Voices from the Future of Journalism

Forty of the country’s top college journalists traveled to the Poynter Institute in May 2009 for an intensive multimedia bootcamp. During the fellowship, Greg Linch, Nic Barajas and I asked the group why they’re pursuing careers in journalism and what the future holds.
We have collected their responses and built them into a Web site to [...]
The murder of journalist Arthur Kasherman

In 1945, newspaper publisher Arthur Kasherman was gunned down on a snowy street in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Was he a crusader for justice, or a low-life who angered the underworld once too many? Watch the video, read the stories and maybe you’ll solve a 65-year-old murder mystery.
About the Site
Rubbed Out is an experiment in digital history [...]
Spc. Carlos Wilcox
July 28, 2009 – Friends and family remember Specialist Carlos Wilcox IV, 27, who died in a missile strike near Basra, Iraq.
Welcome back to campus

The Gophers opened up their football season with a 20-13 victory over Air Force in the first game ever played at TCF Bank stadium.
Times of Recession
In the midst of a broad-based recession affecting nearly all sectors of the economy, University of Minnesota student McKenna Ewen shows how the economic downturn has shaped his home state of Minnesota.
Times of Recession


