Comments on: Star Tribune Sold

By: joe mama

joe mama — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:34:34 +0000

one more time...
http://www.newsdesigner.com/blog/

By: joe mama

joe mama — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:33:30 +0000

hmmmmm... let's make it link this time... how about this?

By: joe mama

joe mama — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:18:47 +0000

speaking of the website… more talk…
http://www.newsdesigner.com/blog/

By: DngMouse

DngMouse — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 06:13:47 +0000

Also: does this mean we’ll see more days of the amazingly disgusting advertisement background on the strib.com site? How fucking classy is that? aWESEOM!@!#!

By: DngMouse

DngMouse — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 06:13:03 +0000

Coleman has his word.

By: g rote

g rote — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 16:55:55 +0000

I can’t imagine that a private equity firm is going to step up like that.

By: TBartel

TBartel — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:35:17 +0000

Some more fallout: the Star Tribune foundation will be moving out. That's going to hurt unless the new owners replace it.

By: Not from here

Not from here — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:14:42 +0000

Good points, Roger.

But don’t forget the twice-monthly and monthly neighborhood papers. Maybe that pushes you to 1.2?

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:22:50 +0000

Well at least McClatchy kept their promise of “No layoffs” – they just never said anything about a “sell off”

Heck, why is everyone so surprised – apparently they’ve *always* been considering divesting themselves of the Star Tribune – now just happened to quite convenient thanks to the IRS!

With some more layoffs the Twin Cities could effectively become a 1.1 newspaper town (1/2 staff @ the Pi and 1/2 staff at the Strib + the weeklys …)?

By: conet

conet — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:08:50 +0000

Now we know why Anders bailed. I’m with Mpls Simpleton about getting the NY Times, though. It is a sad day for Mpls journalism.