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Cameras, camcorders, cell phones, computer, notebooks – even clothes and a sleeping bag – were confiscated by Minneapolis police in the name of Homeland Security Monday night, according to a trio of young artist-journalists in town to report on the RNC. MORE »

When the Star Tribune announced in 2006 that it was modifying its stylebook to direct reporters on how to identify people who are in this country to work without proper immigration paperwork, it got a fair bit of ink, including from the Harvard Nieman Report. But two years after the National Association of Hispanic Journalists called for reporters to stop using the noun-form “illegals,” the Star Tribune is still doing it. An online poll posted July 28 includes an answer about readers’ attitudes about immigration: “‘Illegal’ means illegal: we need strong enforcement of the law.” The AP Stylebook says “illegal immigrant” is preferred, but that the noun-form “illegals” shouldn’t be used. MORE »

As Jay Weiner makes final preparations to get to Beijing for this year’s Olympics, it will be the first time in 28 years that the veteran reporter won’t be covering the Games for the Star Tribune. Instead, he’ll be going solo. MORE »

The proposed contract concessions were “unprecedented”: Star Tribune management wanted to cut wages of union drivers, pressmen and mailers by 10 percent, and those who are contractually due for automatic raises wouldn’t get them. Plus the press operators at the paper would’ve lost one week of vacation a year and the ability to earn overtime wages for working back-to-back shifts. But members of the papers’ Teamsters chapters agreed to reject the concessions yesterday, despite two locals voting to approve. MORE »