Star Tribune publisher Steve Grove is the former Walz administration official who makes the paper’s status as a party organ “transparent,” as the cliché has it. The classic photo below depicts the Star Tribune team on its way to cheerlead for the Harris/Walz ticket at the Democratic convention in Chicago this past August. How “transparent” can you get?
Grove has now offered qualifying Star Tribune employees a buyout. The Minnesota Reformer’s Madison McVan reports on Grove’s offer here. McVan quotes from Grove’s message announcing the offer:
“Every media company in the country is going through tremendous transformation right now in the face of unprecedented challenges and new opportunities. We’re no different,” Grove wrote. “If we’re going to come out stronger, we need to own our future. That means bringing our workforce into a new era and making space to bring new talents and skills into the company to help us survive and thrive.”
Grove’s “transparency” has limits. McVan reports: “In the email, and when reached for comment via a spokesperson, Grove didn’t say how many employees were offered the buyout.”
The text of Grove’s message to employees is also excerpted below. As with the quotation above, some translation is required. “Reimagination” seems to be the order of the day. AK Kamara seems to think it is the harbinger of a brighter future, but I seriously doubt it.
Bahaha 😂
Hearing that one of the top fake news corporate legacy media institutions in the Twin Cities is dying induces pure schadenfreude in me
I do like a few people who work there, and it sucks that some non-journalist hardworking folks will have to find a new gig, but lol https://t.co/3yJGTwLdwZ
— AK Kamara (@realakkamara) June 3, 2025
I “reimagine” the Twin Cities and the state of Minnesota without the Star Tribune. No translation required: we would be far better off without it.
