On top of 34 awards and a trophy for Most Outstanding Weekly Newspaper in the Better Newspaper Contest organized by the Minnesota Newspaper Association, the Pine Knot News recently won two more awards from the Minnesota Society for Professional Journalists for 2020 work. Competing in the category of newspapers with a circulation of under 50,000,...
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August 24, 2021September 5, 2021Community News, Duluth, Media
Swim Creative adds to staff
Swim Creative has hired Stephanie Dunaiski as a copywriter and content producer. Dunaiski adds eight years of local marketing experience and over 10 years of professional writing experience to the team. She has a BA in mass communication from the University of Wisconsin-Superior. She trained with the late Mike Simonson, an award-winning Wisconsin Public Radio...
August 21, 2021September 5, 2021Breaking News, International Falls, Latest Posts, Rainy Lake Gazette
Ranier almost quadrupled its population since 2010, mostly thanks to annexation
By Sylvia Wier The U.S. Census, an every-decade accounting of who’s where and what’s what in America, published its list of population winners and losers this month. The losers? Philadelphia, Pine Bluff, Ark., Danville, Ill. The reasons are varied. The winners? A myriad of reasons too but gold stars went to Phoenix, New Braunfels, Texas,...
June 24, 2021September 5, 2021Media
CherryRoad Media acquires four more newspapers
CherryRoad Media Inc. has grown from one newspaper, the Cook County News-Herald, to five newspapers. Jeremy Gulban, CEO of CherryRoad Technologies Inc., and CherryRoad Media Inc. recently purchased four newspapers in Arkansas. In early June, Gulban announced that he had acquired the Flippin Mountaineer Echo, the Marshall Mountain Wave, the Pocahontas Star Herald, and the...
Swim Creative adds graphic designer to staff
Swim Creative, a branding, interactive and advertising firm, today announced a recent addition of graphic designer Ann Brennan to its team. Brennan has a BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Minnesota Duluth and an aesthetic born from a background of growing up all around the United States as the middle child of six...
May 28, 2021September 5, 2021Community News, Media
FOX 21’s Ali wins award
Sam Ali joined FOX 21 in January of 2018 and currently serves as the station’s multi-talented sports director. The 2021 Duluth Times’ Television Sports Journalist of the Year spent the previous three years as the sports director at ABC 10 in Marquette, MI and a year as news director at the WOLV radio station in...
May 27, 2021September 5, 2021Advertising
Swim Creative leadership team judges American Advertising Federation Awards competitions
Every year advertising agencies big and small across the country enter their best work of the year into a competition called the ADDYs (American Advertising Federation Awards). This year, three people from Swim Creative’s team were judges in this historic competition. . CEO and Creative Director Patrice Bradley (pictured) judged the competition in Orlando, Florida...