaking about itself like a place with a future worth competing for nationally. Not perfectly. Not without backlash. Not without legitimate criticism. But undeniably.
Few people believed in that larger vision of Duluth more aggressively than Jeno Paulucci. And few people fought harder for it emotionally.
Hanft Fride's board of directors called the recognition a reflection of the firm's long-standing commitment to clients and the legal profession. And in many ways, that probably explains why the firm continues to occupy such a durable place inside Duluth’s professional ecosystem.
“This project will change the way our city responds to serving our unhoused population.” -- Jill Keppers, executive director of the Duluth HRA
