Eden Prairie Local News is mostly about reporting the news, but every once in awhile we find ourselves in the news. Check out some of these stories highlighting our unique endeavor:
- December 9th 2022 – Editor & Publisher: Eden Prairie Local News launched as a nonprofit newsroom in the Minneapolis suburbs
- December 9th 2022 – Star Tribune: Deep staff cuts leave Saint Cloud Times a ghost paper
- November 14th 2022 – Democratic Visions: Community Journalism
- November 5th 2022 – Star Tribune: Eden Prairie news site fills city election coverage void after local paper shuttered
- October 10th 2022 – FOX9 features our 2022 EPLN Voter Guide: Volunteer journalists fill gap after Eden Prairie local news paper shut down
- June 30th 2022 – We were pleased that WCCO-TV covered the publication of our 1000th story in Eden Prairie Local News. WCCO Reporter Marielle Mohs contacted our publisher Steve Schewe, and he arranged to meet her at Smith’s Coffee on Eden Prairie Road. Alex Schuster, the manager of Smith’s Coffee, and Amina Adeyemi, owner and baker of Veeyon Cakes, sat for interviews.
- March 28th 2022 – CEO and Publisher Steve Schewe is a guest on the Real Talk With Rick Podcast.
- October 11, 2021 – Founding EPLN editor Brad Canham, “news desert” researcher Nick Matthews and EPLN contributor Jeff Strate discuss the impact of communities that have lost their daily or weekly newspapers. The half-hour edition of Democratic Visions was launched on YouTube here. It subsequently began its run on Twin Cities area access TV channels.
- July 17, 2021 – The debut of EPLN’s print edition is noted by the Star Tribune “Eden Prairie Local News debuts print edition” here.
- March 25, 2021 – EPLN Editor Brad Canham spoke as part of a panel “Reflect on the Future of Media with Minnesota’s Newest News Outlets” hosted by Goff Public here.
- EPLN was featured in an Eden Prairie Community Foundation “News Makers” segment. The interview of EPLN Working Group Chair Jenifer Loon details several aspects of EPLN here.
- Feb. 13, 2021 – EPLN featured in local television access program “Democratic Visions” by Jeff Strate
- Feb. 3, 2021 – EPLN featured by The Institute for NonProfit News as “the happiest journalism news of the new year” Out of the Ashes left by Alden Global Capital, a Community Saves its News
- Jan. 13, 2021 – EPLN featured on KARE 11 “Community funded online newspaper launches in Eden Prairie“
- Dec. 28, 2020 – EPLN listed is an “intriguing development” and one of the gains in MinnPost’s “Year in Review: What we lost, and gained, in Minnesota media in 2020“
- Dec. 4, 2020 – EPLN featured in StarTribune “Eden Prairie residents launch news site to replace shuttered local paper“
- Nov. 13, 2020 – EPLN “preserves local reporting” as featured in City of Eden Prairie Community Report
- Oct. 30, 2020 – EPLN is “working to fill the void” in MinnPost’s “Losses in local news pile up, with just a few glimmers of hope trying to fill the void”
- Aug. 18, 2020 – EPLN featured on KARE 11 “Eden Prairie residents hope to revive local paper“
- Aug. 4, 2020 – EPLN featured in StarTribune “Eden Prairie residents launch nonprofit news website“