The Star—Tribune of Minneapolis (my original home town) is an embarrasingly bad newspaper. How bad? Well, many employees are unwilling to pay for discount (25 cent) copies, now that management has stopped handing them out for free at headquarters, according to Jim Romanesko, who has in hand a memo posted on the in—house message board: by Steve Alexander, senior vice president, Circulation April 10, 2006 — Three weeks ago we converted employee copies of our newspaper to an electronic e—mailed version that is very easy to access from a computer. As Publisher Keith Moyer said then, taking advantage of electronic distribution is a way we can save a considerable sum of money while still providing employees with a complete newspaper every day for personal use. The transition has gone very smoothly and I thank all of you for your part in that. There has been one unfortunate and unacceptable byproduct of the switch — employees are stealing print copies from the...(Read Full Post)