September 17th, 2018 • Featured
Local news deserts are evolving into oases for entrepreneurs

Journalism has come a long way from classified ads and print subscriptions. From blockchain and affiliate links to platform partnerships, website paywalls and memberships, newsrooms across the United States are finding a lot of new ways to fund news gathering and storytelling as the industry’s traditional business models have struggled.

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December 31st, 2017 • Net Worked
Passion in uncertainty

This past week, a column appeared in the Business section of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, encouraging students to find a vocation that they would find themselves useful in, instead of following their passion. The observations of columnist Lee Schafer, intertwined with a conversation with a career counselor at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, argues that finding a job that one will be useful in should be prioritized over doing something that will make one happy.

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