''MinnPost'' is a nonprofit

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, founded in 2007, with a focus on

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news.

Funding

''MinnPost'''s initial funding of $850,000 came from four families: John and Sage Cowles, Lee Lynch and Terry Saario, Joel and Laurie Kramer, and David and Vicki Cox. The Knight Foundation in

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initially donated US$250,000 and in 2008 subsequently granted additional funds to expand local reporting. Major foundation support has come from the Blandin Foundation, Otto Bremer Foundation, Bush Foundation, Carolyn Foundation, Central Corridor Funders Collaborative, Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Martin and Brown Foundation, Joyce Foundation, The McKnight Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Pohlad Family Foundation, and The Saint Paul Foundation. In March 2014, ''MinnPost'' announced that, thanks to a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, ''MinnPost'' and online news site

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"will engage in a two-stage process over the next two-plus years: First, to develop systems and adopt best practices that manage member information and facilitate significant membership growth. And second, to test out and then adopt new products, services and experiences for members that will make thousands more readers want to be members rather than non-paying readers. Each organization will receive $600,000 over the next two years."

Content and format

The site does not endorse candidates for office or publish unsigned editorials representing an institutional position. MinnPost encourages broad-ranging, civil discussion from many points of view, subject to the discretion of a moderator. Content is "politics, government, science, health, culture" and other subjects including the environment, education and the arts. The non-profit model was estimated to save ''MinnPost'' about 15% of a traditional newspaper's outlays. The format takes its shape from

s. At first, ''MinnPost'' published a print version of about eight pages at the lunch hour to high traffic locations. The

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model and print version was discontinued during the newspaper's first year. The organization is part of a much-discussed trend away from print toward online media. Quoted by ''

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'', Laurie Schwab, executive director of the

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, said in June 2007, 45 percent of the association's 1,100 members "started working at print publications and migrated online".

Personnel

The founding CEO and editor of ''MinnPost'', Joel Kramer, retired in October 2016. On May 1, 2014, Andrew Wallmeyer joined the staff as publisher, reporting to Kramer. Wallmeyer served as CEO until 2020, when Tanner Curl was named MinnPost's executive director.

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served as managing editor until retiring in 2021. Harry Colbert, Jr., previously of North News and Insight News, was named as the new managing editor. Andy Putz is MinnPost's editor. Other news staff include

(

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), Corey Anderson (web editor), Tom Nehil (news editor), and about 25

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s. Full-time staff writers are columnist Eric Black and reporters Peter Callaghan, Solomon Gustavo, Ashley Hackett, Greta Kaul, and Walker Orenstein. Board of Directors: Rebecca Shavlik, Chair; Peter Hutchinson, Vice Chair/Treasurer; Jill Field, Past Chair; John Satorius, Secretary; Lee Lynch, Chair Emeritus; Kevin Armstrong, Katie Cole, A.J. Colianni, Fran Davis, Jack Dempsey, Jim Erickson, Nancy Feldman, Diane Hofstede, Tom Horner, Jonathan Kealing, Jay Kiedrowski, Barbara Klaas, Joel Kramer, Laurie Kramer, Glenn Miller, Adair Mosley, Max Musicant, Ann Possis, Kari Ruth, Toya Stewart Downey, Karen Schanfield, Chelle Stoner, and Leslie Suzukamo. According to ''

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'', opinion pieces — called Community Voices — are signed and nonpartisan. MinnPost has a news bureau in Washington, D.C.

Writers

* Gregg Aamot *

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* Pat Borzi * Peter Callaghan * Pamela Espeland * Doug Grow * Erin Hinrichs * Joe Kimball * Greta Kaul * Brian Lambert * Jessica Lee * Bill Lindeke * Ron Meador * Iric Nathanson * Walker Orenstein * Susan Perry * Taryn Phaneuf * Andy Steiner * Jim Walsh * Soloman Gustavo * Ashley Hackett * Yasmine Askari

References

External links

* {{Minnesota Newspapers Newspapers published in Minnesota Publications established in 2007 American news websites Mass media in Minneapolis–Saint Paul Nonprofit newspapers