Brookings is getting a Menards. The hardware/lumber giant will join Target and Aldi in the northeast quadrant of the I-29/6th Street chaos-plex maybe by Christmas…
Tag: journalism
Independent journalism and South Dakota’s collective intelligence are poorer this week, having lost smart writer Tom Lawrence: Tom passed on August 21, a few months…
In August, Brookings Register managing editor Josh Linehan lamented the sudden closure of his hometown newspaper and said out-of-state corporate ownership kills local news. Linehan…
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:…
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…