Volume 1: Issue 2
Inside this issue:
I. Welcome from Executive Director Sarah Bauer
II. Complaints: “MNC Received 25% More Complaints in 2007 Than 2006″
III. Featured News Council: Washington News Council
IV. From the Development Office: Fiscal Year & Budget
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Newsworthy Online | December 2007 (PDF)
The Minnesota News Council announced today the appointment of Sarah Bauer as its executive director. Bauer has served as the organization’s interim director following the retirement of Gary Gilson as executive director in December 2006. More »
Volume 1: Issue 1
Inside this issue:
I. “News Council Announces Appointment of Executive Director Sarah Bauer”
II. Hearing: “Minnesota Daily Compares Local Artist to the ‘Madwoman of Chaillot’”
III. Hearing: “WCCO Web site Mixes Anti-Tax Rally with Global Warming Protest”
IV. Complaints: “MNC Public Complaints Reflect Concerns About Non-Coverage and Bias”
V. “Erika Roland Joins MNC as Development Director”
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Newsworthy Online | November 2007 (PDF)
In May 2007, local artist Mari Newman filed a complaint about an article in the Minnesota Daily, the student newspaper of the University of Minnesota. A review of a play called “The Madwoman of Chaillot” had opened by referencing the disabled artist as a local “crazy woman.”
In April 2007, twelve participants in a tax-cut rally held at the State Capitol in St. Paul filed complaints against WCCO-TV. Footage of their rally had been edited into a feature on WCCO’s Web site entitled “Raw Video: Global Warming Protest on Capitol Hill.” Though the caption that accompanied the video read, “Hundreds of activists gathered on Capitol Hill Saturday to urge Congress to enact an 80 percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050,” about half of the footage was of the much larger local tax-cut rally.
News Council denies complaint that Bemidji Pioneer was unfair in running news story about a full-page ad the same day it appeared, but upholds complaint that the story on Red Lake Reservation was unfair to those who ran the ad.
A complaint against the Ely Echo by two Ely school officials over a Halloween party photo was denied by the Minnesota News Council.
A complaint by two Winona State University professors against the Winona Post and Shopper was upheld. The Hatfields complained after a Sept. 6, 2006 story challenged the validity and credibility of a survey prepared by Susan Hatfield to evaluate the performance of Winona School Superintendent Paul Durand.