Minnesota is lucky. Not only do we have a diverse community and strong neighborhoods, but we have lots of vibrant independent media sources for those communities. It's that deeply local, humanistic community journalism that goes beyond what you see in big media. The only problem: It's scattered across many small newspapers and other outlets.
Enter Twin Cities Daily Planet. Besides having a cool comic book name, the Daily Planet is a portal to more than 30 community newspapers and online publications (including Minnesota Stories and MNspeak). All that local niche information is aggregated in one spot.
News shouldn't be a monologue; it's a conversation. T.C. Daily Planet have taken lessons from the We Media movement and South Korea's Oh My News (motto: "Every Citizen is a Reporter"). Are you passionate about a local issue? Become a citizen journalist and make the news.
Posted by Minnesota Stories on May 2, 2006 04:10 AM
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This week on MN Stories (subject to sudden, irrational change): A great interview with PZ "Pharyngula" Myers and hopefuly some footage from Mayday demonstrations.
I had no idea so many schools taught ID. Crackpot theory is RIGHT!! Preach on sister. I asked my college Biology instructor what she thought of ID, and she got pretty mad right away: "It's not science! It has no scientific merit! I won't teach it!"
I think it was in Pennsylvania where in the losing court battle of pushing creationism, the judge told the ID people, "You should be ashamed of yourselves"; and they should.
this is great, chuck! i'm very happy that there are so many indie media/news sources out there. it's one of the things that makes me happy to have moved here.
i'm also interested in reading what she's got to say about transportation, since i don't own a car and really don't want to buy one. so far i've really been happy with the Metro, but i guess it's always good to read about the goings-on within that section of society.
Craig Cox is awesome. He wrote a piece in Utne four years ago ironically titled "Build your own DIY media empire." It's great to see that, with the Observer and now the Daily Planet, he's actually doing it.
