The Minnesota News Council and the Twin Cities Media Alliance are pleased to present the 2010 Minnesota Ethnic & Community Media Awards.

Enter your work now — the submission deadline is April 30, 2010.  Visit http://news-council.org/contest/ to enter online or to download a printer-friendly entry form.

The Minnesota Ethnic & Community Media Awards are open to all ethnic media in the state of Minnesota, and to all community media in the Twin Cities metro area. (“Community media” includes print, broadcast and online media that serve geographic communities, as well as media that serve specific groups such as labor, women, etc.)

Nominations may be submitted by news organizations or individuals. Articles that originally appeared in the Twin Cities Daily Planet are not eligible. All entries will be judged by panels of independent judges including journalism faculty, professional journalists, and members of the communities that the participating ethnic and community media serve.

Join Twin Cities Media Alliance Executive Director Jeremy Iggers at noon on Wednesday, February 24 for a Brown Bag Lunch at the East Lake Public Library, 2727 E. Lake St., Minneapolis, with featured guest security expert Bruce Schneier, speaking on a topic ripped from today’s headlines:

Security, Privacy, and the Generation Gap
“The Internet is the greatest generation gap since rock and roll,” says Schneier. “The older of us need to be prepared for a younger generation that lives life on the Internet, doesn’t understand where their computer or smart phone ends and the Internet begins, shares passwords with their friends as a sign of trust,  and deliberately lies when registering for services.  At the same time, both technological and business trends point to less user control (both security and privacy), and laws are leaving these trends alone.  What will security and privacy look like in this new world?  Someone needs to figure it out.” More »

You are invited to the Twin Cities Media Alliance’s November Brown Bag Lunchwith featured guest Joel Kramer, founder and publisher of MinnPost.

When: Wednesday, November 18| Noon

Where: East Lake Public Library, 2727 E. Lake St., Minneapolis,

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BY MARY TURCK , TC DAILY PLANET

The first annual Ethnic and Community Media Awards packed the Black Forest Inn banquet room December 5, in an event co-sponsored by New America Media and the Twin Cities Media Alliance. Matthew Little, Lauretta Dawolo Towns, Anne Holzman, David Zander, and Anna Pratt took top honors. The Minnesota Spokesman-Recorderwas the leading publication of the evening, with top articles in three categories, but overall the entries and winners represented the diversity of Minnesota media.

Anthony Advincula (New America Media-San Francisco) and Sarah Bauer (Minnesota News Council) presented the awards. Top winners in each category are automatically nominated for New America Media’s National Ethnic Media awards, which will be presented on June 4, 2009, in Atlanta, Georgia. More »