Today's Lesson: PRESS ANY KEY
Posted on 02/24/2009 11:58:06 AM PST by Iron Munro
Minn. newspapers get retraining funds for Internet
Minn. newspapers to share $238K in grant money to retrain staffs for Internet age
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) -- Two Minnesota newspapers will receive a share of state grants normally given to retrain workers in manufacturing and other industries in transition.
The Duluth News Tribune and the St. Paul Pioneer Press will work with the University of Minnesota's School of Journalism and Mass Communication to help staff adapt to an increasingly Internet-based industry.
Minnesota Job Skills Partnership is awarding $238,000 in state funds, while the newspapers and the university will contribute about $469,000 combined, mostly by devoting staff time to training.
Paul Moe, the state program's director, said newspapers around the country are looking closely at the project as a potential model.
Kathleen Hansen, director of the university's Minnesota Journalism Center, said the grant idea came from the Pioneer Press. She said the application was unusual for a state agency more accustomed to businesses that deal in plastics or crop machinery.
"This is a very different kind of workforce group," she said.
Hansen said training will be tailored to the skills of the newsroom and advertising sales staffs at the newspapers. She said a primary goal for both departments will be getting them away from print-based thinking.
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Today's Lesson: PRESS ANY KEY
This is messed up.
This too funny LOL!
They’ll never have to wash their hands again.
Look Mom - No Print!
I hope some of the training includes classes on Truth Telling and Ethics.
In Minnesota?
Who can you get to teach THAT?
In Minnesota? Who can you get to teach THAT?
Senator Al Franken:
Minn. newspapers to share $238K in grant money to retrain staffs for Internet age
Free porn training for Marxists.
I realize that this is no different from any of this other bailout BS, BUT WHY SHOULD THE PUBLIC PAY A NEWSPAPER TO RETAIN ITS EMPLOYEES??!!! (esp. when the news is anything but impartial??!!)
If the wipe is not up to speed, then it should either a) pay for its own retraining; b) fire its undertrained employees and hire new ones, or c) fail and shut its doors.
THIS IS A COMPLETE JOKE!!! (and I don’t even live in MN).
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