Duluth News Tribune is a daily newspaper in Duluth, Minnesota, USA covering local news, sports, business, jobs, and community events. The newspaper is published seven days a week. Circulation: 40,305 copies This newspaper is owned by Forum Communications Company. The web site is presented in the English language.
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Mondo Times editors Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 9:58am on Thursday, February 26th, 2009 | February 24, 2009: The Associated Press reported that two Minnesota newspapers are getting grants to "retrain" staff to understand the Internet:
"Two Minnesota newspapers will receive a share of state grants normally given to retrain workers in manufacturing and other industries in transition.
The Duluth News Tribune and the St. Paul Pioneer Press will work with the University of Minnesota's School of Journalism and Mass Communication to help staff adapt to an increasingly Internet-based industry.
Minnesota Job Skills Partnership is awarding $238,000 in state funds, while the newspapers and the university will contribute about $469,000 combined, mostly by devoting staff time to training.
Paul Moe, the state program's director, said newspapers around the country are looking closely at the project as a potential model.
Kathleen Hansen, director of the university's Minnesota Journalism Center, said the grant idea came from the Pioneer Press. She said the application was unusual for a state agency more accustomed to businesses that deal in plastics or crop machinery.
"This is a very different kind of workforce group," she said.
Hansen said training will be tailored to the skills of the newsroom and advertising sales staffs at the newspapers. She said a primary goal for both departments will be getting them away from print-based thinking.
Some journalists "don't know how to start thinking about stories without thinking about what's going to be in the print newspaper," she said."
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