Steve Brandt writes: > Does anyone else out there in southwest Minneapolis lament the pending > departure of the Southwest Journal for offices downtown? I know the > business reasons and I know it still will arrive on my porch every other > week. Yet I feel as if an important community institution is moving out > of the community.
Just so everyone knows, we're moving to 1115 Hennepin Ave., probably in June. Our publisher, Janis Hall, will comment on the business reasons if she wishes. As for the editorial implications... We publish two papers now - Southwest Journal and Skyway News. Unless we want to split our operation (we don't), we'll always "not be" in one of our coverage areas. We are very well-grounded in Southwest; the publisher, president and editor live in Southwest (and will continue to do so), and so do a couple of reporters. We have 12 years of history here. Our staff attends every neighborhood group meeting and will continue to do so regularly. Being on 3225 Lyndale is great, but for heaven's sake, we're a stone's throw (well maybe a Torii Hunter stone's throw) away from SWJ territory. Right now, though, we neither live or work in Downtown. We've put out a darn good Skyway News in the 18 months since we've owned it, but I do think we need to get more familiar with that coverage territory, which is why I'm seriously excited about moving into Skyway's coverage area. We moved into our current, now-lamented offices when our coverage area expanded. With the acquisition of Skyway, the coverage area has again, so we are moving again. I don't think our coverage of Fulton slipped when we moved to Lyndale, and I don't think our coverage of Southwest will when we move to 1115 Hennepin. I predict we'll continue to give Steve Brandt a good run for his money - though he's very hard to catch, literally as well as competitively!! David Brauer Editor, Southwest Journal/Skyway News Die-hard King Field resident/soon-to-be Downtown worker TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
