Minnesota Public Radio
From the broadcasts (no transcripts; audio only):
* Star Tribune managing editor
Scott Gillespie (left): "We're very hopeful that this is it [with the cuts]. There are no guarantees. We're in a business and the business model that we came to know and be comfortable with in the 90s changed dramatically in the last four to five years and none of us can really predict where that's headed."
* Columnist
Doug Grow: "I've been there since 1979. Yesterday was the worst single day I've ever seen at the Star Tribune. They're calling in various people, some with special expertise and telling them their beats are no longer going to exist. So people are really crushed." (
Listen to Grow.)
* Media ethicist
Jane Kirtley: "I think it's looking more and more likely that there will only be one [Twin Cities daily] left standing and if this slow bleed continues to occur....I think it's very likely to happen before the end of next year that we'll only have one paper left, and who knows, maybe none at all."
