Jeremy Iggers | Minneapolis, MN | (612) 436-9186 | E-mail | Twitter | Website
This robust website was launched during the 2005 municipal elections for community media outlets and citizen journalists to post and share print, audio and video news stories focused on the racially and ethnically diverse population of the Twin Cities. It has since grown its partnership network, its menu of community media workshops, and expanded its coverage topics.
Project Updates
- “Troubled Waters” earns TC Daily Planet awards in public journalism (March, 2011) - Twin Cities Daily Planet reporter Molly Priesmeyer and editor Mary Turck are among the winners of the 2010 Premack Awards for Public Journalism, given by the Minnesota Journalism Center. The two will receive the George S. Hage Award for excellence in coverage of breaking news about public affairs in honor of their September 2010 story, […]
- TCDailyPlanet.net Builds Partnerships, Attracts Funding (October, 2007) - In its second year, the Twin Cities Media Alliance and its community journalism initiative, the Twin Cities Daily Planet, grew dramatically. In June 2007 alone the site published 19 original articles by citizen journalists, and over 100 articles from its network of media partners. The number of original news and opinion pieces increased in part […]
- Test Period Boosts Daily Planet’s Official Launch (May, 2006) - The Twin Cities Daily Planet officially launched May 1, 2006, after spending nearly a year in test mode, attracting more than 30 local media partners, recruiting 15 editors, and raising $30,000 in additional funding. As of May 20, the hard launch had nearly doubled its monthly unique visitors from 3,594 to more than 6,500. Page […]
- Daily Planet Looks to Partner in Operations of Minneapolis WiFi Network (February, 2006) - The Twin Cities Daily Planet formally launched their site, www.tcdailyplanet.info, on May 1. The Twin Cities Daily Planet could get a major boost in visibility as it attempts to work out a partnership with US Internet, one of two finalists in the bidding to operate the Minneapolis WiFi Project, which would make wireless Internet access […]
- Twin Cities Alliance Adds Media Partners, Recruits Volunteer Editors (November, 2005) - The Twin Cities Media Alliance is beta-testing its newly launched web site, Twin Cities Daily Planet, while it grows its roster of participating neighborhood and community media partners. New partners in the alliance include La Prensa, the Twin Cities leading Hispanic publication, as well as nine other organizations: Insight (African-American), MNStories, Minnesota Spokesman Recorder (African-American), […]
- Neighborhood, Ethnic Media Sign On to Twin Cities Daily Planet (August, 2005) - The Twin Cities Community Newswire has launched their Web site, Twin Cities Daily Planet. You can find it at http://www.tcdailyplanet.info. “Cover the planet . . . or your neighborhood. Become a Daily Planet citizen journalist” urges a new Minneapolis/St. Paul community Web site that its volunteers will launch soon under the name Twin Cities Daily […]
