Profile: Deborah Rybak
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Startribune.com Readers: Very Sticky Eyeballs
Holy eyeballs Batman! The latest newspaper website readership numbers were released today by Nielsen Online (and printed on the Editor and Publisher website) and startribune.com placed third (behind the Arizona Republic and New York Times websites) in the amount of time readers spent on the site. Readers in October spent an average of 27 minutes, 40 seconds on startribune.com as compared to 34 minutes, 53 seconds for the New York Times, and almo
Politics in Minnesota: MnDOT Suffering Under Strib Attack
Whoa. Sarah Janecek’s Politics in Minnesota newsletter sure lobbed one into the Strib newsroom late Friday. In a Weekly Report item entitled “MnDOT Under Seige: The Star Tribune’s Agenda,” Janecek writes that MnDOT personnel are getting pretty fed up with certain pushy, expletive-spewing Strib reporters.
MinnPost Debut: A "Thoughtful" Approach to News
RYBAK: Sigh.
BREAKING NEWS [UPDATED]: Scott Libin Named WCCO-TV News Director
As we projected, WCCO-TV announced Scott Libin as its new news director to staff this afternoon. Libin, former news director at KSTP-TV, comes back to the Twin Cities from his job as managing editor for on-ine content at the Poynter Institute, the journalistic think tank in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Libin replaces Jeff Kiernan, who left the station in September for WBZ-TV in Boston. That leaves only Libin's former employer KSTP with a news director slot to fill. (Prevailing belief there is that GM Rob Hubbard will hire from within this time.)
In Defense of Tom Barnard
RYBAK: Okay, I've spent the last three days watching the media have a field day trashing Tom Barnard (mainly) and his KQRS morning show (secondarily) and I'm just not getting it.
