Minnesota Public Radio Stories

• Newspaper staffs are shrinking; will news coverage follow?
  In the second round of contract buyouts in three months, the Minneapolis Star Tribune plans to trim its newsroom by 13 percent. The St. Paul Pioneer Press went through a round of buyouts last year, too. Will news coverage of this region suffer as a result?11:00 a.m.
  Guests
  Scott Gillespie: Managing editor of the Star Tribune.
  Jane Kirtley: Director of the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law at the University of Minnesota.
  More from MPR
  Columnist Doug Grow calls it "The worst single day I've ever seen at the Star Tribune." (05/09/2007)
  More cutbacks at Star Tribune (05/07/2007)
  Judge blocks ex-Pioneer Press executive from starting Star Tribune (04/20/2007)
  Where are all the ad dollars going? (03/16/2007)
  Two-dozen employees grab Star Tribune buyout (03/14/2007)
  Familiar names leaving Star Tribune (03/12/2007)
• What made Einstein Einstein?
  How did a clerk in a Swiss patent office go on to develop a series of theories that would revolutionize physics? Walter Isaacson talked recently about his new biography of Albert Einstein at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley.12:00 p.m.
  More from MPR
  Einstein everlasting (04/28/2005)
  Resources
  Speaking of Faith: Einstein's God

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