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June 20, 2013
The Newsstand is the Daily’s newsroom blog. The purpose of this blog is to increase transparency of our coverage and give reporters an opportunity to blog news that doesn’t make it into print.
Fri, 11/6, 4:24pm (4 years ago)
Editor’s note: “Reporter’s Notebook” is an occasional blog that will feature worthwhile content left out of a news story. It will also give reporters an opportunity to talk about challenges they faced while working on a story.
The question that really drove The Perennials was, why? Why do certain people…
Wed, 11/4, 7:49pm (4 years ago)
The Minnesota Daily was awarded six awards at the Associated Collegiate Press’ National College Media Convention held Oct. 28-Nov. 1 in Austin, Tx.
The Daily received the Pacemaker Award, the highest honor available to a college newspaper. Criteria for the award includes coverage and content, quality of writing and reporting, leadership…
Mon, 11/2, 2:14pm (4 years ago)
Data released by the Chronicle of Higher Education today shows the president of Northwestern University, the only private university in the Big Ten, apparently took a cut in pay between the two most recent Chronicle reports.
In October, the Daily reported the current salaries of presidents in the Big Ten and…
Tue, 10/20, 4:24pm (4 years ago)
NPR blogger Frank James delved into tuition today after a new College Board study reported an average 6.5 percent increases for in-state students at public four-year schools this academic year. Private four-year colleges averaged a 4.4 percent increase. Such increases outpaced inflation which actually…
Fri, 10/9, 8:00pm (4 years ago)
Editor’s note: “Reporter’s Notebook” is an occasional blog that will feature worthwhile content left out of a news story. It will also give reporters an opportunity to talk about challenges they faced while working on a story.
A closer look at tax-increment financing:
Tax-increment financing, also called TIF, is a…
Mon, 10/5, 9:25am (4 years ago)
In writing this story on the preference given to young investigators, a few things struck me as important. First, was the understanding by all researchers that the money available to NIH right now — in both normal and stimulus funding — is finite. It’s going to run out sometime, so…
Thu, 10/1, 3:40pm (4 years ago)
The Badger Herald's Adam Holt says that traditions like Madison's "Jump Around" or the dotting of the "i" at Ohio State cannot be created via facebook.
We'll let it slide that the title of his column should be "Dear Gophers fans."
…
Tue, 9/29, 10:35am (4 years ago)
Owners around the NFL often use the prospect of moving their teams to Los Angles as leverage against fans for new stadiums or projects requiring public funding. Now, that pressure may be applied more aggressively.
The city of Industry, CA approved a settlement Thursday with neighboring Walnut, CA - a city that had opposed plans for an…
Sun, 9/27, 11:00pm (4 years ago)
In this economic climate, newspapers usually take any advertising they can get.
That's not the case, however, for two school newspapers in the University of Wisconsin system. The Advance-Titan of UW-Oshkosh and the Pointer of UW-Stevens Point chose not to run a 12-page insert funded by the Human Life Alliance, a…
Fri, 9/18, 3:55pm (4 years ago)
A controversial proposal to raise student fees midyear for undergraduates at the University of California went before the UC Board of Regents this week. The proposal also includes plans to further limit the number of freshmen and professional students could see increases over the next three years.
According to the L.A.…
Thu, 9/17, 6:57pm (4 years ago)
Editor’s note: “Reporter’s Notebook” is an occasional blog that will feature worthwhile content left out of a news story. It will also give reporters an opportunity to talk about challenges they faced while working on a story.
Reporter's Notebook: An Authority in Question [Sept. 15]
Defining Status
At its core, the dispute…
Thu, 9/17, 6:45pm (4 years ago)
The Graduate and Professional Student Association (GAPSA) held their first general assembly meeting yesterday where representatives elected first year Master of Science and Public Policy student Kristina Hefty as their new Vice President for Public Affairs.
Hefty, who served on the Department of Recreational Sports Advisory Board and the On-Campus Student Stadium Committee…
Fri, 9/11, 2:11pm (4 years ago)
One shot of the H1N1 influenza vaccine will be sufficient protection for adults, according to clinical trials conducted in Australia and published Thursday in The New England Journal of Medicine. This overturns previous scientific thought that adults would require two shots, and nearly doubles the amount of vaccine available.
Students at…
Wed, 9/9, 6:29pm (4 years ago)
Editor’s note: “Reporter’s Notebook” is an occasional blog that will feature worthwhile content left out of a news story. It will also give reporters an opportunity to talk about challenges they faced while working on a story.
When writing a story about the stimulus package, you are going to deal…
Thu, 9/3, 5:45pm (4 years ago)
Four members of 4-H participating in the Minnesota State Fair were confirmed to have H1N1 influenza, and about 120 members were sent home by group officials Thursday.
Thirteen other 4-H members who shared similiar symptoms were tested, and the results of the testing will be known as soon as Friday, 4-H…
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