When a global story happens in your local community:

18 March | Zoom at 15:00 CET / 09:00 CST / 10:00 ET

Speaker: Steve Grove, CEO & Publisher, The Minnesota Star Tribune, USA
Moderator: Cecilia Campbell, Innovate Local Programme Editor, WAN-IFRA Sweden

The new year saw Minnesota and Minneapolis catapulted into not just the national, but the international spotlight. We’re all familiar with the story. 3000 ICE agents were deployed to the city, carrying out brutal raids and fatally shooting two people in the street. The response by the local community has been brave, steadfast and peaceful protest in the face of the violence. 

But what has it been like experiencing and covering the story as a local newsroom? In this webinar Steve Grove, CEO & Publisher of The Minnesota Star Tribune will share how the newsroom covers this fast-moving, potentially dangerous and often chaotic story. How does a local news company navigate multiple challenges at once? How are individual journalists supported? How does the Tribune’s journalism stand out in a news flow that’s also fed through thousands of social media accounts? And what are the most important lessons learned so far from living through and covering the story of the winter of 2026 in Minneapolis?