One way not to save your local newspaper is to pimp out your paper as a government propaganda agency. Let’s turn to Douglas County, Colorado:…
Tag: journalism
Brookings, Huron, Flandreau, and Redfield lost their local newspapers last week. The sudden departure of Illinois-based News Media Corporation from the South Dakota news business…
Redfield, Moody County, Huron, and Brookings all lost their local newspapers yesterday. Their out-of-state owner, Illinois-based News Media Corporation, shut down all of its newspapers…
My parents back in Lake County have had a police scanner on in their living room for decades. They listen mostly for police calls to…
Former Mitchell legislator, teacher, and debate coach turned reporter Mel Olson joins the ranks of South Dakota journalists running into the Noem Administration’s stone wall…
Besides Dakota Free Press, what news sources can you really, really trust? How do you know you can trust any specific media outlet? Reports Without…
Kristi Noem and her spokesboy Ian Fury are calling Kevin Woster a liar. Isn’t lying about South Dakota’s senior outdoor journalist and a member of…
Last month, some Gannett journalists staged an unsuccessful strike to protest the reupping of CEO Mike Reed, under whose leadership Gannett’s papers nationwide have continued…
The right-wingnuts of the South Dakota Freedom Caucus have not weighed in on fellow conservative Leah Anderson’s attempt to crush free speech in Minnehaha County.…
While reading Bluestem Prairie‘s note on the Minnesota House’s unanimous approval Friday of a bill to put purple signs up on seven miles of Highway 5…