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David Brauer authors Braublog and is MinnPost's local media reporter. He has covered media and politics as a writer and editor since 1983 for City Pages, the Southwest/Downtown Journal, KFAN and KSTP-AM, Mpls.St.Paul, Minnesota Monthly, Law & Politics, the Business Journal, KARE11 and national outlets.

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Karma's knife-twist: I have to take freshman comp

Return to the U
By David Brauer | 08:47 am

How does an aging student go about going back to school? With shamelessness and a rueful appreciation of fate.

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Amy Koch media saga: Who did what and when

By David Brauer | 02/07/13

There’s media deliciousness in the fascinating tale of how information moved in the fall of the former state Senate majority leader.

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Return to the U: The Confession

By David Brauer | 01/22/13

Today marks my first First Day of School since the Reagan administration. (Am I nervous? Yes.)

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In a massive winter power outage, how would Minnesotans heat their homes?

By David Brauer | 01/18/13

With a cold snap on the way, consider this: New federal rules require electric-dependent furnaces and boilers.

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Jeff Dubay hired as 1500 ESPN co-host

By David Brauer | 01/11/13

The former crack cocaine abuser gets new professional life on a new sports station, but how well will he wear professionally and personally?

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Fall 2012 radio ratings: What's going on with talk?

By David Brauer | 12/19/12

After a year of music-station reprogramming, nearly every local talk station's are down.

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Fighting for relevance, 1500 ESPN shuffles lineup

By David Brauer | 12/18/12

With ratings slumping and Twins rights gone, Hubbard Broadcasting moves Joe Soucheray out of afternoon drive.

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If Ryan strikes a Star Tribune land deal for Wells Fargo, keep your eye on the subsidy

By David Brauer | 12/14/12

Ryan’s dreamscape described as office buildings, a parking ramp, two full blocks of public parkland — and potentially more public subsidy.

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Star Tribune denies own land-sale story, but what if deal goes through?

By David Brauer | 12/12/12

I don’t do a “Media Year in Review,” but if I did, here's a great new entrant: “Star Tribune denies own story.”

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Minnesota news media: Who tops the Twitter 1,000

By David Brauer | 12/07/12

I will follow: MinnPost's first rankings of 1,040 local media Twitter accounts.

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PPP Polling, Minnesota editorial pages nail state election

By David Brauer | 11/07/12

Who says pollsters are wrong and newspaper editorial pages have no effect?

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Star Tribune editor: 'If you want to campaign, put down your journalist's badge'

By David Brauer | 11/06/12

Social networking earns staff rebuke from editor Nancy Barnes.

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Super-crosstabs! Obama soars, Photo I.D. plunges, Marriage Amendment slips

By David Brauer | 11/05/12

Out of nowhere, the Voter I.D. amendment has become a nail-biter.

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Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe quits Pioneer Press blog after marriage amendment editorial

By David Brauer | 11/03/12

Reporter Tom Webb also criticizes paper for straining-at-the-leash marriage amendment support.

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Small-town Minnesota publisher supports gay marriage, loses subscribers

By David Brauer | 11/02/12

At the Swift County Monitor-News, a 1,500-word editorial caused the equivalent of 1,000 major-paper cancellations.

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Obama-Romney, Minnesota gay marriage polls: the crosstabs

By David Brauer | 11/01/12

With a new poll showing the president back in a comfortable lead in Minnesota and the marriage amendment a nail-biter, the details behind the numbers.

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Minnesota newspapers on marriage, voting amendments: a resounding 'No'

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