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Howie: The Minnesota Star Tribune’s future may no longer belong to one owner. And that might be the point.
What happens next at the Minnesota Star Tribune may become one of the clearest signals yet about how major regional journalism survives the next generation in America. Not as a dying factory. Not as a billionaire toy. But as an institution Minnesota ultimately may decide is still worth protecting.
Howie: What Glen Taylor understood about newspapers that Wall Street didn’t
The question is no longer whether newspapers are dying. The real question now is which institutions survive the transition from industrial-age newspapers into modern digital civic platforms. And whether Minnesota’s largest news organization fully understands what it must become next.
Howie: The Star Tribune’s statewide gamble paid off
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.
Howie: Why Tuesday’s Star Tribune livestream matters — and what I’ll be watching
The livestream itself is another step. It blends print reporting, digital-first engagement, live video, audience participation and donor relationships into a single moment. It’s a test of whether a statewide news organization can operate comfortably across platforms without diluting its authority.
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Opinion: The newspaper industry doesn't have a revenue problem. It has a leadership problem.
The newspaper industry has spent so much time discussing declining circulation, shrinking advertising revenue, rising production costs and digital disruption that it has largely avoided confronting a far more uncomfortable reality. The greatest threat facing many newspapers today is not the internet, social media, artificial intelligence or even changing reader
AF1 Notebook: Nashville blitzes Minnesota
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — Tyler Kulka threw four touchdown passes Saturday night as the Nashville Kats defeated the Minnesota Monsters 48-21 in an Arena Football One game at F&M Bank Arena. Kulka completed 21 of 30 passes for 234 yards as Nashville improved to 7-1. The Kats also
Duluth Playhouse presents Legally Blonde The Musical at NorShor Theatre
DULUTH, Minn. — The Duluth Playhouse will bring the hit Broadway production "Legally Blonde The Musical" to the NorShor Theatre from July 10-26. Based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the popular film, the musical follows Elle Woods, a fashionable sorority student who enrolls at Harvard Law
Opinion: Why Duluth needs the News Tribune
I have long believed that communities are only as strong as their local newspaper. Today, I would expand that thought slightly: communities are only as strong as their commitment to local journalism. The future of the Duluth News Tribune matters because the future of local journalism matters.